Example sentences of "[noun] can [adv] [adv] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The principal faced with a troubled or disruptive child can not simply send him someplace else . |
| 2 | The advantage here is that your opponent ca n't really watch you because then he does not see the ball . |
| 3 | The thing about the solo is that it should really be a chance for the guitar to take over from the vocalist and really hit you in the heart like vocals can , and I 'm sorry but these heavy metal solos can never really hit you because it 's just music by numbers . ’ |
| 4 | To recognise the continuing validity of such questions can not however exempt us from attempting to construct and share in a growing body of expertise . |
| 5 | It is much easier to talk about something or explain if you have it in front of you and even though the listener can not actually see it you will be able to paint a mental picture for him . |
| 6 | Most galaxies are pathetic objects called dwarf galaxies — so dim that astronomers ca n't even seem them unless the galaxies are close to us . |
| 7 | Sometimes they wo n't , intuitive people ca n't actually tell you exactly how they 've arrived at this perception , they 've just got it . |
| 8 | My [ older ] sisters ca n't even speak it . |
| 9 | And why does any star which is radiating energy not lose so much mass ( thanks to E=MC 2 ) that gravity can no longer hold it together ? |
| 10 | The planet p' is so small that even the biggest available telescopes can not possibly observe it ; the experimental astronomer applies for a research grant to build yet a bigger one . |
| 11 | But even then , they can not avoid it altogether and after a while , their digestions can no longer tolerate it . |
| 12 | Bill can not possibly tell her his son has AIDS . |
| 13 | In fact the camera ca n't quite pick him out . |
| 14 | Good little stand in ball there you see Laws ca n't quite get it up on it . |
| 15 | If parents do not care and praise and listen to a child 's reading , schoolteachers ca n't easily make them literate . |
| 16 | Those who most need the improvements can not usually afford them . |
| 17 | In The Fire of Love he pinpoints the experience witnessed to by all mystics of a strenuous inner effort which although it is the precondition of contemplative experience can not actually produce it . |
| 18 | I do n't know whether it has made any difference , but now we 're obliged to abandon some of our defences and it 's certain that your presence can no longer help us . |
| 19 | Most shepherds ca n't even do it . ’ |
| 20 | Written language can not literally show us anything except writing . |
| 21 | The shark can not suddenly twist them to a vertical position to act as brakes . |
| 22 | Seasoned observers of Angeleno politics can only just believe it , but it looks increasingly as if the fat-cat will win . |
| 23 | Many South African whites believe that the National Party can no longer protect them . |