Example sentences of "a [noun] [pers pn] can " in BNC.
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| 1 | Running an airline is an expensive business at the best of times , during a recession it can be a way of using up money really quite quickly , now Virgin 's particular problem was that they began this recession with relatively little in the way of capital and reserves , only about thirty six million in nineteen ninety one . |
| 2 | But you still have to decide whether you want to make a kitchen you can eat in , or an eating place which is also the kitchen . |
| 3 | In such a case it can pay to set up an ancillary file when the file is loaded . |
| 4 | When they 've cooled down a bit you can put them in your bed , warm it up nice . |
| 5 | she , if she wants a cushion she can put it on , and |
| 6 | I 'm getting paranoid about that , determined not to sign anything , worried that maybe I already have when they first brought me here and said it was just a receipt for personal effects or a legal-aid application or whatever , and I worry about them getting me to sign something when I 'm tired and they 've been interviewing me in shifts and all I want to do is go to bed and sleep and they say oh do us all a favour and sign this and you can sleep , come on now ; it 's just a formality you can always deny it later , change your mind , but you ca n't you ca n't of course , they 're lying and you ca n't ; I even worry about signing something in my sleep , or them hypnotising me and getting me to do it that way ; hell , I do n't know what they get up to . |
| 7 | Always buy your bed with your partner , it 's not a decision you can make alone |
| 8 | But I have the feeling that it could be my next Major because it will be on a course I can play . ’ |
| 9 | The quantitative and qualitative analyses of teacher-pupil interaction showed how vital a part it can play in children 's learning , yet how easy it is to waste the very limited time teachers have to interact with each child . |
| 10 | So in point of fact idioms is you 'll find that they always fit in either this slot or in this slot , but you wo n't find an idiom which has to form such that if you remove the subject and verb from a sentence you can stick the idiom in there and it will make sense . |
| 11 | In a text we can study style in more detail , and with more systematic attention to what words or structures are chosen in preference to others . |
| 12 | But he will give us the feeling that though the character has not been explained , it is explicable , and we get from this a reality of a kind we can never get in real life … . |
| 13 | I was saying , ‘ If anyone wants a refund they can go right to the door and they 'll give it to you . ’ |
| 14 | An if yu are a Rasta yu can tour Africa . |
| 15 | I suppose if you 're a writer you can do it anywhere . |
| 16 | I mean in the time is takes you to do a sketch you can draw accurately |
| 17 | Here 's a tenement that bares a heart we can not comprehend — |
| 18 | Pen-based computing is a major step in that direction , Until someone builds a computer you can talk to that is n't the size of a filing cabinet there is likely to be an easier way to communicate with your technology . |
| 19 | As a Christian I can not accept any teaching that suggests that there is any kind of spirit in plant life . |
| 20 | Using a cline we can place reciprocal and non-reciprocal discourse at opposite poles : |
| 21 | As a scientist I can not believe it — but I saw it happen with my own eyes . |
| 22 | As a framework it can make no claim to be exhaustive or final . |
| 23 | If a sole adopter is a male he can not adopt a female , unless the court is satisfied that there are special circumstances which justify the adoption . |
| 24 | So situations are reviewed and we do look at monitored traffic flows for example , we do look at our justifications and if there are reasons for a change we can go back , so it 's not irreversible by any means , that is the current committed preferred route however and I did n't want to give an indication that by changing the diagram we were saying everything 's opened up again , cos clearly we 've reached a stage that the County Council 's declared it 's a preferred route and that 's |
| 25 | I want to try and get one before May before the exam , but there is a superb production on i the summer , it 's on June and July and it 's at an open-air theatre erm in Lincolnshire and what people do is they go and take a picnic and you sort of take your rug and sit there and cos it it 'll be hot in the summer it would be really nice and you watch it outdoors and it 's in this big stately home which is in it 's own grounds and there 's gift shops and restaurants and bars and obviously wo n't go in the bars but you know there 's lo it 's beautiful and like a big stately home you can wander round the gardens for a bit and then go and watch the performance and if it rains then there 's a canopy you can pull the canopy over like at Wimbledon and you know it 's a really nice day . |
| 26 | No , what they mean is they if it 's put in on a Thursday so it 's there so when they , whatever they get in on a Friday they can pay out then but if it 's paid in on a Friday then |
| 27 | I said and that 's why cos Paul said to me , he said , I never hear you moan , I said look you wo n't hear me moan because it 's not that I enjoy the job I hate the job I said I hate the work , and I find it hard work but at the end of the day on a Friday , I know that six o'clock in the morning on a Friday I can go up to the Nationwide Anglia , slip my card in there and I know there 's gon na be a couple of hundred of quid in there with the |
| 28 | ‘ I do n't agree with you — we have something very special , and if you do n't want a wedding-ring we can deal well together . ’ |
| 29 | Until we have such a conception we can not describe the original sensation to ourselves ; it is just a useless this , for the concept of the sensation has no content until the rules have been set up . |
| 30 | At a towering twenty five inches he 's certainly a horse she can look up to . |