Example sentences of "can [verb] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now I am thirty-five years old , and married to a traditional observant Jew and living in one of London 's most Jewish areas , I can laugh at the mistaken ideas I had . |
| 2 | Assume now that the group can not sell all it can make at the normal price of £120 but division B sees that it could win a large order if it were to offer goods at £80 each . |
| 3 | Erm , I think it , it , in the , obviously to , to support er , the , the that the building going ahead , erm will mean that the case at erm Stansted will be er containable to enabling passengers even if they are passengers erm it will be , will be absorb the public needs o of the area and the runners be erm arrived at after many , many er , er years Council planning erm does think that we ca n't contain that and er it would be possible to resist these rescued if we can remain at the figures that erm have been out at Stansted . |
| 4 | This is because creatures are subject to a range of ambient temperatures within which they can exist at the lowest , and hence most cost-effective , level of metabolic activity , known as their thermoneutral zone . |
| 5 | Lunch is no problem , as we can eat at the ‘ hamburger stall ’ next door to the department , or we can get an amazingly cheap and sustaining meal for 12 cruzeiros ( c. 15p ) in a canteen on the campus , which is rather like the prison canteen in ‘ Porridge ’ . |
| 6 | Each golfer can stay at the former home of the Domecq family , one of Spain 's famous sherry dynasties , for seven nights in January for £319 , inclusive of flights and breakfast . |
| 7 | I hope we can stay at the top for the rest of the season . ’ |
| 8 | We can stay at the top because we 've got a good enough squad to keep us there . |
| 9 | Peter Schmidt of the Stiftung Wissenschaft Politik at Ebenhausen , a leading expert on European defence and security issues , has identified the formulation of a Common Foreign and Security policy as the product of a ‘ top-down approach ’ which ‘ regards the political union of Western Europe within the framework of the EC as an end in itself ’ , rather than of a ‘ functional or horizontal approach ’ which ‘ asks in a practical way which defence functions can and should be handled in a Western European framework , which ones can remain attached to existing defence arrangements — above all that means Nato — and which ones can stay at the disposal of nation states ’ . |
| 10 | Red Cross workers in Oxford are preparing beds and fixing up catering for the evacuees who can stay at the centre for anything up to four months . |
| 11 | In Saunders 's view , the ‘ local state ’ can not simply be reduced to a functioning part of a national capitalist state , for within certain constraints ‘ non-capitalist interests can win at the local level in a way that is becoming increasingly difficult at national level ’ ( pp. 4 , 11 ) . |
| 12 | While the controller or finance director of a subsidiary will spend most of his or her time working on the financial accounts , and can excel at the job by being a good housekeeper , the group finance director , often number two to the chief executive , plays a large part in the running of the company and therefore needs a considerably wider range of skills . |
| 13 | That the arbitrageur can lend money at the riskless rate of interest appears sensible , but it is more questionable to assume that he or she can borrow at the riskless rate ( although if the marginal arbitrageur is a large financial institution , the assumption may be reasonable ) . |
| 14 | ( 2 ) The loans must be to defray expenditure incurred in acquiring ordinary share capital of a close company complying with s13A(2) as described above , or in lending to such a close company where the money loaned is used wholly and exclusively for the purpose of its business or the business of any of its associated companies provided the latter are also close companies satisfying the conditions of s13A(2). ( 3 ) When interest is paid on the manager 's loan , Newco must continue to comply with s13A(2) — this means it must continue to satisfy the relevant purpose test rather than that it should continue to remain a close company ; in the case of a purchase of shares in Target , the reason why Newco should be close after the institutions commit to invest is to ensure that institutions and management can invest at the same time and that , at that time , Newco is both close and satisfies the relevant purpose test , ie already controls Target ; management can not commit Newco to acquiring Target until the institutions have committed to funding Newco , and once they have so committed the institutions are likely to control Newco under s416 , so a structure is needed whereby management also controls Newco at this point . |
| 15 | It is no sin that all you can feel at the moment is trapped , not by Harry , even though that is what you think , but by your own reaction to him . |
| 16 | Perhaps it 's the moaning you can do at the top , or the relief of getting down and into the warmth . |
| 17 | The best we can do at the moment , until the ‘ organic revolution ’ hits the high street , is to eat foods as near as possible to their natural state — not out of tins and packets . |
| 18 | ‘ But I 've made it with United and now I want the chance to show what I can do at the highest level of all . ’ |
| 19 | I do n't claim any great originality or depth , but it is the best I can do at the moment . |
| 20 | ‘ It 's the best you can do at the moment . |
| 21 | A preview will tell you what the software can do at the moment — we do n't go too heavily on any minor bugs or inconsistencies at the preview stage , but we do criticise bad design and form an opinion about whether the software will be up to scratch when it gets released . |
| 22 | All Leeds can do at the moment is keep winning the games we should win and clock the away victories , so that when the Uniteds of this world come along we wo n't be psyched out of beating them . |
| 23 | I think that 's , that 's all we can do at the moment and I take your point Mr , thank you . |
| 24 | ‘ If there is anything we can do at the dams , it may be that we can raise their levels by even two or three inches , but that has implications for the surrounding countryside . ’ |
| 25 | Well you , that 's what you can do at the moment . |
| 26 | Erm , living there because all can do at the moment , is work in a shop or a restaurant or something like that and she does n't get paid as much as she 'll get on Social Security so it 's not worth it , |
| 27 | Because of the kudos it can bring at the golf club , once there they are hard to dislodge . |
| 28 | Against that , many of the pile-'em-high-and-sell-'em-cheap stores that took advantage of falling property prices to expand in Britain are convinced they can grow at the expense of existing supermarket chains even when good times return . |
| 29 | Put it in the can bank at the ti |
| 30 | On our popular , and well proven itinerary , you 'll visit PEKING where you can marvel at the Forbidden City and Imperial Palace , the Temple of Heaven , Ming Tombs and the world famous Pandas . |