Example sentences of "can [adv] have [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You ca n't have normal family relationships with this going on . |
| 2 | The politician is the organ of society for having its cake and eating it , for escaping , if only for a moment , if only through a form of art — art is , after all , a means of escape — from the grimness of reality , from this grim fact that you ca n't have the cake and eat it , that you ca n't have public expenditure increased in excess of the rate of increase of the national product , unless private claims are correspondingly surrendered . |
| 3 | It 's just we ca n't , we ca n't have we ca n't have obvious alcohol absolute on the rocks |
| 4 | First , the simple clause which seeks to exclude liability for death or personal injury caused by the party in default to the innocent party can only have applic ation where the innocent party is a natural person . |
| 5 | The fact that different dowsers can get very different results on the same site can perhaps be explained as the interaction between their own energy field and the field of the site , so that the dowsing patterns found can only have true meaning by looking at the dowser as well . |
| 6 | Ex.1a from the ‘ Haffner ’ Symphony shows two emphasized heavy-raindrop staccato notes followed by a third , tied to its neighbour , where the stroke can only have accentual meaning . |
| 7 | This was Hassan Howa , guiding spirit for so many years of the non-racial South African Cricket Board of Control , who had first articulated the verdict on gradual reform : ‘ You can not have normal sport in an abnormal society . ’ |
| 8 | For clearly , they can not have non-restrictive relative counterparts.3 But what makes us so sure that it is an example of apposition ? |
| 9 | It can not have pleased Kimon , the Spartans ' friend , any more than it pleased politicians of more obviously radical complexion . |
| 10 | Two different people can not have inner perception of the same thing . |
| 11 | The reflex protects the very sensitive area at the bottom of the skull and , because it works by reflex , we can not have conscious control over it . |
| 12 | If the girl is under 13 , the maximum penalty is life imprisonment , since a girl of 12 or under can not have sufficient knowledge of the consequences of sex , or sufficient maturity of judgment to take decisions on those consequences . |
| 13 | Ironically Langbaurgh council , whose residents have the highest incidence of asthma in Cleveland , has been told it can not have special funding to contribute to the project . |
| 14 | A common reply to this is that you can not have social control without crime or deviance and hence , if social control is necessary , then crime and deviance must be , too . |
| 15 | It can not have half-taken place . |
| 16 | In any case , it is doubtful if its present followers would give much support to such an extension , for it is a religion which claims to confer privileges , including territorial ones , and privileges , by definition , can not have universal application . |
| 17 | However , since on can alternate also with first and third person pronouns , which like their second person counterparts can also have definite reference , it is not particularly easy to specify tokens of the alternative class ( see Laberge and Sankoff 1980 : 272ff for a large number of examples ) . |
| 18 | Visitors can also have free health and fitness check-ups . |
| 19 | Words can also have different meaning according to the context in which they are used . |
| 20 | You can either have oblong oval , or round , I think . |