Example sentences of "[adv] [indef pn] can " in BNC.
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| 1 | And let me quote Locke er here we are are we he says but submitting to the laws of any country , living quietly and enjoying privileges and protection under them , makes not a man a member of that society then he goes on a little bit further down nothing can make any man so but is actually entering into it by positive engagement and express promise and compact . |
| 2 | It will be an exciting and fun day — educational too , with informative workshops so everyone can get hands-on experience , indoors and out . |
| 3 | In desperation they turned to Central South … furious that apparently nothing can be done … |
| 4 | Theists describe a constant dependence of the world not upon something outside it — if we define the universe broadly enough nothing can be outside it — but upon something that transcends it . |
| 5 | So nothing can be done for another year . |
| 6 | What it 's got to do with the comrade 's ability to join the Labour Party I 'm not absolutely sure , perhaps someone can tell me afterwards . |
| 7 | So nobody can come . ’ |
| 8 | So nobody can get in at all |
| 9 | Naturally one can not leave business premises unattended . |
| 10 | Perhaps one can produce figures for the amount knocked off property prices by aircraft noise and excessive pollution ( as Blueprint suggests , with the backing of figures from American cities ) , but even here there is room for doubt . |
| 11 | Perhaps one can assume , therefore , that it is a subject few people know anything about . |
| 12 | Of the ‘ scholar patriots ’ perhaps one can say that , instead , they helped to awaken the national consciousness ; and in the evening of his life Phan Boi Chau , in a moving analogy in which Vietnam was likened to an orphan child which by this time should have learned to walk and France to a tutor who felt that the child was easier to control when he was unable to run , talked of a people whose traditional values had been destroyed and who were thus a generation of uprooted people on their own soil . |
| 13 | Perhaps one can shed some light on this by being rather more precise in defining both ‘ the enterprise and economies of scale . |
| 14 | These trends continued in a broadly similar pattern over the Heath years ( continuing decline of manual employment in manufacturing and expansion of the salariat accompanied by continuing social mobility ) so perhaps one can understand the revival of the Liberal Party ( with its relative lack of symbolic ‘ class ’ connections , and lack of political ‘ dogmatism ’ ) as reflecting this trend ‘ de-alignment ’ as well as the conjuncture of 1974 . |
| 15 | Shakespeare was only out twice , and perhaps one can understand why " Ruskin 's Selections " and " A Short History of the English People " only once and Herbert Martin 's " Selections from the Spectator " not at all , but the " Kipling Reader " would seem to deserve more than one lending . |
| 16 | Perhaps one can have a personal ioniser that clips on the lapel or the belt . |
| 17 | Apparently one can not have it both ways . |
| 18 | Of each pair of alleles , only one can be the lucky one that enters any given sperm or egg . |
| 19 | There were so many versions of Jesus , but only one can be true if you allow history to pronounce the verdict . |
| 20 | Effort is the source of good things , if only one can get one 's efforts recognized by the dominant person in the situation . |
| 21 | None of these elements is specified , and only one can be identified with any confidence . |
| 22 | As these projects are mutually exclusive only one can be chosen , and therefore Project B is the preferred option as it has a positive NPV of £12,430 , which is 14 times greater than the return earned by Project A. |
| 23 | Only one can be saved from extinction . |
| 24 | None of these elements is specified , and only one can be identified with any confidence . |
| 25 | It 's only one can , they 're not exactly gon na notice are they ? |
| 26 | Obviously one can check , but … ’ |
| 27 | Obviously one can not re-use plants for later measurement by the other two systems and so the graphs obtained have fewer points than the earlier ones . |
| 28 | Furthermore one can imagine statements about the nature of evil which would go past Boethius but stop short of Manichaeus . |
| 29 | Furthermore one can perhaps see the solution to which Tolkien , in his philological way , was drawn , namely to present the First Age as ‘ a complex of divergent texts interlinked by commentary ’ ( UT , p. 1 ) , the texts themselves being supposedly written by Men , of different periods , looking back across the ages to vast rumours of whose truth they knew only part . |
| 30 | So one can only surmise that this rather authoritarian sign is aimed at people whose knuckles scrape the tarmac . |