Example sentences of "[coord] [prep] [pron] [pron] can [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My question is to , that er , police officer or to the Chief Constable , or to anybody who can answer , how much is it gon na cost that , for that paper to be produced , and would it not be better spent in putting a police officer in Stratton St Margaret , where there has n't been one on the beat for the last six months , to help us reduce the number of er , of crimes committed in Stratton . |
| 2 | I mean it 's , it 's general I suppose I mean if it would be better to switch it on and off which you can do and er , you know , I mean we ca n't sit here continually talking |
| 3 | It 's better than nothing and between us we can make it work . ’ |
| 4 | We try to bring about an environment in which creativity can flourish by selecting people of outstanding ability who wish to work on a problem of their own choice and for which we can imagine a substantial outcome . |
| 5 | For the purpose of this book , I should like to think of a smallholding as any parcel of agricultural land of up to ( say ) 100 acres , organized to be worked by one or two people , without paid labour , and through which they can make part or the whole of their living . |
| 6 | At first sight it is unremarkable ; a simple Formica-clad cube , but as one draws closer it can be seen that the top face is transparent and through it one can view the tracks in the cloud chamber — the long thin lines due to cosmic rays and the short stubby ones due to alpha particles . |
| 7 | Thus Sir William Trumbull , when he was sent as English ambassador to Paris in 1685 , was told that : You shall constantly correspond with our ministers in other foreign courts , for our better service , and your mutual information and assistance in your respective negotiations ; and you shall also maintain a good correspondence and intercourse with all the other ambassadors , envoys and ministers of princes and states in amity with us , and as far as you can penetrate into the designs of their respective superiors , and of what you can discover of this nature you shall give us a constant account by one of our Principal Secretaries of State . |
| 8 | There 's a good few people around this quarter afraid of you and of what you can do when you open your mouth . |
| 9 | The committee went on to recommend ‘ some form of overall plan towards which the authority will work and against which it can measure its achievement ’ . |
| 10 | Choose people you know well and trust and with whom you can share the details of your affairs . |
| 11 | The full Oxford English Dictionary is available on compact disc ; and with it you can do far more extensive searches for information than the printed book allows . |
| 12 | Why should I , or anyone , be expected to perform tasks which mean nothing to me , and into which I can put nothing of myself ? |
| 13 | It is in this prayerful meditation that mystics say that they receive an illumination of the reality of God over and above anything they can reach by their own efforts . |
| 14 | Many hundreds of casts of these human fossils have since been made , and from them we can learn a good deal about the last appalling hours in the life of Pompeii . |
| 15 | He is confident , brave and agile , and from what we can gather he is rated the best in America . |
| 16 | ‘ Her name 's Louise , ’ Christina volunteered , ‘ and from what I can gather she 's madly in love with him . ’ |
| 17 | This quality of inclusion signifies the sense of the collective that women have , and from which they can draw strength in their lives . |
| 18 | This is a comprehensive slide collection of illustrators ' work , which is open for clients to visit and from which they can select the illustrators ' work , which is open for clients to visit and from which they can select the illustrators they consider to be most suitable for a particular job . |
| 19 | This is a comprehensive slide collection of illustrators ' work , which is open for clients to visit and from which they can select the illustrators ' work , which is open for clients to visit and from which they can select the illustrators they consider to be most suitable for a particular job . |
| 20 | Writing the words in your book provides you with a ready-made store of words which you know your pupils have difficulty with , and from which you can construct a teaching programme . |
| 21 | The aim is to test children both in what they know and in what they can do . |
| 22 | There are Wild Water Rapids : a long , winding channel of agreeably-warm water , down which one is swept by gravity and the force of the current , and in which one can pretend to be in the closing scene of The Towering Inferno . |
| 23 | Here the washerwomen find , or sometimes make , by moving some of the smaller stones , a kind of basin through which the water flows , and in which they can dip the linen . |
| 24 | stories because they are encouraging it does make us feel that even though we are a small denomination that does not stop us from preventing new ideas which we can share and in which we can learn from each other . |
| 25 | A solid door that has good , secure locks ( preferably two — a Yale lock and a deadlock ) and in which you can install a viewer , which will enable you to verify the identity of callers before opening up , is an important feature . |
| 26 | This latter group of people will inevitably form the great majority , and it is mainly they who will provide the justification for the establishment of a clergy for the ‘ Alternative Religion ’ , and it is they who will prefer to put their faith in carefully chosen leaders , possibly elected from among the others , and on whom they can call for guidance . |
| 27 | Male homosexuals in a large number of cases , says Freud , do not give up the mother and find another woman as sexual object , but they identify with their mother : ‘ he transforms himself into her and now looks about for objects which can replace his ego for him and on which he can bestow such love and care as he has experienced with his mother ’ . |
| 28 | It is also often useful to include in the side letter , by way of illustration only , a worked example of a pro forma completion statement to which both sets of accountants agree and to which they can refer back when the actual accounts are to be prepared . |
| 29 | Also , to some extent copying adult places of worship , children have provided for themselves hideaway places that they treasure , and to which they can go when they can get no comfort from the adults around them . |
| 30 | My relationship with the director is therefore rather different from most producers ; I am looking not for someone to watch and admire but for someone who can deliver the result . |