Example sentences of "can [vb infin] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you can make do with a 200Mb IDE drive , the price drops to £1,940 . |
| 2 | It is the hardiest breed of all , able to be productive where other cattle could not even survive , and , like other hardy old breeds , it is long-lived and can make do with the poorest of grazing . |
| 3 | Expanded memory is much slower than Extended memory , so if it can make do with the latter ( and you do n't need Expanded memory for an old DOS program ) , delete it from your CONFIG.SYS . |
| 4 | Instead of completely introjecting the mother and emasculating himself in his unconscious desire to be revenged on her , the believer can make do with an identification with a mythical son who has done just this ( the crucified Christ ) . |
| 5 | Further evidence of the significance of morale , and of the special contribution social workers can make comes through the research conducted by the Personal Social Services Research Unit on domiciliary care , otherwise known as the Kent Community Care Project ( Davies and Challis , 1986 ) . |
| 6 | It means the person never has to work through their grief , but can stay poised at a moment in time , hoping that the news they heard , but can not believe , turns out to be wrong after all . |
| 7 | To a large extent , Bolinger 's division between those adjectives that qualify referents and those that qualify sense is presented as if it were a classification of adjectives as word types , that is , as one might find them categorized in the dictionary , thereby giving an impression that Bolinger might regard this almost as a lexical division , similar to that dividing adjectives that can qualify animates from the rest . |
| 8 | In certain circumstances , they can consider helping with the cost . |
| 9 | Given the availability of very fast spectroscopic techniques , using either photographic recording or pulsed lasers , we can consider working with a non-flowing sample and simply recording a spectrum at some interval after sudden generation of the species , but before its decay is complete . |
| 10 | In summer you can enjoy punting along the river Cam , and the Cambridge Festival of music , drama and film . |
| 11 | And new footpaths are being established so people can enjoy walking around the farm . |
| 12 | With a few words a woman can give meaning to a whole day 's struggle , and a man will be very grateful . |
| 13 | It prepared them for exactly the kind of material they can expect to see on the day — and because it is written by the examiners themselves , you can be sure that it tells you exactly what the examiners are looking for ! |
| 14 | First Class offers plenty of realistic reading material with interesting examples of the kinds of documents trainees can expect to see in the workplace such as letters , faxes , telexes , bills , and receipts . |
| 15 | Are there any similar developments in the Programme of Work for this session which you can expect to see in the Catalogue for 1989/90 ? |
| 16 | DAVID HIRST can expect to return to the England fold today when Graham Taylor names his party to face Turkey in their second World Cup qualifier in a fortnight . |
| 17 | The company can expect to draw on the advice of many different specialists and institutions during and after the initial planning stage . |
| 18 | In this case , however , it seemed that the nature of the disease was systematically to destroy those nerve cells essential to the control of sleep , and these unfortunate people probably represent the closest that we can expect to find in the way of a natural experiment on the long-term effects of the denial of sleep . |
| 19 | They are then used to support recommendations concerning the organization of society and personal conduct resting on straight matters of fact , or at least the best available opinion on matters of fact , of the one kind around which clear minded people can expect to rally as a basis for human cooperation . |
| 20 | Returning nurses can feel threatened by the mention of ‘ research based care ’ or ‘ experiential learning ’ . |
| 21 | Similarly , teachers who have specialised in the education of children with disabilities can feel daunted at the prospect of handling and coping with young children . |
| 22 | Only poor Webb , still in plaster but determined to be back in the side in time for Italy , can feel discouraged by the way he brought it off . |
| 23 | Sometimes the customer can feel overwhelmed by the choice ! |
| 24 | There may be a continuing sequence of ledges , shelves and drops which the rabbit can negotiate to escape from the ferret . |
| 25 | In explanation Van Valen put forward what he termed the Red Queen 's hypothesis , named after the Lewis Carroll character who found it took all the running one can do to keep in the same place . |
| 26 | Losing at home four two to Swindon , their arch rivals after being two in front , but I 'd just like to make one point clear ; do n't blame manager Brian Horton because all of Oxford 's matches that they 've lost this season has been through their own fault : lack of character out there on the pitch , there 's nothing Brian can do sat on the bench . |
| 27 | Ms Clark conceded that there was ‘ little you can do to compete with the discount offered by School Book Fairs ’ , but urged booksellers to ‘ show the teachers your advantages ’ . |
| 28 | I am happy to say that my officials will be meeting representatives from the company tomorrow to see what ECGD can do to help in the present confused economic position in the Soviet Union . |
| 29 | This year , I have been having a series of informal discussions with Church leaders , the voluntary sector , leading members of the police , probation and prison services , magistrates and others to consider what we can do to get at the roots of criminality . |
| 30 | All right , so it 's a mystery , and there 's not a lot you can do to get to the heart of it yet , but you do n't have to let it get to you . |