Example sentences of "can [verb] [Wh det] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If your organisation is a " high tech " company and works in areas such as microbiology or electronics it will be useful to have a trained scientist who can translate what the company is doing into terms which most people can understand . |
| 2 | It is only on the basis of such a model that the government , which considers one of its basic functions to be the management of the economy , can predict what the effect will be of a change in one of its policies . |
| 3 | It is the ‘ one every few years ’ , and Alfieri knows , or can predict what the outcome will be . |
| 4 | Some think that they can steal what the club makes , but it 's still thieving , even if it 's thieving from yourself . |
| 5 | That 's to see if you can identify what the problems are with each of those three , and why they 're experiencing difficulties in their job . |
| 6 | He can do whatever the fuck he wants and no-one will do anything to prevent it . ’ |
| 7 | Conversely , while lacking those powers an asexual bud , or even a severed flatworm fragment , can do what an unfertilized ovum can not : namely , produce a whole organism without interactive collaboration with any other part ; this power being credited by Darwin to the presence in such a bud or fragment , indeed in any healing flesh , of material determining growth for all the parts of the whole organism . |
| 8 | The excitement of a side from the Second Division being next in line to see if they can do what the likes of Leeds United and Marseille could not , and defeat Rangers in cup competition this season , was put to the back of the manager 's mind last night . |
| 9 | But if the document does n't exist , it does n't exist unless you can remember what the information was on that document but I would imagine . |
| 10 | if you can remember what the rule . |
| 11 | The first might be said to be context- and task-independent : we can understand what a sequence of symbols is meant to represent , without understanding the context within which those symbols might be put to use . |
| 12 | So you can understand what a sacrifice it is your father is making in sending you to this school . |
| 13 | Now some doctors could conceivably still be frightened off , but we must presume , I think , that doctors are literate people , that they can understand what the law is if it is told to them , and the medical societies and other groups are making available to them the workings of this particular Act . |
| 14 | With a dentist one can understand what the chap is actually saying . |
| 15 | In the light of this passage we can interpret one of Wordsworth 's gnomic sayings — ‘ The Child is Father of the Man ’ — and can understand what the attractive childhood episodes are doing in Books i and ii ; they are now seen to be similar ‘ spots of time … enshrined … for future restoration ’ . |
| 16 | For nobody can understand what the Government is doing to clear up the economic mess it has created . |
| 17 | Er , I dare n't give away Rosemary and John , 'cos they 're the only two that can understand what the hell I 'm talking about . |
| 18 | ‘ We 'll go round , ’ said Simon , ‘ a couple more times , just so you can see what a long way down it is , and then , when we get right up there , right to the top , I 'm going to chuck you out . ’ |
| 19 | I little knew then what the future held for me and looking back I can see what a lot I had to learn . |
| 20 | I have to dress in my sweaty , dirty clothes and go back down to the kitchen , grumbling while she makes me a coffee , and I complain about my wet boots and she gives me a fresh pair of William 's socks to wear and I put them on and drink my coffee and whine about never being allowed to spend the night and tell her how just once I 'd like to wake up here in the morning , and have a nice , civilised breakfast with her , sitting on the sunny balcony outside the bedroom windows , but she makes me sit down while she laces my boots up , then takes my coffee cup off me and sends me out the back door and says I 've got two minutes before she arms the alarm and puts the infrared lights on stand-by so I have to go back the way I came , over the estate wall and through the wood and down into the stream where I get both feet wet and cold and I fall going up the bank and get all muddy and eventually drag myself up and through the hedge , scratching my cheek and tearing my polo-neck and then trudging across the field through heavy rain and more mud and finally getting to the car and panicking when I ca n't find the car keys before remembering I put them in the button-down back pocket of the jeans for safety instead of the side pocket like I usually do , and then having to put some dead branches under the front wheels because the fucking car 's stuck and finally getting away and home and even in the street light I can see what a mess of the pale upholstery my muddy clothes have made . |
| 21 | I suppose when we were younger , we all rather took Alice for granted , but looking back , one can see what a strong character she had even then . |
| 22 | You know and immediately can you see , you 've asked him all these questions you can see what a pain in the neck you are to all the people you 've asked these questions of . |
| 23 | It 's got a very thick safety glass door on it so you can see what the little dears are doing but ca n't hear them . ’ |
| 24 | We can see what the testator had in mind . |
| 25 | Most parents can identify the first phase of interaction with their child , that is they can see what the child is doing that is irritating and they see how they react , but rarely do they then follow through the interaction to see what happens at the end . |
| 26 | As Carmel finished the 3s , she came to me and whispered : ‘ I think I can see what the 5s are going to be before I do it ’ , and she explained her prediction . |
| 27 | ‘ You can see what the problem is ’ , G. says . |
| 28 | Now the author can see what the document will look like as soon as the text is typed . |
| 29 | we can have a look at the blood tests , we can see what the blood pressure is . |
| 30 | At the end of each six week period we have an assessment session whereby they have to do a ‘ performance ’ to everybody else in that year , so the music can see what the dance has done … etc . |