Example sentences of "can [adv] [verb] [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The thought occurs that if Darlington Museum , free to enter and in the town centre to name its two advantages , can so describe itself then Bowes and Beamish will be running out of superlatives . |
| 2 | If you lift heavy weights and you lift in the wrong way , you can obviously do yourself damage . |
| 3 | As I am not planning to spend a lot on the engine I need something I can perhaps restore myself . |
| 4 | And by this means , perhaps , by being ambitious or ‘ miriad-minded ’ , I can perhaps address myself to the nature of this foulness : how can a man do such a thing ? |
| 5 | However wise and fairminded we are , anyone can suddenly find themselves in a fight for which they 've never bargained . |
| 6 | Shadows enable light to manifest itself and give it objective reality , just as wisdom can only manifest itself in the face of ignorance . |
| 7 | … faced with this world of faithful and complicated objects , the child can only identify himself as owner , as user , never as creator ; he does not invent the world , he uses it : there are , prepared for him , actions without adventures , without wonder , without joy ( Barthes , 1973 , p. 54 ) . |
| 8 | Moreover , the employer can only protect himself from activities by his employee which might reasonably affect the customer connection which has been built up . |
| 9 | While we believe that a problem is all someone else 's fault , we are powerless to resolve it , since we can not change other people ; we can only change ourselves . |
| 10 | Rolt warns that this is not so because that spirit can only express itself in creative activities in which work and leisure are facets of one whole . |
| 11 | ‘ She allowed a man to persuade her into taking the drug , so she can only blame herself for her predicament . |
| 12 | But it 's history now and we can only blame ourselves . ’ |
| 13 | understand why all the agencies involved identify four in those circumstances I think in R A Southern Water district to themselves , because we 've got that information repeated across the county erm and it seemed to me important that erm somebody er accepted responsibility for taking an overall view of the circumstances to er merely because of course we can only concern ourselves with manmade er circumstances rather than er erm but I think you know members would agree that as a strategic planning authority , we appear to be the only auth er the only body which can erm in the cold light of day we view the circumstances look at the implications for strategic planning and local planning and the suggestion of those developments and obviously that would be a concern to us and er I felt and I have to that it is an area of responsibility erm which er within the of this |
| 14 | We can only ask ourselves more questions , and the answers we supply will reflect our own psychology . |
| 15 | It can only propagate itself by shedding the light of its sympathy literally ; by learning to love common people and common things , to feel common interests . |
| 16 | The centredness of the Hegelian dialectic Althusser presents as having an ‘ internal spiritual principle ’ which in its abstract simplicity can only realize itself as ideology ( Althusser 1969 : 103 ) . |
| 17 | She can only equip herself to face the world from a secure position when she has developed an internal strength which will come from the accumulation of power by centres of growth which lie far outside the existing bureaucracies of government , party and presidential palace . |
| 18 | I can only see myself as a conversation piece , worth more as gossip than a fuck . |
| 19 | I can only commend myself to God , repenting my sins . |
| 20 | ‘ They are so grotesque I can scarcely bring myself to touch them , ’ says Carey . |
| 21 | Removing the fire surround and sealing the opening is a job you can easily do yourself . |
| 22 | Pressed flower shapes can easily lend themselves to stencil designs , as they are already two-dimensional , and are therefore easy to trace . |
| 23 | It is clear then , that a multi-service firm can easily find itself in a position where the duties it owes come into conflict . |
| 24 | Havel 's most controversial proposals concerned legislative procedures for the Federal Assembly , since , he said , " the present Federal Assembly can easily find itself in a situation when it will be totally incapable of passing any fundamental laws vital for the functioning of the state " . |
| 25 | Could it be that people can easily envisage themselves being in End 's Atomic Dustbin ? |
| 26 | Could it be that people can easily envisage themselves being in End 's Atomic Dustbin ? |
| 27 | The defendant can already count himself lucky to have received only a two-year sentence , having regard to the amount involved and to the position of trust which he held . |
| 28 | With practice this skill becomes instinctive and you do n't have to think about your sailing — you can just switch yourself to ‘ automatic pilot ’ and concentrate on other aspects of the race . |
| 29 | It 's not just that , it 's something that people make , like they make cakes or clubs , or anything else , and this is the interesting thing in religion at the moment , the relativization which scares people , of course , who want it to be an absolute authority which they can just debase themselves before . |
| 30 | Or you can just give yourself some bullet points because you do n't need to write out the and 's and the the 's and whatever . |