Example sentences of "[pers pn] can [vb infin] of the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Therefore , I can speak of the experience when four hon. Members sit in quasi-judicial godliness hearing the arguments for and against . |
| 2 | But , so far as I can judge of the matter , I should think that in the interests of the man himself — as a human being facing indefinite detention — it would be better for him to be told the reasons . |
| 3 | I sneak a look at what I can see of the driver 's face , to check how he likes his boss 's sermon , but his face is wooden . |
| 4 | Covenants also appear in leases where the person letting the property includes terms in the lease which restrict the person renting the property as to the use he or she can make of the property , e.g. the premises are to be used only for storage , not for retailing goods . |
| 5 | In order to make all of these main points work in an essay you can think of the reasons you have found as questions for yourself , and answer each with a paragraph . |
| 6 | You can think of the strategies as miniature ‘ proxies ’ for their authors . |
| 7 | Well you can think of the height of the water as like a voltage . |
| 8 | If the handle and what you can see of the bud are still green , the prospects are good . |
| 9 | In what you can see of the earth , |
| 10 | Some purpose-built blocks of flats fortunately have rubbish chutes on each landing , which means that you can dispose of the rubbish daily down to a large bin . |
| 11 | I wonder whether we can speak of the smoothness of having little to do … the bobbliness of being entertained … the thickness of being warm … the knittedness of being kinaesthetically involved … |
| 12 | Since most of the parameters here will normally be constant during a given experiment we can speak of the blackout level for a given light intensity . |
| 13 | Second , a labour market can be defined by skill or occupation : we can speak of the market for economics lecturers or the market for car workers . |
| 14 | It is in this sense of ‘ cognitive perspective ’ ( as Peters puts it ) that we can talk of the transcendence which comes through the life of reason , without resort to the metaphysical world picture of heavenly spheres of intellectual existence . |
| 15 | The sense in which we can talk of the meaning of an individual sentence is not determinate enough to make it possible that a sentence be unrevisably true in virtue of that meaning . |
| 16 | And you 're wondering , I mean I do n't think we can expect of the advice of charities now , or very little , you know , and , and they 've got to be very , very careful |
| 17 | If we refer to linguistic knowledge , the internalization of the symbolic function of signs , systemic knowledge , then we can think of the realization of meaning in actual language use as a matter of taking bearings on two points of reference : systemic knowledge on the one hand and schematic knowledge on the other . |
| 18 | Either we can think of the UK and every other economy as a coherent whole with a dynamic of its own or we can think of it as subordinate to the world economy such that its parts are the cogs of an international economy and have no coherence on a national basis . |
| 19 | We can think of the presence of the specialist teacher as being on a continuum of visibility . |
| 20 | We can think of the electron not only as going through both slits but also as following paths both direct and indirect , moving both rapidly and slowly . |
| 21 | We can think of the word graph as a search tree with each path through the tree corresponding to each of the word strings . |
| 22 | We can think of the adult as analogous to the ephemeral winged seed of a plant like a sycamore , and the larva as analogous to the main plant , the difference being that sycamores make many seeds and shed them over many successive years , while a mayfly larva gives rise to only one adult right at the end of its own life . |