Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] can [verb] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean if you put your hand up to the sun you can feel it , you detect it , your eyes detect it , well you have detectors which detect them and , for example , if I want to detect something like an electron well then I can make a counter which is sensitive to charged particles like electrons , and I can allow these electrons to hit this counter and it will produce erm an identifiable electrical pulse and I can look at that and I can say this is an electron , or I can look at other particles , say , for things like helium nuclei which are called alpha particles , and I can make counters which will detect these and I can put a little piece of paper in front and I can stop off the alpha particles . |
| 2 | Sooner or later we 'll all end up in Heaven , although this heaven is on earth and a really terrific disco where you can drink at one of four bars and dance beneath the stars . |
| 3 | This has often been criticised because we are told that in drawing an analogy we normally know ‘ both sides ’ that we are comparing ( eg ‘ does n't he look like a horse ? ’ , where we can look at both and judge ) , whereas in this case we can only look at one side , the object that we are comparing with God . |
| 4 | The option is to play somewhere where they can arrive at 2.45 and the ground is still empty . ’ |
| 5 | Not that I can remember at all . |
| 6 | I want something that that I can look at that for . |
| 7 | And something I have not seen anywhere else , though it makes good sense , is that in these mainly narrow streets , the shops have their signs strung out at right-angles across the way so that you can stand at one end and read their names from there , without having to go down to look at them one by one . |
| 8 | You need an anchor at each end of the punt , on a variable length of rope so that you can fish at any depth of swim on the water . |
| 9 | That shows , so you can look at that and you can see how she 's spending her money . |
| 10 | Second , crime is accepted to be a legal category — no attempt is being made to propose , as we saw some positivists tried to do , that we can arrive at some more objective conception that stands above the acts of human deliberation that constitute the process of legal definition . |
| 11 | So we want to get bright objects that we can see at great distances , but we also need to know something about what it is we 're looking at . |
| 12 | Its adaptability means that it can survive at high altitudes , in semi-arid areas , and in rocky areas as well as in forests . |
| 13 | This would still leave the vaults of the Prado in Madrid with approximately five times the number of paintings that it can display at any one time . |
| 14 | I mean if you put your hand up to the sun you can feel it , you detect it , your eyes detect it , well you have detectors which detect them and , for example , if I want to detect something like an electron well then I can make a counter which is sensitive to charged particles like electrons , and I can allow these electrons to hit this counter and it will produce erm an identifiable electrical pulse and I can look at that and I can say this is an electron , or I can look at other particles , say , for things like helium nuclei which are called alpha particles , and I can make counters which will detect these and I can put a little piece of paper in front and I can stop off the alpha particles . |
| 15 | The company , the future , Jamie … now you 've taken that burden from me , and I can relax at last , knowing it 's all safe . ’ |
| 16 | Erm if I can add at this time there is in fact an error on the final table on that er |
| 17 | I think if I can look at these notes until tomorrow , ’ she looked questioningly at Dr Greene , who nodded , ‘ I need n't take up any more of his time now . ’ |
| 18 | If you wait five years it gets slightly steeper so the force to you becomes that and so on and so forth , forty five fifty and you can see at fifty five if you want to retire at a certain age er what 's the age that you actually want to retire ? |
| 19 | … and you can join at most major Cadw sites . |
| 20 | So we had to get the bobbies down to kick the door in , and you can imagine at three o'clock in the morning , some some deaf and dumb couple , there 's this big coloured bobby le leaning over and waking them up . |
| 21 | He speaks to no one , and no one addresses him until the employee at the counter asks if she can help at all . |
| 22 | PLEASE contact her if you can help at all and remember to display your poster . |
| 23 | But if you can look at that and think , Well minus so it 's one over . |
| 24 | if you can retire at fifty . |
| 25 | Perhaps if we can arrive at some sort of specific amounts or some research in that direction , we might Mr Chairman , be able to take representations to government in a more positive way . |
| 26 | and they can look at this anytime . |
| 27 | And they can look at the horn and they can look at these things and they can look this is weld which is the herb that 's used to produce the green the yellow of the green . |
| 28 | For the past 4 years we have paid a subscription of £12 per annum and unless we can continue at this rate , we shall have to consider whether we wish to remain a member . |
| 29 | Sometimes biblical chant sounds too much like adaptation from simple anthropological textbooks , but we can see at any rate the exemplification of the way in which Lawrence 's ‘ capering redskins ’ had to be for Eliot now ‘ Life ’ but ‘ not the last word , only the first ’ . |
| 30 | Because they can borrow at subsidised rates , government-sponsored enterprises tend to grow until they dominate their field . |