Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] can [adv] [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where you can actually allocate part of your pension and to your spouse up to up to a third actually . |
| 2 | In a village near Amiens , I found a shop where you can still get tea , and enough cakes to make a schoolboy sick for a week . |
| 3 | If the lavatory is inaccessible , down a corridor , or dark and cold , the child may be reluctant to use it but if the parent accompanies the child and waits , he or she can gradually learn confidence . |
| 4 | i Hero : This child believes that he or she can only obtain love and appreciation through achievement . |
| 5 | We will now have to concentrate on those areas where we can best create value for our shareholders . ’ |
| 6 | And there 's nowhere he 'd rather be than back in his native Enniskillen — where he can unashamedly lead life at a crawling pace . |
| 7 | You may want your partner to know that there is something important you want to discuss , so that you can both make time in advance . |
| 8 | It 's a terrible mistake to believe that you can consciously create camp , at this late hour , Camp is an aesthetic of consumption , not production . |
| 9 | The analogy is that you are a robot walking up a hill , and your designer has built you so that you can only step north , south , east or west . |
| 10 | There are five pages in this option , the last four of which are similar to those of option 3.2.0 — Update SPR , except that you can only view information using this option . |
| 11 | The page is similar to that of Option 5.1.2 — Update Product , except that you can only view information using this option . |
| 12 | The page is similar to that of Option 5.2.2 — Update Client , except that you can only view information using this option . |
| 13 | The page is similar to that of Option 5.3.1 — Create Issue , except that you can only view information using this option . |
| 14 | yes , so , so , that you can only do education part time . |
| 15 | Implicit in the name is the ridiculous idea that you can only have fun on a funboard . |
| 16 | The fact that you can only hear behaviour on the telephone has both advantages and disadvantages . |
| 17 | PowerPoint combines a word processor and spell checker with drawing and presentation tools , so you can easily combine text , graphics and charts . |
| 18 | Powerpoint combines a word processor and spell checker with drawing and presentation tools , so you can easily combine text , graphics and charts . |
| 19 | Then turn off the power to the circuit concerned so you can safely inspect socket A's wiring . |
| 20 | It is because of our defence programme 's ability to maintain an effective ordering programme that we can also attract interest among overseas countries . |
| 21 | And the detectors ' stability means that they can even measure radiation from the faint cloud of dust around the sun which produces the zodiacal light . |
| 22 | It is not unusual for children to recite happily from one to ten in a number rhyme or as they play , but the teacher does not assume that they can therefore use number or count . |
| 23 | Some have developed leukaemia , others feel so tired that they can only attend school for three hours a day . |
| 24 | Parents often complain that they can only get help or support when they have identified themselves as having a specific problem , and it is not unusual for some families to have several different workers trying to offer support and advice on specific problems which , in reality , are part of a whole situation . |
| 25 | Our study shows that the guidelines are acceptable to and suitable for use by general practitioners and suggests that they can substantially reduce referral levels and reduce patients ' exposure to radiation . |
| 26 | The star system , that ‘ Hollywood poison ’ , according to Hugh Castle , was seen as yet another concession to the masses , for , as Clifford Howard explained , ‘ the crowd ( and it is the crowd that supports the movies ) can not appreciate entertainment in the abstract , any more than it can thus appreciate art or religion ’ . |
| 27 | Even if it can be said that , in the course of his duty , a policeman will become hardened to certain sorts of ritual taunts and insults , there is no reason to doubt that he can also experience harassment and distress . |
| 28 | Some state categorically that the fact that a patient is judged mentally unfit does not mean that he can therefore have treatment forced upon him against his will and despite his express refusal . |
| 29 | ‘ He 's trying to make arrangements so he can just leave work whenever he has to , ’ she says . |
| 30 | And I can also say sir , I think without fear of contradiction , that of the hundreds of enquiries that I have done , this is the only enquiry sir which will have la left a lasting impression . |