Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [adv] [pron] can " in BNC.
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| 1 | While the key features of each — the limited liability company , the use of collective bargaining and the state provision of welfare — all have something of a Christian basis in terms of providing outlets for savings , strengthening the family , and correcting injustice and providing for those in need , nevertheless it is easy to see how they can become taken over by humanistic philosophy — so that they become unlimited freedom to create wealth , the use of collective power and the denial of individual merit and the state as the alternative for the family and private charity . |
| 2 | We got to buy you new shoes again and God Almighty knows where we can find the money . ’ |
| 3 | If it can be abandoned in the case of the personal element of the council tax , it is hard to see why it can not be abandoned immediately for the poll tax . |
| 4 | With Coventry having scored only nine goals since Mr Howe took charge it is obvious where their problem lies and it is hard to see how they can solve it . |
| 5 | It strikes me as a great idea , and it 's hard to see how they can lose when you consider that 2000AD magazine sells 300,000 copies a week . |
| 6 | Are we to concur with Stevenson 's conclusion ( 1981 ) that ‘ it is hard to see how we can escape in general in organization of service from the broad client groupings , now so deeply entrenched in social service provision and in the linkages which are required with other professions ’ ( p. 100 ) , and if so how are we to select client group(s) ? |
| 7 | On one level it is hard to see how we can avoid reproducing this contradictory space when speaking of the inner city as a place , a fusion of social problems . |
| 8 | It will , however , always be difficult … all we have said about organisation level validation applies to evaluation : it is hard to see how we can evaluate training unless our validation has reached the organisation level … ‘ |
| 9 | A dog may well think that his master is at the door : but unless a dog masters a language it is hard to see how he can think that he is thinking that his master is at the door . |
| 10 | It is hard to see how he can improve regulatory standards without extra resources . |
| 11 | I also think it 's a question of being able to provide , certainly at the top of a company , a sense of direction and I find it hard to see how you can have an absolutely clear sense of direction unless you yourself are able to assess the essentials as you see them for success in your particular trade . |
| 12 | If you had less structure as in T three which is a ternary branching tree , instead of binary branching be just an N P B N P , it 's real hard to see how you can account for the data . |
| 13 | On that basis , it is very hard to see how you can achieve productivity gains , ’ he said . |
| 14 | ‘ It is hard to know how we can ever tackle that , ’ one said . |
| 15 | I agree entirely with that sentiment , but I find it hard to understand how she can then be so keen to hand over so much power to Brussels on decisions that affect people at a local level , whether on farming , training or whatever . |
| 16 | It is also useful to see how you can improvise at their boundaries if you wish to . |
| 17 | But the hospice also wants to extend its service and is appealing for people to undertake regular giving so it can support more ill people and their families . |
| 18 | I mean it 's the difference between taking effective action where one can and being able to decide where one can take or where one can encourage children to take effective action . |
| 19 | ‘ Oh , I 'd be pleased to help wherever I can . ’ |
| 20 | I bloody to pack up I can smoke . |
| 21 | But it is difficult to see how we can have sensitivity to plants and rivers , trees and ecosystems if we have no sensitivity to the caged animal , or the animal undergoing product-testing or about to be slaughtered . |
| 22 | In either case , it would seem that everything in the universe would then be determined by evolution according to the laws of science , so it is difficult to see how we can be masters of our fate . |
| 23 | The Arab world has now broken up into three separate components and it is difficult to see how they can be reassembled . |
| 24 | ‘ I Was Dora Suarez is one of Raymond 's celebrated sequence of ‘ black ’ novels , and it is difficult to see how he can borrow any further into the darkness inside us all without popping out the other side . |
| 25 | The first , after referring to a ‘ health and fire hazard ’ , continues : ‘ It is difficult to see how you can properly carry out your duties as a university teacher , given the state of your room . ’ |
| 26 | If the procedure employed up to the foot of the hearing of the committal application can not be criticised and the committal order has been correctly drawn , it is difficult to see how there can be an appeal against the committal order . |
| 27 | It seems that this tax charge does not actually cancel out the potential tax charge referred to above but it is difficult to see how there can be double tax problems because there can only be a charge on monies remitted to the United Kingdom and this can not extend beyond the amounts actually available to be so remitted . |
| 28 | Many people who care or who are cared for find it difficult to understand why they can not get the resources for that care when such vast amounts go towards people who are in residential care . |
| 29 | Mr Hall says in a letter to her that he finds it difficult to understand how he can be associated with the previous Conservative MP Chris Butler 's lack of support for the unit . |
| 30 | A notion of power which goes beyond , say , class reductionism is obviously useful in attempting to grasp the history of the subordination of women , or the regulation of unorthodox sexualities , but if power is everywhere it is difficult to understand how it can be resisted or broken out of . |