Example sentences of "can [vb infin] [to-vb] [noun sg] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | At school or college you can volunteer to do publicity for the school play , or your local community charity drive . |
| 2 | Only a resolutely historical critical approach such as this can begin to do justice to the life and work of Paul Nizan , inextricably enmeshed as it is in the illusions , deceits , hopes , aspirations , successes and failures of its time . |
| 3 | Parents working at all levels in businesses can begin to establish empathy with the school work of their children and contribute to it in the workplace , or the school or at home . |
| 4 | As you are aware I have been exploring ways in which the Regional Council can try to encourage investment by the private sector in the provision of new industrial land and buildings . |
| 5 | Rich countries can afford to spend money on the environment , but few have made it a priority in the past . |
| 6 | He said that permitted grain imports since March had totalled only 100,000 tonnes , half the normal monthly grain requirements , and " only 15 per cent of our people can afford to buy food on the free market " . |
| 7 | And that is as one of the members of , we have a I think we can afford to have member on the finance of churches who are called at the assembly of the URC who er |
| 8 | A soft drink made from the Elderflower is selling well , but the blossoming season is short , and the makers need as much as they can get to see production through the rest of the year . |
| 9 | It raises the possibility that their master clock can continue to keep track of the passage of time even when all bodily functions are drastically reduced . |
| 10 | WINNERS : Peers of the realm , who can continue to make use of the facilities in the Other Place without having to humiliate themselves at the hustings . |
| 11 | Leith shows how the notions employed within pragmatics and discourse analysis for the study of conversation can help to shed light on the properties and functions of dialogue in ballads , while Short applies the categories of speech presentation developed for the study of the novel to a corpus of journalistic texts . |
| 12 | Children who have , for example , a Jewish , Hindu , Welsh , or Irish home in an English town or city often have the advantage of sharing two or more cultures that can enrich each other and that can help to spread understanding in the community . |