Example sentences of "can [verb] [conj] [to-vb] " in BNC.

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1 the whatsernames , so at least I can know whether to go home and come back
2 If you find yourself in this situation it is important to decide realistically how much you can do and to mark out these easy between a parent and child , it is not likely to improve at this stage .
3 And , you can choose whether to receive your interest monthly or quarterly .
4 Although it can choose whether to sell bonds or Treasury bills , it can not decide just who is to purchase them — banks/discount houses , the general public or foreigners .
5 Here a solicitor would work in a department with several others and can choose whether to remain a generalist handling a range of legal problems , or to specialise in a specific area of law such as employment law or intellectual property .
6 If the ST3 contract goes to delivery , the long can choose whether to take physical delivery or cash settlement .
7 Remember , family planning is free under the National Health Service and you can choose whether to go to a family planning clinic or a GP .
8 Following the Children 's Act 1975 , all adoptees are entitled to a copy of their original birth certificate at 18 years of age and can choose whether to initiate a trace ( Table 4 ) .
9 First , when new information is received , traders can choose whether to exploit this knowledge in the futures or spot markets .
10 In most cases you can choose whether to print the pattern at actual size or scaled to a percentage of actual size .
11 Young people who have completed GCSEs at 16 can choose whether to stay on at school or college , or come out into the labour market and , possibly , take an entitlement to YT .
12 You can choose whether to buy them or not , and , coming from groundwater sources , their content is pretty constant .
13 We fail to know its strengths and weaknesses and the way in which we can choose whether to have fear in our lives , or not .
14 * Read the last page of the book or article : with any luck it will summarise what went before , so you can choose whether to read the whole volume .
15 The immersion heater can be mounted vertically or horizontally ( depending on the design of the cylinder ) ; it may be possible to fit two heaters or a dual-element heater so that you can choose whether to heat the whole cylinder ( for a bath ) or just the top part ( for washing up and hand washing ) .
16 Students , who tend to the left , can choose whether to register in their parents ' homes or where they live in term time .
17 They can choose whether to enter data themselves or to use the data preparation service in the computer centre ; to enter data using real-time screen-based record editors or to use a monolithic batch mode multifile update system .
18 Whereas more women than before can choose whether to work or not after the child-bearing years , raised expectations of living standards may make this feel less like a choice and more of a basic requirement .
19 so then you can decide whether to do it or not
20 Thus you will know what your liability is and can decide whether to proceed .
21 Those who know the children best can decide whether to splash out on a part-time assistant or a fancy computer .
22 The intruder is able to recognise the owner because it smells the same as its mark , and so can decide whether to challenge for ownership or simply move on .
23 If the room is shared , a member of staff should always remain in the room until the body is removed and warn the other occupants so that they can decide whether to pay their respects or to stay away until the body is removed .
24 If ratifying the Protocol is viewed as the conferral of rights on the treaty parties under Article 36 of the Vienna Convention , those States can decide whether to accept the rights , and might object to a statement such as that made by the Soviet Union on this basis .
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