Example sentences of "can [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 If you draw your pension , you can earn up to a certain amount a week without affecting it .
3 ‘ My colleagues and I will be very interested , ’ he said sourly , ‘ to know what kind of propaganda that red magazine you work for can make out of an international survey of prospective parents . ’
4 ‘ As far as I can make out from the little she said about what actually happened , the man who kidnapped them , there was only one at that point , was hidden in the back of their car when they got in .
5 This is a CMOS technology device and , to some extent , prone to damage from static electricity which can build up on the human body .
6 Well obviously that factor er was considered carefully by the Ministry of Defence before our Secretary of State agreed that we could safely defer the in service date for Eurofighter two thousand and adjust the the er replacement plan er back in December ninety two , so we have looked at what is the current rate of consumption of airframe life on the jaguar er what can be done economically and sensibly to keep it flying safely and effectively into the next century and er we have come to the conclusion that we have a viable plan here which can tie up with the planned rate of delivery to service of Eurofighter two thousand .
7 Russell sees good opportunities in synthetic leather clothing , particularly if Morton can tie in with a European designer .
8 Or , you can carry on up the narrow and beautiful Nive valley to the village of Esterençuby .
9 Registration and administrative and financial returns are all functions which computers can carry out in a modern general practice .
10 A spokesman said : ‘ The problem with heavy rainfall and flash floods is that a lot of it runs away before it can soak through to the underground aquifers . ’
11 And as all sports are matched to your own ability , you can keep up with an old favourite or try your hand at something new .
12 But I can keep up with the intermediate class and I said to Maxine , Does this get any harder ?
13 And why I sit here , husbandless , dependent upon social security supplemented by such pitiful amounts of money as I can wring out of the national press , and Bernard genuflects once more , fled back to his baptismal church , terrified by the very notion of living outside it .
14 Keeping a car fully maintained at your local cost-a-lot garage can work out at a small fortune — and it never ends .
15 We can look back to a similar situation hundreds of years ago — the taming of knights in the Middle Ages .
16 Stand in the bar and you can look out at the full expanse of San Antonio running around the bay and watch the ferries plying to and from the very centre of town to the landing stage only 50 metres away .
17 From the top floors you can be inspired by the panoramic views across the City and from all the floors you , can look out onto a vast covered court .
18 erm They had great services were held in Christchurch Cathedral , and the King would have looked out from the Deans House , and this is the view of Tom Quad , a modern view , of course , of how you can look out onto the Great Quad of Christchurch , but of course it was n't like that .
19 This is the ice-cream tent and this is the Ladies and changing rooms for some of the performers and instead of looking at the back of the bar during the interval , the audience can look out over the rolling Oxfordshire countryside .
20 The stupid thing is that U2 are not just a good new rock-pop group , ‘ boy is n't it great that they can emerge out of the unhelpful Irish environment ’ .
21 INVESTORS in Scottish Power can splash out on an extra bottle of scotch to celebrate hogmanay .
22 The French manufacturers Arva , who have been making an interesting alternative range of transceivers for some years , have now developed a system of amplifying the radio signal so that a ski patroller in a helicopter can home in on a buried skier .
23 We want to give the children positive memories which they can draw on during the difficult times at home to build a better country .
24 If you 've been here long enough , you can move on to a progressive prison ; to a C cat , or even D cat .
25 Once you have an exact description of the job then you can move on to an accurate description of the ideal candidate to do it .
26 Now you can move on to the final stage of the diet .
27 When the back seat rail and stretcher are in place we can move on to the curved lower rail in the back .
28 The last I heard Trish was going to become a teacher , I mean I I we are supposed to be trying to think about whether we can have a sh a panel that we of people that we can call on for the short term crisis appointments or whatever , but
29 But there are two other prices where you can sell up from a full page and that 's that pre a premium slot like you see there and the chemist there will have paid twelve hundred pound .
30 When the electric field is released , the dipoles can relax back into a random orientation , but , due to the frictional resistance experienced by the groups in the bulk polymer this will not be instantaneous .
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