Example sentences of "[indef pn] can put " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then in the 1970s ( nobody can put an exact date to it ) the foliage began to change , becoming sickly yellow or brown instead of shining grey and green . |
| 2 | One can put up all kinds of contributory explanations for it , but none seems central enough to be convincing . |
| 3 | The master was lost in a fire , no one can put their hands on a pressing , Jubilee does not even have a test copy , and nobody has a tape of it . |
| 4 | ( This can actually be done because the corner and edge pieces can be removed , leaving the centres attached together , and one can put only corner pieces into corner locations , etc . ) |
| 5 | I do think that one can put one 's ideas over rather more forcefully and precisely when one 's present in the flesh , with all one 's conversational resources to hand . ’ |
| 6 | The north-east of England and the lowlands of Scotland are also ethnically similar , if one can put it that way . |
| 7 | Within generative phonology there has been much debate about whether one can put tonic ( ‘ primary ’ ) stress in the right place without referring to the non-linguistic context in which the speaker says something . |
| 8 | I think one can put forward fairly persuasive arguments that there are no life forms a good deal more advanced than ourselves in our galaxy , simply because I believe that social and environmental and sort of curiosity value factors would have led them to reveal their presence in various ways . |
| 9 | I think the fact that erm only twelve per cent of perceived sexual harassment cases come from tutors is n't to make that a minor problem , because the impact that sexual harassment , coming from tutors , institutional actors as it were , can have on students is phenomenal and you know one ca n't get too tied up in terms of the amount or the quantity of sexual harassment , I think one has to consider the quality of sexual harassment as well if one can put it that way , and it 's by no means a minor problem . |
| 10 | Linda Lamont , director of the Patients ' Association , added : ‘ Anybody can put up a brass plate and claim to be a doctor in the private sector . |
| 11 | At the time all I could think was , three days — anyone can put up with anything for three days . |
| 12 | In fact anyone can put a question to Neil Kinnock . |
| 13 | Although the money will help , nothing can put that right . ’ |