Example sentences of "can [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lone parents can earn up to £15 a week before their income support is reduced . |
| 2 | If you do take a paid job , bear in mind that although you can earn up to a certain amount per week without affecting your state pension your wages will also be subject to income tax . |
| 3 | If you draw your pension , you can earn up to a certain amount a week without affecting it . |
| 4 | Top goalkeepers can earn up to £50,000-a-year from manufacturers for wearing their gear , including built-in bonuses for Cup runs and television appearances . |
| 5 | Tough action by police and customs in Britain and on the continent has smashed some of the biggest illicit labs , which can earn up to £250,000 a day . |
| 6 | If we can laugh out loud about getting old , break the silence that surrounds it instead of suffering quietly , then we are beginning to escape from a fear society wants us to have — so we will buy uplift bras , expensive face creams and continue to fear and envy younger women . |
| 7 | PROFESSIONAL : Coleman can laugh off his gaffes |
| 8 | If you have a modem you can log on to a bulletin board and download it . |
| 9 | It can plot up to 45,000 colour coded stars , show the motion of the Sun , Moon and all the planets . |
| 10 | ‘ Then I 'll wish for the first and last dance tonight and as many as you can spare in between , ’ Harry rejoined , and was pleased to see that Cora-Beth was actually blushing . |
| 11 | The accompaniment must paint the general background mood of the piece , and rhythmic designs can persist over big areas and only break off if there is a very definite change of mood or subject matter . |
| 12 | Jane Bywaters , who has been responsible for much of the exhibition , said : ‘ We need to give people information so that they can make up their own minds about food and not be dictated to by the media and media events . ’ |
| 13 | This way , you can make up a ‘ hit list ’ of personnel within companies to whom you want to send your tape . |
| 14 | Obviously we believe we can make up the time on roads we have been over quite a few times . ’ |
| 15 | In my mind you can make up anything you want in your notebooks , but you ca n't call it fraud if it was n't published . |
| 16 | There 's no place like Home , provided you can make up your mind where on earth that place is supposed to be . |
| 17 | On the other hand , there are tables and graphs and a methodical list of the alternatives , so the intelligent and diligent reader can make up his own mind . |
| 18 | Other bryozoan colonies are more immediately conspicuous , particularly the stout , twig-like branches of the Palaeozoic trepostomes , which can make up thick limestone beds , and formed their own ‘ reefs ’ , or the large , often net-like colonies of the ‘ fenestrellids ’ common in the Upper Palaeozoic . |
| 19 | Why do the powers that be refuse to supply dental dams on the same basis as condoms are supplied , so that we can make up our own minds as to the suitability or otherwise of the dams ? |
| 20 | You can make up simple , large crossword puzzles for the patient to solve . |
| 21 | Each student can make up a package of tests to go for ; he may repeat those that he fails , without the social disaster of being kept down a year ; and he may make up a mix of practical and theoretical according to a plan worked out with his class teacher , and bearing in mind what he aims to do next . |
| 22 | Business units can make up their own minds about the implications of economic factors on their own operations ; the corporate planning departments are more interested in determining how vulnerable each business unit is to different economic environments . |
| 23 | JVC 's disc plant near Tokyo can make up to 300 000 discs a month . |
| 24 | ‘ I can make up your undoubted losses ! ’ |
| 25 | If there are enough of you , you can make up a more formal self-help group . |
| 26 | Eggs are the perfect protein , containing all eight essential amino acids , so they can make up for any deficiency that may be caused elsewhere . |
| 27 | His view is that consumers should be told the whole truth : ‘ If the public wants fish fingers made up of minced fish that 's OK , so long as they are told and can make up their own minds . |
| 28 | Even young people have ideas and can make up their own minds , and he did n't want to tell us what he thought we should do because it was our lives and he realised that . ’ |
| 29 | The straight side sections are easier : you can make up mock pilasters with straight sections of bought mouldings , or again make your own if you have a router . |
| 30 | There 's no way money can make up for losing all that ’ . |