Example sentences of "can [vb infin] up [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | But nothing can make up for the fact that any improvements in prescribing practice are too late to save Lexie . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | This may not seem important , but small irritations can build up in a Home and become real barriers to good communication . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Tourists can stay up to a maximum of 90 days in theory but longer is possible by showing a confirmed return air ticket . |
| 10 | ‘ You can catch up on the reading in-flight . |
| 11 | As a Golf Plus Club Member you can enjoy up to a 20% discount on a year 's subscription to Britain 's best golf magazines bringing you the best pictures and best coverage of your favourite game . |
| 12 | Let's see how quickly you can jump up off the floor . |
| 13 | Incidents are categorized by the degree of paperwork involved , and the best shifts are those where ‘ you 're kept busy but with stuff you can clear up on the spot ’ ( FN 26/5/87 , p. 34 ) . |
| 14 | Even women who were constantly abused as children by fathers , stepfathers , uncles or family ‘ friends ’ can grow up with the idea that they 're somehow guilty themselves . |
| 15 | Global-scale investments in new skills and production approaches that can readily be transferred across borders have replaced much of the trade ; few can keep up with the pace of change . |
| 16 | We hope the 4 cylinder speedsters can keep up with the pace . |
| 17 | But it seems that not everyone can keep up with the way our language is changing . |
| 18 | The Ferguson 14M1 is a lightweight portable 14in Colour Television which can be moved easily from room to room — so the family can keep up with the soaps whilst you keep your eye on the ball . |
| 19 | I 'm currently working out measures which can follow up on the policy statement and bring about changes in practice and law . |
| 20 | During the summer months I can usually get away with leaving my boat conveniently tied up to the pier , but only if I am at home to keep an eye on the weather : in Shetland , even in summer , a gale can blow up from the south east , causing a swell to set into the voe . |
| 21 | First , it blots out the past so that a body can face up to the present . |
| 22 | From such a vantage point you can scan up to a mile along many beaches and spot objects cast up by the tides . |
| 23 | The not-so-good news is that this can take up to a year . |
| 24 | Each image can take up to a megabyte of memory to store and can be saved in TIFF , BMP , PCX , LBM or RGB formats . |
| 25 | biopsy on Tuesday , and it can take up to a week |
| 26 | It takes half an hour to get from Bournemouth to Southampton , but it can take up to an hour to get from Barts to the Westminster hospital . |
| 27 | She says younger users often expect the drug to work immediately although its affects can take up to an hour so they take more , which increases the risks . |
| 28 | Yeah we can hear up by the canteen . |
| 29 | " There 's rules about who can ride up with the driver , " I said looking at John Russell and wondering if he had any ideas . |
| 30 | It 's just over 3,300 metres high , so that the top part is snow-covered for much of the year , and the fortunate Sicilians can ride up in a cable car from the warmth of the lower slopes to ski there . |