Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] can " in BNC.
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| 1 | If they then go out and collect signatures no-one can say that the petition has been organized by a small group who have twisted arms in the street . |
| 2 | ‘ Of course nothing can be formally arranged just at this present , ’ went on Miss Merchiston , and Theda almost laughed out to see the burgeoning hope in the poor man 's face , ‘ for with dear Mama in this sad condition , I could not reconcile it with my conscience to leave her in the care of other hands . |
| 3 | Of course no-one can guarantee anything . |
| 4 | bluecollar gipsy I can see it in your eyes . |
| 5 | To both Il Giornale dell'Arte and Christian Bernard I can only say : shame on you . |
| 6 | As a scientist I can not believe it — but I saw it happen with my own eyes . |
| 7 | The File Manager obligingly scans the entire disk and lists all the files beginning with Q. I can see that the ones I want have been installed under D : \WINDOWS\QUOTE , and I can use the File Manager to look at them . |
| 8 | Using all the tact I can muster , I try to explain this . |
| 9 | For a number of reasons I can not accept Mill 's answer to the question , ‘ What does it mean to say that something is white ? ’ |
| 10 | The only reasons I can think of are 1 ) trying to scare Deano into scoring ( ! ) ; and 2 ) work permits . |
| 11 | Also as much info I can get as to what parts of the ground non-members etc. can buy tickets for and the prices would be helpful . |
| 12 | On the expenditure side of the accounts I can say that , certainly up to the half way stage of the financial year , the budget is holding . |
| 13 | In my own defence I can say that everyone else got it wrong too . |
| 14 | In my own defence I can say only that I went along for the ride , as it were , if you 'll forgive the expression , Mr Milton . ’ |
| 15 | She supplies the book 's hasty conclusion after the death at Lydiard Constantine of Philip — a partial picture of one side of the Battersea Grammar School Edward : At this point the people of Abercorran House — even Jessie and Aurelius- and the dogs that stretched out in death like blessedness under the sun , and the pigeons that courted and were courted in the yard and on the roof , all suddenly retreat from me when I come to that Spring in memory ; a haze of ghostly , shimmering silver veils them ; without Philip they are as people in a story whose existence I can not prove . |
| 16 | From my country upbringing I can remember fields of blaggets less common now but I do know of it still being grown in Orkney . |
| 17 | ‘ In the 22 years I have sat on the North Eastern Co-op 's board I can not recall a year in which so many negative factors have combined . |
| 18 | In this case I can always be blamed . ’ |
| 19 | In case I can lever out that toad , Morgan . ’ |
| 20 | In my own case I can experience psychological feelings very similar to physical pregnancy — a vague unease , heaviness , discomfort , and a kind of dark brooding . |
| 21 | But in any case I can not marry your son . |
| 22 | In that case I can spend Monday h er making phone calls |
| 23 | In that case I can give you my Mercury my business Mercury number and you can make phone calls on the company from here . |
| 24 | He seemed to be trying to pull himself together and just as the bus appeared at the mouth of the square , he murmured : ‘ Do n't worry about Mama ; she will have understood what you were thinking , and in any case I can tell her if you 'd like . ’ |
| 25 | In which case I can see jealousy as one of the nastier withdrawal symptoms . |
| 26 | I 'm making her kick , trying to get her to shake or swat them off , and the last thing I need at this point is for her to panic , in which case I can certainly kiss the whole blessed contract bye-bye . |
| 27 | ‘ In that case I can tell you that in my humble opinion this place is the meanest , tightest little arsehole in the entire fucking country . |
| 28 | ‘ In that case I can only express my gratitude . |
| 29 | But if we now recall the alternative definition of democracy as popular power , or popular sovereignty , then it becomes clear that it can not be a democratic act for the people to vote away their own power and their own rights ; any more than if I freely renounce my freedom I can remain free because the renunciation was a free act . |
| 30 | All of the sources on the on the network look like so for instance I can do joins across two heterogeneous R D B M Ss. you can have a table with departments in , employee 's in Oracle , and salaries in D B two and I could use a single select statement and join all that information together in a single request to the Omni SQL Gateway . |