Example sentences of "you can [verb] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you can not get out and about , you can continue to be active , either doing housework or gardening ( there are aids to help disabled gardeners ) or doing exercises suggested by the health visitor , district nurse or doctor . |
| 2 | The people in prison are the only people you have — whatever problems you 've got , you know the only people you can talk to are the women in prison . |
| 3 | disgusting but then they 're not the sort of people you can talk to are they ? |
| 4 | Touch legering , like so many things worth doing , needs to be practised before you can expect to be proficient . |
| 5 | With both types , the lenders have your new home as security , but since they 're taking a bigger risk than normal , you can expect to be charged a higher rate of interest . |
| 6 | You can expect to be promoted within two or three years of qualifying . |
| 7 | You can decide to be imperfect , to do things in your own time , to please yourself , not to be strong and to try only as much as you like . |
| 8 | What you want is to be able to answer a few sensible questions uniquely identifying you , the trouble is there 's probably a repertoire of only ten of those questions , you 're going to get asked three or four of them , but those questions , your date of birth , your telephone number , the er address of your bank and so on and so forth , if you 're a private detective you can get those , you can have them on a sheet of paper and you can pretend to be whoever you like . |
| 9 | You can afford to be generous . |
| 10 | You can afford to be cheap and cheerful when it comes to just about every other accessory , but a bag says more about you than all the rest put together . |
| 11 | You can afford to be ca n't you ? |
| 12 | Gross has happily classified some 3,000 under various headings : Self-Love ( ’ To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance ’ — Oscar Wilde ) ; Love , Jealousy , Libido ( ’ No woman so naked as one you can see to be naked underneath her clothes ’ — Michael Frayn ) ; Secrets ( ’ There is something about a cupboard that makes a skeleton terribly restless ’ — anon ) and Criticism ( ’ In some cases taking up the trade of critic is only an embittered form of renunciation ’ — Albert Guinon ) . |
| 13 | Bear in mind that any speed limit is a maximum , it does not mean that it is safe to drive at that speed , always take into account all the conditions at the time , never drive so fast that you can not stop well within the distance you can see to be clear . |
| 14 | If you fear the threat of violence you can ask to be excluded from the public extract . |
| 15 | Or you can dare to be alone with yourself . |
| 16 | You can train to be a Navy Cook without any particular previous formal qualifications , although any knowledge you bring from a technical college will give you an advantage . |
| 17 | Sometimes , just knowing you 've got something else you can turn to is all you need cos you do n't need |