Example sentences of "can [verb] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You can plot the second position line you crossed as a true bearing on your chart or map , and mark the distance ( see fig 39 ) . |
| 2 | You can plot the second position line you crossed as a true bearing on your chart or map and mark the distance . |
| 3 | If you are feeling adventurous and you have a lot of children coming , you can make a second wall with pieces of chocolate surrounding it representing Humpty Dumpty having fallen off the wall . |
| 4 | This , my favourite dish , can make a first course , a main course , or survival rations for a transatlantic sailing race . |
| 5 | North-easterners generally walk faster , give change faster , talk faster , and are more likely to wear watches so that they can make every second count . |
| 6 | Once all the letters are found , the object is to unscramble them to make up the phrase and you can make the first person the winner . |
| 7 | Neither the foundationalist nor the solipsist can make the first move . |
| 8 | ‘ I 'm now 36th in the European merit order , but I feel I can make the first 25 ’ , said big hitter Clarke before teeing off in Switzerland . |
| 9 | Well I can answer the second one first . |
| 10 | If that is difficult , mimic suprasegmentals first , and then see if the utterance can be divided into several parts so you can mimic the last part first , and then add to it bit by bit . |
| 11 | ‘ We can win the Second Division and hold our own in the Premier . |
| 12 | It is a tough one , but I know we can win the first leg . ’ |
| 13 | AS ENGLAND start to look towards fashioning a team that can win the next World Cup , the RFU have appointed a new coach Dick Best only until the end of the season . |
| 14 | Never forget the Tories are the most ruthless party in the democratic world if the men in grey suits do not think Mr M+ajor can win the next election for them , he 'll be dumped . |
| 15 | If we can survive the next hundred years or so , we will have spread to other planets and possibly to other stars . |
| 16 | To achieve this a user can reference the next approved version of a module in anticipation of that module 's approval . |
| 17 | We may want to make a dash straight back to Olbia so that we can catch the first ferry across in the morning . ’ |
| 18 | She can enjoy the last freedom to be as she is ; her pursuits may seem strange , but after her death it may be discovered that her treasured collection — of old cups , pressed flowers , or newspaper cuttings — is quite priceless . |
| 19 | Well unfortunately we were scheduled to have a meeting erm something like ten days ago and then two or three of the key people had to drop out so I cancelled the meeting because obviously we want the people there who were going to actually get the thing up and running so that we can formulate a first public meeting and I would like erm , you know , now , to establish a working party but again a number of the people who one would expect to be on it are not here and it 's slightly awkward . |
| 20 | Few authorities consider that short-term emission reduction options can prevent the first stage of a smog occurring . |
| 21 | In other areas farmers can expect a second rate or near nonexistent service . |
| 22 | Most parents can identify the first phase of interaction with their child , that is they can see what the child is doing that is irritating and they see how they react , but rarely do they then follow through the interaction to see what happens at the end . |
| 23 | Thus the number of vacant cells left which can accommodate the next molecule will be |
| 24 | The colony 's preparations for the deportations are well advanced , but its government requires the go-ahead from London before it can send the first planeload to Vietnam . |
| 25 | ‘ Give me a couple of minutes , then you can send the first one in . ’ |
| 26 | I do n't think you can do a third one year and then try and raise some more money over the next few years and do another third . |
| 27 | So we can do the first two . |
| 28 | We can do the first two and then |
| 29 | Erm who can do the first sentence for me . |
| 30 | and then start losing confidence , wasting time , if you 've got some check , like that , right , okay , so if you like to work that one out , you should n't have any problem with the , the second bar , if you can do the first one . |