Example sentences of "can [verb] [verb] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An obese person can strive to overcome such feelings by overeating and so gaining size , weight and ( subjectively speaking ) importance . |
| 2 | Or they can opt to take financial risks . |
| 3 | But in an average week , an Ear , Nose and Throat surgeon , for example , can expect to spend 30 hours actually in an operating theatre , bent over his patient . |
| 4 | Although the oil price and economic outlook is uncertain , the productivity increases and cost cutting measures we put in motion in 1992 mean we can expect to see further benefits showing through in our results in 1993 . |
| 5 | This becomes more important with increasing age , when people can expect to lose long-standing friends at an ever-increasing rate . |
| 6 | In general , women are healthier and live longer than ever before , indeed on average they can expect to live 5 years longer than men . |
| 7 | In general , women are healthier and live longer than ever before , indeed on average they can expect to live 5 years longer than men . |
| 8 | vegetarians can expect to live nine years longer than regular meat eaters |
| 9 | Conversely , many younger people will be the first generation in their family who can expect to inherit substantial amounts . |
| 10 | J-registered Cavalier SRi saloons and hatches are good value at auction and bidders can expect to secure 1992 cars with under 10,000 miles from company and fleet sources for around £8250 . |
| 11 | Thus those who were in middle-class occupations will almost certainly enjoy larger pensions and more comfortable houses , and they can expect to suffer fewer disabilities , and live longer too . |
| 12 | For details of what you can do to support these sisters contact the Palestinian Women 's Group , c/o 21 Collingham Road , London SWS ONU . |
| 13 | There is not much you can do to make radical changes to other people 's basic life positions , but you can use your awareness of the four ‘ OK — Not OK ’ positions to understand why you sometimes feel hopeless , depressed , victimized and so on . |
| 14 | Will my right hon. Friend see what he can do to help some children in my constituency , who came to me saying that they would like access to present-day artists such as Yehudi Menuhin , Cliff Richard and Jason Donovan and other , younger stars ? |
| 15 | And there is much that local authorities can do to advise informal workers of their rights , tax and social security matters and to explain how to become legal . |
| 16 | Is there anything that the Government can do to change those events ? |
| 17 | You can choose to take packed lunches for your child if you want to . |
| 18 | But also the ability to borrow stock provides a means whereby GEMMs can choose to take short positions when they think that prices will fall . |
| 19 | I can remember waiting some minutes before walking through the house , knowing that there must be proof of burglary at the back door , and when I got there in an uncomprehending state , lo and behold the kitchen door was broken right down ! |
| 20 | But we used to l I think I can remember going three times and we went on the train and we would have a big label with branch number seven , we were Walsall Wood and we were always told that , you know , you look on the sea front if you get lost , cos you 've got your name and who you belong to on card was all given out . |
| 21 | The personification furnishes not only a necessary step on the way to judgments about particular people , but a plateau we can occupy to consider these judgments . |
| 22 | In simple co-operative work , the Art Department can plan to examine particular patterns and structures at much the same time as the Science Department looks at crystals and lattices ; the Geography Department can look at climatology and weather charting at the same time as the Mathematics Department studies or revises graphs . |
| 23 | — examples which you can use to illustrate specific points ( list the points which each example illustrates ) ; |
| 24 | With the side walls on a firm foundation , you can use reinforced concrete slabs for treads , and rest them on steps formed in the brickwork , with similar height risers between them . |
| 25 | Again we have here a variable which we can use to regulate individual needs if required , twelve shakes giving a slightly sharper daily rise in potency than eight . |
| 26 | In these fields , too , we are sometimes able to identify social phenomena such as an increase in population size , which we can use to explain other phenomena , while at the same time being unable to identify any corresponding regularities in the behaviour or attitudes of individual agents . |
| 27 | Now we are offering young people aged 16 and 17 vouchers they can use to buy approved courses of education or training , and which will put the power of choice in their hands . |
| 28 | The jet of steam can be aimed at particularly stubborn creases , and there is also a spray attachment which you can use to cover larger areas . |
| 29 | If we can understand the cellular forces that bring about changes in the shape of the embryo then we can begin to ask further questions . |
| 30 | One can begin to answer these questions by looking at the proportion of the population who live in households of different types . |