Example sentences of "and [conj] [pers pn] can [vb infin] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where a government is very keen to press on with its programme , and where it can foresee that it would otherwise be frustrated by pressure of time , it can move that a timetable be adopted for a particular measure and , if the House so resolves , the Business Committee of the House will arrange a programme for a particular Bill , setting aside a specific number of days for each stage . |
| 2 | When the movie comes out I want people to know that we 're still around , that the P-Funk lives and that we can act and can still drop it . |
| 3 | And that we can try and meet some training needs locally . |
| 4 | For you must really endeavour to get ahead with your composition , and that you can do if you have in readiness copies of symphonies and divertimenti to present to a Prince or to some other patron … the divertimenti can be copied very quickly , even though it is true that yours have a number of parts and are rather long … |
| 5 | These arbitrageurs are also market makers in a large proportion of the shares in the FT-SE 100 index , and so they can buy and sell shares ‘ in-house ’ to and from the firm 's own market makers . |
| 6 | Of every hundred pounds that 's invested , round about forty pounds goes straight to the government in betting duty , round about thirty pounds goes to the football pools in expenses , commissions and profits , leaving round about thirty pounds to be returned in prizes , and so you can see that your rate of return on football pools is extremely small , but on the other hand a very large number of people do enter the football pools , and when they win they can win considerable sums of money and it can make absolute rational economic sense to go in for football pools because you are giving yourself a chance , no matter how small , of winning a sum of money that you would n't expect to come across in any other way of your life . |
| 7 | Greg Downs says the club is in a better position than it 's been for eight or nine years and if they can play as well as last year they 've got a good chance |
| 8 | If he is and if he can prove that Luke and Sonny and the other three were the guilty ones , then he wo n't be goin' to prison alone . |
| 9 | But , but in writing historical erm , analysis and , and biography , presumably people , I mean , people ca n't help er writing , writing history , and trying to answer questions , like , why did Woodrow Wilson erm , not the fourteen points through , and presumably , one possible explanation is the kind of Freud Bullett approach , and presumably if you can find erm , relevant data and if you convince , and if you can convince that that 's plausible , it 's a legitimate thing to attempt to do . |
| 10 | Chrissie can not deny that she took the items , but she might well argue that she thought Fred had the authority to let her have them , and unless we can show that she had been told otherwise our prosecution might well fail , especially since the law traditionally recognizes that ‘ perks ’ are a feature of the catering industry . |
| 11 | And whereas you can see if you might have A type behaviour sort of lower down , , you think if you really want to rise , you 're going to have to cope . |
| 12 | With respect er I was n't paying too much attention to er to what was being said in as much as this possibly sounds negative but our concern is not for what people are shouting at us our concern is for whether we 've got a threat er in a particular area , in this case the bedroom , and whether we can try and sort that threat out before somebody is injured . |
| 13 | How else will you know what you are trying to change and whether you can help or not ? |
| 14 | I said it 's an application in triplicate I 'm go I 'd erm , I forgotten what it was I was going to buy and I said I wanted to discuss this with you and when we can go and get it |