Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] can [verb] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is often useful to have a Trashcan or Dustbin where you can dump unwanted files . |
| 2 | The recreational facilities range from horse-riding to para-sailing , while inland from the Club the countryside is criss-crossed with tracks for walking where you can discover rural villages , lone mosques and secret lakes among the low hills . |
| 3 | The up-side is that you have reached a stage where you can make some decisions . |
| 4 | The public rooms are spacious and light include lounge area , cocktail bar complete with piano , Café Barbizon where you can obtain tempting snacks and afternoon tea and cakes whilst their restaurant offers a high standard of service and cuisine specialising in both local and international dishes . |
| 5 | Now the Marais Poitevin is a pleasantly low-profile tourist attraction where you can take canal-boat trips from villages that have hardly changed in the 15-odd years I 've known them : Maillezais , with a huge and rather dull ruined abbey , and Coulon , where I first ate the delicious local version of moules marinieres called mouclade . |
| 6 | ‘ This is a country , ’ Fosdyke said , ‘ where you can get most things if you know where to look for them . ’ |
| 7 | LIVERPOOL is looking wonderful in spring and I recommend a visit — not forgetting the Tate Gallery in its spectacular Albert Dock setting , where you can see four exhibitions : Stanley Spencer , American Expressionists , European abstracts and modern Korean art . |
| 8 | The nearest supermarket is next door where you can buy some basics , such as soft drinks and beer in reception . |
| 9 | It says on it , you can pay two hundred pounds , or over three years , or you can pay ten pounds . |
| 10 | Say there we are you can add twelve add twelve or you can do two times |
| 11 | You can borrow small sums for a short period of time or you can borrow large amounts for many years , such as a mortgage . |
| 12 | Or you can buy some flowers from a shop or market stall . |
| 13 | Again you can pick up the stitches and knit them directly on to the edge , or you can knit long strips or tubes and sew them neatly in place . |
| 14 | If we want to paint a big choral canvas , words can be repeated without any fear of being repetitious , or we can use whole sentences or sections several times over . |
| 15 | People who have very strong relationship goals will seek out employment and leisure activities where they can form lasting relationships — deep , warm relationships which will endure over many years . |
| 16 | Local reports suggest he was carrying 20 cases of cigarettes from Gibraltar to Spanish territory where they can fetch 3 times the price . |
| 17 | The business schools also provide recruits for domestic industry , and in many Third World countries the government gives young graduates from such institutions posts with high degrees of responsibility in national development agencies where they can make substantial contributions to the welfare of their nations . |
| 18 | Readers often ask GHI where they can buy rubber seals for traditional screw-top preserving jars . |
| 19 | This plea will succeed where he can show two things : ( i ) that he was radically mistaken about the nature or effect of the document ( ii ) that he was not careless in signing it , Saunders v. Anglian Building Society . |
| 20 | The government can seek greater efficiency ; it can squeeze expenditure across the board ; or it can ask hard questions about what the state should be doing , and try to eliminate whole categories of spending . |
| 21 | The essence of his difficulty was that time and change imply that the same thing can have contradictory properties — it can be , say , hot and cold , depending on the time — and this conflicted with the rule that nothing can possess incompatible attributes . |
| 22 | I mute them so that I can switch two wirelesses on at the same time , because if you have two on together they screech . |
| 23 | An anorexic may tell her friends or parents , ‘ I 'd like to be slim ’ , and , if pressed for a reason , may reply along the lines of , ‘ So that I can wear nice clothes , date good-looking boys , and generally have a good time . ’ |
| 24 | Please let me know at least two days in advance so that I can make other arrangements . ’ |
| 25 | Only , I think , in so far as I 've seen so many pictures over the years that I must have picked up some knowledge and a sort of an overview of what there is in English art , so that I can make better comparisons . |
| 26 | ‘ I 'd like to think that I can offer useful opinions on other positions , and that I would n't be confined to just the back row , ’ he said . |
| 27 | She can try them on then , so that I can do any alterations that are necessary . |
| 28 | ‘ The men think that I can do disappearing tricks , too ! ’ thinks Carl . |
| 29 | It seems strange that I can spend ten times as much on a Fender product and be provided with none of this ! |
| 30 | Any of my old school friends in Wallingford that know me er well they 'll just never believe that I can run 26 miles because I do n't know if when you were at school , but when er when we used to have a cross-country run I was the one at the back and usually the P E instructor used to go round and whack us with a slipper , you know the slow ones and I was unfortunately one of those , but er now I 've been running with the Bicester Road Runners for what 2 years , er half , I 've done a few half marathons , nothing anywhere near 26 miles , I 've , my furthest run until yesterday was 16 miles , and yesterday , injured , with a bandage round my knee , I managed 18 miles , and I 'm pleased to say it 's still holding out and I 'm quietly confident that I 'm going to complete this , and like I say , if I can er well , just get the local businesses in Bicester interested and to support me , I say however small , just a , you know , if they , a penny a mile from just a few of the businesses in Bicester and , well , the Bible school could have , you know , a few pounds coming to them , which I 'm sure they 'd be , you know , greatly received . |