Example sentences of "and [pers pn] can [adv] be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If my servant , acting bona fide within the scope of his authority , procures or causes me to break a contract which I have made with you , you can not sue the servant for interference with the contract ; for he is my alter ego here , and I can not be sued for inducing myself to break a contract , although I may be liable for breaking the contract . |
| 2 | And I can hardly be expected to leave my three-year-old brother here in the care of a strange man . ’ |
| 3 | If I go to a match in Europe , I come back to a stack of videos and I can hardly be bothered . |
| 4 | Provided everybody else pays , the factory will cut back and you can not be prevented from getting the benefits . |
| 5 | Yet if the customer is adamant that you must go and you can not be fitted into another niche where you would have no contact with him , you may be vulnerable to dismissal . |
| 6 | Barbara Stace ( Mrs Taylor ) does not regard herself as having had a career other than marriage and family life though she admits to having done ‘ some teaching , some voluntary work especially with the local community association , learning a few new skills , keeping up with my old hobbies ’ and she can invariably be met behind the souvenirs stall at Somerville Gaudy . |
| 7 | The company has informed your two banks , where you have substantial overdrafts , I understand , that your employment with us has ceased , and we can not be regarded as guarantors . |
| 8 | ‘ Here we are very safe , ’ said Minch , ‘ and we can not be hurt . |
| 9 | He shows no love in his dictatorial and threatening speech in book five and we can not be expected to suppose , in our first reactions to the text , that what he is doing is altogether just . |
| 10 | If we do not actually receive the money within this period , our computer will automatically cancel your reservation and we can not be held responsible if that holiday is subsequently not available . |
| 11 | erm Yes , certainly , I , I would suggest East and St Clements because they have got quite high ethnic populations , and we can perhaps be hoping to start there , because Environmental Health 's already worked there , targeting some of the multi-occupation properties , so they 've got a very high proportion of black people living there , which means that they 're also quite important in the sense of deprivation , but , I mean , we are also very conscious that we should be working on a council estate , and what we , what I would like to do is to simultaneously be starting working in erm a particular sets of communities , is to be given work in consultation in other wards , so that you know , six months down the line before . |
| 12 | The exceptions , which have some form of developed street network , a more diverse range of buildings and perhaps even a central core , clearly stand out from the pack on current evidence , and they can thus be seen to compare most favourably with the urban patterns recognizable within the major towns and cities of the province . |
| 13 | They can be rattled to produce a menacing warning sound , they can be thrust violently into the flesh of the attacker by backward lunges of the porcupine 's body , and they can easily be detached to be left embedded in the unfortunate predator 's anatomy . |
| 14 | Transforming the original numbers by taking logs ( or by one of the other transformations considered below ) is an essentially trivial operation : the order of the numbers is preserved , and they can easily be recast in their original form by taking antilogs . |
| 15 | N.B. It should be noted that in Austria twin beds often consist of two separate mattresses attached to a single frame or headboard and they can not be separated . |
| 16 | Acts like eating , sexual intercourse , and fighting are embedded in a socially shared set of associated symbols , and they can not be isolated from this semantic setting . |
| 17 | The advantages of a DIP system are that images — unlike paper documents — do not have to be physically moved around the office , they occupy much less storage space , and they can not be lost , misfiled or damaged in the way that paper can . |
| 18 | But they lack the three essentials : they do not evolve , they do not process energy , and they can not be called organisms . |
| 19 | But I have some sympathy for the institutions ' view that their duty is to their policyholders and they can not be expected to double up as company regulators . |
| 20 | There are about 600 of them , and they can not be traded for commercial purposes . |
| 21 | He argues that class conflicts and economic crises are built into the way the economic system works , and they can not be avoided . |
| 22 | Putting this point on a more theoretical level , the musical field and the class structure at any given moment , though clearly not unconnected , comprise different ‘ maps ’ of social/cultural space , and they can not be reduced one to the other ( see Williams 1981 ) . |
| 23 | Solicitors are appointed as county prosecutors , and they can also be appointed as prosecutors for the Inland Revenue and Customs and Excise . |
| 24 | They can be seen from several miles away , and they can also be shot ( not necessarily killed ) over considerable distances with high-powered rifles . |
| 25 | As we have already noted , audio mixers are used to combine the signals from a number of microphones , and they can also be used as volume controllers . |
| 26 | The woven fabrics which I have described in the article are ideal for coats and jackets , and they can also be used to make a wide range of soft furnishing for the home , including cushion covers , rugs and table mats . |
| 27 | Moreover , time targets do not need recalculation when the basic rate is changed and they can also be utilised for planning and programming of the work . |
| 28 | Words such as " aforesaid " , " hereinafter " , " the same " , " whensoever " , " whereof " and so on are not in general use , and they can generally be avoided . |
| 29 | The early OS maps record them and they can often be retrieved from obscurity by fieldwork in examining the bottoms of hedges and the sides of ditches . |
| 30 | The indexes , in Latin and English , are followed by seven practical lists , similar to those in the catalogues of many leading nurserymen today and they can still be consulted to advantage . |