Example sentences of "[pron] can [be] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When you go to your mum 's tomorrow , or when we go out tomorrow we 'll take it with us , in case we meet anybody I can be taping cos I can get as many people as I like , when you go up to Ken 's take it with you , put it on your pocket , but then say to them , if you object we wo n't do it . |
| 2 | I can not be refuted if I claim that my visual sense-field contains a yellow sense-content , but I can be refuted if I go on to claim that there exists a yellow object that is responsible for my sense-content . |
| 3 | ‘ At least I can be flattered that you do n't find me sly or boring . ’ |
| 4 | In fact there are very few goods that are pure public goods ; that is , goods that yield benefits from which nobody can be excluded and for which the amount the individual can consume does not diminish as the number of consumers increases . |
| 5 | Our concern is rather to break away from the stale confrontation of reason and spontaneity which has persisted since the Romantic Movement , to invite the man of reason to admit that he never has had any ends which did not spring from his own spontaneity , and the intuitive and impulsive that no insight that flashes from theirs can be acknowledged as objective truth until it survives the ruthless justice of reason . |
| 6 | Only such a theory can generate rules which can be accepted as having the sort of ethical authority that is required for international law to be taken seriously as the ultimate arbiter of international relations . |
| 7 | this note will set out some ideas which can be applied where suitable . |
| 8 | A ‘ top-down ’ comment by Holdgate ( 1982 ) also makes a plea for relevant local research which can be applied and its resulting policies replicated . |
| 9 | At a vector distance R from the centre of mass which can be expanded if as where are components of . |
| 10 | For the school librarian and teacher , word processing programs on microcomputers allow the creation of documents which can be used once only e.g. a current new acquisitions list or a notice to pupils , but also documents which can be saved and used again . |
| 11 | Lower ribs : These protect various organs like the liver and spleen which can be jolted and hurt when the lower ribs are struck . |
| 12 | For those present their Mass is their one opportunity and they will benefit from any resource and talent which can be gathered and encouraged . |
| 13 | There are entirely new powers hovering in the air , condensing in the future , lurking in the minds of man , which can be summoned as Prospero summoned Ariel ! ’ |
| 14 | Other spatially referenced data incorporated into the system include those on the distribution of schools , medical and transport services which can be displayed and supplementary information about them obtained . |
| 15 | Nuclear weapons can not escape from the kinds of restraints built up carefully in the laws-of-war tradition over the centuries , but there is a risk that they may be thought to be so escaping ( especially in view of the UK and US reservations to 1977 Geneva Protocol I ) unless positive action in this direction is taken , The comparative neglect of the whole subject of laws-of-war restrictions on the use of nuclear weapons has endured for forty years , for reasons which can be understood if not approved . |
| 16 | He added : ‘ The aim must be to produce small claims procedures which can be understood and followed by the do-it-yourself litigant . ’ |
| 17 | a digitizing device using light sensitivity to translate a picture or typed text into a pattern of dots which can be understood and stored by a computer . |
| 18 | * Provide information which can be understood and adequate training |
| 19 | The basis of the whole exercise is the assumption that , in any ordinary human language , the set of terms which can be glossed as " father " , " mother " , " brother " , " sister " etc. , because of the way that they are employed within the context of the domestic family , is somehow primary and basic . |
| 20 | Additional guidelines were also mentioned in the Law Commission Report which led to the enactment of UCTA ( Report No 69 , pp 71–73 ) , which can be summarised as follows : ( 1 ) Which party can most reasonably insure. ( 2 ) " Force majeure " clauses are prima facie likely to be reasonable . |
| 21 | Notes for Guidance were distributed together with the Parliamentary statement , indicating how individual schemes were to be prepared with the object of creating ‘ institutions which can be developed as comprehensive academic communities offering a wide range of disciplines and catering for full-time , sandwich and part-time students at all levels of higher education ’ . |
| 22 | In particular , it may foster the inventor 's ill-informed optimism that he has something which can be developed and exploited for commercial gain . |
| 23 | In addition , they control resources which can be withdrawn or redeployed at their discretion , and are of vital importance for workers ' livelihood and the revenue base of state expenditure . |
| 24 | Do you , do you happen to know , will this service give benefit advice as well , because the , the budget which introduced a , an allowance of a kind for , for child care , is actually quite complicated , and , and it 's kind of er , an amount of income which can be disallowed before Family Credits are calculated and it , it , it involves a new kind of benefits trap as well , and I can see people needing quite a lot of advice about how to get it , and , and when not to get it and so on . |
| 25 | To return to the source of good , evil and neutral ; whatever , in the conflicts referred to , may have been the intentions or hopes of the protagonists , the fact remains that over the centuries they have produced a constant flow of individual human decisions which can be examined and specified as either good , evil or neutral . |
| 26 | Again , coloured plastic shopping bags will offer a wide range of decorative strips which can be tied or glued to a central strip . |
| 27 | Another group which can be isolated and excluded is that of the fortified posts ( burgi ) along Watling Street from Uxacona ( Red Hill ) to Bannaventa and which will possibly be extended eventually to the south-east . |
| 28 | However , when an electron changes from one allowed orbit to another one nearer to the nucleus , energy is released and a real photon is emitted — which can be observed as visible light by the human eye , if it has the right wavelength , or by a photon detector such as photographic film . |
| 29 | It does , however , represent a basic structure which can be extended and refined by , for example , subdividing the population into urban and rural components or considering the interactions between populations of several regions . |
| 30 | Postscript is recognisable as something which can be written and read by us humans . |