Example sentences of "[adj] [that] you can " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is the er the other way of looking at this that you can either change the er sort of C O balance or you can give her some clerical time , because if she can identify clerical work I mean like Diane |
| 2 | ‘ The Prophet made it clear that you can have up to four wives , ’ she said . |
| 3 | J said : " The cases are quite clear that you can not make a valuer an arbitrator by calling him so or vice versa " . |
| 4 | That 's what this programme is about , and in that time I mean I think , I was thinking actually as Terry was speaking , erm you said that it was not clear that you can judge somebody on a hundred days , and I must say I agree with that , and I think at the moment in the last hundred days we 've been at war and it 's impossible to judge a new Prime Minister , who 's come into office in the right at the beginning of what potentially could have been a very nasty war . |
| 5 | The nut is the main offender ; it 's so ludicrously high that you can easily slide a matchstick between the top string and the first fret . |
| 6 | Adjust the height of the fitting so that it does n't obscure your view across the table while you 're eating , but is n't so high that you can look into the shade at the bulb . |
| 7 | Now this is an argument that is so intellectually contemptible that you can hardly be bothered to demolish it . |
| 8 | Wall fabrics are generally more expensive than papers but can often make the walls look so luxurious that you can get away with minimal furnishings . |
| 9 | It is possible that you can achieve 6 of each exercise , for some 12 . |
| 10 | I would therefore be very grateful if you could confirm as soon as possible that you can contribute in this way . |
| 11 | The cost of sending a child to a private , fee-paying school is all the things that you ca n't afford to buy as a result : the new car that you ca n't afford , the holidays in the sun that you ca n't afford ( if you 're so rich that you can afford all these things easily , the opportunity cost , to you , of sending your child to a private school may be next to nothing ) . |
| 12 | If you are sorry that you can not be of assistance , then you should say so . |
| 13 | It seems strange that you can defend your wicket with your bat , pads and any part of your body except your hand , if it has been taken off the bat . |
| 14 | The feeling and atmosphere to ( sic ) the place is so strong that you can almost breathe it in . ’ |
| 15 | If your kick is such that you can pull it back and reassume your original stance , it is too weak to score . |
| 16 | The impact of technology is such that you can now do by electronic means a lot of things which were previously done by middle managers — collecting information , processing it , manipulating it in various ways : shunting it around the organisation . ’ |
| 17 | They held that there is a limited set of fundamental ethical terms , such as good , bad , right , wrong , ought , duty , such that you can not explain what one of them amounts to except either by appealing to intuition of some simple non-natural property , or relation , to which it refers or by defining it by way of some other ethical term of which this is true . |
| 18 | The imagery might be such that you can work it out for yourself ( e.g. always in pursuit of a partner but never quite catching him or her ! ) . |
| 19 | Sail area should be such that you can reef at about 20 knots apparent with a crew of two . |
| 20 | Amongst these must be the facility to zoom in and out of text , all at an editable level , such that you can magnify , say , three point text to take up as much of the screen as you choose , or , conversely , diminish 72 point text to as small as you can read in order to edit it . |
| 21 | It 's simply that six legs is the smallest number of legs you can have such that you can take exactly half of them off the ground and not fall over . |
| 22 | It is amazing that you can look so undignified and yet sound so much more authoritative ! ’ |
| 23 | It is amazing that you can still read calculations like my haemoglobin calculation , used as though they constituted arguments against Darwin 's theory . |
| 24 | It is important that you do your chosen exercise at a pace that makes you slightly breathless and increases your heart rate , but not so much that you can not maintain the exercise for at least twenty or thirty minutes . |
| 25 | Pull it down to something a bit more real that you can get hold of . |
| 26 | Any good weight loss regime should not lead to extreme hunger ; it should be so easy that you can stick with the diet until all the weight is off . |
| 27 | A number of firms are offering interest-free credit , especially on big electrical items , but you must be convinced that you can keep up all the payments . |
| 28 | These pockets are so voluminous that you can get a whole lot in besides — suntan lotion , midge repellent , etc . |
| 29 | Yeah , but it freezes that quick that when it falls overnight and then by the morning it frozen so hard that you can walk on top of it |
| 30 | Bear in mind that any speed limit is a maximum , it does not mean that it is safe to drive at that speed , always take into account all the conditions at the time , never drive so fast that you can not stop well within the distance you can see to be clear . |