Example sentences of "can [pron] [adv] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Can I be clear please I I 'm sorry Mr , can I just be clarif clarified as far as E N V Eleven is concerned , which pond this is in terms of names ? |
| 2 | Yes , can I just be clear er Mr . |
| 3 | C can I just be clear though er Mr . |
| 4 | Can I just be clear , Councillor that you meant no disrespect to the Councillors at all . |
| 5 | If minds are private , how can I ever be sure that other people have beliefs , expectations , hopes , or whatever ? |
| 6 | How can I ever be well-prepared for anything ? |
| 7 | can you please be |
| 8 | You 're a famous author — the writer of The Graduate , for goodness sake , a book I love — how can you possibly be broke ? ’ |
| 9 | ’ Can you truly be a thief and lair. ? |
| 10 | Can you really be reneging on that vow , merely because a connected case is being investigated by the Inspector ? ’ |
| 11 | Even with Smith John and Brown David , how can you really be sure over here ? |
| 12 | ‘ Can you never be serious ? |
| 13 | No , I have thought of that , I shall have to waste time , to sit about until she returns , and what help can she ever be ? |
| 14 | The process of clarification necessary to define the problem list can itself sometimes be helpful to the patient . |
| 15 | Can we please be prompt at nine o'clock tomorrow morning for the start of the sessions tomorrow . |
| 16 | Can we just be clear in our minds before we move on , how it affects . |
| 17 | If we create our own reality , then how can we ever be justified in feeling angry ? |
| 18 | For otherwise how can we ever be sure whether Beethoven intends for us to see a horde of goblins or a host of elephants ? ’ |
| 19 | But can we then be quite sure that at a later stage , when the same kind of performance has been taken out of the service and then out of the church , the signal is unambiguously to ‘ art ’ ? |
| 20 | Can we absolutely be sure that the whole purpose of the fire fighters review panel looking at fire cover throughout the county of Hertfordshire to see how long the various traffic changes er and changes to er er road structure and various other . |
| 21 | If East Germans have the freedom to choose , can we really be confident that they would prefer to face the difficulties of establishing a capitalist economy and democratic system on their own ? |
| 22 | Can we really be happy with a church that is indifferent to the thousands who pass our church doors each day ? ’ |
| 23 | Can one really be sure that the yoked animal is not learning anything ? |
| 24 | We are producing more goods in our factories of better quality than ever before , how can there yet be a recession ? |
| 25 | But can there really be such a unified theory ? |
| 26 | Can there ever be an equal place for women in Christianity ? |
| 27 | THEY ARE GRAPHICALLY ORIENTATED , POWERFUL AND FAST — CAN THERE POSSIBLY BE ANY DRAWBACKS ? |
| 28 | ‘ Can there possibly be some truth in the story ? ’ said Sir Henry . |
| 29 | So how can there possibly be a libidinal dimension to crowds if crowds are just erm many more extra points in the eternal triangle ? |
| 30 | How long can they reasonably be expected to last in conditions like that ? |