Example sentences of "[pron] can [be] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , I 'm not sure I can be much help . ’ |
| 2 | Whether I decide to be , for current purposes , pre-eminently a parent or a child , a woman , a teacher , a part-time seamstress , a member of the Patel family or caste , a Gujerati , a Briton or an Indian , a citizen of Leicester , a taxpayer , a chess player and so on depends upon the task in hand rather than some inherent singularity , for I can be all these things simultaneously and without discomfort . |
| 3 | ‘ Well … if you think I can be any use … ’ |
| 4 | The body responds to an alumina implant by surrounding it with a fibrous capsule which can be several micrometres thick . |
| 5 | The shares must have a fixed value , which can be any amount . |
| 6 | The trouble is that some of the very best ‘ independent organic ’ wine-makers ( who can be some of the strictest and most idealistic ) such as Aime Guibert of Mas de Daumas Gassac or Franois Perrin of Chateau Beaucastel ( widely available ) , have chosen not to join any association . |
| 7 | One way you can is that a juice bottle over there ? |
| 8 | ‘ Oh , I 'm quite sure I can , but whether you can is another matter . |
| 9 | You can be such a bore , Lucien . ’ |
| 10 | you can be any age from fifty onwards |
| 11 | I mean probably women are more daring you know because they 've got less to lose in a way I suppose if you if you 're not a councillor you can be more er you know or if you 're not worried for your job or you know or if there is n't a definite structure I suppose in the lodge there 's the definite people that always say the same things you know what I mean and it 's it 's less easy to be spontaneous in that situation I would think you know . |
| 12 | Indeed , the more selfless you can be this weekend , the better things will work out |
| 13 | We can be more than best friends , now . |
| 14 | You see one can be both . |
| 15 | ‘ The ground of any action based on negligence is the concurrence of breach of duty and damage , and I can not see how there can be that concurrence unless the duty still exists and is breached when the damage occurs . |
| 16 | The ground of any action based on negligence is the concurrence of breach of duty and damage , and I can not see how there can be that concurrence unless the duty still exists and is breached when the damage occurs . |
| 17 | Well , certainly we believe that there can be all sorts of erm techniques that can be very useful , like communications skills and assertiveness , but our understanding is also that it is not only about the skills that people have it 's also about the understanding behind those skills . |
| 18 | There can be many reasons for our anger : |
| 19 | It is obvious that there can be many branches that have to be studied , but if we assign probabilities of success or failure , not only can event-trees define possible accident sequences that can release radioactivity into the environment , but they also enable us to calculate the probability for each sequence , and the associated risk . |
| 20 | When there is failure to establish this good relationship there can be many reasons for it , which the wife , who loves them both , and is the best person to act as intermediary , should try to understand . |
| 21 | A home aquarium of British Freshwater species sounds like a good idea , but there can be many problems . |
| 22 | Imaginative and valuable benefit schemes — there can be many fringe benefits sometimes unavailable in private practice , e.g. pension schemes , company car , medical insurance , life cover , bonus schemes and in the financial sector , low rate loans and mortgage schemes . |
| 23 | The first level of the DUD relates to jobs and the second level to orders for parts , because for each occurrence of the job data , there can be many occurrences of order data . |
| 24 | Moreover , there can be many bats and small-to medium-sized mammals ( arboreal ) from the smallest marsupials to the smaller monkeys , in contrast to the larger mammals confined to the forest floor where food is always scarce , and therefore there are fewer species of them . |
| 25 | In the Dialogues Berkeley shows awareness of the possible accusation of unfair dealing : he admits ‘ spiritual substance ; although [ we ] … have no idea of it ’ , while he denies that ‘ there can be such a thing as material substance , because [ we ] … have no notion or idea of it ’ . |
| 26 | Two conditions must be met before there can be such an appeal : |
| 27 | It needs support from an explanation , in terms of the conditional theory , of how there can be such counter-examples . |
| 28 | The first , and most natural , reaction to this is to reject the suggestion that there can be such things as non-descriptive , simple referential symbols . |
| 29 | There can be little doubt that such examples represent the tip of an iceberg . |
| 30 | However , there can be little doubt that significant numbers of protestant loyalists see themselves as a distinct , almost ethnic group . |