Example sentences of "[adj] [coord] [pron] can [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You can either frost the cooled cake as usual or you can warm up the frosting and pour it over the cake like a glaze . |
| 2 | Erm and er I was wondering if Freud did that or if that 's what Freud was saying , that , that , that religion by nature must be repressed or that a minority as the nature of minority is , is er it works harder when it 's repressed or it can become stronger . |
| 3 | One is to include corporate dummy variable of the intercept and see whether it 's T ratio or significantly different , is , sorry it 's greater than two right or we can use an F test , right , now that F test that 's given me that formula in the middle of the page is a very important test which was developed by a chap called Chow and as a result it become known as the Chow test and it 's a , it 's a test for parameter constancy , er do we have constant parameters in our model now it tells you how to compute this Chow test , in this particular case we 're only dummying the intercept , the Chow test gives exactly the same results of T tests , right , erm we wo n't bother going through it , if you want to go through this er sheet in your own time calculate that , that Chow test and essentially what it involves is splitting with the s the whole sample now into two sub-samples , right , the first sub-sample , right , is peacetime , the second sub-sample wartime , right , and you just compare the residual sum of the squares on the unaccounted for variation , right , between actual and fitted values , just compare the residual sum of squares between these two sub periods , right and if you use the formula that 's given there that will come out with exactly the same result , well in actual fact you can square , if you square the F statistic you get calculating one formula you will get T value , got from er the computer right , the er , the sheet goes on to say how we can er use dummy variables in slightly more complicated ways , right , we could see actually see whether the income or price elasticities of demand changed . |
| 4 | Erm well either that or we can slip it in at quarter past five , how about that ? |
| 5 | Do it as that or you can do it after three months , yes I mean |
| 6 | Erm you know you can look at that or you can put a protractor on it and |
| 7 | and then erm in July , you do you do n't have to pay out a ha'penny till July and you can either pay cash and get your sixteen percent off free or you can pay terms from July . |
| 8 | There are very large individual differences in this and it can affect each of the stages so far mentioned . |
| 9 | I 'm getting paranoid about that , determined not to sign anything , worried that maybe I already have when they first brought me here and said it was just a receipt for personal effects or a legal-aid application or whatever , and I worry about them getting me to sign something when I 'm tired and they 've been interviewing me in shifts and all I want to do is go to bed and sleep and they say oh do us all a favour and sign this and you can sleep , come on now ; it 's just a formality you can always deny it later , change your mind , but you ca n't you ca n't of course , they 're lying and you ca n't ; I even worry about signing something in my sleep , or them hypnotising me and getting me to do it that way ; hell , I do n't know what they get up to . |
| 10 | Okay what I 'll do is go through this and you can ask questions as we go through . |
| 11 | Listen , I 'm going to tell you this and you can believe it or not : Uncle Mosse had been dead about a week when they took me in to identify him . |
| 12 | Oh that copper , he said he , he said the thing is he said what you 've got ta do is give him as much shit and aggravation as you can possibly give him , keep him hot and keep him roasted up he said because what happens is he 's getting along , long and he 's thinking oh I can do this and I can do that and I can do the other , he said but if you can get your solicitor to keep him on his toes he ai n't got time to think about nothing , he said and if he has done that job himself , he 's laughing at the moment , I said well he must have done it |
| 13 | Erm , well , at the moment I 'm involved in a a big project , new benefits claims , erm , and so if the new claims system could echo which priorities in that department , erm , and it looks like it will be long drawn out eventually at the end of next year , nationwide and effectively it 's a English processing system whereby terms coming in and they 're scanned and you can see images on a screen , so there 's gon na be no calls , what my , what my role in this is , gon na be to get the branches to accept the system . |
| 14 | If it 's still light and we can see what , I du n no what 's happening on Saturday . |
| 15 | It can also be funny and it can do you a power of good . |
| 16 | I got a higher figure than Jim because I was I ca n't believe , believe this either th th the officer that , that , that , done this say to the , the , that 's the figures that have produced then they 're completely wrong and I can tell |
| 17 | you 'll have half , I 'll have half and we can see what we 're doing . |
| 18 | Presumably they acquire this knowledge when the tide is high and they can swim from one basin to another , and they are able to translate that information into a mental picture of their entire territory . |
| 19 | In most cases , providing the timbers in your roof are sound and you can walk about up there , you can easily insulate the loft yourself . |
| 20 | The domestic situation in which things take place , they are really very different and you can start to draw up categories , of course , of countries , small big maybe , small medium big democratic non-democratic , er military dictatorships civilian government erm and so on , so there are whole series of categories of governments that you can draw up and you can say well these do make a difference in the way erm foreign policy is created . |
| 21 | After visiting the Public Houses , father and son could become quite violent with one another and I can remember the noisy encounters they had . |
| 22 | I c I , I wo n't be able to do any of this but you can have a quick go . |
| 23 | ‘ Footballers at the top used to be finished between 28 and 30 but you can prolong your playing life by nearly ten years if you look after yourself . |
| 24 | Oh I am sightless but I can sense my environs and weary utterly of them . |
| 25 | N : The best things in life are free but you can give them to the birds and bees |
| 26 | Well they want , they want divorce and they 'd rather custody of the children and if they 'll some but she can allow them to take the children away cos the well the media coverage , they 've obviously got they have a law . |
| 27 | I have angina which is very unpleasant but I can move about more easily since losing a bit of weight and I used to suffer every night with heartburn but since having no fat I can honestly say I have n't suffered at all : … . |
| 28 | ‘ Her voice is different but you can hear the potential . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ We try to make each day that bit different but you can stick up only so many cards or buy so many duvet covers . |
| 30 | Yeah but it feels waxy , that 's the waterproof but you can see the wax . |