Example sentences of "can [adv] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The questions to be asked in relation to adoptive parents are : first , whether they can successfully parent a child and develop deep attachments to it without a feeling of ‘ entitlement ’ or of being in charge and whilst there are continued visits or contacts by birth parents or birth relatives . |
| 2 | Gould , forced to operate at the lower end of the transfer market as Coventry tighten their belts , can only gaze in wonder as Dalglish spends multi-millionaire Jack Walker 's money . |
| 3 | If you choose the ‘ one direction ’ option , you can only wellie it in the direction you 're facing . |
| 4 | The Tories are , as in 1966 , once more devoid of ideas and can only resort to attacking and insulting the other parties . |
| 5 | Her lips are so swollen she is unable to eat and can only sip drinks through a straw . |
| 6 | No you ca n't , you , you only have , you can only hand write . |
| 7 | The decision can only fuel speculation that it is suffering badly in the heat of an overcrowded Sparc-compatible marketplace that it once had to itself . |
| 8 | Observe that the process is free to execute any of the corresponding SKIP guards ( unc and can only deadlock if it does execute one of these guards . |
| 9 | The lion and the mouse can not confederate . |
| 10 | Always check to make sure that electrical wires attached to the television or any other appliances , such as reading lamps , are well secured , so that they can not trip people up . |
| 11 | Normally the principal counsellee is a child ; but there is no reason why the process can not centre upon the problems of an older relative . |
| 12 | I fully I fully accept that , er you would obviously build in the facilities which are necessary , but the most of the settlements are limited by existing physical and other constraints , and those can not be overcome , you can not duel the A nineteen as far as Easingwold without very substantial harm , for example to the open countryside , even if it were physically possible and economically possible , to expand Easingwold , sorry , to expand Tadcaster to the required size , we 'd need to roll back greenbelt boundaries , again contrary to P P G two . |
| 13 | If the Government can not man a Committee , they should draft in English Members . |
| 14 | The rule also pushes up costs , since a non-bank can not route all its card business through its main finance department . |
| 15 | The balance-of-payments deficit is not as bad as it looks , partly because it stems from private sector choices rather than public sector profligacy , and is thus inherently less inflationary as individuals can not resort to the printing press to ease the burden of their debt ; and partly because much of it may be imaginary , since the figures omit the ‘ balancing item ’ of unrecorded net receipts from overseas assets . |
| 16 | You can not will yourself to fight against the truth , he wrote . |
| 17 | You can not will yourself to hold out against reality . |
| 18 | Kant thinks , for example , that one who breaks a promise , because it is going to land him in personal difficulties to keep it , can not will that everyone would break their promises in these circumstances , for the situation in which no one kept promises which it turned out in the least difficult or vexatious to keep is an impossibility . |
| 19 | But mothers can not parent in a social vacuum . |
| 20 | Still , taking it for what it is , I can report that it is on the whole satisfactorily performed , due mainly to the merits of the soloists : Barbara Schlick 's soprano rings out finely in the wonderful air with cello , ‘ What passion can not Music raise or quell ’ ( I give titles in the familiar English rather than the German used here , of course ) , and again in her paean of the organ , though in the final chorus the sense and the noble simplicity of the solo soprano in turn with the choir , a real piece of English eccentricity , somehow becomes merely odd in German . |
| 21 | We can not mooch off without recording the 1991 Co Durham crime figures . |
| 22 | If you find you have a problem and can not hostess your group meetings as arranged , PLEASE contact the organiser who will help you , if at all possible , to find another venue nearby to avoid frustration and disappointment for others . |
| 23 | VIP guest George Pattison , the Dean of King 's College , Cambridge , won a rousing cheer at the ceremony when he told the crowd : ‘ I am disappointed we can not sentence anyone to the stocks today . |
| 24 | That does not mean , he wrote , that if the body does not protest the project necessarily has any value , though for reasons I have gone into already it is necessary to put such thoughts out of mind , they can not help , they can only hinder , they can not water , they can only blight . |
| 25 | Above all , ’ he went on , ‘ our royalty is to be reverenced , and if you begin to poke about it , you can not reverence it … |
| 26 | Thus it can not institute an action in the courts … |
| 27 | Why can not money be spent on advertising the help available in places where the homeless gather ? |
| 28 | Predictably they will tell the adviser that they can not rehouse all those families and perhaps the tenant can contact the police . |
| 29 | Roman Catholicism continues officially to oppose the ordination of women , also arguing that woman by her very nature can not image Christ . |
| 30 | The claim that women can not image Christ is rooted in an Aristotelian-scholastic argument that women , by their very nature , are defective and ‘ misbegotten ’ . |