Example sentences of "can [vb infin] [pron] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Also , as an immigrant to Canada , I can affirm it 's more pleasant living where problems are met with cheerful optimism instead of the sullen whining which passes for debate in Britain . |
| 2 | But in some cases a person of the age of 16 can make what is in effect equivalent to a disposition by will : a member of a Trade Union or Friendly Society may , for instance , at that age nominate in writing a person to receive moneys payable on his death by the Union or Society . |
| 3 | I can make what is perhaps not a usual boast in Scotland : I can claim that some of my best friends are Conservatives . |
| 4 | Clanness can characterize the vessels used in the Eucharist or the goblets which serve men and women of exalted dignity in their banquets ; it blurs the edges of earthly things with a nimbus of heaven , in other words , and yet it can make what is celestial seem clearer to human sense . |
| 5 | If I cross my hands over my breast I can think I 'm dead and in paradise , but it 's true what they say , you can get too tired to sleep . |
| 6 | And if you 're interested in spin-offs , from stories , I can think it 's |
| 7 | I know it 's not true , I know it 's not , well I know from whom I 'm can think it 's not true I know it 's not . |
| 8 | So it is only if he admits the strength of the argument from error that he can think he is getting anywhere by refuting PC k . |
| 9 | Now how a man who works on can think there 's anything funny about species I just ca n't understand erm but there it is. erm well , suppose , however , that in my view wrongly one did suppose that there was something erm in this sort of idea of the decoupling between the processes which we observed in single populations and erm the sort of mechanisms leading to large scale evolution , what kinds of processes are held to be important when it comes to large scale evolution events ? |
| 10 | Finally , as we have shown earlier , what is defined as criminal varies across time and place , thus making it difficult to argue that in-built differences between the sexes can explain what is a variable phenomena . |
| 11 | In order to reassure the House and the public , perhaps the Minister can explain what is the procedure when a police officer uses the powers given in the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 to stop someone in the street or someone driving a car . |
| 12 | Perhaps I could at least stay until she wakes up and I can explain what 's happening . ’ |
| 13 | the ‘ fiction theory ’ must remain unsatisfactory unless it can explain what are the real facts in terms of individual rights and duties which underlie the fiction , and this it seems unable to do . |
| 14 | Partly this is a matter of protecting their expertise : any fool can claim generic he is sexist , but only the linguist can explain it is really ‘ unmarked ’ . |
| 15 | When applying for a place on a re-entry course keep the following questions in mind so that you can compare what is on offer to your own best advantage . |
| 16 | We must find some way of ‘ taking out ’ of our calculations that fraction of brain that can be attributed simply to body size , so that we can compare what is left over as the true ‘ braininess ’ of animals . |
| 17 | Circumstances can arise which are difficult to anticipate ; for example , one site with which the author was involved was situated over a mile from the sea , but part of the site was on ground made up from Elizabethan times and included a harbour wall . |
| 18 | If the occasion arises that your parent is seriously ill and wishes you ( or some other relative or close friend ) to act for her and have access to some of her money so that you can pay her bills and buy her anything she needs , she can grant what is known as ‘ Power of Attorney ’ . |
| 19 | One way I can hurt you is physically all right ? |
| 20 | And another way I can hurt you is er mentally and the third way I can hurt you is by combining the two together . |
| 21 | And another way I can hurt you is er mentally and the third way I can hurt you is by combining the two together . |
| 22 | So , on some sites you might say , no , I , well I can control the labour costs and I can control the er , plant usage , but I do n't buy the materials myself the only way I can affect them is by altering the wastage . |
| 23 | can promise you is that commissions awarded on basis of competition , we were looking for quality , we invited bids , we |
| 24 | If they seriously believe that in the context of the present constitutional crisis between Scotland and the rest of the United Kingdom they can introduce what are crude and dangerous league tables into Scottish education — and do so by means of a single clause tacked on at the end of an English and Welsh Bill which is otherwise wholly irrelevant to Scotland — they have taken leave of their collective senses . |
| 25 | And the only person who can disprove it is Puddephat himself . |
| 26 | To put this another way , we can predict what is going to happen in most of the situations in which we find ourselves because we have expectations that certain rules will be followed . |
| 27 | No onlooker , during the process , can know which is which . |
| 28 | Only you can know what is right for you — so only you can make the final decision . |
| 29 | Thus I can know what is in the bottom drawer of my desk , or what I shall eat for breakfast tomorrow , by some form of inductive inference from what I have observed or am now observing . |
| 30 | Can someone give me a list of these nicknames so I can know who is being discussed . |