Example sentences of "[noun] can [verb] [to-vb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Few clients can afford to advertise throughout the year and media people have to judge whether a " drip " will work better than a " burst " . |
| 2 | Viktor Korovin , who was elected director of Uralmash by its workforce last summer , says that its ‘ financial situation is very complicated ’ , by which he means that few of the company 's heavy-industrial clients can afford to pay for the machinery that has been delivered to them . |
| 3 | At least Americ-ans can choose to fly with the airline with the best chance of getting their luggage through in one piece . |
| 4 | Our job is to listen to everybody , and in the end find some formulation of some policy which the Council can adopt to deal with the problem . |
| 5 | Our job is to listen to everybody , not just Rover , but everybody ; the unions , the city council and in the end , find some formulation of some policy which the council can adopt to deal with the problem . |
| 6 | I am happy to say that my officials will be meeting representatives from the company tomorrow to see what ECGD can do to help in the present confused economic position in the Soviet Union . |
| 7 | Second , the discrimination which emanates from ageism can appear to result from the natural process of biological ageing rather than social creation . |
| 8 | When the switching transistor is turned off the phase current can continue to flow through the path provided by the freewheeling diode and freewheeling resistance . |
| 9 | There may be a continuing sequence of ledges , shelves and drops which the rabbit can negotiate to escape from the ferret . |
| 10 | Backed happily by Safeguard , Rabbit can afford to expand on the back of acquisitions , which the firm points to as being part of its growth policy , whether such acquisitions be based on product or on sales/marketing synergies , in the US and in Europe . |
| 11 | In producing these drafts we bore firmly in mind the fact that if this duty on auditors is to be effective then it 's vital that the auditors can continue to rely on the trust of their clients . |
| 12 | Yet new approaches to treatment of incontinence , for example , mean that many people can learn to cope with the problem ; learning about how to communicate with deaf people can reduce the isolation of someone who has withdrawn from social contact because of hearing loss ; and modern drugs and careful monitoring by a general practitioner can reduce the effects of Parkinson 's Disease . |
| 13 | And bodies can fail to respond to the dictates of the conscious mind . |
| 14 | They have no choice at all , and we are in a most dreadful situation and government policy only has one choice and that 's you buy , and if you ca n't afford to buy , and at the moment only thirty five per cent of families in Oxford can afford to buy on the current wage levels and the current house prices , the other sixty five per cent have no choice whatsoever , so you know you 're talking nonsense to say we want consumer choice in housing . |
| 15 | What is more , people who move to the other side of the world can continue to vote for the Labour Party in UK elections : recent Tory legislation allows people living abroad to vote in elections back home . |
| 16 | Pupils can come to identify with the students — sometimes the age difference is not more than a few years — and ask how they can emulate them . |
| 17 | First Class offers plenty of realistic reading material with interesting examples of the kinds of documents trainees can expect to see in the workplace such as letters , faxes , telexes , bills , and receipts . |
| 18 | ( In hydrocephalic children , where a drainage shunt is fitted , the faulty functioning or blockage of this shunt can lead to damage of the optic nerve . ) |
| 19 | The company can expect to draw on the advice of many different specialists and institutions during and after the initial planning stage . |
| 20 | Victim Support can continue to count on the full- hearted support of this Government . ’ |
| 21 | DAVID HIRST can expect to return to the England fold today when Graham Taylor names his party to face Turkey in their second World Cup qualifier in a fortnight . |
| 22 | LEFT Practising bandaging your pet 's foot can help to prepare for the real event . |
| 23 | But in Darlington there is a paucity of green space within the town centre where cooped-up employees can go to bask in the sun , or where shoppers can rest a few minutes . |