Example sentences of "[adj] can [verb] [Wh det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The British can do what they like . |
| 2 | There seems to be little evidence to support the view that twelve persons chosen at random can decide what is dishonest better than could Parliament or the judges . |
| 3 | You three can do what you like . |
| 4 | ‘ They got what they wanted , maybe Ii can get what I want too ’ ’ — let's go electric . |
| 5 | we 're not gon na have these connectors on so we all can do whatever size we want really ca n't we ? |
| 6 | I can safely claim that nobody at all can read what follows without learning something new about him , any more than I could have imagined , when I began preparing it , how much unrecorded information I would find . |
| 7 | But in some cases a person of the age of 16 can make what is in effect equivalent to a disposition by will : a member of a Trade Union or Friendly Society may , for instance , at that age nominate in writing a person to receive moneys payable on his death by the Union or Society . |
| 8 | In this kind of situation neither can say what their real feelings are . |
| 9 | One allocation that would be both efficient and equitable in this sense would be an initial endowment at 1 where both A and B have the same X and Y. Since they face the same budget constraint , each can have what the other has so that any trades away from equal allocation to the contract curve must meet the reverse allocation test illustrated as part ( b ) of the figure . |