Example sentences of "that you can [adv] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ It wo n't get you anywhere , you know — ’ Melissa moved remarkably swiftly , blocking her path ‘ — hanging around Luke the way you do , finding excuses so that you can conveniently stay the weekend .
2 If the order is complicated , ask the person at the other end to read back to you what they have written down , so that you can both check that it is correct .
3 You may want your partner to know that there is something important you want to discuss , so that you can both make time in advance .
4 Relax deeply , then imagine yourself curled up inside a dark cocoon , which envelops you so closely that you can barely breathe .
5 However , it is at the CID social functions which are sprinkled throughout the year ( especially at Christmas and any departmental promotion ) that you can clearly observe the CID style .
6 Australia have shown you have to lose so that you can eventually win .
7 In addition , 1-2-3 for Windows contains all that you can reasonably ask of a spreadsheet — lots of
8 I ca n't fault it in performing the basic functions that you can reasonably expect from a spreadsheet , but I do feel that Lotus has tried to sell 1-2-3 for Windows on the back of the original DOS version , which misses the point of an Windows spreadsheet entirely .
9 What you need to do is the exact opposite : set yourself targets that you can reasonably expect to achieve .
10 ‘ As a Vascar , ’ said Trevor Newsom to a woman in a purple , off-the-shoulder frock , ‘ you must surely regret that you can no longer grow the extra arms and legs on which your livelihood depends ? ’
11 Whatever your scenario in December , what is being brought home to you is that you can no longer stand on the sidelines of your own life .
12 ‘ It 's the recommendation that you can no longer trust . ’
13 But my clinical experience tells me that for many of you , there 's no choice — other than the possibility of celibacy — for as you 've developed , you 'll have gradually realised that your sexual orientation is homosexual and that you can no more change that than the colour of your eyes .
14 The King 's doctors will make sure that you can no longer see . ’
15 The clowns ' convention is now such an accepted feature of Bognor life that you can even buy ‘ clown town ’ postcards of the event .
16 ‘ I 've been so unnaturally virtuous lately that you can surely grant me two kisses in one day ! ’
17 If you are using a question sheet with space for percentage judgements on various topics make sure you have filled it in so that you can later compare candidates on all the headings .
18 ( Note : You might wish to use scrap paper for this ‘ processing ’ exercise , so that you can later throw away or burn the negative thoughts and beliefs . )
19 It 's a terrible mistake to believe that you can consciously create camp , at this late hour , Camp is an aesthetic of consumption , not production .
20 ‘ Tell me which struggling hardware vendor is n't playing the same game ? , ’ he says : ‘ challenge the assumption that you can effectively redeploy all your excess headcount into this catchall .
21 Although many of the massage techniques in this illustrated guide are for two people to practise on each other , as you can clearly see from the simple techniques over the page , massage is something that you can successfully achieve alone .
22 This will mean that you can confidently go ahead and lose weight , knowing that you are able to maintain the weight loss afterwards .
23 By definition this means trying to give you more work and responsibility that you can probably handle .
24 If you do not feel that you can properly advise without an expert 's report then you must say so clearly .
25 You think at first that you have no choice , that it 's not up to you to decide on things like boyfriends — he 's sexy or he 's ugly — that you can just forget it .
26 In your text book you 've got quite a lot of information in there about reinforcing , what we 're going to do in the practical session and it 's always a help I think when you have a lot of the , thrown at you to know that you can just put it up and there it is if you get a bit confusing or ca n't remember what 's what , so on page one six nine it starts telling you all about nursing and bandages and general hygiene which we 've already talked quite a lot about but it 's very useful for you to know , you can go there and look , and if you just go through the pages from there on one seventy , one seven one , one seven two , one seven three and then on one seven four it 's got the general rules for applying bandages apply bandages when the casualty is sitting or lying down , you always sit your casualty down and you work from the front of , I say why do you work from the front of the thing ?
27 They [ theoretical differences ] are not resolved really ; they continue as quite big arguments ; and there are quite big camps really of those who believe in theory and those who believe in scholarship , I suppose ; and we pretend that you can just muddle along and it does n't matter , but the crunch comes at things like marking exam papers , because if you 've got a student who 's heavily into theory , writing for a marker who 's heavily not into theory , then they tend to say things like ‘ oh , he 's just read Terry Eagleton , so blah blah blah ’ or ‘ she 's just read Cate Belsey and regurgitated that ’ so someone can get a bad mark because they 've written for the wrong person .
28 heat sealing one that you can just run things through and they come out neatly sealed in acetate and waterproof like .
29 I said , Why so that you can just carry on normally ?
30 It does n't matter how small your primordial lung is , there must be some time out of water that you can just endure with the lung , which is a little bit longer than you could have endured without the lung .
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