Example sentences of "can [adv] [verb] [conj] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is here that the goal of developing a different vision , for locating a different set of values , becomes pre-eminent — because with that different vision , with a determination to create a new set of values which recognises intrinsic value in all living creatures , we can properly inform and inspire a programme that works , albeit a gradualist one ! |
| 2 | And then we can all go and stay there . |
| 3 | We can all go and invest in PEPs , we can all go and invest in pension plans and all of that gets taken by the institutions and put into the stock market . |
| 4 | We can all go and invest in PEPs , we can all go and invest in pension plans and all of that gets taken by the institutions and put into the stock market . |
| 5 | well we can all go and listen to Coronation Street . |
| 6 | As they call out the names of the new members , I would like them to stand so they can all recognise and welcome them . |
| 7 | As a result , powerful database software packages have emerged that can make these small single user machines act like large filing cabinets which can instantaneously search or reorganise a file with literally the touch of a button . |
| 8 | As previously noted , banks can increase the total volume of spending in the economy by their credit-creating capacity while non-bank financial institutions can merely borrow and lend funds which have been already created within the banking system . |
| 9 | Labour 's Minister for Science will develop a national strategy to promote high-quality science and technology , so that Britain can better anticipate and respond to the challenges of the future . |
| 10 | People with very high salaries can obviously save and invest , hence accumulating wealth , and joining an upper class of businessmen , financiers , landowners or inheritors of wealth . |
| 11 | ‘ I 've been tasting bits all day , so when it comes to serving dinner I can only sit and chat . ’ |
| 12 | This is the same young man who bit the ear of the governor — and we can only meet and get to know him in the novel itself . |
| 13 | ‘ As for me , I can only shrink and plan a slinking away out of sight , since I love life too much to die . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Yes , something like that … and that 's something that can only aid and assist . ’ |
| 15 | Biologists can only watch and wait . |
| 16 | Democracy can only advise and consent , and then only in an indirect and spasmodic manner . " |
| 17 | No special LIFESPAN privileges are required to use this option , but you can only grant or cancel special links between yourself and other users ; you can not change links set up by other users . |
| 18 | In other words , if you need to access text and images together , CD-ROM can only retrieve and display the text and then subsequently address the related image data . |
| 19 | But erm it 's all time and it 's erm , you know you do n't know until the day what you 've got , you can only hope and pray it 's there and erm go to the show , enjoy it and erm if there 's a trophy — very nice , then you can enjoy that as well . |
| 20 | So , given the set-up of the model , in particular given that in any one period people can only buy or sell in the island on which they are located , different equilibrium prices can be established for the same good . |
| 21 | To allow it to maintain the 300 nuclear weapons that it is currently estimated to hold — including 100 tactical weapons — can only provoke and encourage the Arab states ' determination to obtain nuclear arsenals . |
| 22 | President , I 've , er , had lots of advice from my colleagues as to how to respond to the comments of the shop stewards er , I can only respond and say thank you very much indeed for the kind things they 've said particularly , erm , specific point that 's been raised on the industry from my colleagues that are from the Midlands and East Coast the situation currently is that , er , we have decided to ballot for industrial action in E C C and the T & G have decided to ballot for industrial action in , I think its . |
| 23 | The scientists can only wait and hope . |
| 24 | But for the time being , Private Morrison 's family , already overcome by grief , can only wait and hope his body will be released to them soon . |
| 25 | Now Faldo and his European colleagues can only wait and see if the hard work and application pays off at the weekend . |
| 26 | I can only wait and see what happens . |
| 27 | I can only wait and see what happens . |
| 28 | You can only encourage and teach and cajole and provide incentives and gradually open the closed minds of the dominant species on Earth today . |
| 29 | A user can only enter or retrieve a module , or collection of modules , by reference to a LIFESPAN package which contains them and to which the user has appropriate access privileges . |
| 30 | A user can only enter or retrieve a module , or collection of modules , by reference to a package to which the user has appropriate access rights . |