Example sentences of "[prep] [be] [indef pn] [pron] can [verb] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | ‘ We thought : there 's got to be something we can do with all that wood . ’ |
| 2 | The rule is supposed to be something we can use in order to check whether the new sensation is also a pain . |
| 3 | So it 's got to be something you can relate to , and once the model gets too far removed from reality , he 'll switch off . |
| 4 | But if I am going to bring anybody in , then they will have to be somebody I can trust and live in this area . ’ |
| 5 | Yet Ormrod J. follows his own logic to conclude that April Ashley , in purely biological terms , is not a woman ; yet biological terms are all that count , because there has to be someone who can perform the essential role of a woman ( remember , the essential role is to be a woman , since marriage is the relationship between a man and a woman ) : therefore , for marriage purposes , April Ashley by law is a man , and there is no marriage.45 No way out of this particular self-made legal thicket is provided , unfortunately , by an amendment to the Nullity of Marriages Act , passed into law as section l(c) . |
| 6 | I mean there ought to be someone who can make a lead for us in house , that sort of thing , which we do n't have at the moment , because we 've got things like complicated split leads for rigging up two monitors , and we 've had those twice we 've had those made , outside , but they only need to get sort of broken , and we 're back to square one . |
| 7 | ‘ It is a shame that we are being penalised for something which has been done by the football club , but there does not seem to be anything we can do about it . |