Example sentences of "can [pron] tell the " in BNC.
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| 1 | What can I tell the other parents ? ’ |
| 2 | How can I tell the difference between yours and mine . |
| 3 | ‘ Can you tell the down from the up ? ’ |
| 4 | The identity of the two activities is asserted , with a succinctness that only the build-up has made possible , in ‘ flowered acanthus ’ ( acanthus , a classical motif of architectural sculpture , is also the stylized representation of specific foliage ) , and also in ‘ Can you tell the down from the up ? ’ ( for there is no way of deciding whether ‘ nature ’ is the ‘ up ’ and ‘ art ’ the ‘ down ’ , or vice-versa ) . |
| 5 | Are there two types , left and right handed rockers and how can you tell the castings apart ? c . |
| 6 | Can you tell the difference between a sparkling wine and Champagne ? |
| 7 | HOW CAN you tell the life-span of a dance compilation is limited ? |
| 8 | £1m classic or £15,000 copy — can you tell the difference ? |
| 9 | Yet how can you tell the precise grounds.of righteous or unrighteous anger ? |
| 10 | COUNSEL : Can you tell the Court , please , the magnitude of these considerable forces ? |
| 11 | Can you tell the difference between long-life skimmed and semi-skimmed milk and their pasteurised equivalents ? |
| 12 | Now how can you tell the one horse from another ? |
| 13 | And can you tell the jury , as briefly as possible , what that job entailed ? |
| 14 | And can you tell the jury exactly what time did you arrive at the flat ? |
| 15 | I can do it , how can you tell the difference ? |
| 16 | Sometimes as adults if a child for instance asks the question ‘ what is death ’ it is very easy to go into quite a long diatribe about life and death and get really profound , whereas in fact all a child may be wanting to know is how do you know if somebody 's dead , how can you tell the difference between somebody being dead and somebody being asleep ? |
| 17 | ‘ With modern verse , can one tell the difference ? ’ |
| 18 | Nor can one tell the normal value of a mine , although some must have given considerable yields — Wolsey , as bishop of Durham , let out one at a rent of £180 a year ( 82 , pp.164–5 ) . |
| 19 | Can he tell the House how often they have been used ? |
| 20 | Can he confirm that things are on course for the early completion of the Mar Dyke-Wellington link on the A13 , and can he tell the House the date on which he hopes that work on that link will start ? |
| 21 | Can he tell the House something about the agreement made on 13 December by his right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for the Environment , which I understand will lead to a 6 per cent . |
| 22 | Can he tell the House a little more about any plans that he and the Government may have to recruit or to find peaceful employment for some of the rocket scientists and nuclear experts of Russia and , perhaps , even of the Ukraine ? |
| 23 | You 're going to say , ‘ How can anyone tell the difference ? ’ or ‘ Well it makes a change from being on holiday , ’ or something nasty and bitter and hurtful like that . |