Example sentences of "a way [pron] can " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've tried it sometimes , never long enough to know whether I did it successfully or not , but I found there is absolutely no way of telling because even if it changes in a way one can predict , what one can predict is the way oneself changes or the world changes at the same time . |
| 2 | ‘ Problems often arise in childhood which may have affected their lives in a way they can not understand . |
| 3 | In the unhappy event of litigation , a signed consent form may be disregarded by the courts unless it can be shown that the patient was ‘ given sufficient information , in a way they can understand , about the proposed treatment . ’ |
| 4 | Hospital staff rush here and there , tell them to wait , to walk down long forbidding corridors to see a doctor — whose name they have n't even been told — who may not even speak to them by name in a way they can understand . |
| 5 | The working men for whom this institution was created had a thirst for education in a way we can scarcely any longer imagine today . |
| 6 | Faith must know its object in a way we can not know an historical fact . |
| 7 | There 's a way we can get it done cheap . |
| 8 | If we can manage to get the tree-house finished by tomorrow , I 'll show you a way we can give him a piece of it for Father 's Day . ’ |
| 9 | Individual contact much more than organisation to organisation is a way barriers between the sectors are broken down , and a way we can understand each other 's motives and ideals . |
| 10 | Perhaps no one acted in a way we can judge wrong by personal standards of conduct . |
| 11 | announcement every time there 's a delivery and the brother who 's giving the announcements on a Tuesday or a Thursday , whenever they meet , he , he says that we have new magazines tonight brothers and he may hold them up and said you know , that they 're this and that and lovely , beautiful magazines Jehovah doing so well now through his organization and he 's presenting us with , with erm marvellous erm appealing literature , he holds them up and says we 're , we 're , we 're able to get your magazines tonight and er we would like you to get them straight out at me , and they 're still there two or three weeks later , your magazines , this is a way we can stay spiritually awake , is by going and getting them straight away , not for the benefit of the brothers , poor old brother who is on the job and he 's wondering why , are they gon na come and fetch my magazines or not , but because we need to devour that spiritual feeling , we need to keep up to date with everything that Jehovah 's providing us with . |
| 12 | These songs and poetry have helped the group maintain their spirit of unity , provides some light relief to let off some steam , and helped to convey the message of what they have done and are continuing to do to other community groups in a way which can not be simply related in written words and figures . |
| 13 | She seems to me terribly unhappy in a way which can make people desperate , spiteful , even wicked . ’ |
| 14 | The rural African or Asian , living on a diet like this , moves his bowels in a way which can only fill the constipated Western world with envy . |
| 15 | Very old people are often calm and commonsensical about their impending death in a way which can surprise and embarrass their younger visitors . |
| 16 | The reason for this , according to the attitudinist , is the distinction between belief , which sets out to represent how things are , and attitude , which is rather a matter of how one wishes ( not merely idly , but in a way which can produce appropriate action ) them to be . |
| 17 | Mathematics textbooks present the notion of profit in a way which can only confuse students in their quest for an understanding of the term . |
| 18 | I remember in particular the huge smile that he had on his face when the Government were defeated in a way which can be described in parliamentary terms as nothing short of absolutely remarkable . |
| 19 | Techniques such as guided fantasy reveal the teacher 's presuppositions which are not discussed , and these are put across in a way which can have a particularly binding effect upon the recipients . |
| 20 | As practitioners progress in their careers it becomes increasingly difficult and onerous to remember and record prior experience and achievement in a way which can achieve the type of credit which is often needed ( and is becoming more important in the present climate of belief that individuals should not be required to repeat learning which has already taken place ) . |
| 21 | She sang Schubert 's song Erlkonig in a way I can still recall . |
| 22 | Is there a way I can test this ? |
| 23 | As for Aunt Pamela , she never liked me and in a way I can understand why she resented my existence . |
| 24 | ‘ Is there a way I can record what I hear ? ’ |
| 25 | In his account of the final stage , it is as if the unheard melody of which he had some intimation suddenly becomes audible and transposes all his experience into its terms : In my prayer I was reaching out to heaven with heartfelt longing when I became aware , in a way I can not explain , of a symphony of song , and in myself I sensed a corresponding harmony at once wholly delectable and heavenly , which persisted in my mind . |
| 26 | A way it can spoil the future . |
| 27 | ‘ Of course , there 's a way you can work around playing a minor blues in a major tuning — in open G , for instance , you just play the top three strings at the third fret and that gives you a B flat major chord that you can use as a G minor — but it still felt pretty limiting . |
| 28 | It does sound a touch obtuse , but in a way you can understand how the mistake might be made . |
| 29 | And if , as I 'm certain once you visit here , you find you want to come back again , you may be interested to know that there is a way you can share in this magnificent Highland retreat , time after time . |
| 30 | Understanding Data Communications shows you how to do it yourself in a way you can easily understand . |