Example sentences of "can [vb infin] [pron] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is an expectation that they can earn their way into the labour market but the labour market does not want them . |
| 2 | Work which can earn me money in my spare time . |
| 3 | ‘ You can earn your money with Sammy Meredith , ’ I insisted , ‘ then sail away with me . ’ |
| 4 | That you can earn your living by writing ? |
| 5 | I 'm not enduring any more of it ; you can keep the hundred pounds a year , I can earn it dressmaking and trimming millinery . ’ |
| 6 | If they can coordinate their choices this is the only stable outcome . |
| 7 | According to Scott , finance capitalists are at the very core of the business class , because they can coordinate its activities . |
| 8 | But as with any organisation , it is not without problems and these can hinder its effectiveness . |
| 9 | I 've put in to be a corpse already and then I can laugh my head off on the floor all the way through — ’ |
| 10 | You can plot its movement on a map of the world and date the times of arrival of the outbreaks . |
| 11 | If I have accurate information , I can plot your star chart and produce detailed information about you . |
| 12 | Once you can weave your hair yourself |
| 13 | Cos once you can weave your hair and you cut your hair |
| 14 | . That 's just the things we do , with the coronary arteries , we do coronary artery by- passes , I can , I can sew like any woman , I can darn your socks , we stick the veins on and we re-establish the the heart going a bit faster . |
| 15 | ‘ Until I can reassure our workers I am a little concerned that Ho might — might not make as many friends as he would otherwise do . |
| 16 | You can reassure your children that there are ways to make love which are safe , and there are many ways of showing love other than sex . |
| 17 | We can , we can badger our MPs and erm until they do and , and because they are oblivious to a lot of things that are going on in their own , you know till we put it in front of them . |
| 18 | The categories in each case are artificial and social rather than self-evident , but they are necessary so that we can conduct our affairs in an orderly manner . |
| 19 | But it is equally ridiculous to assume he can conduct his life exactly the same after marriage as before . |
| 20 | THE parties can make what agreement they wish about the time , place and manner of delivery and payment . |
| 21 | Their vents are pressed together so that the sperm can make its way into the female . |
| 22 | But it can make its presence felt , at least to those with imaginations to see : first admired , then feared , and finally mocked and looted for fragmentary hints and occasional ideas . |
| 23 | Provided , therefore , that the House is careful to avoid mention of any determination of whether or not a particular privilege exists , and to confine itself to statements which are consistent with it 's merely having decided that a breach has occurred , it can make its will prevail ( Case of the Sheriff of Middlesex ( 1840 ) 11 A & E 273 ) . |
| 24 | And there 's some doubt as to whether the council can make its tenant farmers enforce the ban . |
| 25 | The government can make its value judgements about distribution or equality and can pursue its views about the desirable degree of vertical equity without impairing the efficient functioning of a free market economy . |
| 26 | The cost of buying equipment and the requirement of skilled personnel to maintain and run it can make its use in the repeated assessments which are required for measuring rhythms prohibitively expensive . |
| 27 | The 1938 Act was repealed and replaced by the Inheritance ( provision for Family and Dependants ) Act 1975 , which increases the range of dependants who may apply for provision on death and gives the court wider powers than previously existed so that it can make whatever type of order may be most appropriate in the circumstances . |
| 28 | The court can make whatever order it considers appropriate and can impose conditions . |
| 29 | And we can make whatever judgments about that we want to , as a group , I wo n't exclude anything Sue . |
| 30 | If you can make her laugh , they say , you 're half-way there . |