Example sentences of "can [vb infin] [to-vb] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The topics and situations envisaged in the conversations should be those that the student can expect to meet in real life . |
| 2 | The depth of colour you can expect to achieve in one week will depend on how dark your skin is naturally . |
| 3 | At recent rates about 80 per cent of married women can expect to work at some time in their married lifetime ( Martin and Roberts 1984 ) . |
| 4 | In accordance with the terms of the contract , you can choose to retire at any time after the age of 60 , when the policy will buy you a regular pension plus the option of taking part of the money as a tax-tree lump sum . |
| 5 | If one assumes that any paddler runs a risk of shoulder damage when the shoulder angle is forced beyond 180 degrees , then a canoeist can choose to paddle at high risk with an arm position close to the limit or at low risk . |
| 6 | The public profile of the CBI 's director general mainly derives from his willingness to pronounce in public on issues of political interest , his fluency and persuasiveness in doing so and the fact that he can claim to speak for British industry . |
| 7 | It is difficult to see how Evans-Pritchard 's approach can begin to cope with this sort of variation in responses to a culture 's religion . |
| 8 | If we can get out from behind pride , we can begin to see with genuine appreciation the efforts and accomplishments of other people . |
| 9 | You could treat the fish with ‘ dips ’ out of the pond , but all you can hope to do at this point is to control the spread of secondary infections , such as ulcers and fungus and bacterial infections . |
| 10 | An American president can decide to focus on domestic policy only up to a point ; events in the wider world , leaders of other countries , have a habit of eating into time that the president thought he would spend on other things . |
| 11 | You can apply to enter at any time from your sixteenth birthday . |
| 12 | Clearly , any reasonable number of players can have to go at this game , taking it in turns to bat and bowl . |
| 13 | Now loan redemption is a matter for the Government to decide ( at least as to minima ) , and presumably comes down to a judgement about how much the Government thinks that local authorities as a whole can afford to redeem in any year . |
| 14 | Why does the Lord Chancellor think people who need housing benefit and family credit to meet their basic living expenses can afford to pay for legal advice ? |
| 15 | And that can seem to rub in this feeling of Christian inadequacy . |
| 16 | Her pension can continue to increase until such time as her husband gets his pension or reaches the age of 70 , whichever is sooner . |
| 17 | As long as young pro-European forces can continue to develop in this country , I think that a positive change in attitude is possible . |
| 18 | That 's coming to then I can start to look in more detail |
| 19 | And as many deaf-blind people live in institutions , Rainbow Court also includes a flat they can visit to learn about day-to-day living with the help of an advisor . |
| 20 | It is a defensible pattern in what might be called ‘ low-theory ’ fields , where people can learn to practise in some way and with some success without any theoretical preparation for what they are doing , although they may have had some relevant training at a lower level . |