Example sentences of "[conj] can " in BNC.
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| 1 | — With Mr. Gould all this is very different — he has sufficient to live on , whether his subscribers pay or not , & can well afford the innumerable little expenses of printing — but for poor I — I have just nine and twenty times resolved to give up Parrots & all — & should certainly have done so — had not my good genius with vast reluctance just 9 & 20 times set me a going again . ’ |
| 2 | There are other ways of description , which may incidentally be employed by a critic , or can be useful to a reader as a check on the validity of a verbal description . |
| 3 | She is saying that this good thing , this knowledge , can be used — to tell us , for example , that Amis is not a Tudor writer : but she is rather more moved to say at the same time that it ca n't or can hardly be used , devoted as she is to the thought of a separation between , in this case , Amis 's friendships and politics , his life — and his art . |
| 4 | It has also set out some rules about which menu items can or can not be increased in price . |
| 5 | Using all of the system 's facilities , management can analyse sales and staffing levels in multiple bars on a single site , or can view an entire operation remotely from a head office . |
| 6 | ‘ As I keep saying , I do n't need you or anybody else to tell me what I can or can not do . ’ |
| 7 | Site & soil Sweet peppers crop well in growing bags , planting 3 per bag , or can be grown singly in 9in pots of potting compost . |
| 8 | Can you pick'em , girl , or can you pick'em ! |
| 9 | This word universal is never the name of anything existent in nature , nor of any idea or phantasm found in the mind [ my italics ] , but always the name of some word or name ; so that when a living creature , a stone , a spirit , or any other thing , is said to be universal , it is not to be understood that any man , stone etc. , ever was or can be universal , but only that the words , living creature , stone , etc. , are universal names , that is , names common to many things ; and the conceptions answering them in the mind are the images and phantasms of several living creatures or other things . |
| 10 | It allows the psychologist to determine whether the subject has detected a change in a stimulus or can discriminate between two stimuli . ) |
| 11 | Tel. 071–272 1266 ) may be able to arrange for someone to conduct a non-religious ceremony , or can send a form of words that could be used ( leaflets are available from these organisations on receipt of an sae ) . |
| 12 | Stavrogin is a killer — or can be — but he does nothing : ‘ the light in his eyes seemed to go out . ’ |
| 13 | Such poetry is invulnerable , existing in a self-sealed and selfjustifying realm called ‘ aesthetic ’ , from which no appeal is allowed , or can be made , to other realms like the ethical or the civic . |
| 14 | One feature of English verse that is scanted by this method , or can be acknowledged only incidentally , is one that every careful reader knows from his or her experience : tempo , the speeding up or slowing down of enunciation , and therefore of apprehension , as we read through a line or through several lines in sequence . |
| 15 | Does the name cover only pure-bred wild boars or can it include a cross , bred with a domestic pig ? |
| 16 | Sensitive and controversial topics often occur naturally in the conversation , or can be introduced in what appears a casual manner , because the social context encourages this . |
| 17 | Or can you ? |
| 18 | Whether their accounts confirm , coincide with , or can substitute for the psychoanalytic account of desire as lack is hard to say . |
| 19 | On full fuel tanks of five hundred litres , each rig has a road range of one thousand kilometres , or can operate in river current speeds of two metres a second ( about four knots ) for about six and a half hours without refuelling . |
| 20 | You believe pop is or can be art , but that belief is sustained by only very rare instances . |
| 21 | All these products should be kept under refrigeration unless , like some members of the Frankfurter family , they are preserved in a jar or can . |
| 22 | Just because dolphins use language in a different way does not mean that they lack high intelligence or can not communicate . |
| 23 | But it will be hard to accept that these people are serious about democracy — or can do much more to further its cause — so long as they stay in the same party as democracy-haters . |
| 24 | The real picture is even worse , since 10% of contracted sales fall through , as buyers pull out because they are nervous or can not get the finance . |
| 25 | Tertiary qualities are those arrangements which change , or can be changed by , the corpuscular arrangements of other things . |
| 26 | ‘ It being the same consciousness that makes a man be himself to himself , personal identity depends on that only , whether it be annexed only to one individual substance , or can be continued in a succession of several substances . ’ |
| 27 | When ‘ man ’ , ‘ stone ’ , or ‘ living creature ’ is said to be ‘ universal ’ , we are not to understand that ‘ man , stone ’ , etc. ever was or can be universal , but only that these words , ‘ living creature ’ , ‘ stone ’ , etc. , are universal names , that is , names common to many things . |
| 28 | The adopter must fulfil one of the following requirements : be over 21 ; or be the parent of the adoptee , where the other natural parent is dead , or can not be found , or there is some other reason justifying the exclusion of the other natural parent . |
| 29 | ‘ Or can it be the other way round ? ’ he asked . |
| 30 | So far on this journey , except for a moment at Mahanaim , we have been travelling through country we know or can imagine . |