Example sentences of "can [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Microwave combination ovens can successfully prime cook fresh and frozen foods and regenerate ready cooked dishes from chilled and frozen . |
2 | Perhaps if it 's so successful if it can successfully this evening perhaps we will do it more often . |
3 | So long as they are not excluded candidates having " too few " votes must be allowed to collect if they can enough transferred votes to bring them up to the quota . |
4 | Only Sue Lewis , secretary to Lord Rees , can better that record . |
5 | But can less authoritarian forms of moral discipline be effective and if so , how are they to be achieved ? |
6 | I can only second Glynn 's remarks . |
7 | You can fine some information a bout each of these methods on pages 2–6 of this leaflet . |
8 | But if someone in the past was capable of inventing it , why can not other people be inventing it now ? |
9 | And he was fain to acknowledge the tenant 's insistence that the bargain was sacrosanct : ‘ I can not much saie against that ; but yet I perceaue I shalbe a losser still by this bargaine , thowghe I can not tell the reason why ’ More prosaically , landownership was hedged about by varying degrees of limitation resulting from the security of customary tenures , accompanied as often as not by inelasticity of rents . |
10 | This way , if I reach the end of the cone without noticing , the cone lifts off the floor and , as it can not possible pass through the tension assembly , I get plenty of warning without having the weights landing on my feet ( ouch ! ) and my knitting on the floor ! |
11 | There is not enough evidence to decide this issue , but there is enough to be sure what we should feel about the conclusions he draws concerning Othello : One part of this antithesis follows — some men must be servants — but not the other : why can not all masters be served ‘ truly ’ ? |
12 | Why can not that proposal be brought forward , so that the local offices of the Department of Social Security could make the decision about topping-up arrangements ? |
13 | Why can not this country afford social justice when the Governments of Portugal and of Greece have no doubt where the balance lies ? |
14 | er I 'm sorry to produce the problems er erm we can not this time for large sum of money which er the labour group in particular er want to provide in this area er to spend on rights of way . |
15 | To find a given subject you can just double click on the appropriate word in the word list , or type a word into a search box to bring up a number of related articles . |
16 | Tell you what about three pints of that , you can real good stuff , so , we , we went up to Blackpool a couple of years back on holiday , and we found this little |
17 | say basically the same thing ; that , as emperor , he has the power to do a lot of damage and that power can quickly corrupt men , however noble or good they seem to start off . |
18 | You can always red circle that salary at a later date and hold her increases down against other people . |
19 | He wants to argue that we do join civil societies and that we can under certain circumstances erm decide to quit them and , overall of course against Filmer he wants to argue that in this respect a civil society is radically different from the family . |
20 | Can more financial rigour be incorporated into portfolio-grid analysis ? |
21 | Greater specialisation can also narrow horizons : ‘ For me , the highest pinnacle of achievement now is to be the director of a broadcast production . |
22 | Such currency handsomely repays the effort , especially when , in typical British VFR , you can routinely pin- point your position to within a hundred yards . |
23 | You can about forty pounds . |
24 | At this stage , you will have drawn both the copper track layout and have separately superimposed the component layout onto it : you can now double check your work thoroughly . |
25 | You can back one party or another to win the election , or bet on men arriving from outer space , without having to make any contribution to the costs of the election campaign or the necessary expenses of the men from outer space . |
26 | At one of Lloyds most recently opened clubs , Lloyd 's Lanes , in Enfield , North London , you can even ten pin bowl your way to fitness and fun . |
27 | Victory when it came I found tasteless , I was ashamed to be envious of air crews who were able to turn up at reunions with a crew intact , and they still can even 40 years on , and relive those cruel yet wondrous days when the composition of a crew was as binding as the sanctity of marriage . |
28 | In his discussion of the metaphor ‘ man is a wolf ’ , Black describes the work of metaphor in discursive terms : ‘ Any human traits that can without undue strain be talked about in ‘ wolf-language ’ will be rendered prominent , and any that can not will be pushed into the background' ( 41 ) . |
29 | I can without excessive licence properly regard the illness as sin made manifest in bone , guilt outcropping in itchy red layers on the skin , shame bubbling in hot pain in the ligaments . |
30 | How can part-time British players compete against professional overseas players in terms of standards of fitness and attitude ? |