Example sentences of "can [vb infin] [conj] [noun prp] ['s] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 But in future , although the capital can come from both sides , you can expect that Aegon 's stake will move up to 100 per cent . ’
2 But as we know that MI5 taps telephones and keeps files on people simply to pass on political information to the government , one can assume that Kinnock 's call to Turnbull is not the only piece of politicised telephone tapping that goes on .
3 In his early work we can see that Foucault 's position involves a remarkable development of Althusser 's hints that art can function as a privileged category that provides an ‘ internal distance ’ from ideology by relating histories , writing reports .
4 From the outset we can see that Freud 's theory , while being sociological in its understanding of individualism as social product , has the advantage over Durkheim 's sociologism in being able to account for creativity and for change in human societies .
5 If , as I have argued , thought and consciousness irreducibly escape the net of physicalist interpretation , and if , as I have suggested , the external world must possess the mind-like property of generality if it is to be conceivable , then we can see that Socrates ' assertion in the Phaedo , that the world must be explained by reference to mind , was essentially correct .
6 They can decide that America 's problem is the ‘ ghetto poor ’ — the phrase that William Julius Wilson , of the University of Chicago , now prefers to ‘ underclass ’ .
7 No one can dispute that Sinead 's behaviour of late — particularly tearing up the Pope 's picture — has been outrageous but many feel that her protest statements are at least based on strong personal beliefs .
8 We can say that God 's word is inspired by God for our benefit .
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