Example sentences of "can [verb] about [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I do that two or three times I can make about half the cost of the room per day at the hotel — honestly . ’ |
| 2 | Only a society in which people feel secure in their peer groups can bring about such mass action from below . |
| 3 | God is seen as one who can bring about such kairoi in history , and who has a will for humankind . |
| 4 | The fact that a cause of the wine 's being cool , say refrigeration , is my means-this is the fact that ( i ) I can bring about that cause , and ( ii ) it is a cause of what I desire . |
| 5 | Because an excess of caffeine can bring about many of the symptoms of stress and because these symptoms actually impair mental ability , you are likely to find yourself making foolish mistakes . |
| 6 | One of my arguments is that the mechanical relations of work can bring about this withdrawal . |
| 7 | ‘ I hope all this shit that 's going down can bring about some sort of understanding , ’ says NWA 's Eazy-E about the riots in Los Angeles . |
| 8 | If we find out who killed the Daine projection , I figure we can bring about some sort of dramatic crisis and finish the whole thing off . |
| 9 | One thing I can remember about that evening was that I could n't eat anything . |
| 10 | And I pick it up and it says Loughborough Building Society and you can see about half a percent er premium rate on fifty thousand pounds , and you think that might be worth going for , for , for somebody who 's got a lot of capital , but is it really , because if you 've got fifty thousand in there , you are at risk . |
| 11 | at the moment I can see about half well a dozen people sat on one of the buses . |