Example sentences of "can [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Therefore , why ca n't the public have access . |
| 2 | Why ca n't the public be more like us ? |
| 3 | Ca n't the Watch Committee … rid the police of the hooligan element … gangs of young and hefty idlers squat on the pavement or lurk in subways to annoy passers-by , to play tricks on defenceless shop assistants , or to gamble in the face of the public . |
| 4 | You do n't need to have taken in the fact , planted early on , that Joe keeps a gun , or have noticed the required sign in the foyer warning that shots will be fired ( ca n't the nanny state keep its paws off anything ? ) to know that retribution is coming , and on elephant feet . |
| 5 | If a pipsqueak mob like the Green Party can do it , why ca n't the mighty Labour Party ? |
| 6 | CHILDREN are allowed to divorce their parents , so why ca n't the public divorce bad politicians ? |
| 7 | Superintendent Roger Arnold said : ‘ We 'll try to find the owner but if we ca n't the boys could end up keeping their catch . ’ |
| 8 | The younger actor wanted to rehearse one particular gruelling scene over and over which the ailing Olivier endured until , too ill to go on , he had to give up , complaining , ‘ Why ca n't the boy just act ? |
| 9 | ‘ Ca n't the Thing send a message to the Concorde drivers ? ’ said Gurder . |
| 10 | A senior American diplomat agrees : ‘ If the United States can give Mexico access for agriculture , textiles and steel , why ca n't the EC do that for its neighbours ? ’ |
| 11 | Why ca n't the woman be assessed as an individual , and benefit paid in so far as her resources are insufficient to meet her requirements ? |
| 12 | And then we as the form teacher sits why ca n't the kids look at the reports as well ? |
| 13 | I would like to ask , why , when there co-operation at the , the Strathclyde bus company they have buses that are running choc-a-block constantly full , but then again suddenly a bus that does n't pay its full way is taken off and people that are dependant on that bus are left without any transport , why ca n't the busy bus subsidise the bus that is n't ? , because after it its public transport , so is it a complete and utter profit that the buses are running for or is it for the convenience of the public ? because it is |
| 14 | But why ca n't the engineer at M S one level be project engineer |
| 15 | ‘ Ca n't the police do anything ? ’ |
| 16 | Mrs Langley said faintly , ‘ Hens — ’ and Rose , startled out of the remnants of her confusion said , ‘ Why ca n't — ; ca n't the gardener do that ? ’ |
| 17 | Why ca n't the work be done by Scottish Nuclear staff ? |
| 18 | ‘ Ca n't the great Feargal McMahon do anything ? ’ |
| 19 | Well , it 's erm , every other station on , on erm , has erm , advertising , why ca n't the B B C now have advertising ? |
| 20 | ‘ Why ca n't the idiots pray somewhere else ? ’ he said . |
| 21 | While it may not succeed where it thinks it can , if it thinks it ca n't the probability is that it wo n't . |
| 22 | Ca n't the monsters too ? ’ |
| 23 | You ca n't the most difficult situation in in our job is coping with an incompetent buyer or scheduler . |
| 24 | No you ca n't the forty foots have n't even The we 've got a huge problem in Sri Lanka . |
| 25 | Why ca n't the same methods that were used by the Commonwealth yesterday vis a vis Rhodesia , vis a vis Namibia and vis a vis South Africa , not be applied in respect of the colonial and settlerist situation here . |
| 26 | Ca n't the council find a pitch for them so we can have a clear walking area ? |
| 27 | Ca n't the British people and their MPs grasp the simple fact that a European Bank and a single currency would complete Brussels ' control over the locality of industry ? |
| 28 | oh I ca n't the diggers over there and that 's the dipper |
| 29 | Well , we ca n't the only way stop it all together and that ai n't gon na . |
| 30 | You ca n't the |