Example sentences of "[subord] [pers pn] can [adv] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Sweden and Norway you have two countries where you can not buy a beer without taking a bank loan , yet everywhere you go you see grossly intoxicated people — in train stations , on park benches , in shopping centres . |
| 2 | However , where we can not identify a triple alliance , a society may still be dominated by a transnational capitalist class whose practices are genuinely transnational whether or not all three parties are represented . |
| 3 | Although I can not give a date , we intend to proceed just as soon as we can resolve the question of the contract . |
| 4 | Unless there were special factors involved and although I can not recall a situation where we 've paid for a person to go into that 's for members to discuss , not me , but we have certainly paid an enhanced rate where somebody wanted to go to live near their daughter who was in and we felt that was a legitimate reason for paying a higher rate and , and , and we did do so , so there are other types of flexibility . |
| 5 | Exactly the same applies to applying columns to the text , although I can not find a way of having mixed numbers of columns without using frames — much like every DTP package I 've come across , as it happens . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Take Leave chearfully of all your Friends in Newgate : Mount the Cart with Courage : Fall on your Knees : Lift up your Eyes : Hold a Book in your Hands although you can not read a Word : Deny the Fact at the Gallows : Kiss and forgive the Hangman , and so Farewel : You shall be buried in Pomp , at the Charge of the Fraternity : The Surgeon shall not touch a Limb of you ; and your Fame shall continue until a Successor of equal Renown succeeds in your Place . |
| 8 | I mean you can make your your fingers so you can fucking stick a dick down there . |
| 9 | We continue to accept the long term UN target for aid of 0.7 per cent of GNP , although we can not set a timetable for its achievement . |
| 10 | ‘ The cause of this violence is the state security services … they are using certain organisations as a smokescreen so we can not have a majority in an election , ’ Mr Mandela told supporters . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 ! |
| 13 | ‘ I find life so boring if I can not enjoy a drink , ’ he said . |
| 14 | If I can wave to that group of kids and they go home and talk about it , fantastic , or if I can just sign a measly bit of paper for a kid and he 's so stunned he ca n't talk , that really brings home to me what I am doing it for : because it really makes me feel good . ’ |
| 15 | But if I can just quote a couple of cases . |
| 16 | So if I can just put a tick there |
| 17 | If you can not reach a consensual agreement concerning the status of rights of both the majority and the minority population , then you must reckon with a strong possibility or war . |
| 18 | While writing this article , I have realised that it is actually a very general problem-solving technique , of which there are many other instances in mathematics and science : If you can not do a problem , transform it to a problem that you can do and then transform the answer back to reach the solution to the original problem . |
| 19 | There is a book to be written on the identity crisis apparent in nurses who have been left to the mercy of all the changes , and you will be far from alone if you can not tell a facilitator from a patient services coordinator ! |
| 20 | If you can not hold a conversation with someone without getting out of breath then you are going too fast . |
| 21 | The main point to realise is that if you can not feel a positive lock , you are either not pushing hard enough or the lock is completely out of adjustment and too light to be effective . |
| 22 | If you can not have a separate freezer you should look at a refrigerator with maximum freezer space and capacious food storage compartments . |
| 23 | If you can not find a diary , buy a large notebook instead . |
| 24 | If you can not find a teacher , who is also an expert in your held , do not worry as any teacher will be able to give you the information that will be required to improve your particular activity . |
| 25 | If you can not find a good substitute , try using prepared ‘ sepia ’ watercolour , diluted with water , or use Mars brown dark pigment , which is easy to prepare with gum water for brush wash drawing . |
| 26 | If you can not find a Chinese brand , use a peanut oil from your local supermarket . |
| 27 | If you can not find a language helper who only wants to work for one hour a day , try hiring someone to do gardening or housework for you on a more fulltime basis and then use that person also as a language helper until you reach the stage where you can cope with a fulltime language helper . |
| 28 | If you can not find a pulse , you must begin chest compression , also known as heart massage . |
| 29 | If you can not see a suitable field , do n't be afraid to make a well banked circle to look right round the whole area . |
| 30 | ‘ And if you can not see a Merkut hand behind what has happened , so are you . ’ |