Example sentences of "can of " in BNC.
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| 1 | But they are brought together , in successive books , by the force of this preoccupation , and the reader has to make what he can of the resemblance between two figures quite remote from one another in any coarser understanding of the matter , to do this while adjusting his sight to a vista of copycats , impostors and successive interpretations — a vista which is far from unfamiliar now and can be caught , for instance , in the productions and reproductions of contemporary literary theory . |
| 2 | These are portraits of the artist who grows up in an age of revolutionary socialism and who has to make what he can of it . |
| 3 | You should try to read as much as you can of the great Elizabethan and Jacobean dramatists ; Shakespeare , Marlowe and Ben Jonson , Beaumont and Fletcher , Tourneur , Webster , Middleton . |
| 4 | You should read as much as you can of European and American drama , both historical and contemporary , for by doing so you will certainly set yourself up well for both drama school training and your subsequent acting career . |
| 5 | You could type in all your accounting figures again , and recreate what you can of the customer histories from print outs in the filing cabinet . |
| 6 | Depressed people can of course make hasty and unwise decisions , and I made one such decision when , during my second term at Berkeley , I decided to give up my London flat . |
| 7 | Both can of course eventually be eaten . |
| 8 | You can of course use ordinary ceramic tiles as a worktop surface . |
| 9 | ’ So , after appearing to settle for third-person narrative , he doubles back on himself and leaves us to make what we can of an omniscient author who is bound hand and foot to a far from omniscient protagonist . |
| 10 | They can of course call themselves Slavophils , but that is to try and wish away Peter , to perform an act of mental regression , not to be a Russian . |
| 11 | The reader must make what he can of it . |
| 12 | You can of course also : |
| 13 | Mikhail Gorbachev has been under increasing pressure at home , especially in the Soviet army , to salvage what he can of the old Soviet-Iraqi friendship . |
| 14 | And then on 10 April 1544 came Henry 's chilling order to his brother-in-law Edward , earl of Hertford , to put all to fire and sword , burn Edinburgh town , so razed and defaced when you have sacked and gotten what ye can of it , as there may remain forever a perpetual memory of the vengeance of God lightened upon ( them ) for their falsehood and disloyalty … and as many towns and villages about Edinburgh as ye may conveniently , sack Leith and burn and subvert it and all the rest , putting man , woman and child to fire and sword , without exception where any resistance shall be made against you ; and this done , pass over to the Fifeland and extend like extremities and destructions in all towns and villages whereunto you may reach conveniently , not forgetting among all the rest so to spoil and turn upside down the Cardinal 's town of St Andrews , as the upper stone may be the nether , and not one stick stand by another , sparing no creature alive within the same … |
| 15 | ( The films can of course be bought individually elsewhere , at around £11 each . ) |
| 16 | you can of course cut copper pipe with a hacksaw , but you will get better results with a pipe cutter ; this also includes a reaming tool to remove the burr form the inside of the pipe . |
| 17 | You can of course ask your Homœopathic pharmacist to dispatch the stock bottle direct to the patient and eliminate all those steps ! |
| 18 | One can of course see Colonel Airey 's point , although the fact remains that his Commando was unemployed at the time and Stirling was about to be required to undertake an important series of raids . |
| 19 | Stress the appeal of the building and make as much as you can of its history and contribution to the street . |
| 20 | There can of course be a facade of gentleness that is not genuine . |
| 21 | It is an irony that underlying this kind of dispersal policy , which can of course be criticised , is a reliance on the old skills that the private librarians would have had at their finger tips . |
| 22 | Opened can of mixed veg , used water to steam the pudding Paddy gave me at Reggane . |
| 23 | One month 's notice is required for any withdrawals , but should you need your money in a hurry you can of course , withdraw it at any time . |
| 24 | You can of course , massage the oils into your own skin and derive benefit from them , but the most pleasurable and certainly the most relaxing way is to receive massage from someone else — preferably a qualified massage therapist — though a friend with ‘ good hands ’ is more than adequate . |
| 25 | It is then left to the individual local authority to make the best use it can of the sum granted to it , under an overall obligation to maintain standards of services by comparison with those in other areas . |
| 26 | Apart from a very small number of older key texts , the literature I cite is purposely recent literature , which can of course always be used to track the historical contributions , if the reader so wishes . |
| 27 | Union representatives can of course , also make representations direct to the headteacher and/or governing body . |
| 28 | The library can of course gain access to the media of television , radio and particularly newspapers indirectly without formalizing a promotional campaign , provided it has something newsworthy to offer ( and it may be that a library promotional effort may itself be newsworthy ) . |
| 29 | When you buy a small can of frozen concentrated orange juice you arc getting the fibre-free contents of a large quantity of oranges , at a cost of more than 200 calories per can . |
| 30 | Treatment at these emotional and mental levels can of course also be obtained using homoeopathy and/or Bach remedies . |