Example sentences of "can [verb] a [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Nowadays , ’ observed Bromley , ‘ one can make a corpse look almost alive . ’ |
| 2 | Or you can make a credit card donation on the Somalia Appeal hotline . |
| 3 | You can make a credit card donation by phone on 0800 666 808 . |
| 4 | It can make a story line clearer , which is always an advantage . |
| 5 | ‘ It was a lovely meal , ’ he said as he lifted his hand in farewell , ‘ and I do n't have to tell you — nobody in the world can make a pork pie like yours ! ’ |
| 6 | Concern for people requires an understanding of what will motivate individuals to work harder and more effectively , and also an understanding of what can make a work group as a whole improve its motivation and norms of working . |
| 7 | And we can , Chrissy we can make a space monorail . |
| 8 | The court can make a contact order when making a care order even though no application has been made ( s34(5) ) . |
| 9 | If there are adoption proceedings , for example , and the court decides not to make an adoption order it can make a contact order under s34 . |
| 10 | Because it , it 's , it 's not particularly going to grab me because I 'm going to look at it and I 'm going to I 'm going to look down to see what it 's asking me do and certainly a busy news editor is looking down the line to see , and the first thing he 'll actually do is , is just have a , a very fast glance at it , find out what it 's about , and just make sure there 's someone who can be phoned , and what the news editor will do is actually throw it out into a pile of other handouts and there 's usually a journalist who 's , who 's who 's won first prize and their task for the day is to do all the handouts , and all you want to be sure of is that someone can make a phone call and the news editor wo n't , wo n't bother with any with any superfluous detail , all he 'd want to know is that somebody can be contacted , we 'll find out about it later . |
| 11 | Anyone can make a planning application on any land even if they do not own the land . |
| 12 | From DOS 2.0 onwards , the number of buffers available to DOS has been user-configurable , and fiddling with the value can make a speed difference . |
| 13 | The court can make a family assistance order alone . |
| 14 | A Druidic Priest who addresses the door politely can make a Fel test and , if successful , the door will say something along the lines of ‘ Well , I 'm not sure about this … ’ . |
| 15 | " You 'd better collect a few more like that : then you can make a notice board and frighten Fiver . |
| 16 | It can make a care order , a supervision order , a s8 order and a family assistance order . |
| 17 | If England persist with their unfortunate habit of combining brilliant rugby with bovine penalty concessions , both Hilditch and Springbok captain Naas Botha will punish them ; IF England try to run possession as stupidly as they did against Australia in the World Cup final , either from too deep or too static , they will not break down a defence inspired by arrogance and pride ; IF England spill ball in the contact , another trait of early-season activity , this Springbok side are prepared to run , ball in hand , from end to end and can make a birthday cake out of crumbs . |
| 18 | In fact , if you always bear in mind that once a table is set for dining , lights lowered , candles lit , that table becomes an oasis , complete in itself , you can make a dining room wherever the table is . |
| 19 | From here you can make a side trip to Jardim da Serra ( 18km ) and the quinta made famous by Henry Veitch . |
| 20 | What they 're ac what they 're trying to do is coordinate enough local parties with the same poster that they can make a block booking I would have thought . |
| 21 | So an unscrupulous lender can make a cash loan which will be used to pay rent arrears , say — knowing that repayments on the loan will make a rent of fuel bill crisis even more likely in future . |
| 22 | The forms also ask workers and carers to check whether a child knows how to cross the road safely or can make an emergency phone call . |
| 23 | The fells around Baldersdale are dangerous places , full of hidden ghylls — deep water holes — and moss bogs which can swallow a man whole . |
| 24 | Now that there is every reason to believe that we can build a fusion reactor there is growing attention to technology . |
| 25 | By achieving these aims we can build an Employment Service for the 1990s valued by our clients and by us all . |
| 26 | By achieving these aims we can build an Employment Service for the 1990s valued by our clients and by us all . |
| 27 | But TODAY readers can dial a ticket hotline on 021 780 4133 to buy advance tickets at just £5.50 each . |
| 28 | The rotary encoder makes light work of selecting the various effects and parameters and the keypad 's addition of ‘ Patch Recall ’ is useful in the studio ( you can dial a patch number on the keypad , thus saving time running through the encoder ) . |
| 29 | Writing the words in your book provides you with a ready-made store of words which you know your pupils have difficulty with , and from which you can construct a teaching programme . |
| 30 | Merely providing the site will involve the destruction of two trees , which are part of the avenue , but that does n't matter to the County Council because erm they 're not responsible , they can override a tree preservation order and I think this just is morally wrong . |