Example sentences of "[indef pn] can [adv] [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | I find it hard to believe that someone can really care for me |
| 2 | So I mean it goes down to must be something like equipment failure which is something that nobody can really allow for . |
| 3 | Now while I would accept that the majority of butlers may well discover ultimately that they do not have the capacity for it , I believe strongly that this ‘ dignity ’ is something one can meaningfully strive for throughout one 's career . |
| 4 | Either we may see them as qualifying the properties inherent in the nouns , or we may take the view that lawfulness and distance serve to mark out certain generally recognized subcategories of heirs and cousins ( whereas one can scarcely argue for any generally accepted subcategories of strangers and kids marked out by totality and mereness ) , so that they can be treated as ordinary ascriptive adjectives . |
| 5 | One can not always control moisture content but one can generally arrange for ventilation and this is usually a sufficient preventative . |
| 6 | If the rot is accessible one can generally arrange for ventilation anyway . |
| 7 | Unfortunately , encyclopaedias are very expensive to compile and publish so one can not hope for a new edition every year and the information in them is thus often very dated . |
| 8 | Explanatory models which serve for one can not serve for the other . |
| 9 | Hence if one trend in modern culture corresponds to hatred of the parents and a desire to be rid of them and their authority , another equally insistent one demands their protection , their love , their provision of all that one can not provide for oneself — in short , welfare . |
| 10 | In kung fu one can not train for more than a few months without hearing the phrase ‘ chi kung ’ , repeated time and time again . |
| 11 | In the final analysis , one can not prescribe for the whole of constitutional development — to some extent , one can do no more than describe and speculate . |
| 12 | Though one can not claim for Green the sublimity of Turner , the clarity of Cotman or the magnificence of Constable , he was one of the most faithful topographical artists to paint the Lake District . |
| 13 | The rule is that one can not claim for damage to the defective product itself or to any product which was supplied with the defective product comprised within it . |
| 14 | If you ask me said Mrs Bird as she invited every one in for a hot mince pies fresh from the oven that 's the nicest start to a Christmas day any one can possibly wish for but then she added and with general agreement with a bear like Paddington about the house life is always full of surprises . |
| 15 | One can only hope for all concerned with the pub estate that Threshold Inns are allowed the chance to prove themselves and become a legend in pub retailing . |
| 16 | One can only pray for an owner with an enlightened view on conservation and access issues . |
| 17 | After a period of exposure to grazing one can then test for the frequency of the various types of damage to clover leaves with the different genotypes and afterwards reconfirm the cyanogenic or acyanogenic status of the plant ( Fig. 16.7 ) . |
| 18 | You owe me , Mr Scott , except that nothing can ever compensate for what you stole from me six years ago . ’ |