Example sentences of "can [vb infin] [adj] [noun] of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean , if a bank manager can earn that amount of money , why not a part-time footballer in the Irish League . |
| 2 | It is a superbly efficient food gatherer , and can siphon ten gallons of water at a single suck and squirt this into the elephant 's mouth . |
| 3 | The objective of the course provision is to produce office professionals who can make extensive use of technology but who are able to accept responsibility and operate heuristically as well as technically within organisational systems . |
| 4 | Malawi can make good use of mountain water by piping supplies under gravity to lowland settlements , at a cost of £3 per person . |
| 5 | Through delegation you can make proper use of specialist skills which may be at your disposal . |
| 6 | I use it throughout my work because , used skilfully and imaginatively , it can make any sort of communication more powerful , more exciting and frequently a lot more fun . |
| 7 | Like most upper-class criminals , the ‘ businessman-fraudster ’ can make large amounts of money from crime without every becoming a known or convicted criminal . |
| 8 | Diane White will explain how Zanussi 's range of combination ovens , cookers , microwaves and fridges can make light work of Christmas cooking . |
| 9 | You can make different kinds of mask for a witch or a pirate , or more elaborate ones for a masked ball . |
| 10 | That 's good news in itself , but it 's also good in that it provides a bedrock on which we can build sustainable recovery of output and and job creation . |
| 11 | And I think that for me , having learnt quite a bit about these differences , I find what I want to do now is go forward to see how we can build some sort of unity and on what basis and whether in fact that is required . |
| 12 | Up to this point , this book has : * introduced the marketing concept and defined the role of marketing management ; * looked at how a company can research and identify its target markets and market segments ; analysed consumer and buyer behaviour within these target markets ; * examined the methods by which a company can construct some kind of demand forecast . |
| 13 | Even if only a tiny portion of blue sky is visible , the bee can compare this section of pattern with a reference map of the entire pattern in its brain , and pinpoint the sun . |
| 14 | To take child care for instance , we can suddenly get two or three ah admissions to secure units at a cost of two thousand pounds a week and that 's er you know a hundred thousand a year per child so we can really there are other votes that can , can absorb that sort of money . |
| 15 | Thus , a claim to political power is legitimate only when the claimant can invoke some source of authority beyond or above himself . |
| 16 | By identifying the characteristics of each type , interesting information emerges about the ways in which different teachers can elicit different types of behaviour from similar pupils . |
| 17 | In ‘ craft ’ retailing , the store manager and staff can consult central databases of information and back the ‘ hunches ’ which come from face to face contact with customers rather than from postcodes and product flow analysis . |
| 18 | Ah , but what about this remarkable new diet formula from America which tells you that you can eat vast quantities of melon and chicken , or spinach and prunes , or pineapple , or whatever , as long as you keep to this one food , or this combination of two foods , for the whole day ? |
| 19 | You can , you can design any kind of picture to illustrate the land in whatever |
| 20 | One can regard these degrees of freedom as oscillators , each with its own position and momentum . |
| 21 | The GIS component can include all manner of map manipulation , evaluation and statistical procedures . |
| 22 | The experiments are not particularly relevant to anything , they 're just experiments for experiment 's sake , one experiment illustrating a particular bit of theory ; it does n't do anything particularly useful , you just look at an oscilloscope and take some readings and hence you can demonstrate this bit of theory . |
| 23 | All of these " intensive " methods of using film and video can introduce greater depth of understanding than passive viewing , and help to realise the potential of this extremely powerful medium . |
| 24 | Insistence on the use of such terms can introduce great problems of consistency when international comparisons are attempted . |
| 25 | Of every hundred pounds that 's invested , round about forty pounds goes straight to the government in betting duty , round about thirty pounds goes to the football pools in expenses , commissions and profits , leaving round about thirty pounds to be returned in prizes , and so you can see that your rate of return on football pools is extremely small , but on the other hand a very large number of people do enter the football pools , and when they win they can win considerable sums of money and it can make absolute rational economic sense to go in for football pools because you are giving yourself a chance , no matter how small , of winning a sum of money that you would n't expect to come across in any other way of your life . |
| 26 | The Hargreaves Report ( ILEA 1984 ) showed that schools can achieve a great deal on their own and that they can outweigh parental lack of interest . |
| 27 | They can survive long periods of drought encased in mud , until the next rainy season . |
| 28 | Small desert rodents and the Bedouin goat can survive short periods of dehydration which result in a 20–30 per cent weight loss . |
| 29 | You can buy all kinds of filler now it should do anything , indoors or outdoors |
| 30 | Yeah well you can buy little bottles of oil and just put a drop in |