Example sentences of "[indef pn] can [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All I say is , if someone can not play in rhythm and has not music within him , then we can not admit him . |
| 2 | Surely someone can meaningfully say ‘ I ought to do this , because I promised , even though better consequences would ensue from my doing something else which would involve breaking the promise . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I think it is very peculiar that someone can just give evidence , like Sir Hal Millar , and not be cross-examined on it at all . ’ |
| 4 | But in terms of induction training , to make sure someone can actually do their job , |
| 5 | Ms Botwin has found that a good clue to spotting a fear of intimacy is when someone can only have sex with people they do n't care about , but can confide and be intimate with people of the opposite sex who are seen as just good friends . |
| 6 | But it 's something that I think someone can only have a go at if they have a great deal of support and a chance to experiment in a way that still gives them the option erm not to change if they feel that they ca n't handle it any other way erm so I think there are a lot of difficulties associated with this kind of problem . |
| 7 | I find it hard to believe that someone can really care for me |
| 8 | And he knows that nobody can just order Israel to attend , or sign on other people 's dotted lines . |
| 9 | Nobody cared and now nobody can even see clearly in Los Angeles where twenty-eight days spent in the city constitute a health hazard , and smog from car exhausts hangs over the L A basin from the San Gabriel mountains to the ocean . |
| 10 | Yet while nobody can possibly deny the growing , and sometimes dramatic , impact of nationalist , or ethnic , politics , there is one major respect in which the phenomenon today is functionally different from the ‘ nationalism ’ and the ‘ nations ’ which combined nation-state and national economy was plainly a central fact of historical transformation and seen to be such . |
| 11 | In cases where a covenant must be imposed to observe existing restrictions , on behalf of a buyer always insert in the covenant such words as " so far as the same affect the property hereby conveyed and are subsisting and capable of being enforced " , because for one reason or another the odds are ten to one that nobody can legally enforce them ; but the case might be otherwise if you impose the restrictions afresh . |
| 12 | Well there 's been speculation about that , but no nobody can actually tell us how it began but it 's it 's easy enough to imagine how it began , I think . |
| 13 | Nobody can ever detail all the trickery , kidnapping and war that took place to obtain those captives . |
| 14 | ‘ Nobody can ever tell you anything , Carol . ’ |
| 15 | With this in view the consensus among the agencies is that there will be some discounting , because nobody can ever get it exactly right , but nothing like what has been available in recent years . |
| 16 | Whatever happens in this new Italian season , nobody can ever take away from Kenneth Wolstenholme the most famous football commentary line of them all , delivered in 1966 at the moment England won the World Cup : ‘ They think it 's all over … it is now . ’ |
| 17 | These are the books which it is nice to have which cost a lot to look after , but which nobody can ever look at because they are so valuable . |
| 18 | Nobody can long sustain the argument that all fat per se is bad , and few would argue at great length that a diet containing small amounts of saturated fat ( which butter decidedly is ) is unacceptable . |
| 19 | Nobody can seriously suggest that we turn back the clock entirely and return to the world of Constable 's Haywain , where there was a good deal of misery and hunger amidst all that beauty . |
| 20 | Nobody can seriously propose that all promises should become enforceable ; to abolish the doctrine of consideration , therefore , is simply to require the Courts to begin all over again the task of deciding what promises are to be enforceable . |
| 21 | But nobody can seriously doubt the popularity of exhibitions such as The Story of the Earth ( at the Geological Museum in London 's South Kensington ) , or The Challenge of the Chip ( at the next door Science Museum ) , or Human Biology ( at the Natural History Museum ) . |
| 22 | Yes , Vatican Two , has been very significant , but nobody can quite see at the moment which direction it 's going to leave us going in . |
| 23 | That nobody can really stand being loved in the ultimate sense . |
| 24 | More important is the fact that nobody can really tell whether Germany has a successful economy because of its voting system ( though , between you and me , this seems as unlikely as a cart pulling a horse ) or whether it seems to have satisfactory constitutional arrangements because its economy has been working so well for so long . |
| 25 | So I mean it goes down to must be something like equipment failure which is something that nobody can really allow for . |
| 26 | Nobody can really comprehend or imagine such a large number , and we just think of this degree of improbability as synonymous with impossible . |
| 27 | Now while I would accept that the majority of butlers may well discover ultimately that they do not have the capacity for it , I believe strongly that this ‘ dignity ’ is something one can meaningfully strive for throughout one 's career . |
| 28 | At the same time , research evidence about how people view this in practice conveys a sense of boundaries : that there are limits to what one can reasonably expect relatives to do , and to what a person would want to rely on relatives for . |
| 29 | Such a thing is certainly not to be found on this earth ; yet those who pick to pieces the open texture or verbal infelicities of an international Convention rarely pause to consider how , when legislation prepared in a single legal system is generally so verbose , obscure , and generally badly drafted , one can reasonably expect more of the product of many hands drawn from widely differing legal systems with different cultures , legal structures , and methods of legal reasoning and decision-making , entailing maximum flexibility , co-operation , and compromise . |
| 30 | This is correct , but bearing in mind the observations made above , all one can reasonably do is to assume that everything published and available is legally permissible until the law says it is not . |