Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [pers pn] can [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or rather they can tell you that ‘ previous assumptions on the dark nature of this pigment can no longer be considered entirely operative ; indeed , we may be in total reversal scenario here , which is in line with expectations . ’ |
| 2 | We must not impose minimum wages on businesses , whether or not they can afford them . |
| 3 | When information technology users are in doubt about what to buy , who to buy it from , and whether or not they can afford it , they are apt to buy nothing at all . |
| 4 | Something like that , trying to remember now what it was , sixteen hundred , sixteen hundred that was it and it says your credit limit is sixteen , sixteen , you could spend up to sixteen hundred pounds , whether you got it or not you can spend it , so we said if we 're gon na get this computer because you get these Air Miles out of it , you know , every ten pounds you get an Air Mile , well if he 's getting a computer over a thousand pounds you know with all the paraphernalia that goes with it , well that 's a lot of Air Miles there , well we said we 'll get it through Access , but there is n't , our credit limit on Access is n't enough to pay for the computer , sixteen hundred it 's more than sixteen hundred , in , in the long , once he 's got his printer and God knows what you know , so I phoned them up and he said erm is it possible to adjust the limit upwards ? |
| 5 | It also depends on whether or not I can tell you what you want to know . |
| 6 | My argument for functionalism is therefore critically dependent on whether or not I can convince you that progress in one of these areas — cognitive neuropsychology — is unlikely to be simply an illusion . |
| 7 | I know what I feel like listening to , it 's just whether or not I can find it . |
| 8 | After that if you want to be organised , you can be — or alternatively you can go your own way . |
| 9 | We might , however , usefully make " trust " the focal point of a drama in which , for example we examined when it is appropriate to trust someone , or how we might learn to trust someone in difficult circumstances , or how we can gain someone 's trust — but this is very different from the worryingly naive claims sometimes made for " trust games " . |
| 10 | ‘ I 'm sorry about Billy , but I do n't see what it has to do with me or how I can help you . |
| 11 | right , tie it off in a reef knot , if you 've got bits that are left dangling they 're too long and you ca n't go round again because it 's gon na make it too tight , you can either tuck them in or else you can fold them down , a nice clean plaster and put it right over the top , okay ? |
| 12 | It 's a big challenge but I am sure that together we can do it . |
| 13 | You have confidence that they will respond to your OKness and that together you can tackle whatever has to be accomplished in coherent partnership . |
| 14 | .. more often than not we can REDUCE your monthly repayments . |
| 15 | Except now you can get it from a supermarket in your town . |
| 16 | Erm would you say that now you can get everything you need in Caldmore without venturing further afield or |
| 17 | However , there is still a slight difference between closely related people with similar habits , and among others the difference is so pronounced that even we can detect it . |
| 18 | Women have always felt both complaint and commitment about domestic life with men — the difference is that today they can do something about that contradiction . |
| 19 | Please pray that as the need for ‘ counselling ’ is recognised ( and the need is very great ) that maybe they can give me some time from working duties to provide a ‘ service ’ in this area . |
| 20 | Where is Andrew ? ’ and eventually I can tell them and Mrs Gould gives a strange little shuddering cry and Mr Gould tells her to get the people in the house and phone for an ambulance and runs away down the path towards the river with the four Golden Labradors barking excitedly behind him . |
| 21 | Until eventually you can get it to a stage , where you 're just doing it , because you know you can get your eleven appointments . |
| 22 | So if that 's that 's approved I 'll give that a tick and so we can bring it up again later . |
| 23 | Erm so two pounds of that went with sale with the sale of the journal and so we can say we had twelve pounds unsolicited donations , erm as Peggy would back me up if she was here , saying that any time you ask someone to sign the flood gates open with what they thought about the position of pensioners , in fact we 've probably got a lot more signatures if they had n't , but erm , we did pick up , we , I picked up the news about Welwyn Garden City 's cost of and things like that not going through and erm , erm , now , our month our monthly , our monthly stall will not be on the third third Thursday this year , it will be on the fourth to co-inside with the week were celebrating pensioner 's week , which is a week behind National . |
| 24 | We still fall well short of that , I mean er it 's bad news that anyone is addicted to drugs but what is important is that we should actually know who is and so we can help them . |
| 25 | And so he can make his profits and feel like a philanthropist at the same time . |
| 26 | In the latter case the special appliances are unlikely to have increased the value of his property , and so he can recover their cost in full . |
| 27 | When we move in here , we get this guy come along to look at it , he say well this machine the er the Germans erm they 've really the pump is th is really easy to go , and so I can change your pump for you but l in your washing machine washing machine . |
| 28 | I need to get myself back on my feet and forget all this and get it all sorted out and so I can live my life again . |
| 29 | And so she can read it quickly ! |
| 30 | And I said , oh well if I do n't hear from you I 'll ring you again and perhaps we can arrange something . |