Example sentences of "can [adv] [vb infin] [pron] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Remortgaging can effectively deliver you a cheaper deal . |
| 2 | But Sam can apparently do what the hell he likes , with as many women as he pleases ! ’ |
| 3 | Re-chargeable ni-cad batteries can obviously save you a lot of money . |
| 4 | I can perhaps anticipate what the Minister will say . |
| 5 | We seem to have a breed of unadventurous promoters who can only offer us the likes of Grooverider and Carl Cox , making it difficult for talented newcomers to get the break they deserve . |
| 6 | Many people think you can only do what the punchcard tells you to do but , being me , I always try to get as much as I can from them — even with a lace card I 'll try knitting it in different ways . |
| 7 | Local authorities can only do what the law explicitly allows ; all council powers come from Acts of Parliament . |
| 8 | do you want some posters for Gordon and Adam , well I can only lend you a couple of ones , but those might do if she turns them over |
| 9 | A chronological table can only give us the bare outlines of a life : one asks three questions . |
| 10 | I can only give you a tool for good . |
| 11 | If you omit to declare the steps and have the wrong answer , he can only give you a zero mark . |
| 12 | I can only give you a C. |
| 13 | The " fundamental " principle of education is that the head can only take what the seat can take . |
| 14 | At a national level one can only imagine what the development consequences might be for countries with already declining or collapsing economies . |
| 15 | The Purchaser can only see what the Vendor makes available : it may not disclose everything . |
| 16 | They can not send us a box that is filled only with good apples , there has to be one that is bruised . ’ |
| 17 | Aye you see I can not tell you the right story , but when Mary Queen of Scots |
| 18 | I d I know that , there 's that phrase you know , we will never see his like again , I think we probably will , but it will be a very long time , and I can not tell you the infinite feeling of sadness erm , that I felt when I heard of his passing . |
| 19 | That 's right so you then go into the en suite room , well I can not tell you the trouble I 've had from the en suite ! |
| 20 | We can not tell who the members of such a union might be . |
| 21 | The Government say that they can not tell us the value of the companies because the information is commercially sensitive . |
| 22 | I can not express what a privilege it has been transcribing it and entering your very mind and spirit in the throes of creativity , as it were . |
| 23 | Since dancing can not earn them a living , Chela and Urna are into self-help , and it is as humiliating in personal terms as any perceived national , cultural subservience to the US . |
| 24 | Since dancing can not earn them a living , Chela and Urna are into self-help , and it is as humiliating in personal terms as any perceived national , cultural subservience to the US . |
| 25 | Since dancing can not earn them a living , Chela and Urna are into self-help , and it is as humiliating in personal terms as any perceived national , cultural subservience to the US . |
| 26 | So if you can not decide what the icon that looks like a milk churn with an overgrown mushroom beside it means you can select it and discover that it means Paste Clipboard contents — oh perhaps it is supposed to be a drawing pin besides a board but you could have fooled me ! |
| 27 | I can not think what the Riding , but not only the Riding , will be without him . |
| 28 | The condition may be upheld if the plaintiff had previously disclosed his reports or offered to disclose them in exchange for the defendant 's reports ( Clarke v Martlew [ 1973 ] QB 58 ) but even that is in doubt since Megarity v DJ Ryan & Sons Ltd [ 1980 ] 2 All ER 832 in which it was said that the plaintiff can not make it a condition precedent to granting a medical examination that the defendant must produce the ensuing report , since to do so would pre-empt the court 's power to give directions as to expert evidence . |
| 29 | ‘ Should you come to town , I am sorry that I can not offer you a home pro tempore — pro trumpery indeed it would be , if I did not make any such offer — for unless you occupied the grate as a seat — I see no probability of your finding any rest consonant with the safety of my parrots — seeing , that of the six chairs I possess — 5 are at present occupied with lithographic prints : — the whole of my exalted & delightful upper tenement in fact overflows with them , and for the last 12 months I have so moved — thought — looked at , — & existed among parrots — that should any transmigration take place at my decease I am sure my soul would be very uncomfortable in anything but one of the psittacidae . ’ |
| 30 | You can not , you can not give them the the national curriculum book ! |