Example sentences of "can [vb infin] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Is n't it good to know you can sprint effortlessly for a bus , you can run up a flight of stairs without your heart thumping ? |
| 2 | The leading showjumpers can earn over £100,000 a year , but it 's that red jacket with the Union Jack on it that Linda has her eyes on . |
| 3 | Lone parents can earn up to £15 a week before their income support is reduced . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | If you draw your pension , you can earn up to a certain amount a week without affecting it . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | This train of thought could go some way to explaining why he is one of the top commercial directors in Britain , the man responsible for such successful ad campaigns as Guinness , Nurofen , British Airways and Gallo Wine , who , reputedly , can earn as much as 100,000 per commercial . |
| 9 | Private-school staff resist performance-related pay , so the lazy and incompetent can earn as much as inspirational enthusiasts . |
| 10 | Here the examiner will probably have divided up the possible marks in his mind among the component parts , and an answer to one part , be it ever so brilliant , can earn only the appropriate total for that part . |
| 11 | Unlike village and nomadic weaving , which is normally the sole preserve of women and carries with it no personal prestige outside the village or tribe , workshops employ both men and women , and exceptionally talented weavers can earn more widespread acclaim and far greater financial rewards . |
| 12 | A good A&R Manager can earn sixty or seventy grand , whilst successful A&R Directors can earn upwards of a hundred grand and considerably more if they 've been doing it for a while . ’ |
| 13 | Single-parent women can earn relatively little money out of which they will have to pay the expenses of child-minding . |
| 14 | If you are returning to work after child or relative care , try to ensure that you can earn enough in the remainder of that tax year to take you above the lower earnings limit . |
| 15 | If you are fortunate enough to have a lower level into which you can siphon away the water , that is the easiest . |
| 16 | And we can disappear outside and everyone 'll be talking . |
| 17 | Bodies often float to the surface , but you of all people must know that those who drown in the Thames can disappear altogether and are probably taken by undercurrents down through London and out to sea . ’ |
| 18 | Even without demolition of walls , it may take only 20–30 years for a masonry building to disappear beneath the ground , but less substantial buildings can disappear even faster . |
| 19 | And they always know it can disappear overnight . |
| 20 | ‘ It has taken a long 10 years ' work to get Australia to where we are now yet it can disappear so quickly . |
| 21 | I know of no animal of its size which can disappear so completely as an otter ! |
| 22 | It is perhaps ironic that , having changed my mind , I am now trying to convince other physicists that there was in fact no singularity at the beginning of the universe — as we shall see later , it can disappear once quantum effects are taken into account . |
| 23 | If we can laugh out loud about getting old , break the silence that surrounds it instead of suffering quietly , then we are beginning to escape from a fear society wants us to have — so we will buy uplift bras , expensive face creams and continue to fear and envy younger women . |
| 24 | PROFESSIONAL : Coleman can laugh off his gaffes |
| 25 | Females can reproduce asexually , that is without fertilisation by a male . |
| 26 | They can reproduce vegetatively by budding off asexually to form daughter polyps in the same manner as a plant grows . |
| 27 | Added Cliff : ‘ We can reproduce virtually anything providing it is not obscene . ’ |
| 28 | Workers do not reproduce , so to propagate their genes they must protect their nest , thus ensuring that the queen — their relative — can reproduce copiously . |
| 29 | ‘ As a precaution I suggest you look at what assets you can liquidise quickly . |
| 30 | If you have a modem you can log on to a bulletin board and download it . |