Example sentences of "can [verb] [to-vb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are deliberate attempts which people can make to counteract their injunctions by asserting their opposites . |
| 2 | No , I , I , I , just , just a cover note , I think it 's quite true that this is one of the small steps one can make to make it a little bit more possible for people with dependents to take a full part in local government , and the majority of the people who are excluded at the moment are in practise erm , women with dependent children , but there are many other people including men , and including people with dependent elderly relatives , and I think we need to make it the rule rather than the exception that local government has a carer 's allowance scheme . |
| 3 | For those who can stay to see it . |
| 4 | You can stay to hear me out . ’ |
| 5 | I sold three and one of the reasons why and I think we got tremendous opportunity to develop an enormous part by just going in and speaking to people to explain to and they can relate to write lots and lots of and you can get a good grip we wo n't do it overnight , it is something you have got to develop . |
| 6 | We are not advocates of the ‘ prosperity gospel ’ , but we do recognise that the people God definitely seems to entrust with finances are those whom he can trust to hold them with an open hand . |
| 7 | Only those I feel we can trust to keep it under wraps have been contacted . ’ |
| 8 | And they have to be safe for the performers , so that the nest-owners can survive to continue their parental duties . |
| 9 | For an additional £145 visitors can opt to vacate their hotel rooms for a two-night safari . |
| 10 | You can opt to include it and we have so far opted to exclude . |
| 11 | EC finance ministers have agreed that an intermediary in a triangular supply of goods can opt to have its customer in the country of destination account for VAT on the intermediary 's behalf ( p 102 ) . |
| 12 | EC finance ministers have now agreed that an intermediary can opt to have its customer in the country of destination account for VAT on the intermediary 's behalf . |
| 13 | Once you 've got to grips with your machine ( whichever the model ) there are several accessories you can buy to extend your knitting . |
| 14 | Such men push the boundaries as far as they can to try to get their women to love them , dirt and all . |
| 15 | She can seek to defend her political rectitude by lying . |
| 16 | If at the time the issue arises the patient still has capacity to decide , they can not only explore the scope of his decision with the patient , but can seek to persuade him to alter that decision . |
| 17 | If you come to an obstruction in a road you can seek to circumvent it or you can retrace your journey to the nearest fork and avoid that road altogether . |
| 18 | Again , he tackles , in The Conquest of Happiness , the roots of human unhappiness , and sees them in an excessive introversion , in an excessive concern with the mechanisms of one 's own mind , and proposes various ways in which people can seek to extract themselves from this introverted obsession with their own mechanisms . |
| 19 | But that is talent speaking of genius , and it overlooks the protective colouring by which genius can seek to mask its own sensitivities . |
| 20 | There are good reasons for distinguishing it both from the level of the meanings of expressions , as will become apparent later in the text ( see in particular Chapter 6 ) , and from whatever more general non-linguistic level of mental activity has to take responsibility for human perception of external phenomena ; a sufficient reason is that speakers of the language are well aware that they can seek to identify one and the same entity or property by using the meanings of various different expressions : Examples like ( 22 ) are familiarly put forward as showing the distinction between meaning and reference ; they may serve that purpose but that is quite a different matter . |
| 21 | In this situation each market maker can seek to adjust its own holdings of different stocks by trading with other market makers and can do this anonymously by dealing through the IDBs . |
| 22 | This is the foundation for a true theology of the working relationship , without which there are no practical principles to which Christians can appeal to make their approach to work ( and its conflicts and difficulties ) any different from the non-Christian world . |
| 23 | If the slack variable is non-basic , we can pivot to make it basic and then drop the corresponding row . |
| 24 | Two hideous yuppies in tubular stainless steel sipping minimalist cocktails — no olives or fruit salad — God , give my ageing pectorals strength ! — and contemplating how much they can borrow to house their sterile fucking , dear . |
| 25 | As they get older , the puppies can expect to see their pink tongues turn a distinctive bluey black colour . |
| 26 | The fans who turned up at Woughton can expect to see plenty more top class hockey in the area . |
| 27 | In case you missed Pete with his head in the clouds today , you can expect to see him topping the bill at air shows throughout the summer . |
| 28 | Lesbian women can expect to lose their jobs , their children and their community support because they choose to love women in preference to men . |
| 29 | They , in turn , if short of funds can expect to relieve their shortage , balance their position , either by selling eligible bills to the Bank or by borrowing funds from the Bank , against collateral provided . |
| 30 | On top of these contracts , the girls , along with the other supermodels , can expect to earn anything from $7,000 to $25,000 for each catwalk appearance at twice-a-year shows , and Gianni Versace reportedly paid Turlington £50,000 to appear exclusively at his Milan show . |