Example sentences of "can [vb infin] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This train of thought could go some way to explaining why he is one of the top commercial directors in Britain , the man responsible for such successful ad campaigns as Guinness , Nurofen , British Airways and Gallo Wine , who , reputedly , can earn as much as 100,000 per commercial . |
| 2 | Private-school staff resist performance-related pay , so the lazy and incompetent can earn as much as inspirational enthusiasts . |
| 3 | Unlike village and nomadic weaving , which is normally the sole preserve of women and carries with it no personal prestige outside the village or tribe , workshops employ both men and women , and exceptionally talented weavers can earn more widespread acclaim and far greater financial rewards . |
| 4 | Single-parent women can earn relatively little money out of which they will have to pay the expenses of child-minding . |
| 5 | But you can spare very much trouble because there are times when you can say to someone , ‘ At this point , you are going in the wrong direction . ’ |
| 6 | The accompaniment must paint the general background mood of the piece , and rhythmic designs can persist over big areas and only break off if there is a very definite change of mood or subject matter . |
| 7 | You can make even greater savings for your family using one or more separate Daily Mirror vouchers . |
| 8 | He can make yet another significant contribution to a bank balance already worth $7 m when he defends the $2.7 m Johnnie Walker World Championship in Jamaica this week . |
| 9 | You can make up simple , large crossword puzzles for the patient to solve . |
| 10 | Other bryozoan colonies are more immediately conspicuous , particularly the stout , twig-like branches of the Palaeozoic trepostomes , which can make up thick limestone beds , and formed their own ‘ reefs ’ , or the large , often net-like colonies of the ‘ fenestrellids ’ common in the Upper Palaeozoic . |
| 11 | ACORN divides the nation 's households into 38 individual neighbourhood types , which — in turn — can make up 12 larger groups , ranging in size from 3 per cent to 18 per cent of UK households . |
| 12 | So write that one and then later on when I 've gone if you can make up some sentences with stationary and stationery . |
| 13 | The straight side sections are easier : you can make up mock pilasters with straight sections of bought mouldings , or again make your own if you have a router . |
| 14 | Scientists have discovered several polymer films that they can make either neutral or charged . |
| 15 | If he used a modal legacy , it would take the following form : ‘ I leave A the sum of ten thousand denarii , so that he can make over five thousand to B ’ . |
| 16 | I daresay you can make out one of them up across the Vale there . " |
| 17 | Fitting wheel locks or clamps can make doubly sure . |
| 18 | It is clearly not a property of ontological objects , despite the fact that singular existential propositions can make perfectly good sense . |
| 19 | With a little knowledge you can make very healthy changes to your diet without having to alter radically your whole way of eating . |
| 20 | In aviaries around the outside of the Walled Garden , you will see a range of familiar domesticated cage birds — which , given informed care , can make very good garden aviary subjects . |
| 21 | Small tables for two can make very good use of the wasted space at the end of a corridor . |
| 22 | The resultant online , interactive database is designed to be so easy to use that after a few minutes practice even novices can make very sophisticated searches and will have nearly instantaneous access to a vast storehouse of information hitherto accessible only after tedious , time-consuming and costly searches through individual issues . |
| 23 | You ca n't build guitars with machines , but you can make very precise guitar parts . |
| 24 | You ca n't build guitars with machines , but you can make very precise guitar parts . |
| 25 | Another option is to use various parts of a flower in their own right : centres with no petals can make very pretty flowers , and many multi-headed flowers , such as cow parsley , can be dismantled after pressing . |
| 26 | However , there are several other designs that can make very attractive pictures , as you will see in the rest of the book . |
| 27 | At this stage we can make only tentative suggestions . |
| 28 | Such details matter because western telecoms companies can make only limited investments until they know when and how they might gain a return . |
| 29 | This means that plant breeders who try to create higher-yielding or disease-resistant varieties by selection or hybridisation from existing varieties can make only limited progress ; the genes they need are simply not found in the cultivated populations . |
| 30 | Telepoint phones can make only outgoing calls but Hutchison feels its £50m investment in setting up over 12,000 base stations to transmit calls will overcome earlier problems . |