Example sentences of "can [vb infin] of [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Turned upside down on the floor , it became my boat , my cart , a railway engine — it 's amazing what a child can make of a simple object in imagination . |
| 2 | There are several tried and tested arrangements of units and appliances which will give an idea of the use you can make of a given shape : The one-wall kitchen , the U-plan kitchen , the L-shaped kitchen and the galley kitchen . |
| 3 | If you read with such issues in mind — and how they actively affect what sense you can make of a text — introductory notes often become relevant and interesting in unexpected ways . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | On the basis of her understanding , it appears that any artist in the USA who uses the conventions of the mass media in such a way as to produce a critique of the media ( and I can think of a good many ) is veritably a ‘ quasi-situationist ’ . |
| 7 | You can look forward to some sort of land away to quarry gravel for motorways , like someone I can think of a view and , let's face it , the mountain will still be there when you come back . |
| 8 | There is to be a fancy-dress parade , with a bicycle as a prize for the best entry , so see if you can think of a good idea for a character . ’ |
| 9 | I can think of a dozen men of much more recent notoriety if she was simply inventing it for some cranky reason of her own . |
| 10 | His cutaway heel is world-class stuff , and with a patent in the pipeline I can think of a number of major manufacturers who 'll be after him for a slice of the licensing action . |
| 11 | Who can think of a word to describe that jungle and that girl all by herself . |
| 12 | As I write , I can think of a couple of billboard posters that make no attempt to conceal their debt to the Belgian fantasist : a Silk Cut advertisement , which discards the regular purple silk motif in favour of a neutral cream back ground on which are set the letters P U R P L and E , snipped from some newspaper 's headlines as if by a poison pen writer ; and another whose legend , ‘ I did n't know that Air France had more flights to Paris than any other airline company ’ , is illustrated by the portrait of a man whose face is obscured by a fried egg . |
| 13 | I I can think of a I can think of a few th of them who are going to be completely incomprehensible to you . |
| 14 | I I can think of a I can think of a few th of them who are going to be completely incomprehensible to you . |
| 15 | But can you think of anyone who stands out as being somebody who really does their bit and yet does it possibly with humility or erm I 'm thinking of rather than saying sort of a general terminology of sort of Prime Ministers or what have you , erm I 'm thinking if you can think of a a particular person ? |
| 16 | There are 2 points in X. If N is 3 , then you can think of a cube , drawn in the corner of the three axes of Cartesian geometry . |
| 17 | ‘ I can think of a few names . |
| 18 | ‘ I can think of a dozen good reasons , ’ smiled Pascoe . |
| 19 | We can no more abolish one without destroying the others than we can think of a circle without a circumference … |
| 20 | ‘ I do n't know , ’ he said smoothly , ‘ I can think of a couple of occasions when patronising you was the last thing on my mind . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ I can think of a thousand better things to do . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ I can think of a cure for that . ’ |
| 23 | Listen , if you can think of a cure , let me know . |
| 24 | I can think of a really good one , Buckingham |
| 25 | er whereas if you had said positively that I 'm sure you can think of a number of |
| 26 | ‘ I can think of a few consultants , not to mention some very tired registrars , ’ she added ruefully , ‘ who 'd give their right arm to work in conditions like these . ’ |
| 27 | And no one can think of a similar incident on this scale . |
| 28 | One can think of a number of cases which are coming before the courts where there 's been a lot of publicity and I 'm sure that the legal teams involved in those cases will be studying this judgement er and will be considering whether or not those principles ca n't be applied to their cases . |
| 29 | Erm , I I honestly though , oh yes I can , I think I can think of a black sheep . |
| 30 | So let's see if we can think of a way of doing it . |