Example sentences of "can [verb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | If you draw your pension , you can earn up to a certain amount a week without affecting it . |
| 32 | A widow can earn any amount without losing her widow 's pension , although this is taxed . |
| 33 | And film makers can be confident that a single prize can earn more than enough to pay for the feasting . |
| 34 | ‘ Scouts can earn between ten or fifteen grand , with a company car thrown in . |
| 35 | A good A&R Manager can earn sixty or seventy grand , whilst successful A&R Directors can earn upwards of a hundred grand and considerably more if they 've been doing it for a while . ’ |
| 36 | A good A&R Manager can earn sixty or seventy grand , whilst successful A&R Directors can earn upwards of a hundred grand and considerably more if they 've been doing it for a while . ’ |
| 37 | In future , you can earn £65 a week tax-free . |
| 38 | Leaks from Clinton 's team suggest Democrats may clamp down on the massive amounts executives can earn . |
| 39 | The leading showjumpers can earn over £100,000 a year , but it 's that red jacket with the Union Jack on it that Linda has her eyes on . |
| 40 | BRITAIN 'S newest professional fighter , Adrian Dodson , can earn $100 million in an eight-year career . |
| 41 | But globalisation means that companies have to invest where they can produce cheapest and at the best quality and where they can earn profits . |
| 42 | ‘ No , you 're supposed to abandon Masquerade just so I can earn a few thousand dollars . ’ |
| 43 | ‘ You can earn your money with Sammy Meredith , ’ I insisted , ‘ then sail away with me . ’ |
| 44 | I 'm not enduring any more of it ; you can keep the hundred pounds a year , I can earn it dressmaking and trimming millinery . ’ |
| 45 | Top goalkeepers can earn up to £50,000-a-year from manufacturers for wearing their gear , including built-in bonuses for Cup runs and television appearances . |
| 46 | Not only have I got a career that I can earn money from . |
| 47 | In reality children usually start to lose interest after about two weeks once they realize that they can earn them relatively easily . |
| 48 | Tough action by police and customs in Britain and on the continent has smashed some of the biggest illicit labs , which can earn up to £250,000 a day . |
| 49 | By conservative estimates the Dark Destroyer can earn at least £1million in the next 12 months . |
| 50 | The other thing about celebrity , of course , is that it can earn you a decent living — although usually only after years of struggle , as with most jobs . |
| 51 | Work which can earn me money in my spare time . |
| 52 | Likewise the top sales performer in a hi-tech company can earn , by a mixture of base earnings , commission and stock options , more than the sales director and indeed more than the managing director . |
| 53 | Happily , this does not apply any more and today there is no longer any limit to the amount pensioners can earn . |
| 54 | Private-school staff resist performance-related pay , so the lazy and incompetent can earn as much as inspirational enthusiasts . |
| 55 | They are also attracted by the pay : because it reflects performance , precocious types can earn more than their elders . |
| 56 | The prisoners are allowed out of their cells from around 5.30 in the morning until 6.30 in the evening , during which time a majority of them would be involved in some type of work ; this is because for every two days they work they can earn one day 's remission of sentence . |
| 57 | They are prevented from entering what appears to them the more appealing world of work , a world in which they can earn independence and the goods that money can buy . |
| 58 | Unlike village and nomadic weaving , which is normally the sole preserve of women and carries with it no personal prestige outside the village or tribe , workshops employ both men and women , and exceptionally talented weavers can earn more widespread acclaim and far greater financial rewards . |
| 59 | surely that also suits the , the people at the bottom because i be because the , the government is , is producing work in effect it means that the people at the bottom have jobs and , and can earn money and , and so they 're , they 're lot actually improves . |
| 60 | Single-parent women can earn relatively little money out of which they will have to pay the expenses of child-minding . |