Example sentences of "can [vb infin] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Otago CA report for that year had to report that the early high hopes for Otago cricket were now being ‘ affected by the Great War , and the necessity for all men to play the greater game for the Empire ’ . |
| 2 | Fussell is a past master of gallows humour ; but every now and then one can laugh without any sense of guilt , usually when senior officers are being mocked . |
| 3 | The following is the UK mirror site of ftp.luth.se — probably THE FTP site in the world … anyway , you can log into this UK one anonymously … which basically means there s no account/password needed as such . |
| 4 | No you can comment on that |
| 5 | if I can comment on that Chairman , the erm , the Authority asked for thirty for next month , along with all the other authorities I think in the country , asked for an improvement in the , in the policing the country , and I think people that live in , in Shropshire , and the people that live in other er , parts of the country as well , would have welcomed the increase in the police force this year , but the government decided not to do that . |
| 6 | Thank you , perhaps I can comment on that . |
| 7 | I do n't think we should hold up this one because of it , er so I would like to see the more detailed plans coming to the next meeting of the area committee er , so that residents can comment on this . |
| 8 | It can persist for many years . |
| 9 | Activity-dependent synaptic potentiation occurs within milliseconds and can persist for many hours in the anaesthetised animal or in the in vitro hippocampal slice preparation , and for days when induced in the freely moving animal . |
| 10 | We found that chronic constipation in young children can persist for many years . |
| 11 | On second thoughts , take Shaw and see what he can make of that computer thing . ’ |
| 12 | Eventually they may grow to like each other , especially if there is some other link they can make with each other such as matching colour . |
| 13 | we know we can make to that standard . |
| 14 | I think the only response you can make to any child who 's facing a challenge is that you care , that you will be patient , that you will go on and on and on . |
| 15 | What connections do you think we can make between these and decisions about who should be a priest today ? |
| 16 | What a difference a few precious centimetres can make in this game of high stakes . |
| 17 | There are not many guarantees I can make in this game , but one thing I can assure you of is that you now have 1,000 shares in. |
| 18 | It has helped to reinforce the important contribution the Institute and its members can make in this area . |
| 19 | To , to make people feel sorry for them and they have no shame at all in breaking limbs and distorting their features and all so that kind to make themselves look as pitiful as they possible can because they 're going to live a life of a beggar and they tell us it 's very profitable being a beggar in some lands , people can make in this country they reckon up to in places like London a hundred pounds a day being a beggar that 's more than you earn a day is n't it ? |
| 20 | And there 's no limit on the number of calls you can make in any one year . |
| 21 | I am sure that we can build on that and that it will be ever more successful . |
| 22 | We can build on that in future . |
| 23 | Right I know that 's okay so I can build on that . |
| 24 | At this stage perhaps I can emphasize Jan this is such a flexible concept that er we are anxious not to lay down any rigid rules as to how it works because if some things do n't work very well , they can be altered and if some things do prove to work well like the event we had at Felixstowe we can build on that success so quite consciously we 're not laying down any rigid rules as to how things go and we will look to review how officers we , we erm advise you as members in the light of practical experience . |
| 25 | As you learn more about the character of individual species the more you can build on this simple approach . |
| 26 | even worse , you can build on this idea , could n't you ? |
| 27 | We have discussed this point because we are about to describe various syndromes of aphasia , and it is important to realise that one can think of each syndrome in the theoretical sense or in the clinical sense . |
| 28 | In asking for clarification , information or advice , you ask the rest of the meeting to help you and no one can think of that as presumptuous . |
| 29 | And you can think of that pretty easily if you look at your table erm just write down with the charges on the the ions what H two S O four looks like . |
| 30 | Any way that you can think of that will help to get these axes right because most of the time it 's going to be this sort of thing I mean you said , Do you want me to work it you know use the graph or just work it out from this . |