Example sentences of "can [adv] [vb infin] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Created God can supply the human need to have an agreed authority to supply the justification for the way in which people are allowed by their fellows to behave , and can thereby become a rationalised replacement for the ‘ Oracles ’ of old . |
| 2 | This is the deadly period when you can most expect a good take . |
| 3 | If we can successfully compare a present-day situation to an historic one then we can use hindsight to tell us what may happen next . |
| 4 | Strictly nocturnal predators like the eagle owls can entirely miss a common rodent species if that species is diurnal , and in these cases the prey assemblage has an unbalanced species composition compared with the small mammal community actually present . |
| 5 | By interviewing people we can obviously obtain a great deal of information in a relatively short time . |
| 6 | ( iii ) The addition of non-standard do-it-yourself devices can obviously provide a wide range of spectacular additional facilities , but ( except in the unlikely event of the program designers and programmers being in a position to market the additional hardware device with the program ) the use of such devices is impractical for any program intended for use in a range of establishments . |
| 7 | Comedy , in any case , is not necessarily optimistic , and it can tellingly present a tragic world — a point readily overlooked by those who confuse literary forms like tragedy with states of mind like a tragic view of life , as if over-obsequious to a terminology or eager to be confused by one . |
| 8 | We can perhaps draw a useful analogy with pharmaceutical products . |
| 9 | Yet I can perhaps perform a minimal interpretative function by putting together some of these ‘ mutual ’ sonnets which deal with the act of writing poetry , and in which Shakespeare seems more than usually sensitive to the weight of pronouns . |
| 10 | When the children help , they sometimes suggest a different way of arranging things and even a small alteration can suddenly make a forgotten toy more popular . |
| 11 | The practice of judicial obedience to statute can not itself be based on the authority of statute : it can only reflect a judicial choice based on an understanding of what ( in contemporary conditions ) political morality demands . |
| 12 | Simon Wright has almost lost his memory , and can only walk a short distance . |
| 13 | ‘ You can only evaluate a neural network empirically ; you can not guarantee up front that the neural network will work correctly , ’ warned Professor John Stonham of Brunel University . |
| 14 | If the hon. Gentleman and some brewers say that prices will increase , I can only quote a leading national newspaper which said : ’ Why should a pint be a pint everywhere but in a pub ? |
| 15 | We can only protect a national curriculum from the political dogmas of either the right or the left if we understand the reasons for these changes . |
| 16 | I feel it can only damage a wonderful friendship . ’ |
| 17 | The ferry can only carry a limited number of cars per hours . |
| 18 | They are small and can only carry a small amount of human DNA ( which substitutes for some of the viral genome , providing additional safety as well as more space ) , and only infect dividing cells . |
| 19 | Table 5.2 shows the necessary calculations and the fact that , if its cost of capital is 15 per cent , the rival can only earn a negative NPV of 252,497 . |
| 20 | With its low market share it has higher costs than the rival , and so , by pricing to give its rival a zero NPV , it can only earn a negative NPV itself . |
| 21 | Paul Cook 's lovely ball to Andy Thomson , a penalty by the midfielder who can only command a weekly contract , did his and Turner 's cause no good at all . |
| 22 | These four diagrams can only represent a simplified overview ; in practice accountability relationships exist via a variety of direct and indirect routes . |
| 23 | In much of his fiction , early and late , Waugh turns from comedy to the haunting thought of a lost Eden ; and in a nation that had once been the first industrial civilisation that can only mean a pastoral world . |
| 24 | But academics at Oxford are outraged and say it can only mean a Jewish Messiah . |
| 25 | Periods of low income when workers are in their 50s and 60s can only mean a sustained period of poverty in old age itself . |
| 26 | Right you can only differentiate a continuous function . |
| 27 | NERC is in a situation in which it can not please every department , and it can only achieve a limited degree of acceptability by adopting the negative posture of being seen not to be unfair to particular departments ( hence spreading small numbers of grants as widely as possible ) . |
| 28 | This chapter can only give a broad outline of BM and further reading is certainly justified at this stage . |
| 29 | This table can only give a general feel of the capacity of the corpus to cover the transitions likely to arise in unseen text . |
| 30 | Secondly , any subset of a lexicon , whether from a dictionary or word list , can only give a partial , and perhaps unrepresentative , view of language . |