Example sentences of "[pers pn] can [verb] [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not that I can say either Derek or I have ever had any problems in the Bedroom Compartment . |
| 2 | ‘ As far as I can see only Mr Merrivale is in the clear ’ , went on Mary . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'm off now , ’ he continued , ‘ ter meet yer Mum , so when yer 've cleared up the table yer can get ter bed . ’ |
| 4 | As well as all the usual allowances , you can bring home £265-worth of other goods from EC countries £32-worth from elsewhere . |
| 5 | It 's alright , you can sit there Mrs , thank you . |
| 6 | That 's all you can do though Peter . |
| 7 | So what we thought was , if you use this as your address , you can go together South Shields . |
| 8 | You can go now Mrs . |
| 9 | But this does n't mean that you can forget about calories . |
| 10 | ‘ Look lady , for what other people pay for a one-way ticket to Chicago , you can travel anywhere Delta flies for a month . ’ |
| 11 | You can exercise upwards pressure , er , no no organisation can stand alone . |
| 12 | You can save over £25 on residential weekend courses on a choice of subjects costing £144.50 |
| 13 | We 've seen a very controlled and steady growth over the thirteen years that we 've been in business and I think as you can see there year on year we have consistently increased turnover and increased profitability . |
| 14 | No book or course of lectures can substitute for experience , but as you learn the vernacular and gain confidence in your practical ability , you can derive both inspiration and a sense of direction through reading the works of wise men . |
| 15 | But you can take home assessment a step further with a thorough post-mortem of your old shoes . |
| 16 | We can answer only problems printed on this page . |
| 17 | In the absence of adequate bus production capacity in the United Kingdom , we can face only danger in terms of the future bus market . |
| 18 | we we 're really better with bench tables like that , then we can put either typewriters |
| 19 | But x has n elements , so that we can find only n — s of its elements in terms of the remaining s ( see unc an example is given in 2.5 ) which are arbitrary . |
| 20 | We may write this equation as unc Equation ( 5 ) is known as a parametric solution : since we have only n — s independent relations we can determine only n — s unknowns ( y ) in terms of the remaining s quantities ( z ) , which may be regarded as arbitrary parameters in the problem . |
| 21 | Now if we can take away tat excess oxygen that 's being produced , it 'll start going again . |
| 22 | Mr Gloukhov told their hosts : ‘ We want to go to one of your garden centres so that we can take home seeds for flowers and vegetables . ’ |
| 23 | Will my right hon. Friend accept that no hon. Member on this side of the House and , if they can leave aside party politicking for a moment , no hon. Member on the Opposition Benches , would believe that my right hon. Friend was capable of flouting the law — — as has been suggested , either in his personal capacity , or , still less , as a holder of one of the great offices of State ? |
| 24 | John Searle is not represented directly , but the Churchlands challenge his cat-among-the pigeons argument , purporting to show that computers can not in principle ever understand , though they can handle effectively symbols or tokens . |
| 25 | 4 They can stimulate both children and adults to speak the language , not only to read and write it . |
| 26 | More interesting is the discovery that while You is the stylistically unmarked form , more matter-of-fact , ‘ not impolite ’ or ‘ not informal ’ , Thou can express both intimacy and anger , or indeed any increase in the emotional tone of a conversation . |
| 27 | It is perhaps ironic that , having changed my mind , I am now trying to convince other physicists that there was in fact no singularity at the beginning of the universe — as we shall see later , it can disappear once quantum effects are taken into account . |
| 28 | ‘ We sell bread at 29p , it can cost maybe 50p from the vans . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ Meaning ’ is a slippery term , since it can cover both sense and reference . |
| 30 | However successful British Coal is in the future in building on its outstanding success in recent years and improving productivity , one of its basic problems is that it can sell only coal . |