Example sentences of "can [vb infin] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hadley is adamant that , despite the views expressed by Wayne Shelford , nothing can make up for the satisfaction of representing the country of your birth at international level . |
| 2 | This last month , the Bavarians have been going through the painful experience of learning that , where an historic collection is concerned , it is the whole which is greater than the parts , and no saving of individual items can make up for the erosion of that whole . |
| 3 | Friends who are very dissimilar may not give the same thing to each other , but what each gives can sometimes be even richer for this : it can make up for the other 's deficits . |
| 4 | But nothing can make up for the fact that any improvements in prescribing practice are too late to save Lexie . |
| 5 | And underneath that thought ( I think ! ) is another one another underblanket , insulating the underblanket above and which , so far as I can make out through the layers on top of it , runs something like this : |
| 6 | ‘ As far as I can make out from the little she said about what actually happened , the man who kidnapped them , there was only one at that point , was hidden in the back of their car when they got in . |
| 7 | However , it seems that as far as I can make out from the correspondence , the Commissionaires are split in their opinion as to the legality of action of the German government . |
| 8 | Even so , considerable errors can build up over the period of ten or more years that elapses between one Census date and the time when the finalized results of the next Census can be used . |
| 9 | These feelings can build up into the next repeat of the same interchange . |
| 10 | This is a CMOS technology device and , to some extent , prone to damage from static electricity which can build up on the human body . |
| 11 | Enormous tension can build up along the margin of the two plates and occasionally explodes into immense earthquakes which can , if they strike inhabited portions of the land suffice , wreak terrible damage . |
| 12 | Where leaching is of only moderate intensity , cations released during weathering can build up in the solutions moving through the weathering mantle and the formation of cation-bearing clays such as illite and smectite is favoured . |
| 13 | Firstly , CACI can build on to the shopping centres additional information relating to those outlets in a particular retail sector — this might be in terms of floorspace allocations , number of outlets or other attractiveness measures . |
| 14 | For instance erm if you 're communicating via a typewriter , there are various common mistakes which can arise out of the fact that two keys are close together , and so you 've hit one key when you meant the other , and knowing that can help the computer to work out what you intended . |
| 15 | ‘ The fact of the matter is , several of the teachers on the course you missed because of skiving off on holiday , a number of them have asked me if they can stay on for the autumn term . |
| 16 | Yes because in the summer I mean you , some time in the , in this next term would be the ideal thing really because that , if she can stay on for the summer term |
| 17 | Elsewhere there are Breughels ; walls covered with Delft tiles ; a medieval belfry with 366 steps from which you can gaze down on the town 's steep , red tiled roofs ; holy blood brought back from the crusades . |
| 18 | And , as consolation Marje , you really can hang on to the hope that as he was the secret true love of your life , perhaps you were the secret true love of his . |
| 19 | It seems that the central significance of economic support in families lies in its reliability : you always know that you can fall back upon the support of relatives if necessary and that this will be regarded as a legitimate request . |
| 20 | Time ( and his bank balance ) will tell , but at least now the whole thing 's up and running he can retreat out of the public eye . |
| 21 | Well obviously that factor er was considered carefully by the Ministry of Defence before our Secretary of State agreed that we could safely defer the in service date for Eurofighter two thousand and adjust the the er replacement plan er back in December ninety two , so we have looked at what is the current rate of consumption of airframe life on the jaguar er what can be done economically and sensibly to keep it flying safely and effectively into the next century and er we have come to the conclusion that we have a viable plan here which can tie up with the planned rate of delivery to service of Eurofighter two thousand . |
| 22 | You can catch up on the I mean you can do those graphs without reading anything else about it . |
| 23 | ‘ You can catch up on the reading in-flight . |
| 24 | Looking ahead , Souness said he was confident his side can bounce back in the League after the reverse at Tottenham . |
| 25 | Let's see how quickly you can jump up off the floor . |
| 26 | When it moves any models in its path are run over , sustaining a strength 7 hit unless they can jump out of the way . |
| 27 | So then you we can tighten in on the site to not only a place actually on the site but how far down they came from as well . |
| 28 | Or , you can carry on up the narrow and beautiful Nive valley to the village of Esterençuby . |
| 29 | And if you 're okay overnight then you can carry on with the pack as directed on Thursday morning |
| 30 | Hopefully it can carry through to the end of the season . ’ |