Example sentences of "can [verb] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It can persist for many years . |
| 2 | Activity-dependent synaptic potentiation occurs within milliseconds and can persist for many hours in the anaesthetised animal or in the in vitro hippocampal slice preparation , and for days when induced in the freely moving animal . |
| 3 | We found that chronic constipation in young children can persist for many years . |
| 4 | In religious organizations reconciliation can persist for long periods of time . |
| 5 | Compared with shifting coalitions of Independent councillors , party groupings can make for coherent policy planning and administration . |
| 6 | In any event , if great prominence came to be given to APR , many people could be misled about the comparative value of competing credit arrangements ; partly because our calculations show that small and sometimes insignificant differences in what the buyer actually has to pay for credit can make for huge and therefore misleadingly imposing differences in APR ; partly because it will tend to make longer-term borrowing look more attractive than shorter-term borrowing even when ( given that the great majority of people prefer to pay off their debts as quickly as possible ) this may not be best for people . |
| 7 | If this is in the form of a loose box to which the cow can adapt for some days before calving , then there is inevitably less stress . |
| 8 | A 2.0 user can upgrade for free . |
| 9 | Both the X and character versions will be shipped together so users can upgrade for free . |
| 10 | The only other area in Britain which can compare for steep ice-fall climbs is the North West of Scotland , and that 's a long drive for a weekend 's climbing — even for the Scots ! |
| 11 | Once underground aquifers are polluted , contaminants can remain for hundreds of years . |
| 12 | They can remain for many years in cold and hostile environments while retaining their toxicity , and they have a tendency to remain in living organisms . |
| 13 | ‘ No money can compensate for that . ’ |
| 14 | So you 've bui built this machine to incorporate that error so you can compensate for that . |
| 15 | One of the major areas of research in speech recognition concerns the ways in which general linguistic knowledge can compensate for such errorful or ambiguous acoustic input . |
| 16 | If , for example , three known positions are input to the program before each session with the pantograph the software can compensate for any changes in the expected readings due to wear and tear or temperature . |
| 17 | Unlike the BBC radio stations , which are funded by the television licence fee , the independents depend almost entirely for their revenues on advertising , which they can broadcast for nine minutes in an hour . |
| 18 | I believe Seton was responsible but your own Benstede can answer for that , he and Seton seemed close friends . |
| 19 | A SIGN outside a nursing home in the centre of Barnard Castle can stay for five years , an appeal inspector has ruled . |
| 20 | ‘ Well , you can stay for that one if you like . |
| 21 | ‘ I can stay for three weeks , if you 'd like me to , ’ she said . |
| 22 | You can prepare for this by having a scale plan of your room as described on page 17 , and drawing your furniture on it to scale too . |
| 23 | Prices start at £3,000 , but you can gaze for free at the Raab Gallery in London 's Cork Street from Sept 8 to Oct 3 . |
| 24 | Uncomfortable feelings absorbed from those who seek our help ( and that includes simply offering a sympathetic ear ) , can linger for many hours or even days — unless we learn how to dissipate such feelings . |
| 25 | Public health officials did all in their power to stop the 1964 pie going ahead ; there was a typhoid epidemic in Aberdeen in the 1960 's and it was found that the last serious epidemic before that had been in Denby Dale in the 1930's , and the infection can linger for many years . |
| 26 | We will get a loan from King Khalid ( Of Saudi Arabia ) and then we will go to Britain and settle affairs with the British government , We can apologize for insulting British workers and then , with British support , we can go back to Teheran . " " |
| 27 | If one set of instruments can substitute for another , policy is in any case badly served by a legal framework which focuses on form rather than effect , as the UK restrictive practice legislation does . |
| 28 | In household pets whose exercise is limited the presence of the tracheal nodules is well tolerated , and animals can survive for long periods with little distress . |
| 29 | These organs are , simple lungs and with their aid , the lungfish can survive for several months , even years . |
| 30 | All popular kinds of decorative pond fish can survive for several months during the winter without feeding , as their body processes slow down in much the same manner as a tree or shrub in the garden becomes dormant . |