Example sentences of "[indef pn] can [vb infin] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | I mean , it 's years normally before someone can get a car . |
| 3 | 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 ) . |
| 4 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | Well it 's to be all really that somebody can make a use of these things in n it ? |
| 6 | None can afford an escalation of subsidies on agriculture exports . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ( 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 . |
| 11 | Thus , by the end of gastrulation , one can draw a map on the embryo showing the developmental path to which various regions are now committed . |
| 12 | One can tap a person to gain attention without being charged with battery : Rawlings v Till ( 1837 ) 150 ER 1042 . |
| 13 | There , too , one can assign a co-ordination of properties , as in ( 44 ) , or a single complex property , ( 45 ) , but it is simply taken for granted that one does not produce grammatical monstrosities such as ( 46 ) and ( 47 ) with , respectively , simultaneous and successive ( but in neither case co-ordinated ) assignment of different properties . |
| 14 | But London 's pattern of hospitals is such a historical muddle that no one can wave a wand and transform everything overnight . |
| 15 | Block ( 1980 ) has argued that one can construct a case where one would be forced to say that a conscious individual not only contained , but consisted of , other conscious individuals . |
| 16 | The idea that one can earn a living away from the smoke , perhaps by tele-commuting , are popularised by journalists . |
| 17 | There are Christians who would say that one can meditate a lifetime on them . |
| 18 | Occam gives extra scope for this because it is a parallel language : one can improve a program not only by reducing the overall amount of calculation , but also by configuring it for the ( possibly parallel ) machine on which it is to be run . |
| 19 | If one can spread a core cost over a larger operation one can offer cheaper fares . |
| 20 | Although the expressive effect is not easy to pinpoint , one can detect an impression of resultativity , as though the passive abstracts from any particular hearer so that the infinitive evokes the resulting impression that was left with all present . |
| 21 | The RISC hypothesis is that by reducing the instruction set one can design an architecture which reduces the design time , number of design errors , and the time for individual instructions . |
| 22 | They were especially critical of the assumption that one can explain a form of behaviour simply by observing its incidence and correlating it with other variables . |
| 23 | Like an ordinary face that one can build a character upon with multiple disguises , Peter Sellers 's for example , Dustin draws on the blank score sheet of his voice . |
| 24 | The formulation is strange , since it suggests that one can measure a person 's ability to conform to the law . |
| 25 | So you see that being a MIDI device has massive advantages : first , sound changes which might otherwise require the drastic resetting of several controls can be carried out instantly , by calling up a patch containing the new settings ; and second , when using another MIDI device , such as a multi-effects processor , the two can be linked via the MIDI sockets and a patch change on one can trigger a patch change on the other . |
| 26 | This is not too unscientific or random an approach , as it is often found that one can do an experiment in a defined situation and reinforce one 's findings by consulting one 's colleagues about their own experience . |
| 27 | One can reach a frontier without crossing it . |
| 28 | No one can prevent a word from being used in any way the user wishes , and there need be no confusion provided the user makes clear what ( s ) he means by the term . |
| 29 | There are a few exceptions to the general rule that no one can make a transfer of goods who is not the owner . |
| 30 | ‘ Nowadays , ’ observed Bromley , ‘ one can make a corpse look almost alive . ’ |