Example sentences of "can [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Diminutive cyclists can sprint . |
| 2 | Is n't it good to know you can sprint effortlessly for a bus , you can run up a flight of stairs without your heart thumping ? |
| 3 | By arranging ‘ forward ( or sideways ) creep ’ gates between paddocks , calves or lambs can graze the best , cleanest grass ahead of their dams . |
| 4 | Above : Small amounts of algae should be left on the rocks and glass on which the fry can graze . |
| 5 | An excellent method is to use one of the sponge filters which are operated by an air pump and can easily be regulated — plus the fry can graze upon the minute particles of food and organisms which colonise the sponge . |
| 6 | Intel Corp rates the 66MHz version of the Pentium chip at 112 MIPS — well it is claimed to execute two instructions per cycle — one for each of its parallel arithmetic-logic units — two five-stage execution units , and claims that it is five times more powerful than the original 80486 microprocessor and over 300 times faster than the 8088 ; it contains 3.1m transistors , compared with 1.2m for the 80486 ; it is manufactured in Intel 's 0.8 micron three-metal layer BiCMOS process technology ; it has two 8Kb on-chip caches and a fully compatible floating point unit that is up to five times faster than the one on the 80486 at the same clock speed ; to get around the problem that the thing can squeal to a halt when it comes to a branch that stalls the instruction stream , it includes branch prediction , where the chip remembers prior instruction pathways and predicts the correct pathway for a new instruction . |
| 7 | To get around the problem that the thing can squeal to a halt when it comes to a branch that stalls the instruction stream , it includes branch prediction , where the chip remembers prior instruction pathways and predicts the correct pathway for a new instruction . |
| 8 | Repeatedly interviewing the same people can sensitise them to the research , and this may have unknown effects on their responses . |
| 9 | There are many experiences which can sensitise and inform committed work . |
| 10 | Younger company secretaries , for example , can earn £40,000-£50,000 a year , while more experienced ones or those working for large companies can earn £70,000 a year . |
| 11 | Younger company secretaries , for example , can earn £40,000-£50,000 a year , while more experienced ones or those working for large companies can earn £70,000 a year . |
| 12 | There is an expectation that they can earn their way into the labour market but the labour market does not want them . |
| 13 | Yet the ambulance worker is only being offered £10,000 , when a fire officer is being given £13,000 and a Metropolitan police constable can earn £25,000 . |
| 14 | Mr Duncan Nichol , the NHS chief executive , told the Guardian yesterday that the Government 's negotiating position is that it wants to split the service so crews with medical skills can earn extra money and non-emergency services can be contracted out . |
| 15 | Mr Duncan Nichol , the NHS chief executive , told the Guardian that the Government 's negotiating position is that it wants to split the service so crews with medical skills can earn extra money and non-emergency services can be contracted out . |
| 16 | I can earn £400,000 elsewhere . |
| 17 | ‘ I can earn £400,000 somewhere else . ’ |
| 18 | A few years ' work in the brothels of Bangkok can earn girls more money than their families ever dreamt of . |
| 19 | ‘ If you must write — you do n't need to by the way , I can earn enough to support my family — but if you really must , you should always write ‘ Mrs Nigel Hughes ’ at the end of it and tell the editor you are married to me . ’ |
| 20 | Looking through this contract at what goodies you can earn is in itself an act to strengthen motivation and keep you on track . |
| 21 | Two hundred pounds a week , some of them can earn . ’ |
| 22 | Between now and early October , shareholders can earn an annualised yield of about 11½ p.c . |
| 23 | Lone parents can earn up to £15 a week before their income support is reduced . |
| 24 | This train of thought could go some way to explaining why he is one of the top commercial directors in Britain , the man responsible for such successful ad campaigns as Guinness , Nurofen , British Airways and Gallo Wine , who , reputedly , can earn as much as 100,000 per commercial . |
| 25 | I am enjoying my writing career and would like to develop it into a full-time career if I can earn enough money . |
| 26 | Work out , with your child , a list of privileges the child can earn with tokens ( counters ) or accumulated points ( a notebook is necessary here ) . |
| 27 | We will record his successes on this star chart and show him how he can earn treats when he has collected a specified number of stars [ see page 57 ] . |
| 28 | The Foundation 's broad survey , relating world-wide events to the condition and future of the North of England , attempts to show how the Northern home of the Industrial Revolution , which changed the course of civilisation , can earn a reflex benefit from the outside world : to suggest how it should see its continuing importance and the integrity of its peculiar contribution to that world , the value of its own inalienable strengths and their potential . |
| 29 | If you do take a paid job , bear in mind that although you can earn up to a certain amount per week without affecting your state pension your wages will also be subject to income tax . |
| 30 | If you are returning to work after child or relative care , try to ensure that you can earn enough in the remainder of that tax year to take you above the lower earnings limit . |