Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] [pron] can [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Okay , it 's just about five past so we can probably start with a clear conscience . |
| 2 | Erm so it 's a question of how one can best do it , but initially it would be er the onus would go on the individual to use the the spaces not designated as short stay . |
| 3 | Well , he learns something every day , including why I can never bear anything tight round my throat . |
| 4 | For now we can only hope that both he and the government appreciate the industry 's need for a firm and steady hand at the tiller . |
| 5 | She 's worried any of them could be killed … and for now she can only wait for the missing cat to return |
| 6 | That such care may well characterize those activities which Scruton declares can not possess it is suggested by Andrew Lumsden 's appropriately passing remark on the casual , anonymous sexual encounter : ‘ for now I can only generalize : as I 've known it , men are never so peaceful , so unviolent ( physically and emotionally ) , so graceful with each other ( no matter how ‘ crude' ’ the act ) as they are — as we are — when content to take each other without the addition of names , or beds , or flats , or even of any clear impression of one-another 's looks ' ( Gay News , 235 ( Mar. 1982 ) , 17 ) . |
| 7 | The facial features are those of an elderly woman and , though not a portrait of the deceased , they are in line with standard representational portraiture of the period ; viewed from above one can almost visualize the parted winding-sheet . |
| 8 | From here you can either continue by cable car to the summit at 9,679 feet and enjoy the panoramic views from the restaurant , or you can walk up through a half-mile tunnel ( with viewing windows at intervals ) to the Schneefernehaus . |
| 9 | From here you can already start to see the rim of the mountains that enclose the cirque . |
| 10 | At the same time , by virtue of his experience in the Secondary School sector of education he had a valuable contribution to make in how we can effectively communicate with young secondary school adults as potential members of the Catholic University parish . |
| 11 | Well if you get it from there she can always take them back . |
| 12 | Now as to what type of person came into this field and from where I can only guess , but I believe it was not people from the very close area although they would have lived in the vicinity . |
| 13 | Well Charlie 'll have to so we can all wash our hair . |
| 14 | Because what I 'd like to do is give people a view as to how they can best formulate their letters to you to get the right kind of reply from you . |
| 15 | I 'll be delighted to hear from British Gas as to how they can actually turn round and change a national agreement without having any formal discussions with the trade union side at any time at all . |
| 16 | For indeed I can not think my fault so great in this matter that was a point of conscience with me as to stand in need of your forgiveness . |
| 17 | This will make it possible for more informed advice to be given to parents of mentally handicapped children about how they can best assist their children 's language development . |
| 18 | Yeah why not , yeah anything that 's relevant , I mean if it goes on till then we can only use it twice ca n't we ? |
| 19 | There may be some unseemliness about the opportunism of assassinating characters still warm in their graves , but at least they can not feel the stings and arrows of outrageous libels . |
| 20 | But at least they can still shout and be heard . |
| 21 | For the crew it 's the end of three hard days and nights , but at least they can now sit back and leave it to the performers . |
| 22 | Without the faith that our face expresses our self , without that basic illusion , that arch-illusion , we can not live or at least we can not take life seriously . |
| 23 | At least we can still count on self-interest as a predictable factor … |
| 24 | At least she can still hear me . |
| 25 | ‘ If you want to throw up , at least you can just do it over the side . ’ |
| 26 | You know cos at least I can still go out and visit all my family even if they ca n't come down here . |
| 27 | Since nineteen eighty two when they took away the related earnings from the unemployment benefit they have introduced a further nine retrograde steps to the plight of the unemployed and now the proposals as has already been pointed out they now have a look , because there 's a fifty billion pound shortfall at how they can best tackle the sick and make them pay , as well as people who are struggling to keep a roof over their head . |
| 28 | The aim of this chapter is to show that you are often your own worst enemy in learning and to look at how you can best go about teaching yourself . |
| 29 | In short , I 'll be looking at how you can best protect yourself in the event of your computer going wrong . |
| 30 | And we 'll be looking , more importantly , at how you can perhaps get rid of them when you want , or even better , er put them off altogether . |