Example sentences of "can [vb infin] what the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If your organisation is a " high tech " company and works in areas such as microbiology or electronics it will be useful to have a trained scientist who can translate what the company is doing into terms which most people can understand . |
| 2 | It is only on the basis of such a model that the government , which considers one of its basic functions to be the management of the economy , can predict what the effect will be of a change in one of its policies . |
| 3 | It is the ‘ one every few years ’ , and Alfieri knows , or can predict what the outcome will be . |
| 4 | Some think that they can steal what the club makes , but it 's still thieving , even if it 's thieving from yourself . |
| 5 | But if the document does n't exist , it does n't exist unless you can remember what the information was on that document but I would imagine . |
| 6 | if you can remember what the rule . |
| 7 | Now some doctors could conceivably still be frightened off , but we must presume , I think , that doctors are literate people , that they can understand what the law is if it is told to them , and the medical societies and other groups are making available to them the workings of this particular Act . |
| 8 | For nobody can understand what the Government is doing to clear up the economic mess it has created . |
| 9 | With a dentist one can understand what the chap is actually saying . |
| 10 | Er , I dare n't give away Rosemary and John , 'cos they 're the only two that can understand what the hell I 'm talking about . |
| 11 | Now the author can see what the document will look like as soon as the text is typed . |
| 12 | I want to be out on a limb with my back to the water so that I can see what the rest of the world is doing . |
| 13 | At the end of each six week period we have an assessment session whereby they have to do a ‘ performance ’ to everybody else in that year , so the music can see what the dance has done … etc . |
| 14 | ‘ You can see what the problem is ’ , G. says . |
| 15 | Most parents can identify the first phase of interaction with their child , that is they can see what the child is doing that is irritating and they see how they react , but rarely do they then follow through the interaction to see what happens at the end . |
| 16 | I says that 's got ta be Warren , it could n't be anybody else , so when I come down I went off like , well I tell ya I ca n't do it , so I knew it was so I picked up the wrong she says oh I 'm just ringing because you can see what the weather is she says and you could n't go and do a day in erm , with your |
| 17 | we can have a look at the blood tests , we can see what the blood pressure is . |
| 18 | We can see what the testator had in mind . |
| 19 | This was a solicitors pick it up and my Lord so you can , you can see what the dispute was . |
| 20 | I would also like to suggest that complaints be made as ‘ Letters to the Editor ’ because then we can see what the complaint is and try to deal with it . |
| 21 | So we can deduce what the field of vision of our globular-eyed trilobite was , by looking at the directions in which all the lenses face . |
| 22 | so they can appreciate what the situation is . |
| 23 | One allocation that would be both efficient and equitable in this sense would be an initial endowment at 1 where both A and B have the same X and Y. Since they face the same budget constraint , each can have what the other has so that any trades away from equal allocation to the contract curve must meet the reverse allocation test illustrated as part ( b ) of the figure . |
| 24 | but you can tell what the bar man was thinking |
| 25 | yes , then there 's the , yes , what that says , at the top , so you can announce what the aim of the campaign is . |
| 26 | ask it questions , it 's obviously on the telephone because you can ask what the balance is and it will tell you , and it ca n't possibly know that and Cleethorpes , when you put the card in the Cleethorpes thing , that , you know , your bank balance at Nottingham is so it 's obviously on the telephone erm and it 's on the telephone to a central computer which holds quite a lot of information , it accesses |
| 27 | And it used to roar , you can imagine what the noise was like in the chapel . |
| 28 | As those were the best lines , you can imagine what the rest were like . |
| 29 | I mean , if you can imagine what the process of a dame in pantomime goes through to get all that gear on then that is the sort of thing you 've got to try and do in mime . |
| 30 | Erm , now I will give you as much help as I can with that , but not the actual subject of it , erm , you can determine what the objective is yourselves . |