Example sentences of "[conj] i can think [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may not be the path , but of course it is perfectly possible , although steep and hard , to get to the summit of Ben Nevis via this corrie although I can think of no mountaineer who would imagine a gushing , torrential waterfall to be the path , take off their socks and shoes and start trying to wade up it . |
| 2 | The only answer to this , that I can think of , is to take the engine number of your intended purchase and check with Land Rover that this was never a petrol engine . |
| 3 | One of the longest that I can think of spans a lake . |
| 4 | For half of the twelve tracks here , the Labèques use acoustic pianos ( that has always struck me as an oddity , by the way : a piano , or a guitar that was n't acoustic would be damned difficult to record ; the only non-acoustic piano that I can think of is Joseph Cooper 's dummy keyboard ) ; for the others we are told they play ‘ MIDI Grand pianos & Synthesisers ’ . |
| 5 | ‘ Not that I can think of . ’ |
| 6 | It covers the first item that I can think of to be prohibited from schools ... |
| 7 | Every separatist movement in Europe that I can think of bases itself on ‘ ethnicity ’ , linguistic or not , that is to say on the assumption that ‘ we ’ — the Basques , Catalans , Scots , Croats , or Georgians are a different people from the Spaniards , the English , the Serbs or the Russians , and therefore we should not live in the same state with them . |
| 8 | I ca n't type or do anything useful that I can think of , but I learn quickly . |
| 9 | No two prose characters exert so much influence on a play as do Pandarus and Thersites , and only one other play that I can think of ( King Lear ) makes so much use of a simultaneous gap between the two media . |
| 10 | And they 're nearly all , all the ones that I can think of , are based on division by zero . |
| 11 | Er no , not that I can think of , |
| 12 | Erm the only example that I can think of where that went wrong was where there was a delay in the post but er we certainly do endeavour , it was er it was something which we 've introduced in the last erm eighteen months and it 's been welcomed by members and er it is certainly our intention to give everyone as much notice as possible . |
| 13 | So maybe we would have been great to have the skills before I did it , and that 's why I am on the course this Erm , the only thing that I can think of that 's erm , something that I do believe and I am committed to getting changed , is er , a system in our offices , in one of our departments , but I do have erm , authority over the people that I would be talking to , so , I know at the end of the day , I could just say , do it , but I 'm trying to get them to believe in changing erm , and just sort of certain benefits of it . |
| 14 | Illustrating the links between business and education , and I have said that we are a major business in the area we have probably stronger links with education than any other business that I can think of , and they are going to be sa singing our praises so we are going to putting quite a big display in the in the fashion centre . |
| 15 | and the biggest pro for a fax that I can think of is that you can send the message and that 's that , there 's no risk of it dribbling on into , into doubt |
| 16 | Not that I can think of . |
| 17 | I 've no idea whether Europe is going to work , no one has , and I can think of huge historical reasons why it wo n't . |
| 18 | On the basis of her understanding , it appears that any artist in the USA who uses the conventions of the mass media in such a way as to produce a critique of the media ( and I can think of a good many ) is veritably a ‘ quasi-situationist ’ . |
| 19 | This is a subject to which more thought should be given , and I can think of no better organisation to pursue it than your own . |
| 20 | His smile deepened as he added , ‘ I have been told that I am a good lover and I can think of nothing in this world that would give me greater pleasure than to teach you the plaisirs d'amour . |
| 21 | And I can think of no finer tribute than that . |
| 22 | And , while she was still digesting that piece of information , he added , ‘ And I can think of dozens of things I 'd like to do , beginning with a kiss and ending — ’ He broke off and gave a faint grin . |
| 23 | Er and I can think of erm nothing better than to leave you with this slide er which I think sums up where we 're coming from today and what we 'd like you to take away from today . |
| 24 | Now in those circumstances , and I can think of a number of schools where that works very well , the governing body is a very powerful force , for links out from the school into the outside world , not only into business and industry , but also into the L E A , and it 's actually quite a lot of schools quite like to have a County Councillor on their governing body because it gives them an in to the L E A at a policy-making , or an individual decision-making level . |
| 25 | A bit more rest and I can think about some gentle training . |
| 26 | We used to , we , that 's all the as the village life was , it was it was all very now I know it 's very interesting , my daughter wants me to write a book about it , she says , I said I 'll oh I do n't know mm , write a memoirs mum she said er , you know and I said you know a lot about New Invention , which I do but it 's Willenhall you 're interested in , but it all sort or entails the lot and erm there might be things I 've can I wish I 'd have told you if I can think about them after it 's finished , but it 's erm . |
| 27 | If I can think of one thing that makes modern software easy to use leading up to Windows it is the split screen . |
| 28 | And if not I 'll see if I can think of an excuse to try and contact her myself . ’ |
| 29 | I 'll change if I can think of anything else to do , but I ca n't . |
| 30 | But I can think of several reasons to resent their existence . |