Example sentences of "can [vb infin] [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Single-parent women can earn relatively little money out of which they will have to pay the expenses of child-minding . |
| 3 | But you can spare very much trouble because there are times when you can say to someone , ‘ At this point , you are going in the wrong direction . ’ |
| 4 | The accompaniment must paint the general background mood of the piece , and rhythmic designs can persist over big areas and only break off if there is a very definite change of mood or subject matter . |
| 5 | You can make even greater savings for your family using one or more separate Daily Mirror vouchers . |
| 6 | Other bryozoan colonies are more immediately conspicuous , particularly the stout , twig-like branches of the Palaeozoic trepostomes , which can make up thick limestone beds , and formed their own ‘ reefs ’ , or the large , often net-like colonies of the ‘ fenestrellids ’ common in the Upper Palaeozoic . |
| 7 | So write that one and then later on when I 've gone if you can make up some sentences with stationary and stationery . |
| 8 | The straight side sections are easier : you can make up mock pilasters with straight sections of bought mouldings , or again make your own if you have a router . |
| 9 | It is clearly not a property of ontological objects , despite the fact that singular existential propositions can make perfectly good sense . |
| 10 | With a little knowledge you can make very healthy changes to your diet without having to alter radically your whole way of eating . |
| 11 | Small tables for two can make very good use of the wasted space at the end of a corridor . |
| 12 | In aviaries around the outside of the Walled Garden , you will see a range of familiar domesticated cage birds — which , given informed care , can make very good garden aviary subjects . |
| 13 | The resultant online , interactive database is designed to be so easy to use that after a few minutes practice even novices can make very sophisticated searches and will have nearly instantaneous access to a vast storehouse of information hitherto accessible only after tedious , time-consuming and costly searches through individual issues . |
| 14 | You ca n't build guitars with machines , but you can make very precise guitar parts . |
| 15 | You ca n't build guitars with machines , but you can make very precise guitar parts . |
| 16 | Another option is to use various parts of a flower in their own right : centres with no petals can make very pretty flowers , and many multi-headed flowers , such as cow parsley , can be dismantled after pressing . |
| 17 | However , there are several other designs that can make very attractive pictures , as you will see in the rest of the book . |
| 18 | At this stage we can make only tentative suggestions . |
| 19 | This means that plant breeders who try to create higher-yielding or disease-resistant varieties by selection or hybridisation from existing varieties can make only limited progress ; the genes they need are simply not found in the cultivated populations . |
| 20 | Such details matter because western telecoms companies can make only limited investments until they know when and how they might gain a return . |
| 21 | Telepoint phones can make only outgoing calls but Hutchison feels its £50m investment in setting up over 12,000 base stations to transmit calls will overcome earlier problems . |
| 22 | Unfortunately , capital charges based on fixed assets actually divert attention away from an area where NHS managers can make more efficient use of capital : that is in the control of working capital . |
| 23 | This means that the RFP can make more efficient use of its expensive magnetic field . |
| 24 | Along intermediate axes where the first layer interatomic spacings are longer , incident trajectories can make more direct collisions , resulting in off-specular scattering . |
| 25 | If we can train the market to accept a high degree of objective danger — such as we have in Cybercranker , then we can make mutually beneficial arrangements with certain medical organisations . |
| 26 | Of course , you can make extremely dramatic pictures that are much larger than this — I have made many lovely pictures with frames that are about 65 × 25cm ( 26 × 10in ) , which can be used with or without a mount . |
| 27 | Straight or curved ; practical or whimsical ; raised , stepped , level or sunken ; built with concrete , cobbles , flagstones or crazy paving : you can make almost any type of path to suit the character of your garden . |
| 28 | They can make as much mess as they like and when the weather 's nice they can spill out into the garden . ’ |
| 29 | The picture shown opposite is not a particularly small miniature — you can make really beautiful pictures using a frame as small as 2.5cm ( 1in ) in diameter . |
| 30 | No I am grateful to Mr because he 's finally crystallised in my mind something that 's been bugging me the longer I stay on this council about exactly what the Tories see their role here as and it 's now very clear to me , more than ever and that is that if you want to be obstructive and negative and if you go on long enough being obstructive and negative what you can end up doing is that you 'll find yourself eventually in a position going on long enough that you can make totally meaningless speeches but at least you 'll get nice headlines in the paper and that seems to me the whole essence of the Tory strategy . |