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Meanings of can in English
Synonyms
Examples for "behind"
Examples for "behind"
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Organised crime was likely behind the attacks, the state attorney general said.
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Future research is needed to better understand the reasons behind these differences.
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It has over 120 million users, its second largest market behind India.
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However he said he preferred to discuss the issue behind closed doors.
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North America is Honda's largest market and GM's second largest behind China.
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However, Mr Salwai still holds a clear majority in the 52-seat parliament.
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Dr Phelps' win saw the government lose its one-seat majority of 76.
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Home, seat of his family, source of three hundred years of history.
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Photo: AFP The Australian government has lost its one-seat majority in parliament.
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He was subsequently re-elected last year to the new five-seat Donegal constituency.
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I for one, my bottom line result is not good, he said.
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The government plans to control the state before hitting rock-bottom, he said.
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Good data generally leads to a business having a better bottom line.
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Public health officials recommend it, but does it help the bottom line?
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Top left and bottom right: CGI renderings of The New Chinatown development.
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However, the rear entrance to the centre is another story this week.
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That said, the rear-endings demonstrate that the technology is far from perfect.
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Nydia faced the rear of the house, also on the second level.
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Moving closer, he saw animal pens in the rear of the house.
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Along the rear boundary there is 18m of right of way access.
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The Russian civil war is dragging its mortal tail through eastern Europe.
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Responses in tail arteries were not significantly different among the different groups.
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She opened it and found the tail of the little china dog.
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And the little dog in the corner wagged his tail and said:
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The body and bones we could easily construct; and the tail too.
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A stern-looking Medvedev replied: Identify those involved in committing this heinous crime.
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Instead he had chosen exhausting labor and stern self-denial in the wilds.
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I sat in the stern of the barge to tend the drag-rope.
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McGee himself sat in the stern of the boat, paddle in hand.
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He missed the house, and landed in the stern of the scow.
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The word I'd use is 'ordinary.' But she had some crazy-ass ideas.
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In Ireland the following folk-beliefs obtain regarding the ass and the cow:-
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Dumb-ass Gary left them up on his screen about a week ago.
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Like I said, I could fire your ass right here right now.
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In America every one works-eventhe horse, the ass and the ox.
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And my Nike fanny pack is the object that makes that possible.
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Dumond then stepped out of the van with a large fanny pack.
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Then Fanny tried personalities, the natural topic of the sex in general.
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Fanny know that he was here; he would wait in the dining-room.
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Fanny made no attempt at remonstrance; she left the room in silence.
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The institutions continue to produce countless kick-butt professionals who are industry leaders.
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Good butt, great lashes, long and thick, and of course-mybeautiful eyes.
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Instinctively Dryden kept himself out of view behind a large water butt.
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The message was clear: they were covering her butt this one time.
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Give him more butt; be careful; be more energetic; certainly, all right.
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Patients with intact posterior fossa cisterns had good recoveries without surgical treatment.
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Therefore, a surgical operation was performed through a standard posterior lateral thoracotomy.
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Reports of primary malignant lymphoma in the posterior mediastinum are extremely rare.
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Similar elevations are sometimes seen on the posterior pillars of the fauces.
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Posteromedial retinacular structures and posterior oblique ligament were injured in all cases.
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I remembered something Trapp had told me once about his bridge-bum days.
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The trim, khaki-garbed enlistment officer rubs elbows with the lodging house bum.
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Guess the lamp is on the bum, but you hardly need that.
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The law, missing the right quarry, descends on the slower-moving, harmless bum.
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I just couldn't resist giving him the bum's rush for a change.
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Perhaps the rump of the party should seriously consider joining Fine Gael.
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There would only be a rump Labour party left to oppose him.
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The balance of the debt would be assumed by the rump business.
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The rump of the monster he bear was what she looked upon.
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All three collagens had lower content in loin than that in rump.
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The buttocks, in the folds of the neck and in the groins.
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The back, the buttocks, the face, and the scalp presented similar lesions.
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The doctor went about the business of exposing Woodward's buttocks and back.
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I watched Claudel's perfectly fitted buttocks disappear through the small rectangular opening.
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Mostly, she thought, feeling bruises develop on her hips, buttocks and shoulder.
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That said, it's probably a pain in the arse to actually use.
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Don't book a flight to deliver her a much-needed arse-whupping just yet.
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The arse in question began to shimmy as MacDougall attempted to disengage.
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And speaking of pains in the arse; what do you want, Taylor?
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Cricket actually forces you to sit on your arse, which is healthy.
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He had a large hand; it spanned most of her lower backside.
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There was a looming shadow at Amy's backside: a cold, ominous figure.
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The only fighter I know who can do damage with his backside.'
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Under his backside, it felt as if it might go any time.
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She pushed open the screen door with her backside, spotted Willy coming.
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He'd moved his microwave, bought good food, and run his buns off.
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Would you ask my darling wife to bring her buns out here?
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The visitors threw in buns, some of which floated on the surface.
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With buns that taste as good as ours who wants to wait?
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Place cooked franks into buns and top with toppings right before serving.
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Twice in crossing the cabin his hindquarters had sagged to the floor.
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Clean and cut them in halves, leaving two ribs on the hindquarters.
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She felt him gather his weight in his hindquarters, heard him groan.
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Suddenly Mavra became aware that Joshi was shaking his hindquarters, obviously agitated.
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Holly crossed to the screen, elbowing Foalys hindquarters out of the way.
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Not that she had that much tush in the first place.
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Might as well haul my jet-lagged tush over there and wait for Nick.
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Will we gain, instead of a nice tush, a few inches somewhere else?
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She could ignore his perfect tush and forgive his California roots.
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And her tush did do amazing things for a pair of faded jeans.
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How can a skinny little prat like you weigh so bloody much?
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It probably also confirms that you're a bit of a prat.
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I know what that prat Latham is going to do next.
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After all, here was, for me, the prat on a plate.
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He might have become a real problem, if he hadn't been such a prat.
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While you've been perched on your Gallic derriere Cooper has been busy.
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Nice round little derriere-somethingfor the gentleman to get his hands around.
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Rhiannon shifted her naked derriere uncomfortably on the sand and leaned forward.
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Everton got an even more painful toe up the derriere 10 days later.
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Last year reality star Kardashian featured in the magazine, showing her nude derriere.
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Andre looked as if someone had stuck a nail up his fundament.
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The pain was entirely gone from his bowels, but not from his fundament.
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He still thinks the sun shines out of your skinny fundament.
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The fundament of this power is not granite, but mines.
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And again for relieving the itching of the fundament caused by the presence of threadworms.
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We'll pass his dehydrated keister on the side of a Mojave sandbank.
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It's a pain in the keister, but nothing I didn't expect.
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I said, 'You gotta get your keister out here.
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He should have been flat on his keister, but his eyes never left Ricky Lee's.
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Nikon D90 Sometimes the mere notion of being "number two" can light a motivational fire under your keister.
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Amman saw a girl with a large thigh attached to her nates.
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A woman with marked development of the nates has great attraction for me.
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He preferred the nates, but his cousin the penis.
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Very broad hips, large breasts, and well-developed nates.
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Pygopagous twins are fetuses united together in the region of the nates and having each its own pelvis.
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All under the false bottom, at the hind end of the wagon.
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A feed box was fitted across the hind end of the wagon.
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He found himself looking at the hind end of a two-headed cow.
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The reaver hissed, and a stench exploded from its hind end.
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Horace had no tail, but it didn't matter; his entire hind end was wig-wagging.
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The rear end of the short shank tapered to a rounded point.
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Our car shot forward, stopped so fast the rear end lurched left.
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The laughter at the rear end of the car had died out.
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The necessity of the rear end elevation will now be referred to.
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A chain is fastened to the rear end of the hindermost log.
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Place it on the platter with the tail end at the left.
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The Ku Klux was the tail end of the war, whooping around.
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The shooters came in from the north, from the arroyo's tail end.
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I was cutting steps across the tail end of a little glacier.
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The Spelling Mistakes arrived via the tail end of punk in 1979.
Usage of can in English
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Health researchers say living in such conditions can damage young people's health.
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In other words: The companies can use inventors' patents however they want.
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But today we can confirm two cases, health minister Tewedros Adhanhom said.
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This issue can affect any young person, especially young athletes of today.
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Keeping track of these health statistics can help catch heart problems early.
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Power companies hope the technique can help them avoid higher carbon emissions.
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She says: 'I think culture can change opinions by asking new questions.
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Season: Spring through fall, although sunny winter days can offer good conditions.
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Now public health can be priority number one-thanksto plentiful number two.
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Directly granting privileges to accounts, however, can lead to significant security problems.
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However, the process can take six months or longer in some cases.
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You can use that data to support better health and treatment services.
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There remain concerns however, over whether this objective can really be achieved.
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Data networks can provide resources to enhance population health information and infrastructure.
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However, a general all-clear for the market cannot be given, he said.
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There can be no material security or economic democracy without political democracy.
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