Example sentences of "can [adv] [verb] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You can all bid for that one cos that 's the black art 's gallery and you all need it , so |
| 2 | Mr Jarvis says he 's delighted with the coursework pupils have produced on the film , but that the scheme can only continue for another couple of years . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 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 | Tiles are less durable than slates , but good quality clay plain tiles can easily last for sixty years . |
| 6 | If comparatively few needles are tucking , you can easily tuck for four rows with a suitable yarn . |
| 7 | The major airlines , so the argument goes , can easily provide for all our serious air transportation needs on a suitable basis , thus leaving the less able to concentrate their resources on more worthy causes . |
| 8 | If people are well trained , you 've got lots of people in turn you know when you 've got absenteeism or holidays , you 've got lots of people who could be slotted to different positions for you and obviously the better trained people are , it does help with the talent , it makes you more flexible and you 've got more people who can possibly go for certain jobs . |
| 9 | Nonetheless , as Table 5.8 shows , employment in primary industry can still account for 12 per cent of all employment in rural areas , and when all the ancillary trades associated with agriculture are counted in , for example , food processing , machinery , and fertilizer and pesticide production , agriculture may well account for some 10 to 15 per cent of all national employment , although there are no accurate figures for this . |
| 10 | This can hardly make for distinguished results . ) |
| 11 | ‘ Earn ’ in the sense of ‘ merit ’ can hardly apply for this sort of sum — yet that implication is built into the language whether we like it or not . |
| 12 | No ; they fidget , touch their hands to their mouths , make interrupt gestures and can hardly wait for that momentary pause which will give them a chance to get a word in edgeways . |
| 13 | You hear the old Delta players with their metal slides and it 's a great sound — I can totally go for that . |
| 14 | Extending one 's awareness of other addictive tendencies can usually wait for initial recovery to be reasonably secure , say , after two years . |
| 15 | As in Spain after Franco , they can probably count for some while on a ‘ democracy bonus ’ : people will put up with hardship as the price of freedom . |
| 16 | You can also fish for wild brown trout on one of the three hill lochs on the estate . |
| 17 | This system can also work for older teenagers , but if you are over sixteen you are not entitled to free tutoring . |
| 18 | Business and friendship can often make for strained bedfellows — as the experience of the man who had made Virgin 's first fortune also proved . |
| 19 | that 's why all these people can now ask for more money . |
| 20 | Students can then search for this in order to find all the annotations . |
| 21 | Scientists can readily account for physical phenomena such as the tides , but the Moon 's sway over human and animal behaviour has long been recognised without any satisfactory explanation . |
| 22 | He explained his vision of primacy stemmed from the way the Pope can sometimes speak for all Christians in a way that no other bishop can . |
| 23 | We can therefore test for rational expectations by substituting for and into equation ( 6.19 ) to give the system : where we have allowed the term to accumulate in the equation error in the unemployment equation in ( 6.20 ) . |
| 24 | We can certainly substitute for these no problem . |
| 25 | In the words of Frank Sinatra , New York is the city that never sleeps — and I can certainly vouch for that . |
| 26 | If we change every to and any one to , where e is small and n is the number of , then we can never have for any subset of nodes . |
| 27 | How different the world may have been if long ago those missionaries who set out to convert the world to belief in an all-providing benevolent ‘ god ’ , had themselves been aware that the human race , sooner or later , would have to control its rate of procreation , for the world can never provide for unlimited human life . |