Example sentences of "can [conj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I wonder whether I ever can or ever will be able to love . |
| 2 | The main relations are summarized below , with examples of conjunctions which can or typically realize each |
| 3 | In an integrated service will dementia sufferers be given sufficient priority , or can that only be achieved in a specialist service ? |
| 4 | The practitioner can and probably should ask Customs to confirm in writing that the fee notes are not tax invoices , which is important because Customs can recover from the supplier any VAT shown on his invoices ( VATA 1983 Sch 7 para 6 ( 1 ) — ( 3 ) ) . |
| 5 | When this occurs you can and probably will , lost the pattern and that means unravelling which we all want to avoid if possible . |
| 6 | Well they , they had gone into the production of er steel er turning er in such a way that er they looked for the best possible tools er in order , one , that they could produce the item more cheaply as far as the employing class is concerned , they want to produce it as cheap as they can and probably sell it the dearest . |
| 7 | But I 'm afraid your reputation precedes you , you are renowned for rising to challenges like these and I feel sure that you can build on your previous successes and that together we can and probably will , do it . |
| 8 | It is important to remember that a government 's power can and normally does quite properly extend to people who do not accept its authority . |
| 9 | he thinks his shooting the oil can , and he keeps diving behind these oil cans and takes cover and that , he said oh no not an oil can and fucking little bullets , bullet |
| 10 | I 'll do the very best I can and just hope it does you justice . |
| 11 | Jump up quickly whenever you can and either keep fighting or escape . |
| 12 | It is not that the coin is of a fixed weight , since lumps of bullion can and often are produced to a specific weight standard . |
| 13 | Studies of responses to both separation from the attachment object and subsequent reunion with it , yield unequivocal support to the proposition that attachments can and often do survive periods of absence , undiminished in strength , despite the fact that attachment behaviour may diminish in strength during the period of absence . |
| 14 | It is clear from this example that inverse irreversibility can and often does , cut both ways , that is , Eysenck 's bias in favour of race being a principal factor in inherent intelligence and the psychiatrists ' abuse of his statistics because of that , red herring in mad pursuit of red herring . |
| 15 | Any discussion of crime must be cognizant of the fact that serious adverse consequences can and often do follow from being indifferent to the outcome of one 's actions ( or inactions ) . |
| 16 | At the same the management of eye movements leaves room for the possibility of accesses which can and often do develop into what Goffmann describes as focussed encounters ; episodes which are themselves introduced and terminated by rituals of greeting and farewell . |
| 17 | We can and often should stop reasoning about art , and go instead to look at a painting , listen to some music , read a poem . |
| 18 | He points out that these aims can and often do conflict in an industrial R&T organization . |
| 19 | really I mean what you 're almost sort of presiding over is a sort of steady decline , really , but on the other hand I think some people think if you can make that as erm as sort of dignified as you can and actually give them sort of support when they actually need it , |
| 20 | ’ Clearly , Adam was only reluctantly willing to share his plans with his parents , ‘ Since you ask , I 'm going to go down and take a look at it as soon as I can and then I 'm going to put it on the market . ’ |
| 21 | Make your way to the southern side of Loch Assynt and follow the shore as long as you can and then take the easiest line of travel staying parallel to the loch . |
| 22 | Now that would do , that would do whether the , whether the knuckles were hurt or it was just a minor cut in the palm of the hand there , that would do and you can use the same type of bandage on the foot alright , so that 's if the hand was damaged , now supposing we did n't have the hand damaged , but we had instead a cut up here , okay , again clean it and if you clean it with lots of water always remember to dry off around the wound because bugs love a moist skin to grow in , dry the wound before you apply the dressing okay if you can , dry it off the best you can and then you 're going to place that over the cut , remember you want the pad to be long enough , big enough , okay , now she can hold this for you again , she can hold it above where the wound is and now when you bandage this one you always bandage from the narrow part to the fat part of the limb , you always bandage from the narrow to the fat , so you take the bandage down |
| 23 | ‘ It is rather like copying the squirrel who collects nuts all through the summer when he can and then has a good store for the lean winter months . ’ |
| 24 | Well er we , we 've taken a , a , a policy view over the years because the group has a number of er very attractive er products and , and , and , and shareholders have frequently asked if was possible erm , to have concessions in all sorts of areas and the view we 've taken is that it involves a , a , a , a , a great deal of administration and that our real job is to er increase the profits of the business er , a as well as we can and then to pay dividends to the shareholders erm who will er , er , then use that money er , hopefully to buy a good number of our products . |
| 25 | In other words , some heads may think that it is desirable and right to devote much care to management through the corporateness of professionals but , within the same code , to achieve as much agreement among the non-professionals as one can and then to stop trying . |
| 26 | We have to get in as quickly and as quietly a we possibly can and then once in try and secure the place from any possible threat that might be in there . |
| 27 | I think what you want to do now , write down a list of what you want him to do and let Steve do that for tomorrow if you can and then let's see if we can make him stick to that list cos otherwise he 'll be here in |
| 28 | Course you can and then , it because erm the way they stain it if we ca n't fix it |
| 29 | About dinner time and then we can and then |
| 30 | Er learn all you can and then we 'll know how to do it all . |