Example sentences of "can [verb] [pron] be the " in BNC.

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1 In order to reassure the House and the public , perhaps the Minister can explain what is the procedure when a police officer uses the powers given in the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 to stop someone in the street or someone driving a car .
2 the ‘ fiction theory ’ must remain unsatisfactory unless it can explain what are the real facts in terms of individual rights and duties which underlie the fiction , and this it seems unable to do .
3 Especially if under clothing it 's got fifty quid , you can assume it 's the chap
4 One reason he thinks he can do it is the help he 's had over the past six weeks of intensive Lilleshall training from England 's newly-installed bowling coach , the former Surrey and Sussex star Geoff Arnold .
5 It was a fight but now that I am at college you can believe I am the happiest girl around here .
6 But I can see he 's the worse for wear , the weathering the worker wreaks on himself .
7 The only thing I can see there is the different venues will obviously will have different , differences to cope with that
8 I want them to go on because they can see it 's the only thing to do .
9 True , the attraction of becoming ‘ British ’ is a big one , but as far as I can see it is the only one .
10 He told The Scotsman the other day , ’ the only thing that can stop us is the Labour party . ’
11 Is there an objective way in which we can judge which is the truly best strategy , in a more general and less arbitrary sense ?
12 Basically it 's two things coming together and becoming more than their whole , you 've got two things two people working together producing more than what two people can produce it 's the relationship that produces that extra little bit more .
13 I mean he can go it 's the bus that ca n't .
14 ’ The people who do it even though they can afford it are the worst , but I am far more concerned about the victims — the shops than I am about the people who carry out the crime .
15 There is no one who can foresee what are the ultimate results .
16 Well , Mrs Davis , I ca n't promise you a rise ( and I certainly would n't be bold enough to ask you for a hug ! ) but what I can offer you is the chance to choose between a substantial pay-rise … £1,500 a year … and a cheque for the generous sum of £15,000 .
17 I think w I think how it works it , it 's , it 's , it 's , I do n't think you can say it 's the right package .
18 But you see you can say it 's the big brother and all this rubbish , but the fact remains that we three are paying the poll tax and he is not .
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