Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [pron] can " in BNC.
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| 1 | His line on playing live is one of the canniest you can come across : ‘ There 's always one element that 's not quite right . |
| 2 | Thirdly , speakers of a language do not always comport themselves in the manner recommended by the prevailing mores-they can be outrageous , and otherwise " inappropriate " , So such a definition would make the data of pragmatics stand in quite an abstract relation to what is actually observable in language usage , whereas for many linguists one of the major contributions of pragmatics has been to direct attention once again to actual language usage . |
| 3 | So , the two golden rules when buying are to go for quality and buy the largest you can afford . |
| 4 | So here we are , that 's what it 's like , and that 's the deepest we can go and the clearest we can get . |
| 5 | Yeah , that 's the least we can do . |
| 6 | after it 's been cut the least you can do is give yourself a shake |
| 7 | The least he can do is respond immediately with a carefully worded personal letter . |
| 8 | The least he can do is buy us a decent lunch . ’ |
| 9 | Commercial studios , photographers and , indeed , production companies are often highly specialised and the process of choosing the right one can be time consuming . |
| 10 | But finding the right one can be tricky . |
| 11 | Among the grammatical words which cause problems are the prepositions ( words like " of " , " on " , " to " , etc. ) ; choosing the right one can sometimes be difficult , as in the following example : impediments of industrial advances |
| 12 | I said oh you cunt , said I 'm your troop you ca n't me go in there , he says try me , I said bastard so I fucking right sea , fucking over the right you can come out now , marched back out again gave them a right old on the way back again , get changed again , alright , I thought you cunt |
| 13 | Law gave credence to such fears by his unashamed espousal of the image created round him ; in May 1912 he told the National Union that " nobody knows better than I do that political work can not be done on strictly business lines , but the nearer you can approach to business lines the better for the political work " . |
| 14 | And this method of actually going there living with them , learning their language and er so on s , really participating er would , finally there 's a way of actually in a sense , getting of the people , the nearer you can , anyway , of course , it 's relying on the people you stay with that you understand that something of the world comes over onto you so that imposing what 's essential in and So , here what Judith Oakley 's trying to do , is trying to understand how gypsies , themselves , differentiate , how do they define the boundaries between themselves and others . |
| 15 | Whatever the quality of recruitment of barristers and solicitors , is my right hon. and learned Friend aware of the deep weakness in the British legal system in that justice is readily available to the poor who can get legal aid and to the rich who can easily afford it anyway but that to a large proportion of people in between it often seems barely accessible and yet they have to pay taxes to provide justice for others ? |
| 16 | You will have to decide whether you are happier working in metric or imperial units ; it 's probably best to have a steel rule graduated in both and the longest you can have — 5m or 16ft is a useful length . |
| 17 | The further one can extend the grazing season in spring and autumn , without damage to soil or sward , the better . |
| 18 | But the larger and more complex the system , the further one can get by studying its workings . |
| 19 | So that 's the cheapest we can get . |
| 20 | Always choose a permanent ink rather than buying the cheapest you can find . |
| 21 | Erm the cheapest I can get them is about two hundred pounds , the fastest I can get them is forty-eight-hour delivery . |
| 22 | The cheapest I can buy them for my dinner is £2.50 per half hundredweight bag . |
| 23 | The quicker you can get around the mast the better , some people even jump , but the main point is that both hands should hold the mast and not the uphaul rope . |
| 24 | Well probably in your early days you 'll probably do a mix , but if y the quicker you can get to only work , and even to the extent I mean I went out and bought my own book that had personal recommendations on the front and I would actually show that and say look John the only way I actually work , while I get everything ready you might like to look through because it 's the only way I work , I purely work on a personal recommendation basis and that enables me to get quality clients like yourself erm and I can devote time to you rather than have to go out looking for people to tell my story |
| 25 | These instruments then provide a pseudo-scientific basis for giving most of the educational goodies to the few who can ‘ benefit ’ from them . |
| 26 | But erm on the absolute scale of temperature , zero kelvin is the lowest one can get , and all one can hope to do is to get ever closer to that zero , when one goes to low temperatures . |
| 27 | I said we what 's the lowest you can take for it ? |
| 28 | Indeed , from the outside there can be few aspects of the music business surrounded by such an aura of myth . |
| 29 | To the rear one can enjoy a farming display area . |
| 30 | ( m ) It is suggested that the accused who can be traced ( e.g. he has put his name and address on the back of a cheque ) can still be guilty of making off . |