Example sentences of "can [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Younger company secretaries , for example , can earn £40,000-£50,000 a year , while more experienced ones or those working for large companies can earn £70,000 a year . |
| 2 | Yet the ambulance worker is only being offered £10,000 , when a fire officer is being given £13,000 and a Metropolitan police constable can earn £25,000 . |
| 3 | On these a roundsman can earn £15,000 a year or more . |
| 4 | They are prevented from entering what appears to them the more appealing world of work , a world in which they can earn independence and the goods that money can buy . |
| 5 | I can earn £400,000 elsewhere . |
| 6 | ‘ I can earn £400,000 somewhere else . ’ |
| 7 | Not only have I got a career that I can earn money from . |
| 8 | surely that also suits the , the people at the bottom because i be because the , the government is , is producing work in effect it means that the people at the bottom have jobs and , and can earn money and , and so they 're , they 're lot actually improves . |
| 9 | Children can earn smiles when they do well by their own standards . ) |
| 10 | You can earn advancement to leading cook and then to petty officer cook or caterer . |
| 11 | A few years ' work in the brothels of Bangkok can earn girls more money than their families ever dreamt of . |
| 12 | But globalisation means that companies have to invest where they can produce cheapest and at the best quality and where they can earn profits . |
| 13 | In the view of their Lordships it can only be in rare cases that a taxpayer with a principal place of business in Hong Kong can earn profits which are not chargeable to profits tax under section 14 of the Inland Revenue Ordinance . |
| 14 | It is clear from the Hang Seng Bank case [ 1991 ] 1 A.C. 306 that in appropriate circumstances a company carrying on business in Hong Kong can earn profits which do not arise in or derive from the colony , notwithstanding the fact that those profits are not attributable to an independent overseas branch . |
| 15 | We will record his successes on this star chart and show him how he can earn treats when he has collected a specified number of stars [ see page 57 ] . |
| 16 | Now people can earn pocket money by picking it . |
| 17 | British airlines and ultimately British consumers will pay high prices , and Boeing can earn monopoly profits . |
| 18 | The rate per loan is being increased from 1.81 pence to 1.86 pence , while the maximum any one author can earn remains £6,000 . |
| 19 | Present value : If you delay paying a bill , you can earn interest on the money in the meantime . |
| 20 | This suits other banks because it means that they can earn interest on surplus funds , knowing at the same time that they can get them very quickly , at call , if necessary . |
| 21 | Younger company secretaries , for example , can earn £40,000-£50,000 a year , while more experienced ones or those working for large companies can earn £70,000 a year . |
| 22 | BRITAIN 'S newest professional fighter , Adrian Dodson , can earn $100 million in an eight-year career . |
| 23 | In future , you can earn £65 a week tax-free . |
| 24 | Last summer HP decided to proliferate its SoftBench framework source code beyond CASE and stripped out the CASE-specific utilities , getting down to a core communications technology known as the Broadcast Message Server which can coordinate messages among different software applications in a common environment . |
| 25 | So can sprung edge , storage and orthopaedic divans . |
| 26 | This is achieved by the use of lockshield valves which can restrict flow through the most favoured radiators . |
| 27 | Pain , or the fear of pain , can restrict mobility especially after surgery , when patients tend to lie still , keeping their whole body stiff regard-less of the site of . |
| 28 | The more slopes to a roof , the greater the scope for the unusual , but they can restrict size . |
| 29 | It includes workstation security — which can restrict users ' access to specific applications — multiple secure window options and personal ID passwords . |
| 30 | It includes workstation security — which can restrict users ' access to specific applications — multiple secure window options and personal ID passwords . |