Example sentences of "can [adv] [verb] [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , if a local authority is apathetic about the European Community and the single market of 1992 , they can effectively stifle interest and ensure a low turn-Out for a European election . |
| 2 | Considerable service is done by the taking of actions which resolve points of law , but public officials can rarely bring actions and the legal aid scheme will not support an action unless the case also passes the merits test . |
| 3 | In theory , film is the most powerful advertising medium , because it can successfully integrate words and sounds and pictures to achieve its effect . |
| 4 | Where appropriate the court can expressly prohibit examination or assessment or state that it shall not take place unless the court directs otherwise ( s38(7) ) . |
| 5 | chip shop , we can all have fish and chip . |
| 6 | A succession of avoidable mishaps can so sap morale and resources , that it becomes impossible to see the wood for the trees , and your energy is exhausted reacting to emergencies . |
| 7 | If the big winds are blowing and you bribe them right , our staff may prolong safety cover to allow those who can competently carve gybe and water start to continue sailing . |
| 8 | These proto-oncogenes can apparently cause cancer when something happens to disrupt their normal activities . |
| 9 | Not even the most centralised system of government , such as that instituted in France , by Napoleon , can entirely avoid deconcentration if it is to do its job in a tolerably successful manner . |
| 10 | You can manually rectify mistakes or ask the program to search the dictionary and list the probable corrections . |
| 11 | What I have tried to do here , therefore , is to present a flexible and varied menu of approaches from which people can perhaps derive ideas that seem congenial , or at least find some support for their own home-made kit of idiosyncratic but effective methods . |
| 12 | Expectations are set at an early stage : that the therapist can only offer education and advice , and the client is responsible for assimilating and applying this information . |
| 13 | Strictly we can only measure abilities but much psychometric testing aims to infer capacities from the measured abilities , e.g. intelligence tests . |
| 14 | We can only send flowers if we know of the occasion , either happy or sad . |
| 15 | They can only suggest concepts and invite you to use them . |
| 16 | Most animals living in lands where there is a flowerless season and lacking a storage system can only treat pollen and nectar as summer supplements to their menus . |
| 17 | These amount , as we saw , to the belief that many social phenomena are to be explained as the outcome of actions performed by individuals or groups , and the view that groups can only do things if individuals do . |
| 18 | Th the economy can only suffer shortages and low productivity as a result of poverty pay . |
| 19 | To do so can only waste costs if the report is unfavourable . |
| 20 | I can only give evidence and if they do n't believe my evidence , he 's innocent . |
| 21 | Whatever the answer is there is little doubt that improving the vegetation cover can only enhance productivity and improve the soil structure so that it is less susceptible to erosion and degradation . |
| 22 | People lower down the hierarchy can only make claims if the deceased did not have relatives who rank above them ; and a distinction is made between full and half-blood relatives , the former having prior claims ( Cretney , 1984 , pp. 698–700 ) . |
| 23 | Personal spirituality can only make progress if it is in partnership with social spirituality . |
| 24 | Tell that to Mike Teague , who can only make money if he can work . |
| 25 | In reflecting on Basil as a person , I can only make comment as I knew him , over a dozen years or so and , during which time , I can not recall one unkind word or act he ever directed towards me . |
| 26 | However physical replicas can only incorporate features and characteristics perceived to be significant at the time of replication and part of the justification for preserving original objects in preference to a copy is that the original can be interrogated in an open-ended way in the light of unforeseen enquiry . |
| 27 | a blockage yeah it goes right across you , you 've got you 've got catarrh and I 'm thinking you can only have catarrh if you 've got a , you know if you had a real bad cold and or the flu or something but she said it 's all in there . |
| 28 | This Condition can only have effect if it is called into operation by the party wishing to rely on it giving written notice to the other to that effect . |
| 29 | Getting smaller , but you can only use ones and noughts |
| 30 | A man can only fight fate and himself so long . ’ |