Example sentences of "can [adv] [vb infin] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mrs Thatcher should do either as the Mail demands and replace Mr Lawson with a Chancellor of whose policies she can wholeheartedly approve or , as Mr Heseltine urges , lift her veto against the only course which could give credibility to an exchange rate policy . |
| 2 | We can justifiably expect that academics will adhere to the demands of rationality in their professional work , developing the open character of their discipline . |
| 3 | It is here that the goal of developing a different vision , for locating a different set of values , becomes pre-eminent — because with that different vision , with a determination to create a new set of values which recognises intrinsic value in all living creatures , we can properly inform and inspire a programme that works , albeit a gradualist one ! |
| 4 | But he can rarely know whether or not the policeman has good grounds for acting as he does , and in so far as there is a conflict between the citizen and the policeman , the reasonable suspicions of the policeman must take priority . |
| 5 | For example , in the case of Rome in the third century BC , we can calculate that the total amount of silver coinage produced was small in comparison with Rome 's ‘ income ’ at the time , as defined by plunder , tribute and indemnities , and we can thereby see that silver coinage played only a minor role in the economy . |
| 6 | Such a system allows you to leave and receive messages on a telephone which is part of a computerised network ( and which therefore can digitally store and then replay sounds ) . |
| 7 | So to summarize that in terms of a of of a kinetic diagram , we can basically write that channels exist in closed and open states . |
| 8 | We can all go and invest in PEPs , we can all go and invest in pension plans and all of that gets taken by the institutions and put into the stock market . |
| 9 | We can all go and invest in PEPs , we can all go and invest in pension plans and all of that gets taken by the institutions and put into the stock market . |
| 10 | well we can all go and listen to Coronation Street . |
| 11 | And then we can all go and stay there . |
| 12 | they also th These other things can all burn as well and you can get erm sulphur dioxide and you can get , as well as nitrogen you can get oxides of nitrogen . |
| 13 | So I mean I wo n't take them now if you have thought erm and if y if you have er decided on a name I wo n't erm make a note of it now , erm but if you can all remember that that we definitely need the confirmation names sorted out . |
| 14 | Let's , you know I mean Judith 's saying , well I 've got some good work sheets on this , I mean we can all say that if we all know where the work sheets are |
| 15 | As they call out the names of the new members , I would like them to stand so they can all recognise and welcome them . |
| 16 | It may well be open countryside , we can all agree that it 's it 's it 's beyond this it 's currently beyond the settlement . |
| 17 | Local inspectors , on the other hand , can rightly argue that this is their great strength . |
| 18 | Certainly from the rapturous reception when he walked on court and the sympathetic response after a performance containing too many embarrassingly bad moments , Borg can rightly claim that people still want to see him play . |
| 19 | It is the Spirit who takes the things of God and reveals them to us ( 1 Cor. 2:12 ) , and Paul can rightly say that the very capacity to respond in faith is a gift of God and no man-made attribute of which we can boast ( Eph. 2:8 ) . |
| 20 | As a result , powerful database software packages have emerged that can make these small single user machines act like large filing cabinets which can instantaneously search or reorganise a file with literally the touch of a button . |
| 21 | But in fact we know of existing animals with a whole range of light-sensitive organs , from those which can merely detect whether the animal is in the light or the dark , through organs capable of detecting the direction of the incident light , up to proper image-forming eyes . |
| 22 | As previously noted , banks can increase the total volume of spending in the economy by their credit-creating capacity while non-bank financial institutions can merely borrow and lend funds which have been already created within the banking system . |
| 23 | Labour 's Minister for Science will develop a national strategy to promote high-quality science and technology , so that Britain can better anticipate and respond to the challenges of the future . |
| 24 | Busy parents can justly retort that they have so little time to check on their children , that they can not always follow through their threats to discipline them . |
| 25 | doctor if you do n't agree with what it says , erm , you can obviously mention that to and er er along speedily say in the course of this week , the matter can be mentioned in formal to me , erm one morning at ten o'clock next week I would of thought . |
| 26 | People with very high salaries can obviously save and invest , hence accumulating wealth , and joining an upper class of businessmen , financiers , landowners or inheritors of wealth . |
| 27 | Also , I am a bit older than the rest of you , but you can perhaps understand that I do n't want to drop dead without a proper and public recantation . |
| 28 | Erm I can personally testify that the , the award winner that this year is somebody that I 've known for something like twenty six , twenty seven years . |
| 29 | You see this is the thing that worries me because , you know , when I stand up and say I like what John Dreyfus did and I think his looks very good and I maintain the traditions of the Oxford University Press , I can suddenly feel that I 'm being typecast as being in the English tradition of typography as a revered art and the Morrisonian thing and the whole thing separate from , you know , a culture within a culture and a separate thing . |
| 30 | They can suddenly escalate because someone is carrying a blade . ’ |