Example sentences of "can [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | It can persist for many years . |
| 2 | Activity-dependent synaptic potentiation occurs within milliseconds and can persist for many hours in the anaesthetised animal or in the in vitro hippocampal slice preparation , and for days when induced in the freely moving animal . |
| 3 | In religious organizations reconciliation can persist for long periods of time . |
| 4 | Repetitive touching of the body surface results in a decrease in the amplitude and probability of withdrawal of the gill and siphon , a decrease which can persist for weeks . |
| 5 | We found that chronic constipation in young children can persist for many years . |
| 6 | An identification consequent on a prior dislocation can make for a creative , empathetic partiality which is then the basis of a further identification and understanding of other kinds of discrimination . |
| 7 | None of this means Shawcross should stop — the cause is too important — but it can make for a frustrating life . |
| 8 | One person leading into another can make for a smoother flow and a more efficient use of time . |
| 9 | If we can only slip inside Germany we can make for the autobahn and then for the Black Forest area . ’ |
| 10 | With a little time and imagination , there is no end to the low fat , high fibre energy breakfasts you can make for yourself . |
| 11 | In any event , if great prominence came to be given to APR , many people could be misled about the comparative value of competing credit arrangements ; partly because our calculations show that small and sometimes insignificant differences in what the buyer actually has to pay for credit can make for huge and therefore misleadingly imposing differences in APR ; partly because it will tend to make longer-term borrowing look more attractive than shorter-term borrowing even when ( given that the great majority of people prefer to pay off their debts as quickly as possible ) this may not be best for people . |
| 12 | It 's the sort of feature anyone half handy can make for their own water garden . |
| 13 | Separately , US PC Week highlights Intel 's unhappiness with the cavalier way in which IBM has been offering to all and sundry the iAPX-86 chip variants it has designed under its second source agreement with IBM , and suggests that the agreement is being renegotiated , and that IBM may get the right to make enhanced versions of the Pentium only if it agrees to strict limits on how many it can make for itself or sale . |
| 14 | Separately , US PC Week highlights Intel 's unhappiness with the cavalier way in which IBM has been offering to all and sundry the iAPX-86 chip variants it has designed under its second source agreement with IBM , and suggests that the agreement is being renegotiated , and that IBM may get the right to make enhanced versions of the Pentium only if it agrees to strict limits on how many it can make for itself or sale . |
| 15 | ‘ The only thing Susanna can make for dinner is a reservation ! ’ |
| 16 | Compared with shifting coalitions of Independent councillors , party groupings can make for coherent policy planning and administration . |
| 17 | References may not be recommended where they could be appropriate or useful ; in other places , too many references can make for a very tedious search . |
| 18 | I am pleased to tell my hon. Friend that the latest estimate we can make for the spend on computerisation this year will not be £20 million but £25 million . |
| 19 | In a typical institutional kitchen the combination of floor tile , water , grease , food spills and so on can make for a very dangerous environment . |
| 20 | One is the elegant collection of hotels where , as the town 's name suggests , you can bathe for your health just as the Romans did 2,000 years ago , but in much greater comfort and with considerably more expert supervision . |
| 21 | The report called for £200 million of government spending on fifth generation computing , that is computers that can think for themselves and get along with humans . |
| 22 | Others find in the rose elaborated chemical compounds readily available that they can utilize for colour pigments , their own body structures — and even scents to attract each other ! |
| 23 | Those who are practising psychotherapy with older people have valuable experience which social workers can adapt for use in working with elderly clients . |
| 24 | If this is in the form of a loose box to which the cow can adapt for some days before calving , then there is inevitably less stress . |
| 25 | Their lungs are not particularly large , despite the fact that a dolphin can hold its breath for five minutes or more , and some species of whales can submerge for up to an hour and survive on a single breath . |
| 26 | Microsoft Corp says its Multimedia Viewer Publishing Toolkit Version 2.0 will be available early this month for $500 : the new generation supports several emerging multimedia systems and brings content-based title development within reach of publishers that might not know programming languages , the firm said ; Viewer 2.0 replaces the Multimedia Development Kit , the registered users of which can upgrade for $200 . |
| 27 | Microsoft Corp says its Multimedia Viewer Publishing Toolkit Version 2.0 will be available early this month for $500 : the new generation supports several emerging multimedia systems and brings content-based title development within reach of publishers that might not know programming languages , the firm said ; Viewer 2.0 replaces the Multimedia Development Kit , the registered users of which can upgrade for $200 . |
| 28 | A 2.0 user can upgrade for free . |
| 29 | UK prices start from £3,000 for a typical development licence , although existing Windows4GL users can upgrade for £400 . |
| 30 | Both the X and character versions will be shipped together so users can upgrade for free . |