Example sentences of "can [vb infin] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lone parents can earn up to £15 a week before their income support is reduced . |
| 2 | If you do take a paid job , bear in mind that although you can earn up to a certain amount per week without affecting your state pension your wages will also be subject to income tax . |
| 3 | If you draw your pension , you can earn up to a certain amount a week without affecting it . |
| 4 | Top goalkeepers can earn up to £50,000-a-year from manufacturers for wearing their gear , including built-in bonuses for Cup runs and television appearances . |
| 5 | Tough action by police and customs in Britain and on the continent has smashed some of the biggest illicit labs , which can earn up to £250,000 a day . |
| 6 | If you have a modem you can log on to a bulletin board and download it . |
| 7 | It can plot up to 45,000 colour coded stars , show the motion of the Sun , Moon and all the planets . |
| 8 | ‘ Then I 'll wish for the first and last dance tonight and as many as you can spare in between , ’ Harry rejoined , and was pleased to see that Cora-Beth was actually blushing . |
| 9 | JVC 's disc plant near Tokyo can make up to 300 000 discs a month . |
| 10 | They can make up to 141 foraging trips a day , comparing favourably with commercial honey bees , which can manage 150 . |
| 11 | Eggs are the perfect protein , containing all eight essential amino acids , so they can make up for any deficiency that may be caused elsewhere . |
| 12 | There 's no way money can make up for losing all that ’ . |
| 13 | Hadley is adamant that , despite the views expressed by Wayne Shelford , nothing can make up for the satisfaction of representing the country of your birth at international level . |
| 14 | This last month , the Bavarians have been going through the painful experience of learning that , where an historic collection is concerned , it is the whole which is greater than the parts , and no saving of individual items can make up for the erosion of that whole . |
| 15 | I 'll be happy if we can make up for our late start by mid-season . ’ |
| 16 | Friends who are very dissimilar may not give the same thing to each other , but what each gives can sometimes be even richer for this : it can make up for the other 's deficits . |
| 17 | No amount of brilliance can make up for knowledge of the idiom of the field . |
| 18 | Believing , as fervently as they say they believe in their Almighty , that money can make up for anything , even bad taste and bad manners . |
| 19 | I urge those on both Front Benches to reflect on how they can make up for that democratic lack . |
| 20 | Unfortunately , there have been no social events this year hopefully we can make up for this in nineteen ninety four . |
| 21 | If there 's any way I can make up for what 's happened , Mr Calder , then I shall be only too pleased to do it . ’ |
| 22 | But nothing can make up for the fact that any improvements in prescribing practice are too late to save Lexie . |
| 23 | April 's pursuing compensation though no amount of mony can make up for what she 's lost . |
| 24 | You can make up round tables from cheap wood and cover them with long cloths and changeable overcloths . |
| 25 | ‘ My colleagues and I will be very interested , ’ he said sourly , ‘ to know what kind of propaganda that red magazine you work for can make out of an international survey of prospective parents . ’ |
| 26 | They are only interested in what they can make out of it . ’ |
| 27 | And at least we 'll find the girls ' car because according to what one can make out of her statement , they were removed from it somewhere on the road between here and Taverna yesterday morning … ’ |
| 28 | Mind you , they 're a nasty bunch , from what I can make out of it . ’ |
| 29 | When you 've done twelves and you 've got all the answers that you all the things you can make out of it . |
| 30 | Also what struck me was now that they they 're not fighting the Japanese erm they 're not required to make the sacrifices of war that they were so perhaps they 're going to think right let's see what we can make out of this , I do n't , I no longer have to pay X tax because |