Example sentences of "[pron] can [vb infin] [conj] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moreover I can reveal that the findings of the Committee were certainly not those indicated in this letter ; we found that Derry Corporation had for many years been carrying out a policy of anti-Rome Catholic discrimination in employment and rigid segregation in housing . |
| 2 | ‘ I can say that the police are definitely trying to stamp out racism . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Dogs which I can see and the icicles of of Ercalyps we are not looking . |
| 5 | There was some anxiety that the islands might have disappeared , which can happen when the tides are high . |
| 6 | Yours will most probably be the arms she needs at this point , and the best thing you can do for her is to show that you share her grief , and that as far as possible you are going to be the rock on which she can lean while the sands of her life are shifting so frighteningly beneath her feet . |
| 7 | ‘ And you can verify that the guns are licenced ? ’ |
| 8 | That 's a simple task you can do while the girls are at the dentist . |
| 9 | But if you persist in going for the burn , you can do as the Californians , and add to your kitbag a packet of small pieces of adhesive-backed plastic called Frownies . |
| 10 | If you can prove that the goods were defective when you bought them , you do have a claim against the seller and this is regardless of whether the guarantee has expired or not . |
| 11 | You can see that the flames are dying away . |
| 12 | You can see that the surfaces are littered with boulders , a degree of roughness consistent with radar scattering data . |
| 13 | And on a good night the stars would seem to brighten ; if you looked up it was like a clear winter 's night in the city , one of those nights when you find yourself on a dark street , one without streetlamps , and for once you can see that the stars have different colours ; they are like still fireworks . |
| 14 | You look for the creases , if you look at this doll is lov beautifully creased and you can see that the creases almost match each other , you turn the baby over and there 's lots of little creases and they match , can you all see that ? |
| 15 | They , you can see that the patients can be considered in four groups , those in the top line which in which the marker tumour was absent and no other tumours were seen in the bladder . |
| 16 | Jumping is an exciting part of high wind sailing in which there is no limit to the amount you can learn since the possibilities and variation in jumps is endless . |
| 17 | You can imagine that the inputs to each RAM chip are taken from a random selection of points on the retina . |
| 18 | How much better it will be to say to people , ‘ We can ensure that the children you have will be the best possible children , the ones with the best inheritance , the ones who will make the world a really good place to live in instead of the misery it so often is . ’ |
| 19 | Thus we can conclude that the coins and the two monograms are more or less contemporary . |
| 20 | Generally , then , we can conclude that the monetarists ' major policy recommendation is : maintain a steady constant growth in the money supply , otherwise leave things well alone . |
| 21 | Er , what we can do If the figures are worth eleven and a half days erm seventeen , seventeen days . |
| 22 | If we bear in mind that the institutions that did not reply may also have included some for whom the questionnaire was inappropriate , we can assume that the responses we obtained would represent somewhere approaching half those working in teacher education at the time . |
| 23 | Since the ‘ Keynesian ’ sees no reason to expect money incomes to be directly affected by the increase in the money supply , we can assume that the transactions and precautionary demands remain unchanged at first . |
| 24 | If we imagine the situation at the end of the Miller 's Tale in realistic terms , we can suppose that the divisions amongst the pilgrims in terms of their appreciation of the tale are as likely to reflect different sensibilities to the marked , fabliau language the Miller 's Tale makes use of as shock at the possible moral implications of the tale ( compare the response to the Prioress 's Tale , noted in Chapter 3 ) . |
| 25 | Although we ca n't predict the future in detail , we can say that the winds of change are blowing ever more strongly . |
| 26 | From the wide experience , we can say that the committees of the Engineering Board are generally more tolerant of new ideas . |
| 27 | while they , well , we can say that the police are being unjust , but the police have nothing to do with justice . |
| 28 | If we look back at the exchange between the piano movers , for example , we can see that the verbs ( 's goin , 's got to take , ai n't goin' , do n't , come on ) are all in the present ( although they refer to the future ) . |
| 29 | One can assume that the leaders of the Revolt were eliminated , removing the upper levels of tribal society , and also that the lands and possessions of the tribes would have been seized by the state to be retained as agerpublicus , sold off to speculators or given as rewards to loyalists . |
| 30 | For instance , if the network connects the node ‘ student ’ to the node ‘ person ’ with the link ‘ is a ’ , then one can infer that the properties of ‘ student ’ are inherited from those of ‘ person ’ . |