Example sentences of "can [verb] [pron] [is] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But in some cases a person of the age of 16 can make what is in effect equivalent to a disposition by will : a member of a Trade Union or Friendly Society may , for instance , at that age nominate in writing a person to receive moneys payable on his death by the Union or Society . |
| 2 | When applying for a place on a re-entry course keep the following questions in mind so that you can compare what is on offer to your own best advantage . |
| 3 | And another way I can hurt you is er mentally and the third way I can hurt you is by combining the two together . |
| 4 | So , on some sites you might say , no , I , well I can control the labour costs and I can control the er , plant usage , but I do n't buy the materials myself the only way I can affect them is by altering the wastage . |
| 5 | Thus I can know what is in the bottom drawer of my desk , or what I shall eat for breakfast tomorrow , by some form of inductive inference from what I have observed or am now observing . |
| 6 | trained and nevertheless it is a disturbing thing and the development of this County has to do , not only with businesses succeeding and also with people who are actually making those businesses work and the only way you can do it is by having people employed doing useful things . |
| 7 | The only way you can do it is by pleading . |
| 8 | The only way he can contact me is through my grandma or my Mum . |
| 9 | Indeed , the only real way one can pinpoint it is by saying that in it the notion of suspense , of repeated and ever-growing suspense , predominates . |
| 10 | He asks if they can see what 's in the net . |
| 11 | The second one is that there is proper provision erm available for erm the particular disabilities which the children have within the ordinary school , that the other children in the school also receive proper provision — you can see what 's in the mind of the drafters of the bill there , that if you have some children who could potentially be disruptive , then they might in fact make it very difficult to educate children without these special handicaps . |
| 12 | erm erm phones have it now so you can see who 's on the other line . |
| 13 | ‘ If anyone wanted to sell their piece , and we can see it 's of sufficient quality or by a popular artist , we 'll give an evaluation . |
| 14 | You can see it 's in good heart . ’ |
| 15 | Last August I walked the entire towpath from Greywell to New Haw , and can report it is in good condition throughout , is very well used except in the most rural parts , and is maintained regularly by the canal authority . |
| 16 | You know , the only way , the only way you can stop them is to . |
| 17 | Fear against them , I still would n't put it past them , I 'm not saying they will , I 'd be very surprised if they did try to get cos they 're cos they 're on the sort of er the brink of being excepted by the rest of the world again , you know , but up until a couple of years ago , this thing happened , you know conventional warfare were and they only way we can stop them is by nuclear warfare 's |
| 18 | ‘ I can recognize it 's in Russian , but no , I ca n't translate it myself , old chap , ’ said George . |
| 19 | If you can tell me the initials of my name , you can have what 's in this bag . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ Who can tell what 's in there ? ’ |
| 21 | They can tell who is at home and who is out at work . |
| 22 | You can tell she 's from London . |
| 23 | You can tell she 's in a good mood from the number of bitchy remarks : from Glenys Kinnock 's dress sense ( ‘ Silly girl to be wearing Yves Saint Laurent ’ ) to the election campaign ( ‘ It 's been just like an American election : no ideas ’ ) to John Major 's now certain victory ( ‘ It 's conserved everything we 've stood for ’ — we , doubtless , in the sense of I ) . |
| 24 | There may only be one ground for divorce — irretrievable breakdown — but the only way you can prove it is by proving you 've got one of five grounds going for you : |
| 25 | Members can buy their tickets from tomorrow … while other fans can get their 's by going to the next home game against Sunderland |
| 26 | One way you can support us is by sending a donation . |
| 27 | The only way you can justify it is by saying it 's a means to an end . |
| 28 | We can check what 's on easy enough . " |
| 29 | ‘ In such a phase , where final decisions have not been taken , nobody can say anything is for sure , ’ Mr Saeger said . |
| 30 | It does n't pay much , so you can imagine he 's in earnest about his aspirations . |