Example sentences of "can [vb infin] [noun sg] from [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Events have shown that none of the rights to silence can guarantee freedom from ill-treatment of a suspect or prevent the production of dubious confessions .
2 The NCC said that at best one in seven problem debtors can expect help from money advice centres .
3 The point is not simply that we can identify status from speech if we wish to , such as with the clever elaborations developed on radio ; rather , that it is difficult to conceive of an utterance in English in which this is not the case .
4 Several viruses are expected to be launched on computer users next week , including Datacrime 2 , which can wipe information from computer hard discs .
5 This is where you sign if you — or the person you 're getting the prescription for — can claim exemption from prescription charges .
6 Just as you can remove sulphur from power station emissions so you can do the same with carbon dioxide .
7 I do not see how we can separate principle from practice , policy from implementation .
8 The response or experience is individual , though there are canons by which one can judge its appropriateness , by which one can discriminate understanding from misunderstanding .
9 However the Tories , who have gone into coalition only in times of great national danger , can take heart from history .
10 This may also be true of Aung San , Sukarno , and others ; but the careful investigator can disentangle myth from reality for most of their important moves and decisions .
11 But even superstitious southerners can tell illness from health , and besides , the yellowing of that disease hardly gleams with imperishable health like gold .
12 And there is no pleasure left in the life of the rich : for who can tell lumpfish from caviare any more , and caviare is cholesterol-rich anyway , and forbidden : and when the rich grow old and hired nurses dab away the dribble , can you trust the nurse to love you , or does she hate you ?
13 Some materials can acquire thermoluminescence from irradiation by naturally occurring radio isotopes and length of exposure can be deduced .
14 If you can drink champagne from plastic mugs
15 This account can be illustrated by considering his analysis of how discrimination training might increase the ease with which one can distinguish burgundy from claret .
16 Teaching effectively in higher education calls for the extraordinary ability on the part of the teacher to bring students to the point where they can distinguish sense from nonsense for themselves , where they can say and do things for themselves and give reasons for so doing which are full of insight , and where they have the intellectual resources to take off under their own steam .
17 We can distinguish monodentate from bidentate sulfate , or terminal from bridging CO ligands , and we can use variations in the CO stretching frequencies in metal carbonyls to make deductions about the electronic natures of the other ligands .
18 Chemists can extract gas from transformer oil , a process which enables operational engineers to monitor potential overheating or electrical problems within oil-filled transformers .
19 But the streetwise Karate Hero intervenes and warns the boys against the danger of AIDS : ‘ Anyone can get AIDS from sex : we must all protect ourselves and our friends ’ .
20 But the streetwise Karate Hero intervenes and warns the boys against the danger of AIDS : ‘ Anyone can get AIDS from sex : we must all protect ourselves and our friends ’ .
21 Bodybuilders can obtain relief from vitamin C for the aches and pains they suffer in the shoulders and elbows .
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