Example sentences of "can [vb infin] [adv] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you are returning to work after child or relative care , try to ensure that you can earn enough in the remainder of that tax year to take you above the lower earnings limit . |
| 2 | " You can make fast to the ladder , but give her plenty of rope , or she 'll be standing on end when the tide goes down . " |
| 3 | Friends who are very dissimilar may not give the same thing to each other , but what each gives can sometimes be even richer for this : it can make up for the other 's deficits . |
| 4 | But nothing can make up for the fact that any improvements in prescribing practice are too late to save Lexie . |
| 5 | Hadley is adamant that , despite the views expressed by Wayne Shelford , nothing can make up for the satisfaction of representing the country of your birth at international level . |
| 6 | This last month , the Bavarians have been going through the painful experience of learning that , where an historic collection is concerned , it is the whole which is greater than the parts , and no saving of individual items can make up for the erosion of that whole . |
| 7 | And underneath that thought ( I think ! ) is another one another underblanket , insulating the underblanket above and which , so far as I can make out through the layers on top of it , runs something like this : |
| 8 | However , it seems that as far as I can make out from the correspondence , the Commissionaires are split in their opinion as to the legality of action of the German government . |
| 9 | Even so , considerable errors can build up over the period of ten or more years that elapses between one Census date and the time when the finalized results of the next Census can be used . |
| 10 | Enormous tension can build up along the margin of the two plates and occasionally explodes into immense earthquakes which can , if they strike inhabited portions of the land suffice , wreak terrible damage . |
| 11 | Where leaching is of only moderate intensity , cations released during weathering can build up in the solutions moving through the weathering mantle and the formation of cation-bearing clays such as illite and smectite is favoured . |
| 12 | Firstly , CACI can build on to the shopping centres additional information relating to those outlets in a particular retail sector — this might be in terms of floorspace allocations , number of outlets or other attractiveness measures . |
| 13 | ‘ We can undress here in the cave if you like . |
| 14 | When paper goods like diapers or sanitary napkins come in contact with the body , the poisons can migrate quickly through the skin and accumulate in fatty tissues . |
| 15 | Many of the matching , sorting and ordering activities can arise incidentally within the periods of tidying away and clearing up . |
| 16 | For instance erm if you 're communicating via a typewriter , there are various common mistakes which can arise out of the fact that two keys are close together , and so you 've hit one key when you meant the other , and knowing that can help the computer to work out what you intended . |
| 17 | Man 's cultural development can arise only at the cost of a persisting lack of satisfaction of those sexual impulses which are seen as improper by men and women — the higher the degree of civilization and education , the greater the number of unsatisfied impulses . |
| 18 | One would think that an old person would have to be living in an isolated cottage , in the heart of the countryside , to be so out of touch with the world ; but sadly we know from the frequent reports in the newspapers that such tragic loneliness can exist right in the heart of our towns and cities , and that the old have sometimes remained undiscovered for weeks and months after they have died in their own homes . |
| 19 | Much more account should be taken of the individual teacher in discussing classroom practice ; the notion that a ‘ practice ’ can exist independently of the practitioner and can be imposed without regard for the individual 's personality , intentions and preferences is both professionally demeaning and impractical . |
| 20 | It could be said that from the point of view of social research , the world only exists as data and data can exist only through the interpretations placed on materials gathered from the world . |
| 21 | Owing to the changes made in the law of intestate succession ( see pp. 111–13 ) , coparcenary can exist only in the case of an entailed interest . |
| 22 | You can stay here in the water , if you want . ’ |
| 23 | Yes because in the summer I mean you , some time in the , in this next term would be the ideal thing really because that , if she can stay on for the summer term |
| 24 | ‘ The fact of the matter is , several of the teachers on the course you missed because of skiving off on holiday , a number of them have asked me if they can stay on for the autumn term . |
| 25 | The thing is we can stay longer in the swimming pool . |
| 26 | A tea bag can stay longer in the cup . |
| 27 | Clearly in that case any statements about the services at the hotel can relate only to the future . |
| 28 | Elsewhere there are Breughels ; walls covered with Delft tiles ; a medieval belfry with 366 steps from which you can gaze down on the town 's steep , red tiled roofs ; holy blood brought back from the crusades . |
| 29 | The idea of getting everyone away is to isolate them from mundane worries so that they can concentrate wholeheartedly on the task in hand . |
| 30 | And , as consolation Marje , you really can hang on to the hope that as he was the secret true love of your life , perhaps you were the secret true love of his . |