Example sentences of "can [verb] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is an expectation that they can earn their way into the labour market but the labour market does not want them . |
| 2 | ‘ You can earn your money with Sammy Meredith , ’ I insisted , ‘ then sail away with me . ’ |
| 3 | That you can earn your living by writing ? |
| 4 | ‘ I can earn my own money . ’ |
| 5 | If they can coordinate their choices this is the only stable outcome . |
| 6 | According to Scott , finance capitalists are at the very core of the business class , because they can coordinate its activities . |
| 7 | RESEARCH is to be carried out in Darlington to look at how the borough council can coordinate its green policies . |
| 8 | It can hinder their proper development . |
| 9 | But as with any organisation , it is not without problems and these can hinder its effectiveness . |
| 10 | I 've put in to be a corpse already and then I can laugh my head off on the floor all the way through — ’ |
| 11 | You can plot its movement on a map of the world and date the times of arrival of the outbreaks . |
| 12 | If I have accurate information , I can plot your star chart and produce detailed information about you . |
| 13 | So each week we can plot our , our value where this is one , somewhere down here is nought and we would hope to er , eventually get to a situation where our planned performance was somewhere near one so we would be pardon ? |
| 14 | Once you can weave your hair yourself |
| 15 | Cos once you can weave your hair and you cut your hair |
| 16 | . That 's just the things we do , with the coronary arteries , we do coronary artery by- passes , I can , I can sew like any woman , I can darn your socks , we stick the veins on and we re-establish the the heart going a bit faster . |
| 17 | We must do everything we can to restore her sight but there is no guarantee the operations will be successful . ’ |
| 18 | I can reassure my hon. Friend that nothing in the Bill will make that sort of rationalisation necessary . |
| 19 | I hope I can reassure my hon. Friends that the framework of duties within the Bill does not create such a divide . |
| 20 | ‘ Until I can reassure our workers I am a little concerned that Ho might — might not make as many friends as he would otherwise do . |
| 21 | You can reassure your children that there are ways to make love which are safe , and there are many ways of showing love other than sex . |
| 22 | We can , we can badger our MPs and erm until they do and , and because they are oblivious to a lot of things that are going on in their own , you know till we put it in front of them . |
| 23 | The categories in each case are artificial and social rather than self-evident , but they are necessary so that we can conduct our affairs in an orderly manner . |
| 24 | But it is equally ridiculous to assume he can conduct his life exactly the same after marriage as before . |
| 25 | The cost of buying equipment and the requirement of skilled personnel to maintain and run it can make its use in the repeated assessments which are required for measuring rhythms prohibitively expensive . |
| 26 | Provided , therefore , that the House is careful to avoid mention of any determination of whether or not a particular privilege exists , and to confine itself to statements which are consistent with it 's merely having decided that a breach has occurred , it can make its will prevail ( Case of the Sheriff of Middlesex ( 1840 ) 11 A & E 273 ) . |
| 27 | Suffering can make its full contribution to my awareness only if I do not pursue it in advance , even though its value may be appreciated in retrospect . |
| 28 | But it can make its presence felt , at least to those with imaginations to see : first admired , then feared , and finally mocked and looted for fragmentary hints and occasional ideas . |
| 29 | Their vents are pressed together so that the sperm can make its way into the female . |
| 30 | Thus , the university can make its most fruitful contribution to democracy through the teaching of an English which places the student in direct touch with the values embodied in the national literature . |