Example sentences of "can [verb] [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This way , you can make up a ‘ hit list ’ of personnel within companies to whom you want to send your tape . |
| 2 | Each student can make up a package of tests to go for ; he may repeat those that he fails , without the social disaster of being kept down a year ; and he may make up a mix of practical and theoretical according to a plan worked out with his class teacher , and bearing in mind what he aims to do next . |
| 3 | If there are enough of you , you can make up a more formal self-help group . |
| 4 | I 'll find some sheets presently and you can make up a bed in the spare room . |
| 5 | Okay , let's have a break er if you can come back reasonably quickly er we can make up a few seconds . |
| 6 | We still need to make sure that there will be a goodly number participating so if there is any way you can make up a last minute table do n't hesitate to contact either Cecilia or Hilda . |
| 7 | In particular , the collation of brief reports which can make up an evaluation at the end of each planning cycle should enable the head with both colleagues and governors to create a bridge between good management and good learning . |
| 8 | Obviously we believe we can make up the time on roads we have been over quite a few times . ’ |
| 9 | If Mr Yeltsin tries to play by the rules as he moves towards a new constitutional order , he will fail , because parliament can make up the rules as it goes along . |
| 10 | " If at the end of seven years , he can make up the fraction of a quarto forme and impose it , or is able to lay down a sheet of 16 's correctly , the apprentice so qualified may considered himself well advanced . " |
| 11 | The area had been given an unfair image by ‘ so far as I can make out a group of tearaways who are , at the moment , completely uncontrollable . |
| 12 | As illustrated in Figure 1.9 , we can make out a number of levels more basic than this ; the electronic circuits themselves , the logical functions ( such as gates and flipflops ) , and the functional units ( such as adders and registers ) . |
| 13 | The curving windows at the stern are freckled with spray ; through one of them you can make out a set of fat capstans and a listless macaroni of sodden rope . |
| 14 | You concealed knowledge of a deserter , you actually helped him stay deserted , and They can make out a case for saying you still are . |
| 15 | ‘ As far as I can make out no one has yet said conclusively that this man is Greg Martin' , she argued . |
| 16 | If you can make out the lyrics — and it 's difficult enough to find a song in this aural tirade — you 'll be subconsciously ordered to slaughter small children on the bus home . |
| 17 | Near as we can make out the SunSoft deal with Motorola Inc for the PowerPC ( see front page ) is very fresh . |
| 18 | But even in the gloom you can make out the apostles ' faces . |
| 19 | In so far as I can make out the policy of the Labour party , it is to give the business rate back to local authorities . |
| 20 | I am learning how identity , prestige , past victories can flake off a woman as she steps across her threshold , a sheaf of hardware supplies bristling like gladioli in her arms . |
| 21 | Anyone who is reasonably skilful can knock up a mounting without difficulty , and it is possible even for someone who is as clumsy as I am . |
| 22 | It 's not actually useless , but as you can knock up an equivalent device with a ruler , bulldog clip and blob of Blu-Tack , it deserves a mention . |
| 23 | For instance , you can knock out a Quick Report simply by filling in the blanks on what looks like the normal data entry form . |
| 24 | Two , to see whether we can knock down the price and whether we can get him to come up here in the same way as Doctor does and do it that way to reduce the costs . |
| 25 | By criticizing the Conservative Party mid-term the right-wing press can build up a certain degree of credibility with its readers which it can then use to maximum effect by suspending criticism of the Conservative Party and increasing its attacks on Labour as the election approaches . |
| 26 | We shall never know exactly the sequence of events in St Pierre on that morning , but we can build up a fairly accurate picture from the physical evidence of the ruins , and the reports of eyewitnesses . |
| 27 | This section discusses these pensions , how they can be increased by additional voluntary contributions , how you can build up a pension if you have no access to an employer 's scheme and how divorce affects your right to your ex-husband 's pension . |
| 28 | And its accurate mounting and sophisticated computer-control allow astronomers to scan the infrared detector along a source with such precision that it can build up a detailed infrared picture , line by line . |
| 29 | ‘ If we can map the isotopic composition of lead in the region we are looking at , ie the Mediterranean , ’ said Gail , ‘ then we can build up a database of trade movement ’ . |
| 30 | From evidence such as this we can build up a picture of a society in which child mortality was common ; in which many of the children who survived their first year none the less died before they were twenty , as was still the case down to the early nineteenth century ; in which a serious famine or an outbreak of disease might rapidly depopulate a whole region — and yet in which the expectation of life of those who passed twenty was probably not sensationally lower than it is today . |