Example sentences of "[conj] can [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whatever the sufferer or family member may say at times of anger or despair , nobody causes addictive disease or can control it or cure it . |
| 2 | can do your work can do your work or can do your work , whatever , maybe that 'll maybe that 'll mix it up a bit |
| 3 | I do n't know if umm Jeff or , would know anybody or can do anything with this . |
| 4 | If you can afford them , or can make your own , rough-hewn granite water basins and lanterns are far preferable to mass-produced items of reconstituted stone , though even these will mellow with age . |
| 5 | Hand-cutting of hay by scythe is almost a thing of the past , as people either have their own tractor-driven machines or can hire someone to do the job . |
| 6 | So physical dull metals are malleable you can beat them into sheets or can mould them . |
| 7 | Adultery can arise from problems within the family or can disrupt it . |
| 8 | Many of them offer a mail-order service or can give you details of your local stockist . |
| 9 | He can make his birds fly like an arrow — in a straight line , in single file — or can direct them to any place he likes , in any formation . |
| 10 | It is the ‘ one every few years ’ , and Alfieri knows , or can predict what the outcome will be . |
| 11 | Children can present data in simple block graphs , pictograms or sets , or can enter it into a computer , using suitable software , to compile their own database . |
| 12 | If you run a dog-friendly establishment — or can recommend one — please write to us with full details . |
| 13 | You know you need some information , resource investigator can either give it to you because he 's got it or can find it for you . |
| 14 | Nobody in this much bull-shitted century has achieved anything that can outlast what the men who laid out these stones did here . |
| 15 | Co that can affect your steering ca n't it ? |
| 16 | Species with club-shaped spines include active hunters ( although they tend to hunt sluggish animals like other sea urchins ) and they have powerful jaws on the lower side of the animal that can munch their way through a sand dollar as if it were a biscuit . |
| 17 | The Japanese education ministry has launched a five year project to produce machines that can repair themselves , thus reducing the need for human intervention . |
| 18 | ‘ But there is no light rail system in the world that can cover its capital costs in that way and that is why we need the grants . ’ |
| 19 | A sound general principle , if you are facing a foe who has a known preference for certain large monsters , is to have a magic weapon that can hurt them . |
| 20 | but they 're not in control of their body , so you must watch them , talk to them and if , if you can walk along the road with them , talking to them now the , there is the other type where you get the aura , they know they 're going to have a fit , so if somebody at your work place comes along and says to you I 'm gon na have a fit in five minutes , I mean do n't laugh at them and think ha ha , take them to a room where they 're safe and this applies to all epileptic fits , they 've got to be safe , so you 're going to clear a room of any danger , they 're laying down on the floor theirself because they 've got time they know they 're going to have this fit , if they 've got something to put in their mouth alright they will put it in their mouths themselves and once again they 've got five minutes to do it in and then that person will go through their fit , you stay with them , you comply by their wishes , if they say to you right , well just leave me when I come round I , do n't touch me I 'll be alright , they know , so you , you comply by their wish wishes , erm but only go in when you feel it is necessary , if they say right , erm I , I should regain consciousness in ten minutes and they have n't , you 're there , you stay there in case make sure they 're safe , there 's nothing there that can hurt them , then they 'll probably get up at the end of the fit and erm go into a room for a rest and say thank you very much and er , erm that 's it . |
| 21 | Asked about Sun 's continued support of USL , McNealy said , ‘ Sun is the only company that can engineer its way out of any operating system royalty in a year or two . |
| 22 | You 've got two legs that can carry you there and two hands that can pour it into a glass . |
| 23 | Creating synthetic chemical structures that can reproduce themselves represents not only an intriguing intellectual challenge , but also a possible way of illuminating one of the most basic processes of a living cell . |
| 24 | You 've got two legs that can carry you there and two hands that can pour it into a glass . |
| 25 | Every step is a chance to meet people , to give them the idea , the experience that can change their living and thinking ; to be caught up in an effort to bring a fundamental change to Rhodesia — and that means , of course , matching one 's own life to it . |
| 26 | We think , perhaps , too much of the sedimentary environment , and not enough of what may be called the geophysical environment that can ensure their preservation . |
| 27 | The Italian made Candy turbomatic 38D has a fault that can make it burst into flames , an inquest heard . |
| 28 | So it 's caused by foetal position and there 's something that can make it worse , you know the mother erm inside erm the womb there 's a bag of fluid that the baby floats in |
| 29 | NAME A RECORD THAT CAN MAKE YOU CRY |
| 30 | NAME A RECORD THAT CAN MAKE YOU CRY ? |