Example sentences of "[pers pn] can [adv] [be] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However many facts I know about another person I can treat him as pure means , but I can not be perceptually and emotionally aware from his viewpoint without letting his inclinations interact with mine and affect my ends . |
| 2 | ‘ She can not be more than twelve years old . ’ |
| 3 | Whatever happens now , my children , we can never be again as we were . |
| 4 | Today , despite assurances given by the Under-Secretary of State for Social Security in Committee , crucial regulations on disability have been botched together with the uprating measures so that they can not be effectively and properly considered by Parliament . |
| 5 | It does not commend itself on the basis of observable experience in the everyday world , and it can not be easily and rationally justified . |
| 6 | In so far as the plaintiffs are seeking to recover from the third defendant money which he has obtained for his own benefit or for the benefit of companies which are , in effect , his alter ego , I can see that the third party would have an overwhelming argument that it can not be just and equitable to require him to contribute to whatever the third defendant is ordered to pay to the plaintiffs . |
| 7 | Surely it can not be long before the Football League discovers what is festering in the Multivite Vegeburger/Singletons Valve Replacement League sewer . |
| 8 | If during the period of habituation the touch of the glass rod is coupled with some other stimulus — say a bright light — the original response at once returns in full , so it can not be merely because of exhaustion that it disappeared in the first place . |
| 9 | It can not be so if the managers are drawn from a different pool , which can happen if emoluments in the private sector drift too far away from those in the public sector . |
| 10 | The distance of the cluster is believed to be over 9000 light-years ; it contains several thousands of stars , and it can not be less than 30 light-years in diameter . |
| 11 | Though he can not be more than five or six , he wears a man 's anorak , badly zipped and uneven , a heap of purple fabric tilted to one side and a small freckled shoulder bare on the other . |