Example sentences of "can [verb] [indef pn] from [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | With just a few bits of metal and lots of imagination , Meccano addicts can build anything from a replica of Blackpool Tower to a Lancaster bomber . |
2 | On those boats you can buy anything from a loaf to a life . |
3 | Properly interpreted and monitored , the quarter mill map can prevent anything from a stray into controlled airspace to a fatal accident . |
4 | ‘ We can do everything from a sandwich to a gourmet meal , ’ says Assistant Catering Manager Richard Faulkner . |
5 | Depending on the weather , you can layer anything from a vest and roll-neck shirt , up to five or six layers ( to include a close-knit wool sweater ) for icy weather . |
6 | Today the word ‘ box ’ can mean anything from a development bank — Al Sandook Al Naqd ( ‘ the box of money ’ , translated literally ) — to a reference to a Sheikh 's largesse . |
7 | Nowadays ‘ Traditional English ’ can mean anything from the roasts and bread-and-butter puddings of old establishments like Rules or Simpson 's to the nouvelle Britannique cuisine of some of the newer , trendier restaurants . |
8 | Percy can play anything from the triangle to the tambourine . |
9 | If you wish to obtain either of these more detailed reports we can request one from the surveyor or valuer we would normally use to obtain our report and mortgage valuation . |
10 | Support for experimentation , innovation , resource-based learning activities and other desirable or interesting ventures can involve anything from a reorganization of a school timetable to a series of local education authority decisions on staffing and materials provision . |
11 | Within you can find everything from a pain de campagne to a hot take-away pizza . |
12 | However each can learn something from the others , and it is thanks to International co-operation on this level that the RNLI began to operate the Waveney ( originally an American coastguard design ) , and that the Canadians now build and operate the Arun class . |