Example sentences of "can [vb infin] [pron] be [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Finally , as we have shown earlier , what is defined as criminal varies across time and place , thus making it difficult to argue that in-built differences between the sexes can explain what is a variable phenomena . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Zambia , more astute than Tammuz gave hir credit for , knelt against the side of his chair : ‘ You reckon the cocktail will give you gut-ache , its taste is questionable , yet it looks beautiful , glowing there in the glass , smells divine , and the buzz it can give you is a temptation beyond endurance . |
| 5 | Especially if under clothing it 's got fifty quid , you can assume it 's the chap |
| 6 | It can be terrible for the donor if the patient dies — the donor can feel they 're a failure which is completely wrong . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Erm , they were not interviewed , they if they were accepted by a teacher training college they received erm a maximum of , of fifty pounds a year but erm as far as I can remember there was no loan erm element in that but I m I may be wrong because er but I never can remember erm writing to recover loans from the training college student . |
| 9 | fifties , all I can remember there was an all very stolid erm , people did n't know where they were yet , and erm , it er |
| 10 | Said : ‘ It 's the first time I can remember there being a vote in favour of nuclear power . |
| 11 | Because they have so much trouble finding beds in London hospitals , they 've got this little company set up to do the job for the doctors , so there is no way in the world that I can believe there 's a shortage of beds . |
| 12 | And I can believe there is a link between periods and self-esteem , because if people are saying periods are embarrassing or dirty or vile , then in a way they are saying being a woman is embarrassing or dirty or wile , and that 's bound to affect you . |
| 13 | I do n't actually believe that that depression is normal , I believe that we can overcome depression , and I think there is some creative things that we can do out of a depression people can become stronger , they can tap into their resources inside with support and help , so I can believe it 's a positive experience . |
| 14 | It was a fight but now that I am at college you can believe I am the happiest girl around here . |
| 15 | You can see he 's a very strange man … if he twitches after eating meat pies and he stops eating meat pies and stops twitching it does n't matter if it 's psychological or not . ’ |
| 16 | But I can see he 's the worse for wear , the weathering the worker wreaks on himself . |
| 17 | And you can see he was a very happy person . |
| 18 | You can see there 's a gap there under the word ceder . |
| 19 | It 's not very convincing as a logical argument : anyone can see there 's a world of difference between a castor-oil plant and a city of 120,000 people . |
| 20 | ‘ Then , Sir , ’ the Prime Minister replied , ‘ I can see there 's a storm coming . |
| 21 | So that you can you can see there 's a a some options here . |
| 22 | So they 'll have an hallucination of eating the cake and say yummy is n't this cake lovely , and you and I can see there 's no cake there . |
| 23 | I can see there 's no point in arguing with you . |
| 24 | ‘ As far as I can see there is no evidence that when [ he ] has absconded he has come to any real harm . |
| 25 | ‘ I can see there is a risk . |
| 26 | ‘ When you compare that with almost 13,000 liability orders , as you can see there is a slight difference , ’ Mr Watson said . |
| 27 | The only thing I can see there is the different venues will obviously will have different , differences to cope with that |
| 28 | ‘ Why , yes , I can see it 's a tunnel , ’ agreed Anabelle . |
| 29 | You can see it 's a damn sight more difficult than getting them to confront the Iraqis . |
| 30 | So you can see it 's a very very good contract . |