Example sentences of "can [adv] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You ca n't for real you ca n't really move blue ball you can move the red ball as much as you like but not What you have to do is to so just try a normally conventional just sling straight through here |
| 2 | Erm things getting , getting re relative to grow up and quite honestly I ca n't really get ma man imagine growing up I ca n't at all . |
| 3 | I ca n't with this bit ! |
| 4 | I ca n't after all that whistle . |
| 5 | It 's , you ca n't in general lay down generalized associative links and say every time somebody dreams about erm an examination it represents anxiety about their future career or something . |
| 6 | I think those are perhaps the hardest cases , where the parents are not able to cope because they just can not cope , they are subnormal , and you ca n't in any way say that they are to blame , they 're just totally inadequate people . |
| 7 | MANY DRUGS STILL CA N'T BY SYNTHESISED — LIKE FOXGLOVE 'S DIGITALIS — EFFECTIVE ON THE CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM : |
| 8 | In effect , it can along with other phenomena , structure reality for us . |
| 9 | Well I r , I r , I reckon I reckon you can down to that , yeah . |
| 10 | When you have an operation these days that 's lasting anything more than just er a couple of minutes or so , they will insert down your windpipe an endotracheal airway , which is a tube that goes down into your windpipe to seal into the windpipe , so if you vomit , for example , no vomit can down round that tube . |
| 11 | Solti 's reading can nevertheless by prized for its straightforward handling of the central phase of the first movement and the climax of the third . |
| 12 | Where the requirements of the model are satisfied it can thus with some truth be said that there is an ‘ utter dispersion of power ’ . |
| 13 | Bureaus can thus under some conditions exercise wage and factor price discrimination . |
| 14 | This is not to say that particulars can not under any circumstances be contextually individuated via " impersonal " descriptions . |
| 15 | Again Lord Sands stated in the MacFarlane case at p540 : The contention of the Appellant involves that he is liable to Income Tax in respect of income which he does not handle and can not under any arrangement handle , which is not expended under any authority conferred by him , and over the expenditure of which he has no control . |
| 16 | Sir , — I can not for one moment imagine that Ian McGeechan will ‘ feel hugely satisfied because his backs are beginning to fulfil some of the potential that they have shown for years ’ ( David Sole , 8 March ) after the disappointment of the 26-12 humiliation by England last Saturday . |
| 17 | It is no defence for the officer to say he does not know and can not with reasonable diligence find out who the driver was . |
| 18 | Perhaps Spinoza could have strengthened it in various ways , by saying that people can not on odd occasions deliberately act out of the character they try to give their lives , without destroying that character , and that for the rational person the character of a life which includes good relations with other people at large is essential for personal fulfilment . |
| 19 | ‘ [ T ] he state ’ can not on any sensible political theory be restricted to the Crown and the departments of central government ( which are , indeed , part of the Crown in constitutional law ) . |
| 20 | The second episode which Mrs Whitehouse says she remembers with a mixture of ‘ amusement and incredulity ’ involved a scene in which Alf and his son-in-law were in the living room reading : Mike , a football book , and Alf a book that can not at first be seen . |
| 21 | As she approaches it , she can not at first see Alix , but she believes that Alix will be there , and indeed momently she is : they converge , Esther from the west , Alix from the south , and moderate their pace ( Esther accelerating slightly , Alix marginally slowing down ) so that they meet upon the very corner itself . |
| 22 | As for ( c ) , there will be an appropriation for the purposes of theft if the accused can not at first discover the owner but later finds out the identity . |
| 23 | They are taking responsibility , either they agree with their government or they do not agree with their government , but to pretend that somehow we can not at all , some of the cuts that are made , that the f the other , does not convince us , I 'm sure it does not convince the people on our right and even less more convincing than the people who are listening to us today . |
| 24 | Therefore it can not at any stage , whether as embryo or fetus , be regarded as part of its mother 's body . |
| 25 | Surely Baldwin , whatever his desire earlier in the imbroglio , can not at this stage have wished to go back to the Cabinet on the following morning and announce that a wayward King , who had already compromised his position with most opinion both at home and in the Dominions , had suddenly changed his mind , at least temporarily , and , having attracted the maximum publicity to his preference for Mrs Simpson over the Throne , was now prepared to ditch her and try to pick up again the pieces of kingship . |
| 26 | Presumptions of legislative intent , which draw their strength from judicial perceptions of widely held notions of justice and fairness , can not in normal circumstances override the explicit terms of an Act of Parliament . |
| 27 | One can not in such circumstances as these , please everybody all of the time . |
| 28 | Thus the Catholic conservatives believe the church to be a God-given institution which can not in major ways have gone astray . |
| 29 | He claims that the meaning of a token in a representational system can not in general be captured definitionally ( in terms of semantic primitives , for instance ) , but depends upon the entire formalization of which the token is part . |
| 30 | And apologists for Labour 's refusal to organise in Northern Ireland can not in all conscience describe themselves as democrats . |