Example sentences of "be [subord] [pron] can " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm they 're as you can see , still a bit awkward but much easier to use than these . |
| 2 | Mr Kinnock has been If we can not win now , when everything is against the Government , when can we ever win again ? consistently less popular than his party . |
| 3 | I am if we can get a sitter . |
| 4 | I well I 'm on about doing some stuff I am cos I ca n't get , ca n't find what I want , build my own yeah |
| 5 | but they are cos they ca n't |
| 6 | I am supposing we can include the patient as a real conscious person as ‘ part ’ of the nursing activity . |
| 7 | Although there 's some , but these sort of pictures they always look darker than they actually are because you can see the sun is still pretty high up , so , I imagine that the surrounding scene was still in quite sunlight , but , looking straight into the sun , as we are here , albeit behind the clouds |
| 8 | But then you you also have to evaluate what what your priorities are because you can only go to so many people for funding ca n't you . |
| 9 | More soon of this exciting saga , which is due to be turned into a TV epic or will be if we can fix up a deal with anyone . |
| 10 | I 'm cos I can see balls in front of me . |
| 11 | This may be because by now she is find the spelling test hard and is getting anxious ; or it may be because she can not make an accurate guess at the way new words are pronounced . |
| 12 | Sun Microsystems Inc took exception to the story we wrote saying the new SparcClassic is n't all it 's cracked up to be because it ca n't hack it as a standalone thanks to Solaris eating up all its disk and internal memory ( UX No 416 ) . |
| 13 | How many additions of Scottish women will there be before we can do that ? |
| 14 | How old do you have to be before you can have the privilege of being murdered ? |
| 15 | In a run down on the style of deference he anticipates ( which I note will stifle any critical point from ‘ below decks ’ ) , he talks about his length of tenure and how long it will be before he can ‘ escape back into the real world ’ . |
| 16 | You see ads for PCs promoting themselves as ‘ network-ready ’ and you wonder just how ready a PC needs to be before it can be used on a LAN . |
| 17 | Taligent/Pink : You walk to the store with Ricardo Montalban , who tells you how wonderful it will be when he can fly you to the store in his Learjet . |
| 18 | I should be quite content , I thought , to live here for ever , smelling the cooking and the lavatory and the dust , looking forward to my two slices of bread at lunch or tea and my Red Cross stew at supper , thinking about all the books I am going to read and how nice it is going to be when I can speak German and Russian fluently ; I only want to be allowed to live , and enjoy the sun when it shines , and wait for it when it goes behind a cloud . |
| 19 | He made a powerful intervention claiming that we must know where we are before we can take decisions , or we shall be paying twice — once in respect of the negotiations and then for the GATT round . |
| 20 | What is , what is happening at the moment is although they ca n't afford the money for the full , for the full treatment they are making an allocation of money to improve matters round , round that area , which will be er , cos I , I told them that some of the pensioners were , w walking round by the bankment , it 's pouring of rain , which is perfectly true and that er the engineer should go round and see for himself and plus the fact how many of these people ever travel by bus , or do they always go by car , no , and also I brought up about bus shelters and all those sort of things , but any way , there will be some improvements for the bus station in the future . |
| 21 | Well the point is if we ca n't find enough players |
| 22 | to work together and deliver an effective result because nobody gains anything in the eyes of the people of this county by allowing this thing to go on and on and on and what they feel is if we ca n't get to grips with it what on earth are we doing with our existence . |
| 23 | The problem is if we can ever trap Hauser in a situation that 's illegal we 'll need every witness we can get . |
| 24 | All of us as women have the right and and the ability to give birth , that is if we can , there 's nothing , er , medically wrong with us but then added to that there are those who have the ability to be good mothers , un unfortunately I do n't happen to fall into that category . |
| 25 | The thing is if we can get that erm and We can al we could also put it on business cards is another thing . |
| 26 | So we 'll get that sorted out and been talking about it I think the best bet is if we can get a few lessons in during the holidays so that when he goes back to school he 'll be more or less up to date . |
| 27 | We have n't been trying hard to persuade the Garrimperos to adopt different technologies , more modern technologies that would avoid the contamination of the mercury , but as I said I believe the only way of reaching this goal is if we can organize the Garrimperos to have er a kind of er institutionalized way of exploiting gold , not the sort of gold rush i that is being on and on On and off in Brazil for two centuries right now . |
| 28 | One thing we were both sure of was that we would return in the near future with no carp tackle , but to fish purely for the cats , that is if we can get booked of course . |
| 29 | The problem here is an obvious one and has already been alluded to , namely how do we know how good an indicator is if we can not compare the phenomenon with the indicator ? |
| 30 | I mean what a what I think I 'll probably do is if we can get like erm something that 's obviously our crowd and then either putting , say , Stella back on or something like that |