Example sentences of "[conj] can [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In recent years people have been asking : does the post need to be filled or can reorganisation be used to distribute the work among existing staff ? |
| 2 | In addition to wall displays thought needs to be given to the equipment which can be used in the room , e.g. does the teacher always have to use the overhead projector or slide projector with the whole class or can groups of pupils go and view a selection of slides independently as needed ? |
| 3 | The leader as always is er is a directive agency , the leader as it were erm takes over the individual self-determination by erm effectively telling telling the good what to do erm how can this er does this have to be in in one direction only I mean one gets the feelings very often you know you see things in the newspaper crowd hysteria and so on , erm do crowds always have to become kind of primitive and regressed or or can leaders influence them in other directions ? |
| 4 | Must the existence of God be probable , or can theism seek to defend its position against the improbability of God 's existence ? |
| 5 | Is the discipline controlled by the big guns , or can individuals — even those without tenured posts in institutions — really expect to get a hearing ? |
| 6 | Philosophy can not be separated from the history of philosophy , nor can culture from the history of culture … . |
| 7 | Nor can Hewlett be dismissed as having been lucky and got it right first time : it did n't . |
| 8 | Nor can teachers any longer be allowed to say that they do not know what will be required of their pupils three , six or eight years later . |
| 9 | six Beiderbecke and Eubie Blake , Billy Mayerl and Nat Gonella can not easily be assimilated , or at least reduced , merely to a preformed role in the machinery of a dominant system of musical craftsmanship , nor can Bob Dylan and John Lennon , Chuck Berry , Bob Marley and Merle Haggard , let alone Joe Strummer or John Lydon ; though , equally obviously , they all , in another sense , come to be umbilically attached to that system . |
| 10 | Unfortunately we know nothing about the predecessors of Spartokos , nor can archaeology help much , and we can not say whether dynastic troubles in the 450s might have caused shortages on the Athenian grain market ; the seizure of power by the Spartokids is too late to be relevant . |
| 11 | ‘ I 'm not surprised , ’ said my therapist , ‘ for nor can I. ’ |
| 12 | Nor can I. But love is strange . |
| 13 | She ca n't stand idiots and inefficiency ; nor can I. So that was a bond between us . |
| 14 | It is not always as easy as that ; nor can adults be caught with the mela . |
| 15 | For him the " prevailing intellectual climate " can not be relied upon to " complement and complete specialist training " ; nor can specialist training offer a " discipline " suited to developing the sense of " social responsibility " favoured by inter-war model of English studies , in its emphasis upon the past , has little to offer on those crucial " cultural " questions of quality of living , " human ends as well as means " , or on the relations between culture and economic processes . |
| 16 | Under EC regulations contaminated eggs can not be banned from the UK nor can eggs be labelled as ‘ imported ’ . |
| 17 | Nor can Jesus himself possibly have expected anything else . |
| 18 | Nor can Oti , a 1989 Lion , or Buckton , the wise-head in the B back-line this season , travel . |
| 19 | And nor can Wolf . |
| 20 | Nor can experiences be interpreted quite simply as a species of natural states or events . |
| 21 | Skocpol ( 1979 ) , in a study of three revolutions , concludes that although ‘ questions of state power have been basic in social-revolutionary transformations … state power can not be understood only as an instrument of class domination , nor can changes in state structure be explained primarily in terms of class conflicts ’ ( p. 284 ) ; while Hall ( 1985 ) , in contrasting agrarian civilizations with industrial societies is mainly concerned , as was Max Weber , with the ‘ rise of the West ’ as a modernizing , progressive force , and with its possible decline as industrialization spreads throughout the world . |
| 22 | Nor can Devos yet match Bronfman for inexorable bravura in the second movement ; he is also prone to misreadings — in the Second Sonata at 0′44″ and 2′20″ in the slow movement , in the First Sonata at 2′45″ in the first movement , and in the Janáček first movement at 1′19″ . |
| 23 | No default judgment can be entered against the Crown save by leave of the court on application on seven days ' notice ( Ord 42 , r 5(4) ) , nor can summary judgment be given against the Crown under Ord 9 , r 14 ( Ord 42 , r 5(5) ) . |
| 24 | When work can no longer be taken for granted nor can leisure , and this , in turn , calls into question the hedonistic routine on which rock had been based . |
| 25 | Nor can Erich Honecker now ask the most important guest not to come to his party . |
| 26 | Nor can Thersites . |
| 27 | Nor can Socrates ' association with some of the Thirty Tyrants who , with Spartan support , had launched a coup against the democracy five years earlier , have been decisive . |
| 28 | Nor can polls cope with voters who are capricious or plain mischievous . |
| 29 | They can not propose amendments ( nor can amendments be moved when orders are discussed by the whole House in the Chamber ) . |
| 30 | Nor can Isaac . |