Example sentences of "i can [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whether we take the retail prices index minus mortgage interest payments or producer prices , the rate of inflation has declined sharply in the past year and I suspect that the underlying measures of inflation will continue to decline in the next year — I can tell the right hon. and learned Member for Monklands , East ( Mr. Smith ) , who is interrupting from a sedentary position , that the underlying rate of inflation compares extremely well with the position under the Labour Government of which he was a member . |
| 2 | Perhaps the honourable member should do a competitiveness survey and go somewhere else for his queue , I do n't know but what I can tell the honourable gentleman is that even though there were losses in the banking industry for the last year there have been strongly offsetting rises in insurance and business services . |
| 3 | But I can tell the Hon. Gentleman that sufficient time will be given to take all such considerations properly into account . |
| 4 | I can tell the hon. Gentleman about the review , which was commissioned in 1989 . |
| 5 | I can tell the hon. Gentleman that his local authority of Dumbarton will benefit . |
| 6 | Unlike the Labour party and the Militant Tendency we tend not to have card-carrying women , but I can tell the hon. Lady , although I was not asked this question , that precisely 50 per cent . |
| 7 | I can tell the hon. Gentleman with the full authority of my office and my responsibility for the programme that if one cuts £6 billion from the defence budget no defence job in the country will be safe . |
| 8 | However , I can tell the hon. Member for Banff and Buchan what I am seeking to achieve . |
| 9 | At present , other matters are proceeding , but I can tell the hon. Gentleman — I am grateful to him for seeking clarification — that in respect of a further order for type 23s , I expect that to be at a broadly similar interval comparing this with the previous order that was placed . |
| 10 | I can tell the hon. Gentleman that the offshore safety division is a separate , discrete , independent division of the Health and Safety Executive . |
| 11 | I can reassure the hon. Gentleman that that will continue . |
| 12 | I can reassure the hon. Gentleman that , to use the time-honoured phrase , we have no present plans to undertake such an exercise . |
| 13 | I can reassure the hon. Gentleman that the terms and conditions of junior doctors will continue to be negotiated nationally . |
| 14 | I can confirm the hon. Gentleman 's remarks about the protocol . |
| 15 | I know that it is there , and if only , if only I can choose the right words , and if only I can tap the exact right source of power , then I shall see it ignite and flare into life . |
| 16 | But I can create the right conditions for confidence . |
| 17 | Well , these days I can reach the highest shelves of the house library , and walk into Porteneil to visit the one there , so I can check up on anything my father says , and he has to tell me the truth . |
| 18 | ‘ On a four-stroke I can slide the front good . |
| 19 | Well from what I can gather the cheaper one on Fishergate is a bus stop size one . |
| 20 | I can scour the local rags ! |
| 21 | You can draw Y squared equals X , and all you have to do is say well , I can draw the other way round . |
| 22 | I am only trying to mind my own business and I do n't know whether I can prevent the compulsory purchase order . ’ |
| 23 | I can do the easy one , you can do the hard one . |
| 24 | I went into the water industry at seventeen years , and I 've still not figured out how to do these new ones and make them go backwards I can do the other ones . |
| 25 | yeah , I do n't think I can do the big mower . |
| 26 | ‘ Hope I can do the same for you some day . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ I know I can do the same here , and I 've got the feeling that a lot of people want to help me . |
| 28 | ‘ I can do the last bit , ’ she said hastily , exerting a steely self-control . |
| 29 | So er if you 're thinking of becoming a super model if there is anybody out there who 's thinking of becoming a super model perhaps you 'll give me a ring and er and I can break the bad news to you personally . |
| 30 | I think that I can satisfy the Hon. |