Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] [pron] can [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I contrasted two quotations : an epigram of Goethe , saying that through reading Plutarch he learned that we were all human beings , and a passage from Hegel denying that we can ever understand the men of classical Antiquity because they represent a different stage in the evolution of the human mind . |
| 2 | Some writers suggest that one can easily overestimate the significance and influence of the embryonic pre-independence African press . |
| 3 | N brief , I suggest that we can best understand the form of modern doctrines by situating them in a broader dialogue within liberal political philosophy concerning the relation between the citizen and the state . |
| 4 | But proving the necessity of crime requires more than showing that some things that were formerly criminal are now important parts of healthy social life ( even if we were to accept that we can objectively determine what constitutes healthy social life ) . |
| 5 | It is frustrating to know that they can still , if they wish , punch the button marked ‘ Excess ’ . |
| 6 | In your text book you 've got quite a lot of information in there about reinforcing , what we 're going to do in the practical session and it 's always a help I think when you have a lot of the , thrown at you to know that you can just put it up and there it is if you get a bit confusing or ca n't remember what 's what , so on page one six nine it starts telling you all about nursing and bandages and general hygiene which we 've already talked quite a lot about but it 's very useful for you to know , you can go there and look , and if you just go through the pages from there on one seventy , one seven one , one seven two , one seven three and then on one seven four it 's got the general rules for applying bandages apply bandages when the casualty is sitting or lying down , you always sit your casualty down and you work from the front of , I say why do you work from the front of the thing ? |
| 7 | And we need to use the reserves that we do have in the balance sheet , we need to spend them wisely in order to achieve our objectives , our objectives for change , and we must recognise that they can only be spent once . |
| 8 | If that is how we still feel , then we must recognise that we can only think this way because the Enemy is not threatening us . |
| 9 | as if this were not enough , I now realise that I can no longer give Jacob children . |
| 10 | I realise that you can never really win against the water ; it will always triumph in the end , seeping and soaking and building up and undermining and overflowing . |
| 11 | They say that you can easily spot the tourists in the Big Apple — they are the people walking around gazing at the sky , at the tops of the skyscrapers . |
| 12 | As a result , Sir Thomas has resolved that he can no longer act as go-between in respect of the prince 's letters to yourself . ’ |
| 13 | Lyotard holds that we can best understand the nature of the unconscious through examining precisely how it is not structured like a language , that the most important criterion of demarcation of the unconscious from the ego lies in the ways that the former does not operate as does language . |
| 14 | Coltart and Everett have been learning the hard way that it hardly matters if you can sometimes drive the ball 50 yards father than anyone else if the statistics show that some of your opponents single-putt an average of 24 greens per tournament . |
| 15 | ‘ Beth was wrong in what she did , I wo n't deny that , and I do n't know if I can ever forgive her . |
| 16 | So we want to draw a picture , that 's all a graph is , a picture so it 's eas so we can get a good idea of what 's happening and we can also read off at any time . |
| 17 | In the first case the owner retains the existing use value of his land and is worse off only in comparison with owners who have been fortunate in owning land on which development is permitted and who can therefore realise a capital gain . |
| 18 | Offering small quantities would also give greater variety to people 's diets , a variety which they may be unable to obtain if they can only buy in quantity . |
| 19 | ‘ I do n't know why I 've been dropped but I can only think it 's something to do with my run-ins with those high-profile managers . |
| 20 | This is a good argument as it stands but one can well imagine that it would have been pressed in terms of these hopefuls having a right to be paid if they succeeded . |
| 21 | This debate will never be resolved unless it can firmly be established whether searching for early prostatic cancer on a community basis is worthwhile in clinical , resource , and social terms . |
| 22 | They areby nature an easy fish to catch providing you can firstly locate them . |
| 23 | Heading up high means that it is difficult for anyone to pass since you can always bear away down on to them , forcing them to sail in your dirty wind . |
| 24 | And this selectivity is of course justified by my immediate aim , which is phonological rather than sociolinguistic — to discover whether we can reasonably speak of a meat/mate merger in Belfast English . |
| 25 | However , as I indicated , any particular knives that enter the country or come on the market will be examined to establish whether they can properly and effectively be added to the controlled list . |
| 26 | Errors in the current script recognition system must be studied in detail in order to establish whether they can always be identified . |
| 27 | hence she questions whether we can any longer construe a notion of ‘ outer space ’ , the space beyond the frame within which images or ideas are traditionally secured . |
| 28 | I do indeed think that we can now know almost nothing concerning the life and personality of Jesus , since the early Christian sources show no interest in either , are moreover fragmentary and often legendary . |
| 29 | So these are not based , they they are similar , they 're not out of line but erm they I mean I do n't think that you can necessarily pick up from past exam papers what 'll be on the next . |
| 30 | Frankly , it is not an adequate response for Labour Members to pretend that they can somehow keep the market for coal at its present level . |