Example sentences of "can [verb] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The critical assumption in this model is that the risk-free hedge can earn the risk-free rate of return . |
| 2 | Where a restaurant certificate or a restricted hotel licence is being granted or transferred , if it appears to the licensing board that only a mid-day meal or an evening meal is being provided , it can restrict the permitted hours to the mid-day period , if only a mid-day meal is being provided , or to the evening period , if only an evening meal is being provided . |
| 3 | I can reassure the hon. Gentleman that that will continue . |
| 4 | I can reassure the hon. Gentleman that , to use the time-honoured phrase , we have no present plans to undertake such an exercise . |
| 5 | I can reassure the hon. Gentleman that the terms and conditions of junior doctors will continue to be negotiated nationally . |
| 6 | Under these circumstances , rhetorical analysis can aid the practical argument against those enemies of freedom who would destroy the very possibility of open argumentation . |
| 7 | A good general practitioner keeps an eye on the health of his elderly patients , knows the score , and can conduct the whole orchestra of welfare on their behalf when they need it . |
| 8 | Peter needs to understand this and then , if given adequate help and support , will feel that he can make the major contribution towards restoring his own health ( see also Chapter 3 ) . |
| 9 | Only you can know what is right for you — so only you can make the final decision . |
| 10 | Goram now believes that Rangers can make the European Cup final in May . |
| 11 | Structural adjustment can make the internal market less profitable and thus less attractive to those prospective buyers seeking to exploit the local market . |
| 12 | If there is a dispute between people as to where children should live or who is to have contact with the children then magistrates can make the appropriate residence orders or contact orders . |
| 13 | No matter , it was a wild weekend , and some time soon I 'll return to the scene of the crime and see if I can make the princely pond a home fit for a frog . |
| 14 | Prior to the experiment , the experimenter can make the following deduction . |
| 15 | For the reason that there can so often be delay in obtaining the husband 's signature , it is recommended that only once the documentation has been agreed and executed should a " completion date " be arranged so that the wife 's solicitors can make the necessary searches against the husband in HM Land Charges Registry or HM Land Registry ( as the case may be ) . |
| 16 | You have the right to carry out improvements and , if you want to move to a council or housing association house in another part of the country , and can make the necessary arrangements , the right to exchange . |
| 17 | If such problems do occur it will be necessary to reduce the fish numbers , getting rid of the excess to friends or neighbours who have a pond , or , if you can make the necessary arrangements , to a local aquatic shop . |
| 18 | It is this special knowledge , or gnosis , which hopefully can make the inside ethnography so different and illuminating . |
| 19 | Among the discoveries made in psychoneuroimmunology is that stressful events can make the immune cells far less responsive to infection . |
| 20 | Dawes of Nelson can make the long trip from Surrey worthwhile by plundering the Finishing Post Sprint Handicap at Hamilton . |
| 21 | He is one of the few comedians who , when someone truthfully observes , ‘ I say , you 're sitting in a dustbin ’ , can make the classic reply , ‘ Oh , so I am ’ sound like an hilarious joke . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ There 's only one side in the world who can make the old ball swing , and it is n't the Indians ! |
| 23 | This it is , but the miracle is not that Patricia Routledge can make the old weep with ‘ Roses of Picardy ’ , but that she can still move the young with it . |
| 24 | The bright colours of the new leaves in spring can make the old ones look rather untidy , so neatly cut these off at their base . |
| 25 | Suffice to say that nobody else can make the old songs new again so often and so well , nobody can get away with such extensive improvisation , and nobody else has Morrison 's vocal attack or his spirit . |
| 26 | Only society itself can make the fundamental change that is required to make racial harassment a part of history . |
| 27 | This can make the conventional approach perfectly adequate for some systems development work . |
| 28 | No man can make the Christian confession ‘ Jesus is Lord ’ without the Holy Spirit enabling him to do so ( 1 Cor. 12:3 ) . |
| 29 | But they would agree that anxiety , tension or depression can make the physical symptoms worse . |
| 30 | If an owl swoops down on the kangaroo rat , the kangaroo rat is alerted by the sound of wind passing over the bird 's wings and can evade the grasping talons . |