Example sentences of "can [vb infin] a [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you are feeling adventurous and you have a lot of children coming , you can make a second wall with pieces of chocolate surrounding it representing Humpty Dumpty having fallen off the wall . |
| 2 | This , my favourite dish , can make a first course , a main course , or survival rations for a transatlantic sailing race . |
| 3 | Well unfortunately we were scheduled to have a meeting erm something like ten days ago and then two or three of the key people had to drop out so I cancelled the meeting because obviously we want the people there who were going to actually get the thing up and running so that we can formulate a first public meeting and I would like erm , you know , now , to establish a working party but again a number of the people who one would expect to be on it are not here and it 's slightly awkward . |
| 4 | In other areas farmers can expect a second rate or near nonexistent service . |
| 5 | I do n't think you can do a third one year and then try and raise some more money over the next few years and do another third . |
| 6 | CAROLINE McCLYMONT , the daughter of the late Charlie MacMillan , and the American-bred Agathist , with three successes already to their name in ladies races over Bogside 's former National Hunt racecourse , can land a fourth tomorrow if they turn out for the Lanarkshire and Renfrewshire fixtures at Irvine . |
| 7 | It is not often that Britain can claim a first in the field of sports science , but this research is breaking new ground . |
| 8 | 3 Before the attacker can employ a second technique , the defender strikes to the face with the palm . |
| 9 | But the actual implementation of this Christian philosophy often fell far short of these standards , and throughout the modern era we can trace a second layer , summed up in the phrase ‘ the double standard ’ , which enjoined chastity on the female while allowing a large degree of sexual freedom for the male . |
| 10 | It can provide a third or fourth hand wherever needed , and no matter for how long . |
| 11 | It 's a disease which , if it a , they 're fortunate enough to re , recover from the disease , if it 's been severe enough the inflammation may have involved er , some of the cranial nerves , and here we can see a third nerve palsy er as a result of er , the process . |
| 12 | If you have a glass panelled door , you can fit a second pane inside . |
| 13 | Some hotel rooms can take a fourth bed , and in this case the second child will receive a discount of 25% . |
| 14 | All rooms have private facilities and can take a third bed . |
| 15 | All the well appointed bedrooms have a private bathroom and telephone ; most can take a third bed . |
| 16 | The bedrooms are all individually furnished with hand carved wooden furniture , and all have private bathrooms ; some can take a third or fourth bed . |
| 17 | All rooms have a private bathroom and a balcony ; some can take a third or fourth bed . |
| 18 | Some bedrooms can take a third or fourth bed . |
| 19 | All our spacious bedrooms have private bathroom , balcony and some can take a third or fourth bed . |
| 20 | The twin bedded rooms have hot and cold water , and most can take a third bed . |
| 21 | Suffice it here to point to what we can call a third , or micro- , level of decision making , the other two being the level of allocating as between health and , for example , defence ; and the other , between different sections within health care . |
| 22 | At the moment New Yorkers can survey the length and breadth of his achievement at the galleries of the Americas Society on Park Avenue and coming up in January they can have a second look in a big retrospective of the artist 's work at the Studio Museum in Harlem . |
| 23 | ‘ Many who had planned to stay at home will now go away , others will feel they can afford a second holiday . ’ |
| 24 | Nowadays , as a significant proportion of households can afford a second home , the pressure on the rural housing market increases . |
| 25 | One can get a first indication of these changes from the statistics on the division of labour between sectors of the economy . |
| 26 | No candidate who fails to see this point can get a first class on that question . |
| 27 | Dad reckons we can get a second contract done within two weeks . |
| 28 | Obviously we did n't , he can get a third when we can only get , when there were only two of us because there were n't enough , enough threes to go round and I mean |
| 29 | I do not see how those people can accrue a second pension . |
| 30 | But that is not so , for a bailee has only possession and not ownership ( which remains in the bailor ) , and yet the bailee can sue a third party for conversion . |