Example sentences of "[pron] can [adv] give [art] " in BNC.

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1 I can not give a reliable date as to when the Metropolitan police report in the case of the first matters will be available , but I have no reason to suppose that it is not being prosecuted with all celerity by the dedicated team that the Commissioner has made available .
2 I can not give a precise date , but that is the intention .
3 Although I can not give a date , we intend to proceed just as soon as we can resolve the question of the contract .
4 Mr Ritchie , who will be deputy chief executive of the group , warned : ‘ I can not give a guarantee that there will be no redundancies .
5 I regret I can not give the correct pronunciation of the Gaelic names of the mountains : I never mastered them , adopting instead roughly similar English equivalents ; thus , for example , Ceathreamhnan to me was Chrysanthemum …
6 I regret I can not give the petitioner relief .
7 I can not give the hon. Gentleman that figure at the moment , but it is essential that we use NHS buildings as effectively as we can .
8 I can not give the hon. Gentleman the assurance that he seeks that I will agree with everything that the Edwards committee has recommended , but I can certainly assure him and the House that I will respond positively to the recommendations .
9 Although I can not give the House any good news on that score tonight , I can say that we are considering the matter .
10 I can not give the money until my doubts are resolved .
11 At this stage I can not give an explanation for their presence in that Peruvian cave , beyond saying that we have found something that indicates contact with the Old World .
12 Work is now in progress , although I can not give an exact date for its completion .
13 I can not give an estimate of the numbers involved .
14 That at the very least gives me the opportunity er to at very least glance through , I do n't know how long they 're going to be of course , but at very least glance through them to see what I need to see , to see if there 's any which is self-evidently requiring further comment , or further site visit , and er I can then give the Councils a further two weeks in which to respond to that .
15 While I can only give an average guide , a lot will depend not on pullet cost , but on the quality of the pullet you purchase and how well it has been reared .
16 I can only give an undertaking and I hope that the hon. Gentleman will accept it in the spirit in which it is given .
17 I can certainly give the hon. Gentleman an assurance that we will not go back to that .
18 I can certainly give the hon. Gentleman that assurance .
19 In Leicestershire we are trying to produce an agreed policy between each practice and cardiologist , and I would entirely agree that you can not give a blanket yes or no .
20 Discipline means having an agenda , starting and finishing the meeting when you said you would , answering the client 's questions with authority ( and if you can not give an answer , say you do not know but you will find out ) ; having your paperwork neat and easily at hand ; offering the best hospitality you can provide , such as telephones , a cup of coffee , a comfortable chair and a pad and pencil in case he did n't bring his own .
21 You can also give the number of words in the phrase .
22 This is one subject on which we can not give a firm recommendation .
23 We can not give a detailed proof of this important result here since it depends so crucially on the details of the denotational semantics , which have not been described in this paper .
24 Thus , we can not give the reassuring answer one expects from theories .
25 Because the flow of companies coming to the market is outside of MAS 's control , we can not give the acquiror any assurances as to how many opportunities will be identified within a certain timescale .
26 We can not give an adequate treatment of this matter here .
27 We can merely give a number of examples .
28 We can now give a complete list .
29 It is clear that one can not give a general rule .
30 The pair want to hear from anyone who had relatives serving with the Tyneside Scottish even if they can only give the name , rank , serial number and home address .
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