Example sentences of "can [verb] [indef pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Times are hard , and money is scarce , but please , if you can spare anything at all , contact Pat Drake as soon as possible . |
| 2 | ITALIA house can assimilate anything , mixing completely unrelated elements into seamless tracks that are clever , commercial , and miles away from the backroom botch jobs now dominating the UK dance scene . |
| 3 | Sometimes they are perceived only by those in intimate contact , yet sometimes they can make everyone in a large crowd aware of individual feelings . |
| 4 | Willig ( 1978 ) has proposed an alternative scheme which can make everyone at least as well off as under the average cost regime . |
| 5 | To go with it , buy a metal hawk , a square of sheet metal with a handle attached to one side , on which you carry the plaster to the wall surface ; you can make one from plywood with a softwood handle if you prefer . |
| 6 | History can make one 's own world look different . |
| 7 | Price : I can make one Wurly for £5 . |
| 8 | One can make one 's assumptions about the effect of development on a particular piece of land on the basis of the best information available to one at one time . |
| 9 | After all , the sights about here can make one dizzy . ’ |
| 10 | With a choice we work perceptually on the alternatives to see if we can make one so attractive that it attracts us to ignore the others ; or we try to make the alternatives so unattractive that we can dismiss them one by one . |
| 11 | You can make one like the British O' level that passes only 20% of 16 year-olds . |
| 12 | One can make one 's own judgment a little to one side or the other of that . |
| 13 | I can make one . |
| 14 | Not directly but you can make one in that how that once everybody gets , once you have the resources to raise everybody up to a certain sort of acceptable standard of living , then you can redistribute those resources and you are , you are , y you 'll be able to eliminate poverty |
| 15 | We know that there is someone , somewhere , who can make everything bloom again ; this is the Lady of Light , the fairy godmother who might turn up one day if we are lucky . |
| 16 | I know you 've got none fit in Munster at the moment , but hopefully the Lads in the Power Pack Section can make something of the ones we 've just lifted . |
| 17 | I do not yet know in what form this particular section will be published , whether as a foreword or as an interpolation into the body of my work , but I can begin to see that even here I can make something triumphant out of necessity . |
| 18 | ‘ Until you can make something and then sell it , ’ TI 's Christopher Lewinton argues , ‘ no wealth has been created . |
| 19 | " You can make something of your lives , " he 'd tell us in those occasional moments of confidence . |
| 20 | and you can make something out of it . |
| 21 | ‘ If men can make something as beautiful as this , ’ Anne whispered , ‘ what is God 's real home like ? ’ |
| 22 | She shows that it is possible to enter another culture imaginatively without losing oneself ; more — that from such ‘ grounded ’ learning one can make something new and authentic that is one 's own . |
| 23 | Analysis and interpretation of structures in a text are useful if you can make something of them — if , for instance , you can say something new on the basis of having identified a rhyme pattern . |
| 24 | * Analysing the structure of a text is useful only if you can make something of it , such as linking it with something else about the text in a correlation or causal relation ( see p. 53 ) . |
| 25 | yes and if you can make somebody think from your writing well that 's good . |
| 26 | Doing it his way , he can make lots of money as a New York dentist , and buy a few nice icon things for himself . |
| 27 | You can make lots of different muffins from the basic mixture above . |
| 28 | If you 're recording , plug it into the desk and the engineer can make anything sound good , so whether you use one pickup , two pickups , one amp , two amps , Marshall , Crate , anything . |
| 29 | ‘ I can make anything you like , here are some fashionable French calf slippers decorated with glass beads that glitter as you walk . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ He can make anything , in wood or metal . |