Example sentences of "can [verb] [to-vb] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An obese person can strive to overcome such feelings by overeating and so gaining size , weight and ( subjectively speaking ) importance . |
| 2 | After their retirement from employment , people in the UK can expect to receive some form of pension . |
| 3 | This becomes more important with increasing age , when people can expect to lose long-standing friends at an ever-increasing rate . |
| 4 | J-registered Cavalier SRi saloons and hatches are good value at auction and bidders can expect to secure 1992 cars with under 10,000 miles from company and fleet sources for around £8250 . |
| 5 | In our own case , if we can wash our face on our UK print run we can expect to make some profit from foreign licences . |
| 6 | Schools in ‘ well off ’ areas can expect to raise more money in direct appeals and in fund raising activities than schools serving poorer communities . |
| 7 | There is not much you can do to make radical changes to other people 's basic life positions , but you can use your awareness of the four ‘ OK — Not OK ’ positions to understand why you sometimes feel hopeless , depressed , victimized and so on . |
| 8 | But in London , as in Washington or Paris , there is an increasingly fatalistic view that there is very little governments can do to prevent popular pressure for reunification . |
| 9 | Will my right hon. Friend see what he can do to help some children in my constituency , who came to me saying that they would like access to present-day artists such as Yehudi Menuhin , Cliff Richard and Jason Donovan and other , younger stars ? |
| 10 | And there is much that local authorities can do to advise informal workers of their rights , tax and social security matters and to explain how to become legal . |
| 11 | You can choose to take packed lunches for your child if you want to . |
| 12 | Mike Davies , General Manager of the International Tennis Federation , said : ‘ There are not many events in the world that can claim to have continuous sponsorship for 14 years as will be the case of Coca-Cola . |
| 13 | There are , however , various techniques a girl can employ to reduce excess poundage without risking over-exertion . |
| 14 | Now we are offering young people aged 16 and 17 vouchers they can use to buy approved courses of education or training , and which will put the power of choice in their hands . |
| 15 | Following Samuel Huntington , we can begin to assess this question by identifying three broad and conflicting conceptions of conservatism . |
| 16 | We can begin to answer this question by listing three principles concerning the divine which have emerged from the analysis in the previous chapter : |
| 17 | One can begin to answer these questions by looking at the proportion of the population who live in households of different types . |
| 18 | Given such co-operation , the main constituents of a full , rewarding life are available within the community , and cash farming can begin to take second place to the production of local needs . |
| 19 | A reform suggested below , to introduce a flexible school leaving age so that some fourteen-year-olds can begin to undertake part-time training with part-time work , needs to be seen as part of this overall training programme . |
| 20 | Dr Bernard Tinker , chairman of the Environmental Change Network steering committee , commented ‘ It is only through long-term observation of sensitive indicators that we can begin to distinguish genuine trends from short-term fluctuations . |
| 21 | It is only now , decades after they were first written down , that the reading public can begin to have any sense of the extent and range of Tolkien 's mythological writings . |
| 22 | Whereas the counsellor can hope to point retired people towards new activities and new sources of friendship , the loss of income associated with retirement is a matter over which counselling can have little direct influence . |
| 23 | Traditional engineering is pluralistic , systems engineering will be no different , and so no single approach can hope to support all aspects of system construction . |
| 24 | But no man can hope to attain scientific mastery of its many parts and re-assemble them into the wonderful symbiosis of nature . |
| 25 | Only a force which stands outside the manoeuvring and hostility of the struggle can hope to make any headway in furthering a particular interest . |
| 26 | Moreover , combinations of factors can conspire to turn vertical effects into horizontal effects , for example the combination of vertical linkages and the necessity for licences at the retail stage ( as in the supply of beer ) . |
| 27 | You can apply to enter any time from the date of your sixteenth birthday . |
| 28 | Once these problems have been identified , we can proceed to develop adequate mechanisms for overcoming them . |
| 29 | If Grom suffers one or more wounds from shooting , combat , or whatever , he can try to recover these wounds at the end of the phase in which they are inflicted . |
| 30 | In your do-it-yourself practice you can try to spot long vowels by contrasting two of them with each other in sentences . |