Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [pron] can [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At low tide you can cross the bays on the beach but at high tide you have to go inland , a lot further round so timing is important — we got it wrong once or twice ! |
| 2 | Also if it 's within your own normal income you can give anything , in other words if you do n't reduce your capital . |
| 3 | Clovis 's reign , Gregory claims , lasted thirty years ; with a little difficulty we can compute the dates of his accession as 481 , the defeat of Syagrius as 486 , the victory over the Alamans as 496 and the king 's death as 511 . |
| 4 | In each case we can choose a scale above which the material may be considered homogeneous , but below which the structure needs to be considered . |
| 5 | The computer is very fast ; it can be set to scan the text of journal articles and print out the titles of all which use significant key words more than a stated number of times , and it can be set to tell us how many times Shakespeare used a particular expression , and in each case it can give the results quite astonishingly quickly . |
| 6 | Surely , one could argue , it can only be recognized by knowledge of some convention that U means z ; but in that case we can do away with talk of complex intentions and construct an account of communication based directly on the notion of conventional signal . |
| 7 | And the provision for the county is well over the allocations in the structure plan already , but the County Council , sent observations to the District Council to say , We 're not going to object to this particular er windfall site coming forward for a hundred and sixty houses , because it 's recycling existing urban land , and in that case we can set the policy to one side . |
| 8 | ‘ Well , in that case we can open the presents and put them round the tree . |
| 9 | In that case I can give you my Mercury my business Mercury number and you can make phone calls on the company from here . |
| 10 | ‘ In that case I can tell you that in my humble opinion this place is the meanest , tightest little arsehole in the entire fucking country . |
| 11 | In that case I can spend Monday h er making phone calls |
| 12 | ‘ Yes , well , in that case you can go to bed and sleep easy . ’ |
| 13 | " In that case you can please yourself . " |
| 14 | So I if you read the book the book is called Woolly Jumper you can get it your at Cramwell , you can get it at Grantham . |
| 15 | it said in the paper this week that erm broccoli is the finest vegetable you can eat . |
| 16 | Work out the largest case you can fit on your desk . |
| 17 | But within this complete chronology we can discern some processes and states of affairs that are comparatively brief , others that last for an intermediate length of time , and some that go on for centuries or even millennia . |
| 18 | Most people will have such shots in their collection — the dark blob in the middle is a yeti , honest ! — but with the right tools and a little practice you can get some brilliant results . |
| 19 | In this region , most passengers count reliable bus services on sensible routes as the greatest luxury we can expect . |
| 20 | Alternatively , in a more traditional diplomatic style , a country could be neutralised , preferably with its own consent ( if a viable political force which can speak on behalf of the nation or territory concerned can be identified ) through arrangements arrived at by the superpowers , perhaps at summit discussions , with or without the involvement of other Great Powers or regionally influential states . |
| 21 | And that 's made up of thirty percent and tha that 's the total revenue you can get on , sell all that card and that 's the total revenue you can get . |
| 22 | And that 's made up of thirty percent and tha that 's the total revenue you can get on , sell all that card and that 's the total revenue you can get . |
| 23 | For a third distinct trend in progressive rock we can turn to Pink Floyd , known for avant-garde experiments , often making use of collage , electronics and ‘ freeform ’ techniques . |
| 24 | Doing a little research I can give you approximate numbers of the various things the Guild has made since the turn of the century as follows : 645 sets of Mass vestments , 121 copes , 226 altar cloths , 211 albs plus hundreds of pieces of small linen corporals , purificators amices , etc . |
| 25 | People still think the greatest compliment they can pay you is to say that you look younger than your age . |
| 26 | In your do-it-yourself practice you can try to spot long vowels by contrasting two of them with each other in sentences . |
| 27 | And in settling what these questions shall be , statesmen have now especially a great responsibility if they raise questions which will excite the lower orders of mankind ; if they raise questions on which the interest of those orders is not identical with , or is antagonistic to , the whole interest of the State , they will have done the greatest harm they can do . |
| 28 | On the contrary , her home is a cohesive force , perhaps the only cohesive force she can experience in the generally fragmenting world of adolescence . |
| 29 | ‘ This is n't some damn club he can visit when it fucking well suits him , ’ she said . |
| 30 | Another possible condition which can occur is purpura haemorrhagica . |