Example sentences of "can [vb infin] [pron] [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I know you 've got none fit in Munster at the moment , but hopefully the Lads in the Power Pack Section can make something of the ones we 've just lifted . |
| 2 | If exceptions , such as ‘ I promise to tell the truth ’ , occur to us , we can treat them as the exceptions that prove the rule . |
| 3 | We can congratulate ourselves on the forecasts which led to fixing fees at the right levels , but commercial criteria are not the only means of judging the fortunes of professional institutes . |
| 4 | If twins are detected by ultrasound scan , parents can prepare themselves for the births and plan accordingly , and also alert the obstetric team so that the appropriate antenatal care can be given to allow for the best chance of a safe delivery . |
| 5 | ‘ This heavy-duty polythene should do the trick if I can wedge it across the gaps . ’ |
| 6 | That kind of insight can free her from the constraints of the inner voice which effectively commands her , ‘ Turn right here . |
| 7 | Thus teachers , on one side , can know everything about the technicalities of curriculum , pedagogy , the use of resources and professional standards . |
| 8 | Familiarise yourself with the next two sections so that you can discuss them with the trainees in a chalk and talk fashion . |
| 9 | Well , perhaps we can count them on the fingers of one hand . |
| 10 | So I said I was tired of waiting for the money for my things and she can collect it from the students and have it when it came . |
| 11 | N : The best things in life are free but you can give them to the birds and bees |
| 12 | It is perhaps in part a matter of date which makes Dornford Yates 's novels seem high-flown and absurd to us where we can accommodate ourselves to the formalities of Anthony Hope 's Ruritania . |
| 13 | ‘ You can feel it in the streets that Labour will win , ’ the television reporter said . |
| 14 | If the Government can do it for the Bosnians , why ca n't they do it for the homeless ? |
| 15 | I assume that if they can bring themselves within the terms of erm of these orders then they will er be indemnified . |
| 16 | It 's probably one that picks up conversations in the room as well as just on the phone but I can show it to the boys at — ’ |
| 17 | See if you can tip it without the bits going in then . |
| 18 | A solicitor can steer you through the intricacies of inheritance tax , helping you minimise its effects , and explaining the various exemptions and reliefs . |
| 19 | My own experience , on the rare occasions when I have actually been asked to produce a short story with my mind totally blank , is that one can tune oneself like the strings of a wind-harp by admitting to one 's mind the desire to write a story and that in that state of receptivity even the oddest , most trivial circumstances will produce a basic idea . |
| 20 | I hope that I can provide him with the answers in a way that his hon. Friends on the Front Bench were unable to provide answers to questions raised when he was the hon. Member for West Lothian . |
| 21 | The result is that we can provide them with the tools needed to design more efficient heat transfer equipment . ’ |
| 22 | We can see it on the streets of London . |
| 23 | and because it 's slight yellow you do n't lose it you know , if you keep all your stuff in it at home you can see it under the chairs and you know huh , find it again . |
| 24 | You can see it from the fields up there . |
| 25 | You can see it in the eyes . ’ |
| 26 | One can see it by the numbers of new business start-ups ; also by the number of failures which does show there is some healthy risk-taking . |
| 27 | But I can see you on the Brains Trust . ’ |
| 28 | Well you sh you 're supposed to ride a fair way out from the gutter , never in the gutter so they can see you round the bends . |
| 29 | Those who wish , both unionists and nationalists , can interpret it as the beginnings of absorption into an all-Ireland state . |
| 30 | So if I was to say to you that you can take him to the Justices if that 's your pleasure - " He turned and fixed Sir Gregory with eyes that radiated hatred from beneath fiery brows — " I do n't think you 'd like that , would you ? |