Example sentences of "can [adv] [verb] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But a judicious combination of methods can effectively control pests for years on end . |
| 2 | The only tasks where high success rates were obtained were those where the pupil can effectively treat decimals as whole numbers . |
| 3 | We believe in fruitful dialogue and discussion , though we do not shirk necessary argument , and we provide courses and authoritative manuals for people who work in woods , manage our rivers and create new gravel pits which can eventually become havens for birds . |
| 4 | Which means that the computer is being used , as it should be , as a user management tool which can vastly improve personnel management effectiveness . |
| 5 | Considerable service is done by the taking of actions which resolve points of law , but public officials can rarely bring actions and the legal aid scheme will not support an action unless the case also passes the merits test . |
| 6 | Cells can rarely reverse tracks , but some treatments can push the cell from one track to an adjacent one . |
| 7 | But no system can wholly protect fools from their own folly or from the knavery of others , and the advantages of trying to do so as fully as possible have to be weighed against the disadvantages of imposing fetters on business conducted honestly and efficiently . |
| 8 | In theory , film is the most powerful advertising medium , because it can successfully integrate words and sounds and pictures to achieve its effect . |
| 9 | So far only the pulsed dye laser produces parameters that approach the theoretical ideal , and even then it is at the lower limit of the ideal pulse duration ; Tan et al have shown that this laser can successfully treat children of any age with a negligible chance of scarring , and our experiences confirm their findings . |
| 10 | You can successfully use plants in all situations , allowing them to grow down and up the slope and trail over pergolas , trellis and fences . |
| 11 | I 'm sure we can all recall cases of being driven to distraction by blaring music and late night noise especially during the working week . |
| 12 | We can all ask questions later okay ? |
| 13 | Through the judicious mix of flexible computerized production technologies , upskilling and the subcontracting of standardized component manufacture , innovating companies can better balance economies of scale and economies of scope in novel organizational configurations . |
| 14 | Not all voluntary organisations have the resource to develop financial management expertise and this can obviously pose problems in administering schemes . |
| 15 | You can manually rectify mistakes or ask the program to search the dictionary and list the probable corrections . |
| 16 | As long as we 've got that and peace of mind we can perhaps do things outside of what money can bring you . |
| 17 | If they are not mounted , we can perhaps discuss procedures for having them mounted , probably using the services of our own Preservation Division . |
| 18 | What I have tried to do here , therefore , is to present a flexible and varied menu of approaches from which people can perhaps derive ideas that seem congenial , or at least find some support for their own home-made kit of idiosyncratic but effective methods . |
| 19 | The identikit can only match faces already stored in the memory bank . ’ |
| 20 | This type of contravention of the offence will be gradually phased out by the new ‘ life ’ licences , although such offences could be committed by 70 year olds , provisional licence holders on expiry of such a licence and people suffering from certain disabilities who can only hold licences for restricted periods . |
| 21 | Strictly we can only measure abilities but much psychometric testing aims to infer capacities from the measured abilities , e.g. intelligence tests . |
| 22 | If it is to be a fish-only tank , then you can only stock 6″ of fish slowly during the first six months . |
| 23 | We can only send flowers if we know of the occasion , either happy or sad . |
| 24 | They can only suggest concepts and invite you to use them . |
| 25 | You can only suggest ways they might go about it and provide what help you think they might need . |
| 26 | These amount , as we saw , to the belief that many social phenomena are to be explained as the outcome of actions performed by individuals or groups , and the view that groups can only do things if individuals do . |
| 27 | You can only do claims to five thousand pound ca n't you ? |
| 28 | In any case it costs nothing to hear it on FM radio these days , and it can only do orchestras good . |
| 29 | Th the economy can only suffer shortages and low productivity as a result of poverty pay . |
| 30 | On this matter , some point out that , assuming electromagnetic radiation does have an effect , it can only proliferate cancers already present . |