Example sentences of "can [vb infin] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A family member who is addicted to " fixing " others and being a caretaker for them can hinder the chances or primary sufferers finding progress or recovery for themselves . |
| 2 | Engineers at HR Wallingford have built a scale model of part of the threatened coast , they can reproduce the effects of the storm surge floods which can overwhelm the present defences . |
| 3 | Perhaps their part is best summarised by remarking that if the brain is damaged at this region not only sexual capacity may be reduced but libido ( sexual urge ) may be reduced or may even be completely lost ; in the opposite direction , artificial stimulation by means of electrodes implanted in these parts of the brain can reproduce the sensations of orgasm and its phenomena — ejaculation etc . |
| 4 | When moving dancers from two feet to one in both open and closed sissonnes , the choreographer can make the movements dart over the floor as Aurora does in her final solo in The Sleeping Beauty . |
| 5 | As you , and the children , become increasingly familiar with the strategy you can make the boundaries less clear ; but initially clarity is all important . |
| 6 | But a good forte can make the hammers bounce . |
| 7 | The addition of off-cuts of wood , trimmed and made splinter-proof , with irregular shapes , can make the materials much more stimulating . |
| 8 | ‘ People can wander around a museum at will but with a guided tour they get that extra bit of background information that can make the objects or exhibition come alive . |
| 9 | But , in the final resort , EC government leaders can make the rules up as they go along . " |
| 10 | The police do not create social deprivation , though unimaginative , inflexible policing can make the tensions which deprivation engenders greatly worse . |
| 11 | But there is a school of thought that says that if one can make the forests economically or financially valuable to the countries then they 're more likely to look after them than if you do n't . |
| 12 | Exactly how the mind affects such symptoms is not known , except in the case of asthma where the autonomic nervous system can make the bronchi contract in response to anxiety or emotion . |
| 13 | ‘ I rise to the challenge in his voice ‘ But surely — I can make the changes tomorrow morning … ’ |
| 14 | For most men the interior light of the mind is dark as in a black and white picture but we can make the dawns rise and colours come as in a coloured picture . |
| 15 | Another frequent cause is the Pill , which can make the ovaries produce excessive androgens ( male-type hormones ) — hence the hairiness . |
| 16 | As previously argued , this sets skill development activities firmly within a context in which the children can see the importance of mastering these particular skills , simply because they can make the children 's work towards their goals significantly easier . |
| 17 | another mistake in the film was to suggest that in a a short franchise , say of seven years they would need a great deal of working capital , but they wo n't need a great deal of working capital or or share capital , they will actually be running a business where they get subsidy , because if er they 're involving socially necessary lines , like commuter lines , or or rural lines , then we 've made it very clear er that the taxpayers subsidy will continue , because these are loss making businesses , they will be bid they will bid for subsidy , and they will continue to get that subsidy , so they will have the flow of whatever income they can increase , in the passenger franchise , plus the subsidy , plus , and this is a very important point in what we 're doing in the restructuring of British Rail , you see , nobody up till now has said that British Rail is perfect , everyone acknowledges that there are big improvements to be made , the way we 're structuring it will get those improvements because the smaller franchises , not the great big monolithic nationalized industry , the smaller units , ha will be able to identify much more clearly where they can make the savings and where they can increase the revenue . |
| 18 | Er , as we can make the opportunities available . |
| 19 | Many of the techniques of exploratory data analysis require the repetition of procedures to converge on a fit that minimizes the residuals ; this can make the techniques rather laborious , but it is one side of the trade-off required to get methods of analysis which are resistant to outliers . |
| 20 | If you are employed by a company , you can make the contributions yourself , the company can make them , or they can be shared . |
| 21 | The best insurance against this happening is for time-off to be planned well in advance so that staff and the ward manager can make the adjustments necessary to ensure that patient needs are met . |
| 22 | Not only do you have to complete lines of blocks , without leaving gaps but if you can make the numbers , which are displayed on each part of a block , add up to the target figure you get a bonus and a bomb . |
| 23 | Well you can make the trees a bit longer |
| 24 | Expansion , give him a little straw out of which he can make the bricks , have a couple of good stories and so on . |
| 25 | You know they can make the designs with |
| 26 | In addition there are conditions where the psychological component is only a small part of the story — it can make the symptoms worse but not initiate the illness . |
| 27 | In this way the child can make the comparisons ‘ more than ’ or ‘ fewer than ’ or ‘ same as ’ . |
| 28 | You can make the cards |
| 29 | If a further control , such as social class , is added then interrelated controls can make the specifications very limited — the interviewer having to find two women aged 30 to 55 , of lower middle-class — towards the quota of 20. obviously , independent controls make life easier for interviewers , and interrelated controls make for more definitely representative samples . |
| 30 | The current crop of non-Windows databases can knock the socks off their predecessors . |