Example sentences of "can [verb] what the " 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 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 .
7 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 .
8 if you can remember what the rule .
9 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 .
10 With a dentist one can understand what the chap is actually saying .
11 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 ’ .
12 For nobody can understand what the Government is doing to clear up the economic mess it has created .
13 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 .
14 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 . ’
15 We can see what the testator had in mind .
16 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 .
17 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 .
18 ‘ You can see what the problem is ’ , G. says .
19 Now the author can see what the document will look like as soon as the text is typed .
20 we can have a look at the blood tests , we can see what the blood pressure is .
21 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 .
22 I want to be out on a limb with my back to the water so that I can see what the rest of the world is doing .
23 I would also like to suggest that complaints be made as ‘ Letters to the Editor ’ because then we can see what the complaint is and try to deal with it .
24 He can see what the bitter outcome can be , but instead of washing his hands of the affair , he doggedly and morbidly follows the Carbone 's situation to its tragic resolution .
25 This was a solicitors pick it up and my Lord so you can , you can see what the dispute was .
26 I says that 's got ta be Warren , it could n't be anybody else , so when I come down I went off like , well I tell ya I ca n't do it , so I knew it was so I picked up the wrong she says oh I 'm just ringing because you can see what the weather is she says and you could n't go and do a day in erm , with your
27 Nobody in this much bull-shitted century has achieved anything that can outlast what the men who laid out these stones did here .
28 Write in the box provided the response you would give to the statement , and see if you can decide what the differences are .
29 Yes I think you can guess what the Harrogate Civic Society is
30 So we can deduce what the field of vision of our globular-eyed trilobite was , by looking at the directions in which all the lenses face .
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