Example sentences of "can [verb] of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Covenants also appear in leases where the person letting the property includes terms in the lease which restrict the person renting the property as to the use he or she can make of the property , e.g. the premises are to be used only for storage , not for retailing goods . |
| 2 | At the end of period t - 1 the best guess any agent can make of the values of v t and t(z) t the aggregate and relative demand shocks in the coming period , is that they will be zero . |
| 3 | You can think of the strategies as miniature ‘ proxies ’ for their authors . |
| 4 | One can think of the differences of being handsome , beautiful , or just ordinary , in terms of small differences in the growth programme for each region . |
| 5 | One can think of the DNA in the nucleus as an enormous reference library containing the instructions for making all the proteins . |
| 6 | Among that most representative breed of ministers , Moderators , it is even closer to the mark , and without consulting the records I can think of the Very Reverends MacLeod , Fraser , Craig ( Archie ) , Craig ( Robert ) and Reid , as examples . |
| 7 | If we refer to linguistic knowledge , the internalization of the symbolic function of signs , systemic knowledge , then we can think of the realization of meaning in actual language use as a matter of taking bearings on two points of reference : systemic knowledge on the one hand and schematic knowledge on the other . |
| 8 | We can think of the presence of the specialist teacher as being on a continuum of visibility . |
| 9 | We can think of the electron not only as going through both slits but also as following paths both direct and indirect , moving both rapidly and slowly . |
| 10 | Either we can think of the UK and every other economy as a coherent whole with a dynamic of its own or we can think of it as subordinate to the world economy such that its parts are the cogs of an international economy and have no coherence on a national basis . |
| 11 | It is at its strongest when applied to production ; indeed , one can think of the Adornian picture of a totally administered , homogeneous , determining process as the ideal type to which the industry constantly aspires ( though , for reasons discussed above , this state is never actually reached ) . |
| 12 | In order to make all of these main points work in an essay you can think of the reasons you have found as questions for yourself , and answer each with a paragraph . |
| 13 | In a sentence like ‘ The boy hit the girl with a flower ’ , one can think of the verb as a predicate which has a number of arguments — that is , one could represent the sentence as HIT ( BOY , GIRL , FLOWER ) . |
| 14 | And then I could add them together , or if that 's a bit awkward , what I could do is I could think of the hundred and one as a hundred add one , I can think of the seventeen as ten add seven , and then I multiply them this way and I multiply all the bits and then add all the bits up at the end . |
| 15 | We can think of the word graph as a search tree with each path through the tree corresponding to each of the word strings . |
| 16 | Because the insect is on both sheets of glass , you can think of the two sheets as passing , at an angle , through each other . |
| 17 | We can think of the adult as analogous to the ephemeral winged seed of a plant like a sycamore , and the larva as analogous to the main plant , the difference being that sycamores make many seeds and shed them over many successive years , while a mayfly larva gives rise to only one adult right at the end of its own life . |
| 18 | Well you can think of the height of the water as like a voltage . |
| 19 | You can rid of the ‘ DO — IT ! ’ at the end of you 'd rather check it manually . |
| 20 | At the same time , the editor fails to remark that when dealing with military servomechanisms , you can speak of the future position of the gun and compare that with ‘ future ’ human purposes . |
| 21 | Second , a labour market can be defined by skill or occupation : we can speak of the market for economics lecturers or the market for car workers . |
| 22 | One ambiguity which runs through most definitions , as it does with the word ‘ course ’ , is whether one is referring to the total package of studies or only one element in it ; thus one can speak of the undergraduate curriculum or the history curriculum . |
| 23 | Now one can speak of the development of autonomous ‘ life-orders ’ or ‘ value-spheres ’ , and in particular of the eighteenth-century autonomization of theoretical , ethical , and aesthetic spheres . |
| 24 | Since most of the parameters here will normally be constant during a given experiment we can speak of the blackout level for a given light intensity . |
| 25 | Therefore , I can speak of the experience when four hon. Members sit in quasi-judicial godliness hearing the arguments for and against . |
| 26 | I wonder whether we can speak of the smoothness of having little to do … the bobbliness of being entertained … the thickness of being warm … the knittedness of being kinaesthetically involved … |
| 27 | And you 're wondering , I mean I do n't think we can expect of the advice of charities now , or very little , you know , and , and they 've got to be very , very careful |
| 28 | Such a state of tension can only be achieved by implanting a hidden structure which must be integral to the situation — and to what the class can understand of the situation . |
| 29 | In what you can see of the earth , |
| 30 | Then he cleans the bed of needles and berries , spreads an old blanket over it , stretches himself at length , his hands folded under his head , and looks through the branches at what he can see of the blue sky . |