Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] can [adv] [vb infin] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although she can now refit a car by herself , she wo n't qualify fully until she has worked for two years and passed her City and Guilds ‘ hand on ’ course . |
| 2 | The nut is the main offender ; it 's so ludicrously high that you can easily slide a matchstick between the top string and the first fret . |
| 3 | information about a particular piece , so , Simon and I sort of , we were talking kind of fairly casually about that , but erm , what we agreed to do is , this was about the time when we first got the equipment I think and it , it occurred to me that you , and I 've checked this now , that you can actually plug a cassette , you know , a Walkman type of player into either the microphone for the |
| 4 | Remember that you can always select a word by double clicking and a paragraph by clicking three times but did you know that you can extend these further ? |
| 5 | The great thing about tea drinking is that so many varieties are available that you can always find a brew that is appropriate to the occasion . |
| 6 | This must be the ultimate beach resort in all of Greece — five miles of sand stretching away into the distance in either direction — more than enough for even the most demanding beach baby and relaxed enough so that you can always find a place to sunbathe however you want to . |
| 7 | Remember that you can still win a fabulous prize for the most sponsorship money collected per team and per person — so collect your money and send it in ! |
| 8 | He understood that you can never change a singer 's personality to fit a role . |
| 9 | Note , however , that you can only add a maximum of 10 modules to any one SPR . |
| 10 | Note , however , that you can only add a maximum of 10 modules to any one SPR . |
| 11 | I mean you can make your your fingers so you can fucking stick a dick down there . |
| 12 | This does not however mean that one can clearly distinguish a concept of ‘ rule of law ’ in the legal system from ‘ rule of law ’ as part of the ideological system . |
| 13 | Notable among these is the fact that the mismatch of range is even greater than in the case of the prenominal adjectives ; it is true that one can usually expand a postnominal adjective to a relative clause containing be , though we should certainly note cases like : ( 31 ) he is dreaming of the whisky which will be galore with her arms which were akimbo she stared at Victor food which is aplenty is on sale in the end tent however , there is not the slightest difficulty about producing numerous examples where the relative clause with be is fully satisfactory but can not be reduced to a grammatical postnominal adjective . |
| 14 | Nothing wrong with that , of course , but let's not pretend that one can really make a decent living just by turning wood . |
| 15 | It is thus from the 1920s that one can realistically chart a conflict in the Conservative party between a libertarian-individualist tendency and a paternalist-collectivist tendency . |
| 16 | Thus the bits will fit together after fracture so that one can often glue a broken vase together quite plausibly . |
| 17 | In an eminently Benjaminian vein , Kienholz has said that one can only understand a ‘ society by going through its junk stores and flea markets ’ . |
| 18 | On Rockhill Farm because the land has already been the farmer has already been compensated by the addition of extra land so that we can easily accommodate a gipsy site in that particular spot . |
| 19 | B : Well , the milkman has come All that we can reasonably expect a semantic theory to tell us about this minimal exchange is that there is at least one reading that we might paraphrase as follows : ( 2 ) A : Do you have the ability to tell me the time ? |
| 20 | Will he consider bringing the Conservative party , and talking to the Scottish National party to bring it into the Scottish Constitutional Convention so that we can then have a genuine debate on which way the constitution of Scotland should go ? |
| 21 | It 's one that we can perhaps put a bit of pressure on if we issue an application for you by getting ACAS involved and seeing whether ACAS can either get you back there or er get you a compensation off them . |
| 22 | He did n't seem to grasp that we can hardly bury a head without a body . |
| 23 | Looking after the status quo is rather more their tendency , so we can perhaps expect a greater emphasis on defence with rather less activity from the operatives up front — the strikers . |
| 24 | The country can not be properly served by a Government who pretend that they can somehow call a halt to or defer the agreed purpose of the rest of the Community . |
| 25 | Couples do not , therefore , have to delay marriage in order to ensure that they can adequately support a larger family . |
| 26 | It is inconceivable that they can now have a secure future in Lebanon , whether or not state authority is restored . |
| 27 | And of course all that is a play-off against you know keeping that franchisee er involved and keeping them feeling that they can still make a profit . |
| 28 | They call this the ‘ coercive hypothesis ’ when both the parent and the child learn that they can occasionally win a battle by shouting louder or hitting harder . |
| 29 | For such patients we have adopted a policy of exercise testing on the one hand to convince them that they can often do a lot more than they feel like doing , and on the other hand to pick up the occasional patient who has severe residual ischaemia but is not declaring it . |
| 30 | erm Somebody on this morning 's course said that they quite like answering machines , they use them like note pads , and they ring up people they know have got an answering machine so they can just leave a message , they say it 's quicker than writing a letter , and it 's easier than talking to them for hours , you can just ring them up and leave a message on their answering machine like a sort of note pad , which I had n't thought of , but I suppose it 's rather good , is n't it ! |