Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [pron] can [verb] it " in BNC.
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1 | Now , if we can do it , and it 's not magic , then there must be some reasons we can do it , some rules we 're following , and those rules can in principle be put into computers . |
2 | The first five are in Latin , but Miller , realising his limitations , wrote in August 1763 , ‘ I have taken the liberty of writing to you in English , being informed that you can either read it yourself , or have some persons who can translate it for you ’ . |
3 | In some ways it can make it harder . |
4 | These wo n't damage you hair at all : in fact because they contain lots of conditioning agents they can make it much more shiny and manageable . |
5 | These days we can do it much easier and we do it electrically , so we can use a relationship between conductivity which has to be er compensated for temperature and pressure at which you 're doing your readings , and that gives us a measure of our chlorinity and then that gives us a measure back to our salinity . |
6 | In reality there can be practical and technical problems which can make it difficult and sometimes impossible . |
7 | Yet on many other occasions you may actively wish to promote delegation and there are a variety of useful methods which can stimulate it in practice . |
8 | Believing their children will receive a better and more disciplined education , with a greater prospect of university entry than from a state school , many parents who can afford it send their children to such private institutions , known ( confusingly ) as " public schools . " |
9 | A purely syntactically ill-formed sentence , on the other hand , is irredeemably deviant , and the only contexts which can accommodate it are those which induce a tolerance for grammatical incompetence or , at any rate , nonconformity : |
10 | in other words you can move it up and down aargh |
11 | So er just beware of what you 're doing when you , when you , course you can actually keep a mortgage a a account open , in other words you can keep it open on a pound a year whatever it is with the Halifax . |
12 | ‘ And there are two ways we can do it . ’ |
13 | I 'm saying there 's only two ways you can do it in this country unless is to stop on the dole and . |
14 | I have heard there are more than two ways you can have it and it works out cheaper the more you get if you have it the other way . |
15 | Yeah , I suppose like if you 're not in any bright lights you can have it on the battery |
16 | But hypnosis does have a host of special features which can make it profoundly misleading in a forensic context . |