Example sentences of "[indef pn] can [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nobody can pretend for a minute that they do n't know what 's going on . |
| 2 | Now nothing and nobody can travel for any great distance in the valley without my knowing exactly where he |
| 3 | The trouble is that nobody can speak for the whole profession because of the various ways in which the profession is divided . |
| 4 | Nobody can say for sure when the earliest purpose-made sparkling wine was produced , but documentary evidence exists to prove that the monks of the abbey of St Hilaire in southern France had intentionally produced sparkling wines as early as 1531 , well over one hundred years before anyone attempted to do so in Champagne . |
| 5 | Not for them the purposeless Irish custom of the kick upfield which might , with a bit of luck , blunder into touch and ‘ everything can stop for tea ’ . |
| 6 | But in the meantime how pleasant it is to find oneself arriving in the evening for the first time in some lively little English market town , where one can forget for a while the noisy onward march of science , and settle down to meditate upon the civilised past . |
| 7 | One can forget for a while the rigours faced everyday and appreciate wholeheartedly the kind of escapism that lies at the root of ‘ The Passionate Shepherd to his love ’ and ‘ The Garden ’ and all other poems which make up the pastoral garden . |
| 8 | No one can speak for all women , but we can draw some conclusions . |
| 9 | That 's where everyone 's different of course but erm I , I think it is , it is it is a factor that erm one can watch television or can listen to the radio or one can go for a walk or do all sorts of things as it were before noon and midnight but three or four in the morning , you know , when everything is |
| 10 | Around Napo , after 15 years of colonisation , there are still appreciable areas of untouched forest within 1.2 km of the road ; elsewhere in Ecuador , after 30 or 40 years of colonisation , one can walk for a day away from a road without reaching the forest . |
| 11 | If ‘ right of property ’ means ‘ ownership , ’ this might lead one to infer that no one can sue for conversion except an owner in possession at the date of the alleged conversion . |
| 12 | Children , it is suggested , need to be inducted into the main forms or aspects of the culture they live in , partly because this will equip them to lead full adult lives , and partly because culture seems to some as inclusive a concept as one can find for planning a general education . |
| 13 | If you 've already got one , check with us that he or she is acceptable for preparing mortgage documents : if the same one can work for both of us , you 'll save money . |
| 14 | Although Lord Rees-Mogg 's confession that he is not a modernist can just about explain his neglect of artists such as Schoenberg , Proust , Kafka , Beckett and Auden , sheer ignorance is the only way in which one can account for the omission of Charles Sherrington , Alan Hodgkin , Lord Adrian and David Hubel , to name but four in neurophysiology ; Rutherford , Bohr , Planck , Heisenberg , Dirac and Gell-Man in physics . |
| 15 | The message that one can gain for just a few pence , by smoking , something that a Liz Taylor or a Julia Roberts with all their millions have can be seductive — and it is being deliberately promoted . |
| 16 | This , I am assured , is not merely ‘ the most comprehensive lifestyle and financial program one can apply for ’ ( will I make the grade ? ) but is ‘ most distinctive ’ for the ‘ philosophy it represents ’ . |
| 17 | All that MacIver shows here , and I think that it is all he intends , is that in certain circumstances , including those where domestic creatures are happily housed , one can argue for the promotion of animals in the hierarchy . |
| 18 | One can allow for lack of strength or stiffness in design but it is much more difficult to allow for cracks which catch the engineer unawares and are dangerous . |
| 19 | The chicks are placed in pivoted running wheels , a bit like the treadmills one can buy for pet hamster cages , placed in front of a red or yellow rotating , flashing light . |
| 20 | It may have even done so within the last few centuries , though no one can know for sure . |
| 21 | One can fly for less than that in the USA , which brings me back to that vexed question . |
| 22 | Oh er , anybody can stand for an M P |
| 23 | What we envisage is somewhere open and staffed 24 hours a day , seven days a week , where anybody can come for help and advice . |
| 24 | It can be no bigger than A4 , and it must n't project more than 3 inches , but at the moment they are pouring into Rosie Headers house , and we 've had stuff from Japan and America already , and also from artists in the community , but anybody can enter for Mail Art , so if anybody 's interested in a Mail Art sheet , I can get one for you , but those exhibitions are going up in Freud 's , which is our sort of Festival Centre for the two and a half weeks during the Festival . |
| 25 | Trestles make it all so much easier and safer , and it is worth while having a second one so that everyone can relax for a few minutes if it is proving difficult to align both wings to get the main pins in place . |
| 26 | Nothing can compensate for the loss of my sister . ’ |
| 27 | Nothing can substitute for the health advice your doctor or specialist clinic can provide before you go on a trip to some exotic and far-flung destination , but we thought it worthwhile to turn to one very frequent business traveller for some of his tips . |
| 28 | No-one can say for certain whether he was right ; what can be stated with certainty is that with Italy and Germany helping the Nationalists almost from the beginning , non-intervention threw the Spanish Republic into the embrace of the only great power willing to help her — the Soviet Union . |
| 29 | The idea that anything can last for ever is nonsense , and if that 's what happens with Kiss , then fair enough ; if it does n't mean anything more to anyone than the time the band was functioning then that 's also perfectly fine with me . ’ |