Example sentences of "[adv] can [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Everybody obviously can design something . |
| 2 | The courses are powerful because they provide a link between the newcomers and the local indigenous population who find that working together can help them learn to influence the decision makers . ’ |
| 3 | Er we have had er recent correspondence with the H B F and er my e colleague Mrs Long can give you the the detail of that . |
| 4 | Certainly Mr Mansbridge from his vantage point of above or below can enjoy our acclaim at his pictorial success . |
| 5 | You 've got to really get to the right of that red , so can rush it down to the , left of that hoop with the red paint on it . |
| 6 | And allowing someone to call you by your first name ( 'Please , call me John' ) has the sub-text : ‘ I am higher-status than you are and so can grant you this permission . ’ |
| 7 | Please hear my plead From a fellow human being with just one need ; After working all week on little pay I look forward to Saturdays so can watch my team play . |
| 8 | Well the headmaster of this school where the kid goes to is gon na see her mum this morning so can give her the message . |
| 9 | I have travelled thousands of miles on and off road and have never had any problem ( other than the occasional nail ) with Michelin tyres on cars or Land/Range Rovers so can recommend them from experience . |
| 10 | ‘ It 's vital to have a communications network running through the team and the ideal would be for the team leader to be consulted before any part of the business gets involved in any new activity and so can recommend whatever risk management measures are necessary including any special insurance , ’ Hardie said . |
| 11 | We also offer International Factoring , which allows you to sell on open account terms , in sterling or foreign currency , and so can help your competitive position . |
| 12 | In the conclusions we shall argue that the origins of these issues can be found in the earlier post-war period of child care policy , and that it remains doubtful whether this new legislation alone can resolve them . |
| 13 | We live exhausted , frustrated , perplexing lives that need the strength and clarity of purpose that God alone can give us . |
| 14 | Her life 's motto was Goethe 's ‘ Law alone can give us freedom . ’ |
| 15 | For it is becoming increasingly clear that a semantic theory alone can give us only a proportion , and perhaps only a small if essential proportion , of a general account of language understanding . |
| 16 | The drawing number alone can tell one what size it is , where to find it , what product or process it describes , in how much detail , whether it is on micro-fiche , how many times it has been modified . |
| 17 | For you alone can understand me and you alone can inspire me . |
| 18 | God made us : he alone can show us how we are designed to behave . |
| 19 | This is a step towards reforms at home ; and such a step alone can make his ‘ detente ’ policies sincere . |
| 20 | This alone can make it worth a reporter 's time to come along . |
| 21 | At the same time I doubt whether the state alone can solve it . |
| 22 | Richard 's achievement of the throne necessarily brings him out into the open , where fraud and concealment are of no use and force alone can preserve him . |
| 23 | For you alone can understand me and you alone can inspire me . |
| 24 | The vast bulk of lawyers spend their lives working for business interests , and top lawyers work overwhelmingly for giant corporations who alone can afford their fees . |
| 25 | by means of water carriage a more extensive market is opened to every sort of industry than what land carriage alone can afford it , so it is upon the sea coast and along the banks of navigable rivers that industry of every kind naturally begins to subdivide and improve itself . |
| 26 | What is crucial , then , is not that a particular individual should necessarily own property himself , but that ‘ property should be sufficiently dispersed so that the individual is not dependent on particular persons who alone can provide him with what he needs or who alone can employ him ’ . |
| 27 | What is crucial , then , is not that a particular individual should necessarily own property himself , but that ‘ property should be sufficiently dispersed so that the individual is not dependent on particular persons who alone can provide him with what he needs or who alone can employ him ’ . |
| 28 | And I alone can manufacture it . |
| 29 | Even if we decide to do very differently , a knowledge of what has been strong and efficient elsewhere can guide us towards good results . |
| 30 | Its impact is limited by the strength of the Government which generally can control its own supporters and rely on its majority in the Commons . |