Example sentences of "[noun sg] can [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 31 | Two matters are dealt with elsewhere , the amount of the price ( see paragraphs 2–12 to 2–17 ) and when the seller can sue for the price ( see paragraph 12–02 ) . |
| 32 | Unless the parties agree a different time for payment , the seller can sue for the price only after property has passed , section 49 ( see paragraph 12 02 ) . |
| 33 | Membership can run for a full year or for a half year ( either January 1 — June 30 or July 1 to December 31 ) . |
| 34 | One must recognise that Sunday business can account for about 25 per cent . |
| 35 | ‘ Not many of the men connected with this place can account for every hour of that afternoon , though the women can . |
| 36 | What Reader 's Digest with its enormous great computers have been doing for at least ten years , now people with small computers and a word-processing package can do for themselves , and certainly they would be selecting from their customer lists particular people to send particular advertising to and special letters . |
| 37 | The Greens want regional self-reliance , in agriculture as well as in other things ; a land tax applied so that ‘ in general terms , the nearer the land is to its natural state , the lower the land tax would be ’ ; energy efficiency ; population reduction through encouragement and education ( with 15–20 million the target for Britain ) ; and a sharing of ‘ the abundance which nature can provide for us all if the greedy do not take more than their fair share ’ . |
| 38 | Continuity in marketing can count for a lot , but not if consumer attitudes are going through a sea change , and BMW 's light-footedness in launching the 3-series earned it the brand of the year award for durables . |
| 39 | ‘ Just shows what a good caddie can do for you , ’ he said , with a generous smile at Patrick . |
| 40 | ‘ Such a man , with a good track record can fight for his plant and his people on the very strong grounds that investment in his region has been proven to be successful . |
| 41 | But no film or lecture can prepare for the culture shock that awaits the new tourists to the sub-continent when they arrive early tomorrow in Delhi . |
| 42 | So that employees can truly assess the new country , some firms pay for short ‘ look-see ’ visits so that the executive and spouse can judge for themselves , first-hand , as to whether they should accept the transfer . |
| 43 | It is important that the counsellor , observing the problems and deprivations within the group , does not fall into the trap of being more concerned with what he or she can do for the group than what the group can do for itself . |
| 44 | It 's not a question of what a company can do for a day centre , or what an environmental group can do for a business , it 's a question what we can all do together , for the community . |
| 45 | A general expression to assess the potential improvement that access frequency loading can provide for any case in which A per cent of records account for B per cent of accesses is derived below . |
| 46 | A major question is how far public transport can substitute for , or fill the vacuum left by , the absence of private transport . |
| 47 | Moreover , it is now well established that an injured plaintiff can recover for the unpaid services of a friend or relative . |
| 48 | So you 've got ta sell benefits you 've got ta know what the product can do for them , right you 've got to find out what they want from it I mean it might be security that 's the big problem |
| 49 | Some nationalised industries already offer these benefits ; and in some cases , such as the teachers ' scheme , a woman with a dependent husband can arrange for him to receive a pension on her death . |
| 50 | When you get angry about losing your husband can , yo ha , losing your husband can ask for his wife , from your daughter about how to deal with it ? |
| 51 | No deal lasts for ever and not even the most skilful draftsman can cater for every eventuality when drawing up a service contract . |
| 52 | One of the major areas of research in speech recognition concerns the ways in which general linguistic knowledge can compensate for such errorful or ambiguous acoustic input . |
| 53 | In any event , if great prominence came to be given to APR , many people could be misled about the comparative value of competing credit arrangements ; partly because our calculations show that small and sometimes insignificant differences in what the buyer actually has to pay for credit can make for huge and therefore misleadingly imposing differences in APR ; partly because it will tend to make longer-term borrowing look more attractive than shorter-term borrowing even when ( given that the great majority of people prefer to pay off their debts as quickly as possible ) this may not be best for people . |
| 54 | My wife can vouch for that , officers . |
| 55 | Income from tourism can account for a sizeable proportion of an area 's total income ; it has been estimated that , in Cornwall in the 1960s , this was equal to the income generated by manufacturing in the county ( Cornwall County Council 1966 ) . |
| 56 | Yeast TFIIA can substitute for the human factor in pol III transcription in vitro |
| 57 | Any person can apply for the Meals on Wheels Service . |
| 58 | Only a local authority or an authorised person can apply for a care order or a supervision order ( s31(1) ) . |
| 59 | Every teacher , from the reception class upwards to the age of 16 , needs to have a confident grasp of what the whole process of schooling and education can provide for and require from the pupil . |
| 60 | A large organisation can provide for greater division of work and specialisation . |