Example sentences of "can [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Can that be done ? |
| 2 | So what can that be ? |
| 3 | ‘ Now who can that be , ’ Frau Nordern said , exasperated . |
| 4 | How can that be right ? ’ |
| 5 | Can that be right ? |
| 6 | For the spirit still is bright and swift , the eye capable of all delight ; but what can that avail , when I can not , here , in the street , submit to my impulse or sensation , but must be a creature of body , where the body is all , the spirit in subjection to it ? |
| 7 | Another argument is that advertising has only been around for a while , so how can that be the reason for all our hang-ups , but that 's not true either . |
| 8 | What can that mean ? |
| 9 | To help people to be better people , happier people , how can that be dangerous ? ’ |
| 10 | ‘ How can that be ? ’ |
| 11 | How can that be a bad thing . |
| 12 | Can that be resolved by blood tests ? |
| 13 | How can that be when the water workers have , by an odd quirk of fate , left her constituents high and dry , long before the dispute had a chance to hit anyone else ? |
| 14 | As the Created God can be made ever greater by the actions of people creating goodness by living within the constraints of the Second Choice , so can that greatness be reduced by the actions of others operating within the evolutionary licence of the First Choice . |
| 15 | ‘ Now who can that be ? ’ said Tom . |
| 16 | I feel fat , gross — even my legs feel flabby , but how can that be ? |
| 17 | The question now arises : can that rational animal Man ever become more than an animal which criticizes its own spontaneous tendencies in the light of its awareness of itself and of external conditions ? |
| 18 | But if they were used only after proper training and in self-defence , how can that be construed as unprovoked aggression ? |
| 19 | ‘ Whatever can that be ? ’ wondered the young hedgehog . |
| 20 | How can that be done now ? |
| 21 | But in no sense can that be true . |
| 22 | But in the case of gender , what can that be except a social value judgement ? |
| 23 | What else can that list of contacts he has in drug areas mean ? |
| 24 | ‘ Now who can that be ? ’ asked Mrs Beavis of herself when the front door knocker went . |
| 25 | I said , ‘ How can that be ? ’ . |
| 26 | What can that become ? |
| 27 | What can that mean ? |
| 28 | Where a multilateral treaty creates a right potentially for all non-parties , can that right be revoked without their consent ? |
| 29 | But how can that which God gives to ma be interpreted as something man gives to God ? |
| 30 | Is that true — can that be true ? " she asked incredulously . |