Example sentences of "can [adv] [adv] [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I can most clearly explain it in terms of the absences of thinking and doing . |
| 2 | We can only freely give ourselves to someone else when we are ‘ real persons ’ — just as Harry was beginning to see in the play . |
| 3 | In effect , since socialisation is present as part of all social relationships , whether the parties to the relationship are aware of it or not , it is clear that it is a much more subtle , complex and pervasive process than it might at first appear and that we can only properly understand it as an aspect of all human activity . |
| 4 | I can just about split it with × 20 , but not easily . |
| 5 | Having heard him speak , I can just about forgive him for not understanding the Committee debate . |
| 6 | We can just about afford it from immediate funds , and I trust I have your support in this work . |
| 7 | Fewer and fewer Labour people can any longer distract themselves from the common assertion that Mr Kinnock is surrounded by men who are more able and winning than he is . |
| 8 | I do n't think I can still yet watch it without weeping — it 's such a powerful film of a powerful time , and a terrible time really . |
| 9 | Some individuals have no worries ; they have planned the event for years , made maximum pension contributions , carefully invested their savings , covered themselves and family in insurance policies , budgeted ahead and can even gleefully tell you about the exotic round-the-world trip they intend to take just as soon as their new life begins . |
| 10 | That 's right I know , but see this is , you see this is the point I 'm trying to make to you , you can quite happily do it in your own way , but the problem is you do n't know what you 're doing , right , and , and if you actually knew what you were doing and well aware of what you 're doing you would do it a hundred times better and you would do it all the time , right |
| 11 | You can then either read it as a standard newspaper or use it as a database to search for particular articles . |
| 12 | One can then perhaps forgive them for faulty ( though consistent ) reasoning on the ( conventional ) comparative static effects ? |
| 13 | Thus if my main concern is to have a vast stock of personal possessions and control over the lives of others , I can doubtless only have them at the expense of others . |
| 14 | Referring to the burden which subsidies placed on the state budget , Ben Ali said that " we can no longer do nothing in the face of the growth of the compensation costs , which alone absorb one-quarter of state expenditure " . |
| 15 | This week the club lost captain David Rees to Newport and coach Paul Evans has decided he can no longer commit himself to the club because of the pressures of his Welsh Under-21 assistant coaching duties . |
| 16 | She promised herself , however , that she would hold the office only briefly , and now that her husband Stan has retired , she feels that she can no longer involve herself to so great an extent in commitments and activities that take her away from home . |
| 17 | The indignation has a strained and petty air about it : Joe 's greatest crime does not seem to be his contribution to the deaths of 21 servicemen but his letting down his son , who can no longer regard him as a hero . |
| 18 | And if King Fahd refuses to have them there , then he can no longer present himself as the guardian , on behalf of the Muslim world , of the holy places . |
| 19 | ‘ But now he claims that as he has found work independently , I can no longer employ him in this capacity . ’ |
| 20 | I do n't know what your plan is , Master Nan , but I know one thing , I can no longer trust you in your present position . ’ |
| 21 | But one day your Line will divide , and it is then that the magical Beastblood will fade , and you will find you can no longer strengthen it by lying with the creatures of the forest . |
| 22 | We can no more abolish one without destroying the others than we can think of a circle without a circumference … |
| 23 | You can bloody well treat me to a couple of Cokes when the shops open . ’ |
| 24 | But you can never quite identify it at any given moment . |
| 25 | Consequently , he is continually having to hold on to a sense of humility while he listens to other people , otherwise he can too easily defend himself by taking up a judgemental posture . |
| 26 | I can very easily help them into a situation where they can be very much more successful than they are but that would mean compromises . |