Example sentences of "[indef pn] can [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We can no longer assume that because someone can do the job they can teach the skill . |
| 2 | Because it , it 's , it 's not particularly going to grab me because I 'm going to look at it and I 'm going to I 'm going to look down to see what it 's asking me do and certainly a busy news editor is looking down the line to see , and the first thing he 'll actually do is , is just have a , a very fast glance at it , find out what it 's about , and just make sure there 's someone who can be phoned , and what the news editor will do is actually throw it out into a pile of other handouts and there 's usually a journalist who 's , who 's who 's won first prize and their task for the day is to do all the handouts , and all you want to be sure of is that someone can make a phone call and the news editor wo n't , wo n't bother with any with any superfluous detail , all he 'd want to know is that somebody can be contacted , we 'll find out about it later . |
| 3 | Tomorrow detectives will be visiting houses in the Belmont area in the hope someone can identify the rapist . |
| 4 | For example , someone can have a specific doubt about God which is caused by an unnecessary lack of understanding . |
| 5 | They [ theoretical differences ] are not resolved really ; they continue as quite big arguments ; and there are quite big camps really of those who believe in theory and those who believe in scholarship , I suppose ; and we pretend that you can just muddle along and it does n't matter , but the crunch comes at things like marking exam papers , because if you 've got a student who 's heavily into theory , writing for a marker who 's heavily not into theory , then they tend to say things like ‘ oh , he 's just read Terry Eagleton , so blah blah blah ’ or ‘ she 's just read Cate Belsey and regurgitated that ’ so someone can get a bad mark because they 've written for the wrong person . |
| 6 | I mean , it 's years normally before someone can get a car . |
| 7 | Unless someone can crack the problem of how to incorporate higher quality displays and graphics cards in an Amstrad PC it is unlikely that the machine will figure largely at the page makeup end of the market . |
| 8 | There is support for such a pragmatic concept of reference in Strawson 's ( 1950 ) claim that ‘ 'referring ’ is not something an expression does ; it is something that someone can use an expression to do' ; and in Searle 's view that ‘ in the sense in which speakers refer , expressions do not refer any more than they make promises or give orders ’ ( 1979 : 155 ) . |
| 9 | ‘ Nobody can tell the difference : Awlad Amira are deceiving the government into giving arms to our enemies . ’ |
| 10 | I suppose nobody can stop the Japanese buying into " our " golf , which was a gift from God , and has not always been looked after properly . |
| 11 | All four band members share the belief that nobody can match the measure of commitment and unity to be found within The Smiths . |
| 12 | Nobody can match the English when it comes to puddings . |
| 13 | Nobody can leave the planet — not before we 've caught the dangerous thief . |
| 14 | Reform of the National Health Service and the education system should become much easier , now that nobody can entertain a realistic prospect of its reversal . |
| 15 | Nobody can dodge the monetary reform . |
| 16 | The funniest thing is that they are all as frightened as one another , but nobody can break the chain . |
| 17 | Then in the 1970s ( nobody can put an exact date to it ) the foliage began to change , becoming sickly yellow or brown instead of shining grey and green . |
| 18 | Nobody can find the door . |
| 19 | Three grand goes a fair way among the widows and apprentices , particularly as nobody can remember the last time there was an apprentice in the village . |
| 20 | You just think it looks good to be seen with books that nobody can pronounce the name of . |
| 21 | Nobody can know the world , not even the parts of it on offer to tourists , but they can know how to look them up , and the training for too long has been exiguous . |
| 22 | However , on a bad day chaos reigns , and nobody can predict a likely departure time . |
| 23 | ‘ Nobody can forecast the future with that much certainty , ’ she said with an attempt at lightness . |
| 24 | There are problems with designating these as new phyla , not least that nobody can define a phylum objectively , and my own view is that , marvellous though these animals are , we should still try to relate them to other organisms ( fossil and living ) . |
| 25 | Boswell does not say which of them raised the question of biography , and somewhat out of context he leads into a comment from Johnson : ‘ Nobody can write the life of a man , but those who have eat and drunk and lived in social intercourse with him . ’ |
| 26 | Well it 's to be all really that somebody can make a use of these things in n it ? |
| 27 | Now , I 'm not a sociologist but I would say i it meant that children without both were more prone to trouble , or more prone to erm lack of parental control or lack of love , care there has , I mean somebody can draw a a conclusion from that , but barely fifty ! |
| 28 | But otherwise it 's basically I think it 's , it 's all there , all you 're trying to do at this stage is , is to give , your aim here is to get is to get firstly , first of all , to get it on the diary , on the picture editor 's diary for your picture , and also to get the basic information in so that somebody can write a few cards as an advance to say it is going to happen . |
| 29 | Most desert-living animals can withstand some water loss , but none can match the spadefoot and its desert-living cousins . |
| 30 | If a common agreement blankets all competitors , however , none can secure an unfair advantage by undercutting the labour standards . |