Example sentences of "can [vb infin] [conj] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What will happen on a particular occasion we can not say , but we can predict that after a large number of photons have encountered the crystal a fraction unc will be found to have been transmitted . |
| 2 | I mean , it 's er it 's wo , that 's one we refer to as the Donnis mobile cos we can use that when the American Express comes through . |
| 3 | If we return to our example , we can see that if a subject hears Forgive us our tres … and a decision has been made at this point that the incomplete word is trespasses , the subject can begin to say trespasses and ignore the rest of the word . |
| 4 | Now you can see that if a scientist of this kind tries to study man he is in difficulty . |
| 5 | Conversely , we can see that if the conditions do hold , then any reference by the sender to the action will be perceived as an order , even without an explicit form like ‘ I order you to … ’ or the imperative . |
| 6 | Glossy dark bronze-green foliage is widely held to be very resistant ; in some places it is , but in others it can look as though a flour sack has burst . |
| 7 | Cars also demonstrate whether imaginative play can develop or whether the child is showing repetitive and uncreative play pushing the car backwards and forwards on the same spot . |
| 8 | It can happen that when an assistant is helping somebody to get dressed , the person suddenly gets violent . |
| 9 | I also think that Mrs somewhat underestimated the formal hours required , I have noted from the er , the B M A documents setting out the charges to be expected to be levied by agencies in relation to nurses that extra hours will be charged per hour and I can foresee that if an agency contracts to provide ten hours formal care that er , it might be that with a number of carers they would find themselves very , very frequently putting in for extra hours of care . |
| 10 | In conclusion , we can say that if the only ‘ planting ’ strategy currently acceptable in the Church of England is within parish boundaries , then the aspiring planters ' strategy should be ( i ) get ordained , ( ii ) find a very high population parish , ( iii ) train teams and leaders and start planting . |
| 11 | In general , we can say that if the free energy-composition curve has a shape which allows a tangent to touch it at two points , phase separation will occur . |
| 12 | Right , but nevertheless , we can say that if the price of X rises , right , it 's likely that the constant of X is going to rise . |
| 13 | However , I can say that when a disturbance is reported on the Red Hall estate it is thoroughly investigated . ’ |
| 14 | This being so , we can say that when the demand for and the supply of labour are equal ( so that unemployment is at its ‘ natural ’ level ) , there will be no pressure on real wages to change . |
| 15 | Pursuing , perhaps riskily , a computer analogy we can argue that while the body resembles the hardware of a computer the mind comprises the software , the programmes that analyse and organize information to produce responses to inputs . |