Example sentences of "can [adv] [vb infin] [pron] [to-vb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the actual plan 's , erm , scope , if you like , can only allow you to write the plans to finish between fifty-five and sixty- five , the client 's age . |
| 2 | She can only equip herself to face the world from a secure position when she has developed an internal strength which will come from the accumulation of power by centres of growth which lie far outside the existing bureaucracies of government , party and presidential palace . |
| 3 | The second list tells you which foods naturally contain those items — but remember , if you really can not bring yourself to eat a particular range of foods , it is always possible to take the lacking vitamin in tablet form . |
| 4 | For most mentally-ill people are being looked after in the community anyway , by relatives and friends who can not bring themselves to have the people they love locked away . |
| 5 | ( I can not bring myself to follow the grotesque habit which Methodists seem to have learned from the Labour Party of dropping the definite article and so ‘ Conference does this or that ’ never ‘ The Conference . ’ ) |
| 6 | Or suppose that I am eating escargots for the first time and can not bring myself to forget the disgustingly slimy look and feel of snails in the garden . |
| 7 | Each passenger is a different face of white colonialism : the overt racist who can not bring himself to use a Black doctor to treat his sick wife ; the hypocritical racist who secretly has an affair with his Black housekeeper ; the white liberal who alternates between ’ slumming ’ it with the natives , and living with the whites , not quite willing or able to give up his white privilege . |
| 8 | Betty Rizzo suggests that Leapor 's metaphor is a sign of her limitations as a poet ; she can not bring herself to write the simple word ‘ mayfly ’ [ Rizzo ] . |
| 9 | If a government can not bring itself to introduce a completely free market for foreign exchange ( at least for current transactions ) , there are many possible alternative policies . |
| 10 | If a creditor has levied and completed execution the debentureholders can not compel him to restore the money , nor , until the charge has crystallised , can he be restrained from levying execution . |
| 11 | The prosecutor may direct policemen to carry out inquiries and interview witnesses , but he can not deputise them to interrogate the suspect , a task which he must perform himself . |
| 12 | ‘ This is why Grand Met can not find anyone to take the leases over . |
| 13 | If you can not find someone to conduct a mock interview then leave a tape-recorder on while you practise some of your more important answers and the way in which you describe yourself to the interviewer . |
| 14 | The shadow Leader of the House can not ask me to hear a point of order from the Front Bench when I am not prepared to hear them from those on the Back Benches . |
| 15 | ‘ I can not ask you to become the senior member of the board ; that place I reserve for myself , and there is also Lessing whom you have not met . |
| 16 | Those who can not allow themselves to experience the pain and the guilt that goes with it can not move through to acceptance and therefore some more creative response . |
| 17 | It is a pleasant road that has got trees on either side , I will admit that , but I can not allow anybody to say the loss of two trees , which will be replaced somewhere else , is of greater importance than he decent habitation of a group of human beings |
| 18 | Europe can not allow itself to become the superpowers ’ football . |
| 19 | ‘ General Fakrid , I can not allow you to leave the command vehicle , ’ he stuttered reluctantly . |
| 20 | I mean the erm I still had to have completely new guttering in the summer because you can not get anything to mend the other walls because it 's the wrong side ! |
| 21 | Possessed of such , and revelling in the distance set between them and miserable ‘ pragmatism ’ , Mrs Thatcher 's Conservative Party can still persuade itself to see the last decade as a period when undeviating conviction wrought a miracle in the land . |
| 22 | I know I can always do something to earn a living . |
| 23 | Thus if I break a promise for my own convenience , I fail to treat the person to whom I made it as an end in himself , for I can hardly expect him to endorse a principle of action which allows him to be treated thus . |
| 24 | ‘ Then you can hardly expect me to take the chance . |
| 25 | Guilt can also lead us to put a brave face on everything while we overload ourselves with responsibilities and goals . |
| 26 | One of the nicest and most original features of the game is that while Doodle can take out the enemy by simply throwing his pencils , he can also use them to draw the bonuses or weapons he needs . |
| 27 | Now if we can get a proper public transport system , a properly funded public transport system which will make , you can force people off the roads but you can also force them to persuade the approach with a properly funded er public transport system which is A priced within the peoples pockets and B er you can lead to views that will be er , er will be a great advantage for the area and the fifth terminal at Heathrow could fall par to this structure but if this new structure is n't there and if it is n't part of this adequately funded transport system then there is no point in , in building it was as I said earlier be , be madness . |
| 28 | If a reversed code is detected , the system can automatically invert it to produce the right result . |
| 29 | It is only the answers to these questions that can really enable you to judge an ad , although it will certainly be good supporting evidence if the answers to the earlier questions are favourable . |
| 30 | This Southern Capital especially , the seat of — I can barely bring myself to utter the name — Amun , the False One , the Pretender . |