Example sentences of "[indef pn] can [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If there 's something in our music that someone can identify with in some way , something that makes their life easier … |
| 2 | Amazing how someone can appear to be so confident and clear-headed on the outside , while — Moira is an excellent nurse , quite capable of hiding her real self when she needs to . |
| 3 | At least when you learn a new language someone can explain in English what words mean and how grammar works . |
| 4 | So in a way , like someone can go with you and all if you want . |
| 5 | ‘ If someone can go on board an aircraft like this there must be something wrong . |
| 6 | ‘ If you think someone can work at his best at half past two in the morning after being at it since eight the day before you know nothing about human beings . |
| 7 | Nobody can pretend for a minute that they do n't know what 's going on . |
| 8 | There 's nobody can sleep in those . |
| 9 | Your question is really a question regarding the duration of the present recession which with the exception of our economic astrologers nobody can answer at present . |
| 10 | Now nothing and nobody can travel for any great distance in the valley without my knowing exactly where he |
| 11 | The trouble is that nobody can speak for the whole profession because of the various ways in which the profession is divided . |
| 12 | " Since 1914 " , notes Nizan , " the whole of life is in the public domain … nobody can escape from the world any longer . |
| 13 | Nobody can object to collecting and analysing such information ( despite a few worries about confidentiality ) . |
| 14 | Nobody can object to that . ’ |
| 15 | Escalating crime figures prove that nobody can afford to be complacent about security . |
| 16 | Nobody can say for sure when the earliest purpose-made sparkling wine was produced , but documentary evidence exists to prove that the monks of the abbey of St Hilaire in southern France had intentionally produced sparkling wines as early as 1531 , well over one hundred years before anyone attempted to do so in Champagne . |
| 17 | ‘ Nobody can see into the future , and all stock exchange investment is a gamble . |
| 18 | ‘ Some players may be stronger than David but nobody can live with him in terms of all-round ability . |
| 19 | I 'm always willing to stand down if somebody can claim to be a little older . |
| 20 | Not for them the purposeless Irish custom of the kick upfield which might , with a bit of luck , blunder into touch and ‘ everything can stop for tea ’ . |
| 21 | One can forget about the problems of urban decay even yet up there . |
| 22 | But in the meantime how pleasant it is to find oneself arriving in the evening for the first time in some lively little English market town , where one can forget for a while the noisy onward march of science , and settle down to meditate upon the civilised past . |
| 23 | One can forget for a while the rigours faced everyday and appreciate wholeheartedly the kind of escapism that lies at the root of ‘ The Passionate Shepherd to his love ’ and ‘ The Garden ’ and all other poems which make up the pastoral garden . |
| 24 | This procedure is entirely straightforward if one can assume in the keyboarder competence in the handling of the English alphabet , apart from one very important snag : homonyms . |
| 25 | That 's why they 're shown there , they 're different to the figures shown on the first page of the report , but because they 're calculated on the same base , er , one can compare at each other , one can compare the different towns . |
| 26 | The power one can generate in karate is best exemplified by the way adepts smash their limbs through concrete , wood and various other materials . |
| 27 | I do n't think there 's a very great deal in the way of er lighting fittings one can talk about erm in houses in Harlow , it 's er , there 's a , a distinct difference between the light , a lot , lot of architects in , in Harlow have lived in Harlow you see and they will go in for all the very latest type of lighting fittings erm and because they have er access to the books for the various er designers of lighting fittings er , generally though , they , the majority of the people in the town er have come from er London boroughs and erm they view the same kind of lighting fittings they 've always been used to . |
| 28 | One can talk of an object presenting an appearance to an unoccupied point in space , and of the presentation appearance of an object itself being larger or smaller than the presentation appearance of another to that point . |
| 29 | These last two are obviously each related to the nervous system and to the brain but not necessarily to a particular part of the brain and taken together they overlap in such obscure ways that they are best regarded as sub-systems in different domains , one can talk in terms of one or the other but not both simultaneously . |
| 30 | ‘ Water boils at 100° centigrade ’ is brief and considered to be true , but is it as true if one can talk in degrees of truth — as the longer ‘ Water boils at different temperatures depending on altitude ’ ? |