Example sentences of "can [vb infin] any [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A widow can earn any amount without losing her widow 's pension , although this is taxed . |
| 2 | And let me quote Locke er here we are are we he says but submitting to the laws of any country , living quietly and enjoying privileges and protection under them , makes not a man a member of that society then he goes on a little bit further down nothing can make any man so but is actually entering into it by positive engagement and express promise and compact . |
| 3 | Fashions change rapidly and the wrong colour can make any bathroom look dated . |
| 4 | Revealingly , not one of the 24 leading directors invited to fantasise in Projections about what they would do with complete creative freedom and limitless cash can make any sense of the question . |
| 5 | Sift through the letters and bills and whatnot and see if I can make any sense of it all . ’ |
| 6 | The Germans can make any system work . |
| 7 | As Gorthie pointed out , ‘ its a post that no honest man can make any profit by , anything near to compense his pains ’ . |
| 8 | It is necessary for the teacher to ensure that the student can perform any prerequisite skills , can make any discriminations and possesses the concepts and rules required during performance . |
| 9 | The court can make any combination of orders under s8 . |
| 10 | If this is relativity it is like Einstein 's , by which it is not that you can make any measurement come out as you please , but that from any spatio-temporal viewpoint you can estimate what will be the right measurement from any other . |
| 11 | You can make any number of letters and parcels to go around the postbox , and it would be fun to pipe or paint the names of the party guests on the individual envelopes . |
| 12 | Since they are presumed to be the only judges of how good their work is , no layman or other outsider can make any judgment of what they can do . |
| 13 | Here Gabriel said to the eldest brother , " Because of your kindness to the poor traveller , you can make any wish and it will be granted . " |
| 14 | You can make any set into the set of nodes of a graph . |
| 15 | I ca n't think why you want to swap the ’ and S keys but you can make any key produce any symbol you like and so swapping over is just a special case . |
| 16 | I use it throughout my work because , used skilfully and imaginatively , it can make any sort of communication more powerful , more exciting and frequently a lot more fun . |
| 17 | No , but you can , you can build any amount of hostels you like that could accommodate all , all the people that there are , but you would still find a proportion of those who do n't want to come into the system , so , you know |
| 18 | By open ended we mean that any number of customers , savers or subscribers can lend any volume of funds to the intermediary at any time . |
| 19 | If we can treat any piece of conversational data as a process in which two or more participants speak within the topic framework , we should also find in their contributions elements which characterise their own personal ‘ speaker 's topics ’ . |
| 20 | It can cover any number of things . |
| 21 | Complaints can cover any aspect of the solicitor 's work , excluding negligence . |
| 22 | The court can disregard any injury or damage and still find that he was in charge of the vehicle . |
| 23 | You can , you can design any kind of picture to illustrate the land in whatever |
| 24 | He says the basic idea is if you understand what 's going wrong then you can design any therapy sensibly not on the hit and miss basis it 's been done in the past . |
| 25 | Any reputable hypnotherapist should be quite prepared to have a ten-minute ‘ chat ’ with you , free of charge , during which he can answer any questions you might have . |
| 26 | Look hard at your outgoings and see if you can eliminate any luxuries without making yourself too miserable . |
| 27 | Men are n't taught about testicular cancer , yet it can affect any man between the ages of 15 and 45 . |
| 28 | The lack of correlation between the four motility parameters furthermore implies that the disturbed motor functions develop independently and can affect any gut system . |
| 29 | They took a very different attitude from Maud to this relationship believing ‘ that if local government is to have any chance of achieving a corporate approach to its affairs members and officers must both recognise that neither can regard any area of the authority 's work and administration as exclusively theirs ’ ( Bains 1972:8 ) . |
| 30 | The rational presentation of information opens the way to a variety of power bases ( expertise , reward , intellect ) which can counter any suggestion that this is manipulative . |