Example sentences of "can [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | If you draw your pension , you can earn up to a certain amount a week without affecting it . |
| 3 | If you have a modem you can log on to a bulletin board and download it . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | But nothing can make up for the fact that any improvements in prescribing practice are too late to save Lexie . |
| 8 | ‘ My colleagues and I will be very interested , ’ he said sourly , ‘ to know what kind of propaganda that red magazine you work for can make out of an international survey of prospective parents . ’ |
| 9 | 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 : |
| 10 | ‘ 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | These feelings can build up into the next repeat of the same interchange . |
| 14 | This is a CMOS technology device and , to some extent , prone to damage from static electricity which can build up on the human body . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | This may not seem important , but small irritations can build up in a Home and become real barriers to good communication . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Cos er , somebody I can think off with a , not a million miles from here is working and claiming |
| 20 | Also , remote users can dial in over a modem and access a network 's drives — this is really useful if you have people on the road who need access to office files . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | On the return , you can stay on for a few nights in Copenhagen for just £39 per person per night . |
| 23 | ‘ 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 . |
| 24 | 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 |
| 25 | He can stay on as a sort of pensioner up at Framwell . ’ |
| 26 | Tourists can stay up to a maximum of 90 days in theory but longer is possible by showing a confirmed return air ticket . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Or you can hang out in a part of the music if you like the verse . ’ |
| 30 | 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 . |