Example sentences of "can [vb infin] [to-vb] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In explanation Van Valen put forward what he termed the Red Queen 's hypothesis , named after the Lewis Carroll character who found it took all the running one can do to keep in the same place . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Second , the discrimination which emanates from ageism can appear to result from the natural process of biological ageing rather than social creation . |
| 4 | The second question concerns the care referred to in section 31(2) ( b ) ( i ) , namely , whether the care can refer to care by a third party , in this case a grandmother , who is offering to take over the care of the child . |
| 5 | Labour will develop a flexible decade of retirement between the ages of 60 and 70 , so that men and women can choose to retire on a full pension or continue in work without discrimination . |
| 6 | Should you be lucky enough to own a ‘ filofax ’ , there are many kinds of graph paper , different coloured notepapers , and diary sheets that you can purchase to make into a comprehensive section on your new diet and health programme . |
| 7 | According to Epting ( 1981 ) it is only through the continuous creation of new constructs that an individual can hope to deal with an ever-changing world . |
| 8 | This cause has been championed not because of the prestige which the word ‘ science ’ carries with it , but because it is only through the better employment of scientific method that sociology can hope to develop as a true academic discipline , free from the biases introduced by ideologists or the wish to sway current social policy . |
| 9 | Then , if you can manage to go to the front door , open it , before you pass out or feel faint , or ring a neighbour who has a key . |
| 10 | A few of them can afford to rely upon a single organization to offer them work throughout the year . |
| 11 | The decision of whether to prescribe an antidepressant should be made on the basis of whether the patient shows ‘ biological ’ features of depression which predict a good response ( e.g. early morning wakening , diurnal mood variation , and weight loss due to impaired appetite ) ; whether , in the case of severe depression , one can afford to wait for the delayed response of an antidepressant ; and the extent to which environmental factors seem largely to explain the symptoms . |
| 12 | RODERICK Newall , the former army lieutenant accused of murdering his wealthy Scottish parents in Jersey five years ago , was yesterday faced with the problem of whether he can afford to appeal to the Privy Council in the fight against extradition to stand trial . |
| 13 | Once that 's settled , you can afford to indulge in a little merrymaking . |
| 14 | Yet the final equation of what you can afford to spend on a new car is likely to be influenced by what you get for the old one . |
| 15 | Does my right hon. Friend agree that the launching of the first Trident submarine yesterday , and the fact that three more are under construction , is the minimum insurance policy that the country can afford to accept in a dangerous and uncertain world ? |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | If a discount house finds itself short of funds after the Bank 's main bill business has been concluded , it can request to borrow on a secured basis from the Bank . |
| 18 | Is my right hon. Friend aware that the greatest service he can continue to do for the British public is to keep inflation below 5 per cent ? |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | We do have to look at all our pre-school children as a group who have similar means as they grow and they learn and they develop and I hope that we can continue to push for a co-ordinated approach to the whole range of services that we are o offering to that group of children and to their families . |
| 21 | Stokenchurch Dog Rescue and Welfare Society is always looking for voluntary dog walkers , blankets , towels and newspaper , as well as much needed finance so that they can continue to care for the other 70 dogs they have in their kennels at present . |
| 22 | Wyatt 's articulation of the necessity to stage his identity , even within the ostensible private world of a sonnet , so that he can continue to function within the social world is reiterated by writers whose focus is more distinctly on the public sphere . |
| 23 | Victim Support can continue to count on the full- hearted support of this Government . ’ |
| 24 | No one who has heard a 3-year-old , lately able to utter only single words , saying things like ‘ The difficulty with me is , I do n't want to go to bed ’ , or ‘ it looks to me as if my brother has been at it ’ can fail to toy with a Chomskian or Cartesian notion of innate ideas , the deep structures of language being in us from before birth . |
| 25 | LEFT Practising bandaging your pet 's foot can help to prepare for the real event . |