Example sentences of "[indef pn] can [vb infin] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We can no longer assume that because someone can do the job they can teach the skill . |
| 2 | Because it , it 's , it 's not particularly going to grab me because I 'm going to look at it and I 'm going to I 'm going to look down to see what it 's asking me do and certainly a busy news editor is looking down the line to see , and the first thing he 'll actually do is , is just have a , a very fast glance at it , find out what it 's about , and just make sure there 's someone who can be phoned , and what the news editor will do is actually throw it out into a pile of other handouts and there 's usually a journalist who 's , who 's who 's won first prize and their task for the day is to do all the handouts , and all you want to be sure of is that someone can make a phone call and the news editor wo n't , wo n't bother with any with any superfluous detail , all he 'd want to know is that somebody can be contacted , we 'll find out about it later . |
| 3 | Tomorrow detectives will be visiting houses in the Belmont area in the hope someone can identify the rapist . |
| 4 | I mean , it 's years normally before someone can get a car . |
| 5 | Unless someone can crack the problem of how to incorporate higher quality displays and graphics cards in an Amstrad PC it is unlikely that the machine will figure largely at the page makeup end of the market . |
| 6 | There is support for such a pragmatic concept of reference in Strawson 's ( 1950 ) claim that ‘ 'referring ’ is not something an expression does ; it is something that someone can use an expression to do' ; and in Searle 's view that ‘ in the sense in which speakers refer , expressions do not refer any more than they make promises or give orders ’ ( 1979 : 155 ) . |
| 7 | ‘ Nobody can tell the difference : Awlad Amira are deceiving the government into giving arms to our enemies . ’ |
| 8 | I suppose nobody can stop the Japanese buying into " our " golf , which was a gift from God , and has not always been looked after properly . |
| 9 | Nobody can match the English when it comes to puddings . |
| 10 | All four band members share the belief that nobody can match the measure of commitment and unity to be found within The Smiths . |
| 11 | Nobody can leave the planet — not before we 've caught the dangerous thief . |
| 12 | The funniest thing is that they are all as frightened as one another , but nobody can break the chain . |
| 13 | Nobody can find the door . |
| 14 | You just think it looks good to be seen with books that nobody can pronounce the name of . |
| 15 | Nobody can know the world , not even the parts of it on offer to tourists , but they can know how to look them up , and the training for too long has been exiguous . |
| 16 | ‘ Nobody can forecast the future with that much certainty , ’ she said with an attempt at lightness . |
| 17 | There are problems with designating these as new phyla , not least that nobody can define a phylum objectively , and my own view is that , marvellous though these animals are , we should still try to relate them to other organisms ( fossil and living ) . |
| 18 | Boswell does not say which of them raised the question of biography , and somewhat out of context he leads into a comment from Johnson : ‘ Nobody can write the life of a man , but those who have eat and drunk and lived in social intercourse with him . ’ |
| 19 | Well it 's to be all really that somebody can make a use of these things in n it ? |
| 20 | Most desert-living animals can withstand some water loss , but none can match the spadefoot and its desert-living cousins . |
| 21 | None can afford an escalation of subsidies on agriculture exports . |
| 22 | Recognise that addictive diseases affects different people in different ways and it is very variable in its intensity but that all share the denial of believing that they are not addicted : the crucial test of addiction is not whether one can stop the use of an addictive substance or behaviour but whether one can happily stay off and not be drawn back to it or to something equally addictive . |
| 23 | I think the question remains or that my doubts remain that there will be a level of there will that one can assume a level of commitments which would be it would be sensible to try and draw back from or phase over a longer period of time . |
| 24 | One can compare the passage just quoted , which insists on the unknowability of the real world , with some of her subsequent remarks ; as , for instance , when she refers to her argument ‘ that literature represents the myths and imaginary versions of real social relationships ’ , and claims that ‘ a form of criticism which refuses to reproduce the pseudo-knowledge offered by the text provides a real knowledge of the work of literature ’ , or says that ‘ the task of criticism , then , is … to produce a real knowledge of history . ’ |
| 25 | One can compare the composition of the suspect piece with the range of composition of genuine pieces of comparable period . |
| 26 | In this way one can simplify the number of subproblems considerably and one can group them into about eight stages , each of which has about six sub-problems , and this becomes humanly comprehensible . |
| 27 | It perhaps is a function of the early stage of interpreter development in the UK ( though there are only a very few positive indications that the situation is different in other more developed countries ) and one can expect a change of provision , attitude and therefore skill . |
| 28 | If as Mr Dalyell alleges , the EEC is about the push for lead-free petrol , one can expect a propaganda barrage more far reaching than Associated Octels recent £100 000 advertising campaign . |
| 29 | ( Wells et al , 1990 ) Two options are available — one can select the character combinations based on transitional probabilities between characters or one can specify a vocabulary list and check the character combinations within that list . |
| 30 | A limitation is placed upon the accuracy with which one can specify the amount of energy transferred together with a knowledge of the time at which the transfer took place . |