Example sentences of "can [vb infin] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Repeatedly interviewing the same people can sensitise them to the research , and this may have unknown effects on their responses . |
| 2 | In reality children usually start to lose interest after about two weeks once they realize that they can earn them relatively easily . |
| 3 | There is an expectation that they can earn their way into the labour market but the labour market does not want them . |
| 4 | Work which can earn me money in my spare time . |
| 5 | I 'm being honest er Rod if I can earn myself twenty five thirty thousand I 'm not I 'm not looking for you know fortunes . |
| 6 | The other thing about celebrity , of course , is that it can earn you a decent living — although usually only after years of struggle , as with most jobs . |
| 7 | A car boot sale can earn you extra cash and save you money by reducing the load your removers have to take to your new home . |
| 8 | ‘ You can earn your money with Sammy Meredith , ’ I insisted , ‘ then sail away with me . ’ |
| 9 | That you can earn your living by writing ? |
| 10 | ‘ I can earn my own money . ’ |
| 11 | I 'm not enduring any more of it ; you can keep the hundred pounds a year , I can earn it dressmaking and trimming millinery . ’ |
| 12 | Clever still I can earn it |
| 13 | If they can coordinate their choices this is the only stable outcome . |
| 14 | According to Scott , finance capitalists are at the very core of the business class , because they can coordinate its activities . |
| 15 | RESEARCH is to be carried out in Darlington to look at how the borough council can coordinate its green policies . |
| 16 | Occasionally the fungus can ensconce itself in the terminal portion of the urethra , and it may then give rise to symptoms similar to those found in non-specific urethritis . |
| 17 | In these circumstances , mothers have described how they turn to collective items where they can restrict what they consume . |
| 18 | 29 of the 89 articles of the constitution deal with limitations on the parliament 's power and ways in which the government can restrict it . |
| 19 | But we can , at this level , we can restrict it to numbers . |
| 20 | It can hinder their proper development . |
| 21 | But as with any organisation , it is not without problems and these can hinder its effectiveness . |
| 22 | One correspondent , seeking to explain the motives behind the attack on the meeting-houses in the west midlands in the summer of 1715 , informed Staffordshire MP , William Ward , that the rioters have got a Notion , that the Ministry and Dissenters have ruined Trade , on Purpose to make the Nation out of Love with the late Peace , and Peace-makers ; and because the Ministry , and secret Committee , and their Friends , will not let the Country have Peace and Trade , they resolve ( if they can hinder it ) the Dissenters shall not have a quiet Toleration . |
| 23 | I 've put in to be a corpse already and then I can laugh my head off on the floor all the way through — ’ |
| 24 | Sometimes I can laugh it off but inside it gets me down . |
| 25 | Now that I know the genetic formula of my insects , I can reproduce them at will , and I can tell the computer to " evolve " towards them from any arbitrary starting point . |
| 26 | Creating synthetic chemical structures that can reproduce themselves represents not only an intriguing intellectual challenge , but also a possible way of illuminating one of the most basic processes of a living cell . |
| 27 | ‘ He wrote back an absolutely charming letter ’ , he remembers , ‘ saying do n't worry about the money , of course you can reproduce it , and do n't worry about the copyright . ’ |
| 28 | If you get on the wrong side of Miss Trunchbull she can liquidise you like a carrot in a kitchen blender . |
| 29 | the appropriate sales person so that he and she can log it away in the manual . |
| 30 | I have to know so I can log it . |