Example sentences of "see if [pron] can [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now more of a sex vixen than the innocent girl next door it remains to be seen if one can retain her teeny bop audience while aiming for the ( slightly ) more mature rock audience . |
| 2 | Where do you start with love , every body wants to love , every body wants to be loved , every one at some time or another is disappointed by love and while its difficult sometimes talking about it not talking about it can have some really serious consequences , so let's try to get to the heart of it tonight , one hundred women are prepared to share their wisdom if not their secrets , I 'd like to start off by seeing if we can differentiate between loving and being in love . |
| 3 | ‘ We 're seeing if we can move the gear lever , Dorcas , ’ said Nooty . |
| 4 | Tuesday night about seeing if we can do a bit more sorting out in her bedroom . |
| 5 | Recently some people have been trying a different approach , seeing if they can change the nature of the atoms such that fusion can occur at a useful rate even at room temperature . |
| 6 | An example might be to focus on car number plates and seeing if you can make a word containing all the letters of the plate number , or in a supermarket look out for all items costing a particular amount of money , or in a crowded room noting the number of people with blue eyes . |
| 7 | I 'm just seeing if I can get these two shelves out . |
| 8 | The process of drawing inferences from non-experimental data is usually one of slowly elaborating a relationship between two variables , testing that it contains no spurious component due to the operation of a prior variable , and testing to see if one can pin down whether the cause influences the effect directly or through an intervening variable . |
| 9 | One of the aims is to look at the links between commercial and industrial policy in order to see if one can devise any common criteria to distinguish legitimate goals of industrial policy from capricious protectionism . |
| 10 | okay , pretend that you 're that building and I want you to describe yourself and and I want the rest of the class to see if they can guess what it is and how long they take it they take to guess okay , and if you think you know what that person is , put your hand up do n't do n't shout out . |
| 11 | If you are having a problem coping at home , you should first get in touch with your local social services department , or your family doctor , to see if they can give you some advice or support . |
| 12 | But the big day is today(thurs) , not Saturday , because that 's when the men from Greenwich Council come to see if they can give the £4 million redeveloped ground the safety certificate it needs for Saturday 's sell-out game to proceed . |
| 13 | They may , and often do , leave it to the debtors to see if they can procure the additional security . |
| 14 | They ca n't wait until next year 's race to see if they can do even better . |
| 15 | The excitement of a side from the Second Division being next in line to see if they can do what the likes of Leeds United and Marseille could not , and defeat Rangers in cup competition this season , was put to the back of the manager 's mind last night . |
| 16 | It is nevertheless worth examining some more recent theories to see if they can suggest ways in which the implications of Brooke-Rose 's approach might be applied to novelistic texts . |
| 17 | also , it goes without saying , I mean the people at the other end would probably like to see a copy before you start just for , to see if they can suggest |
| 18 | Every year one or 2 more people come along to see if they can take on last year 's winner . |
| 19 | They could have a headache depending on how it was caused , they could be confused , but not always and there could be that brief loss of consciousness and so you must check the memory recall if they do know what 's happened well then go back a little bit further to see if they can remember what they did last night or something but erm , make sure , on that memory recall . |
| 20 | Planners will today be told to see if they can find a way to close a vital Nottingham City Centre link road without causing major traffic problems . |
| 21 | We 're asking people who drink , and that 's ninety per cent of the British adult population , to see if they can cut down by a quarter if they 're drinking above sensible levels . |
| 22 | That is also when you hear stories of doubting runners who have not covered more than 12 miles at a time in training suddenly attempting a 20-miler four days before the actual marathon , just to see if they can get that far ! |
| 23 | There are even now other issues on the pensions debate we have employers like Telecom using pension funds to fund redundancies we now even have the government looking to see if they can get hold of pension fund money in British Rail and in the Coal Board to see if they can also fund job losses . |
| 24 | Probably the ideal candidate for reading our book would be someone who would perhaps be involved in the manufacturer of erm products and , having recognised that washing machines are involved with microprocessors , are anxious to see if they can get any insight into the role that microprocessors can play |
| 25 | If there is a real difficulty , get in touch with someone from their local community to see if they can provide an interpreter . |
| 26 | With a choice we work perceptually on the alternatives to see if we can make one so attractive that it attracts us to ignore the others ; or we try to make the alternatives so unattractive that we can dismiss them one by one . |
| 27 | Just la 's look to see if we can make a case all right ? |
| 28 | Well , I suggest someone nips over next door to see if we can borrow a room — that is , if it is felt that we need actually to discuss anything more . " |
| 29 | It really is important to get your statement , but first we 've got to see if we can do anything for the poor devil down there . " |
| 30 | Do you want to see if we can finish it Christine . |