Example sentences of "can [vb infin] [noun] for [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | The Government continue to press local education authorities to remove surplus places , since only they can make proposals for reorganisation . |
| 2 | See also Ginera v. City of Glasgow District Licensing Board , 1982 S.L.T. 136 where an application for Sunday opening in respect of a provisional grant of licence was held to be incompetent as the licence is not in force and only the holder of a public house licence can make application for Sunday opening . |
| 3 | Subject departments can devise tasks for students to carry out . |
| 4 | The provision of copied material is expensive in resources and in time , but can facilitate work for pupils who have problems with distance vision , and a bank of basic material can be built up for future as well as current usage . |
| 5 | He also repeated an argument put forward several times recently by the Scottish Office that a farmer 's net income , which can include allowances for rent and depreciation , and where , for example , transport and housing costs may be apportioned to the business , can not be compared directly with the average UK wage . |
| 6 | Those which normally live on the inner part of the reef flat ( see below ) are more resistant to emersion than those normally under vigorous wave action : some species can survive emersion for periods up to three hours . |
| 7 | Within yards of the station , you can catch trout for tea , sup Yorkshire ale , and see how things used to be at Beck Isle Museum of Rural Life . |
| 8 | We can study files for decades , but every so often we are tempted to throw up our hands and declare that history is merely another literary genre : the past is autobiographical fiction pretending to be a parliamentary report . |
| 9 | ‘ Politically , there 's no way he can give money for work at Flushing Meadow when we have thousands homeless and barely able to live ’ . |
| 10 | The Soutron package can identify orders for books requested by individual cost centres , in addition to those bought for general staff use . |
| 11 | A nice dry day can do wonders for ticket sales . |
| 12 | Parent Network believes that parenting can be learned , and that improved communication can do wonders for family harmony . |
| 13 | I say ‘ could ’ , because running and hard exercise can do wonders for body , mind and spirit without any New Age-type influence . |
| 14 | DEATH can do wonders for record sales — Freddie Mercury 's departure alone is reckoned to have put several percentage points on total British sales last Christmas . |
| 15 | ‘ That 's not much , ’ said Dolly , ‘ you can do mine for tuppence , we 'll ask 'im to pay as I 'm a bit 'ard-up meself . ’ |
| 16 | Such cooperation can present problems for teaching , training and research because the necessary techniques and methods are the province of more than one discipline . |
| 17 | This can present problems for teachers . |
| 18 | This has provided the tramway with a singular advantage over buses operating in the congested traffic , however the close proximity of thousands of strolling holiday-makers to the traffic , can present problems for tram drivers . |
| 19 | This system can present difficulties for animals which spend much of their life underground . |
| 20 | It has been included so that you can refer to it for comparative purposes , and so that you can choose equipment for character models without having to refer to the army list entries or the Warhammer rulebook . |
| 21 | It has been included so that you can refer to it for comparative purposes , and so that you can choose equipment for character models without having to refer to the army list entries or the Warhammer rulebook . |
| 22 | It has been included so that you can refer to it for comparative purposes , and so that you can choose equipment for character models without having to refer to the army list entries or the Warhammer rulebook . |
| 23 | So , the electorate can choose representatives for Parliament but it is less able to choose a government and a programme that will be implemented . |
| 24 | Just before we leave it , er to come back to the nature it 's quite interesting , what these people found was they studied adders in I think Denmark and what they found was adders adders copulate , but females can store semen for months . |
| 25 | In certain circumstances , local authorities can claim help for emergency repairs . |
| 26 | The buyer can claim damages for non-delivery or for breach of any other condition or warranty . |
| 27 | You can use Multipoint for cash withdrawals , fastcash and balance enquiries at cash machines throughout the UK . |
| 28 | You can use Symphony for letters , invoices and even reports but it would not be my first choice ! |
| 29 | The arts , and the new cultural development , can provide space for reflection on disability life from the rich variety of experiences of different groups of disabled people . |
| 30 | Violent films can provide models for children , teaching them new and more sophisticated forms of physical and verbal aggression . |