Example sentences of "can about " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've come to you because I want you to tell me everything you can about Mr Hatton with particular reference to anything you may know about the source of his income . ’ |
| 2 | Find out as much as you can about the school . |
| 3 | Learn as much as you can about all aspects of the issue beforehand . |
| 4 | Obtain as much information as you can about his argument , his willingness to shift from the present position . |
| 5 | Find out as much as you can about the firm you decide on . |
| 6 | Learn as much as you can about Plato , Socrates and their times . |
| 7 | Choose a product and try to find out as much as you can about it . |
| 8 | Find out as much as you can about an item of equipment that you have at home ( eg stereo unit , electric mixer ) . |
| 9 | Find out as much as you can about procedures for stock storage , handling and rotation in the shop where you work/a shop you know . |
| 10 | We can learn more about ourselves from monkeys than from microbes , and looking around our modern human world it is clear that we need to discover as much as we can about ourselves . |
| 11 | In addition there is a considerable element of curiosity on the part of the little birds — they want to learn all they can about this dreaded enemy while it is , for once , sitting quietly . |
| 12 | When you meet your teacher for the first time , tell him , or her , as much as you can about why you decided to have lessons . |
| 13 | We can know far more about a fictional character than we can about another human , even more than we can know about ourselves . |
| 14 | Write to the Certificate Application Department of the Office of Population Censuses and Surveys giving all the details you can about your parents , with a postal order for £12 . |
| 15 | Find out as much as you can about a job before you apply for it , and certainly before you have an interview . |
| 16 | Pimples can cause much anguish , so it pays to learn as much as you can about your skin , and to get the help of your doctor or a dermatologist at a hospital skin clinic . |
| 17 | And the most vital step in preparing to persuade is to find out as much as you can about the people you are targeting . |
| 18 | ‘ We have made it our duty to find out as much as we can about Natasha , so that if it comes to a point where we want to adopt her , we will have the documentation ready . ’ |
| 19 | First problems can have several causes ; and second , even when you 're employing a specialist , read any information you can about the job — you may not understand everything , but you might save yourself a lot of bother . , . |
| 20 | Find out what you can about Andropulos . |
| 21 | Given their importance there are self-interested reasons for finding out all we can about them . |
| 22 | I can not emphasize enough , however , the importance of learning all that you possibly can about the varieties you are interested in before you buy and plant . |
| 23 | After getting a good general impression of the state of the wreckage and as much information as he can about the aircraft configuration on impact , he will be mainly concerned in the beginning to establish the intended flight-path and all the circumstances surrounding the flight . |
| 24 | He still defends their use on the grounds that ‘ For selfish reasons a prison administrator needs to know as much as he can about each prisoner , especially incoming prisoners . ’ |
| 25 | Is , you know , is actually erm getting as much information we can about the people who are using the service and erm and making sure it stays , making a case for it . |
| 26 | Explain to them as much as you can about what 's going on and emphasise that they are in no way to blame . |
| 27 | Account men make it their business to learn everything they can about the client 's product and how it compares with others on the market , and a strategy is arrived at with the help of the researchers and planners , and sometimes with the creative team on the writing and art side . |
| 28 | One technique is to divert your approach away from merely absorbing what you are told in books or lecture notes , and try to write down , and answer , as many questions as you can about each page . |
| 29 | Let us now look at each of these kinds of books in turn and see what we can about how they are written . |
| 30 | In my book , if you set your heart on a particular way to earn a living , then you should find out everything you can about it . ’ |