Example sentences of "but [pers pn] can [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would still want to be able to see and buy items of equipment , not to do so would be an opportunity wasted , but I can to my machinery stocklist to see most of what I saw at the show . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'll get something written , ’ she muttered , ‘ but I can post them myself . ’ |
| 3 | It would have served as a substitute-gratification for their own sadism ( i.e. , ‘ I can not retaliate against my father , but I can against my younger brother ’ ) ; but also as a defence on the part of the ego ( i.e. , ‘ I am spared the anxiety of being made the object of an attack if I can instead become the attacker ’ ) ; finally , it would also have contributed a first , rudimentary focus for the superego ( i.e. , ‘ My father is not now the attacker — I am — hence I am to that extent my father ! ’ ) . |
| 4 | The rectangles will still mark the background rows , but you can of course change with background as well as the pattern colour . |
| 5 | It 's less easy to match a specific publisher 's market with fiction than with factual writing , but you can at least make sure that you do n't send a modern comedy to a publisher of historical romances . |
| 6 | But you can at least monitor their response on the graphic , via the LEDs , but there 's nothing to let you know that a program has been properly saved with the ‘ save ’ button . |
| 7 | While useful , I think it would have been preferable to show the entire sentence , but you can at least note the identified points and refer to the main body of text later . |
| 8 | But you can onto more ambitious board games , er , I think George and I both seen some |
| 9 | But we can with advantage choose co to be a column in the previous iteration to find1 etc. : this will contain mostly x1 , some |
| 10 | They are in the mainstream of evolution , and we shall be swept along in the current , but we can at least try to spare the floods . |
| 11 | But we can at last find the bed in our room . |
| 12 | But we can at least test the logic in computer simulations . |
| 13 | But we can at least aim at a code that is capable of being understood by a person of average intelligence and of being understood and applied from the four corners of the document that he is directed to consult . |
| 14 | We can not expect to arrive at consensus easily — there are a lot of things which may not seem to fit at all — but we can at least want to find out what is in common before worrying about what appears to contradict . |
| 15 | Since his surplus stock may be in keen demand he may not be able to supply you — but he can at least point you in the right direction by suggesting alternative sources , ones that have proved themselves so far as he is concerned . |
| 16 | He may well reckon that his bid to win UN membership for Taiwan is doomed from the outset , but he can at least claim to have tried . |
| 17 | Now , according to Lorenz , the dichotomous distinction between instinctive and learned behaviour can not be made for development , but it can for adaptation . |
| 18 | But it can at least hope it will not be handicapped by its inability to control events on its own side of the frontier . |
| 19 | The West may be reluctant to become involved in the fighting but it can at least leave Belgrade in no doubt that the price of aggression will be diplomatic and economic isolation . |