Example sentences of "can [adv] [vb infin] [noun] [unc] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We can only experience God 's happiness for ourselves when we grow in contemplative prayer . |
| 2 | The bitter battles of the past are gone and these days Bill Morris can only sing Rover 's praises . |
| 3 | One can only admire Lucie-Smith 's confidence in taking on such an undertaking , but wonder why Laurence King Publishing were keen on this project . |
| 4 | NEW WAYS TO DIP INTO INFORMATION Document image processing can only fulfil vendors ' claims if the right analysis and preparation are carried out before a decision to buy is made |
| 5 | I had visited his tomb in Westminster Abbey before starting on this trip , and read the words there , from the last entry in his diary : ‘ Here in my solitude , I can only ask God 's blessing on the men — whether British , American or Turk — who will help to heal this open sore of the world . ’ |
| 6 | I can only attribute Dawn 's remarks to her excessive loyalty . |
| 7 | But because it operates only at the level of ideas , without any attempt to specify why particular ideas are held in particular societies at particular times , other than by reference to other ideas , interactionist social psychology can only describe peoples ' beliefs , not explain them . |
| 8 | You can only see people 's eyes looking out of the eye-holes in the clothes . |
| 9 | I can just remember Helen 's bum ! |
| 10 | But David with with respect but David I can just see people 's eyes glazed over right now . |
| 11 | From my crevice between the two machines I can just see Pa 's face . |
| 12 | I can just imagine Women 's Institute ladies creeping out in the night to pinch jam jars from from graveyards . |
| 13 | You can always defer to the " off-stage " higher authority ( which means you 're less likely to have a revolution on your hands ! ) ; you can seek assistance ; you can still play Devil 's Advocate ; you can co-ordinate ; bring information and , importantly , transfer responsibility to the children . |
| 14 | Mm , I can still remember Ann 's face now , oh this bloody thing , got it and threw it , no , no |
| 15 | Later , in The Use of Poetry , he links in one sentence Fitzgerald and Buddhism : ‘ I am not a Buddhist , but some of the early Buddhist scriptures affect me as parts of the Old Testament do ; I can still enjoy Fitzgerald 's Omar , though I do not hold that rather smart and shallow view of life . ’ |
| 16 | You can always read people 's eyes , especially with your kind of facial expressions , cos the eyes always tell the truth . |
| 17 | She said : ‘ I can honestly say Pete 's work is one of the best received exhibitions we have ever staged . |
| 18 | The mindlessness of this acquired behavioural numbness is illustrated by the contrary phenomenon of sensitisation : almost any irrelevant but novel stimulus can instantly destroy habitation 's insensitivity . |
| 19 | Teachers can also annotate children 's drawings for them , writing down what the children say . |
| 20 | The seminar will take place at the Science Museum , where you can also see Mike 's exhibition Running on Air — the Nike Exhibition of Sports Shoe Technology . |
| 21 | With this tensor we can now rewrite Einstein 's ansatz as . |
| 22 | We can now apply Hess 's law ( equation ( 12 ) ) to the atomisation of methane : Applying question ( 13 ) we obtain |
| 23 | Indeed , for this reason one can usefully add Mozart 's Don Giovanni and Bizet 's Carmen to the above list : the use ( in land-locked , mountainous Salzburg ) of a nocturnal seascape as the backdrop to Act III of Carmen was one of Karajan 's strangest and yet most haunting intimations of eternity . |
| 24 | And , finally , it can officially accredit students ' learning , thus giving it public recognition and status in a way that is simply not possible for the autodidact . |
| 25 | But something I would like to say , which no-one has touched on at all ; we 've all been talking about the laws that affect women and equal opportunities , and no-one has mentioned anything about the horrendous hours that are worked in parliament making it not impossible , but extremely difficult for women to become politicians working in parliament to be the people who make the laws , to be the people who can actually affect women 's roles in society erm everyone seems to accept the fact that our own parliament , totally dominated by men , and the sort of hours that only men can work , making it extremely difficult for women . |
| 26 | Clegg knows he can never gain Miranda 's respect except by force , as he has nothing to offer her that she wants , and so , to fulfil his desire he has to kidnap her . |