Example sentences of "[conj] can [pron] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do , do groups always have to the behaviour and performance of their members or can they do the opposite ? |
| 2 | The key question was put forcefully and eloquently by my right hon. Friend the Member for Sparkbrook : is the lack of an adequate penalty the root of the problem , or can we tackle the matter in other ways — for example , by extending motor schemes in the way he described ? |
| 3 | Or can I get the heater to work ? |
| 4 | WHAT TO LISTEN FOR Are the walls solid or can you hear the neighbours clearly through them ? |
| 5 | They can not imagine any delight in a tumble of ungainly bodies nor can they accept the fact that the sexual act is not graceful . |
| 6 | Nor can they reduce the burden of government debt by inflation , as they could in the 1970s , because the abolition of capital controls prevents it . |
| 7 | On the other hand we can not forget the trust placed in us by the general public , nor can we watch the gradual erosion of the original plans without a public protest , and a public request to the health authority to please think again . |
| 8 | But we can not exclude an effect of ACE on the metabolism of other peptides in view of its wide substrate specificity , nor can we exclude the possibility that a variant of another gene , closely linked to the ACE gene , causes the observed association . |
| 9 | And nor can we reduce the controversy to a straightforward clash between the new and the old orders . |
| 10 | Yet our higher interest rates can not be reduced ; nor can we reduce the exchange rate , because high interest rates are necessary to support the exchange rate . |
| 11 | Nor can we discount the possibility that some factor in the diet itself has harmful effects . |
| 12 | Nor can one tell the normal value of a mine , although some must have given considerable yields — Wolsey , as bishop of Durham , let out one at a rent of £180 a year ( 82 , pp.164–5 ) . |
| 13 | Nor can one escape the difficulty that Nagel ascribes to all ‘ reductive ’ theories of the mental , that their truth is logically compatible with the absence of any subjective aspect whatever . |
| 14 | Nor can it explain the shift from an initial RVF superiority on a visual reaction time task to a LVF superiority when a concurrent memory list of nouns is superimposed on the perceptual task ( Hellige , Cox and Litvac , 1979 ) . |
| 15 | Speaking on BBC Radio 4 the Chancellor said : ‘ You can not escape the need to raise interest rates if you want to keep inflation down , nor can you escape the possibility that interest rates may go even higher . ’ |
| 16 | Nor can you read the Tokyo tube map . |
| 17 | Nor can I see the day when Lovejoy sails off into the sunset down the Seine spooning Chicken & Sweetcorn Stew down a tot . |
| 18 | The question I pose is the one that I asked at the beginning of my speech : do those in government and opposition have the courage to set about creating a new beginning to bring about peace , political stability , and an end to the tensions between Ireland and Britain , and can they bring the beginnings of hope for my constituents and the people in the north of Ireland ? |
| 19 | Can he confirm that things are on course for the early completion of the Mar Dyke-Wellington link on the A13 , and can he tell the House the date on which he hopes that work on that link will start ? |
| 20 | Has he made the right choices , and can he suggest the current direction of American art with just these three candidates ? |
| 21 | Are there any home games in the Xmas/New year period ? and can someone give the phone number of the booking office at Elland Road . |
| 22 | And can I remind the district planning officers I am looking for a positive contribution from you on Tuesday . |
| 23 | And th and can I restate the view of British Rail , there is little or no prospect of a new station being opened up on the east coast main route main line , because of the four track configuration , which I 'm sure you 'll have seen on your when you 've come up to York by tr by train . |
| 24 | If I go to another dentist do you think it 's worth my while writing to D H S S , saying I 've paid forty five , forty pound ninety five pence , at that dentist and can I transfer the treatment to this other dentist |
| 25 | And can you tell the jury , as briefly as possible , what that job entailed ? |
| 26 | And can you tell the jury exactly what time did you arrive at the flat ? |
| 27 | How have you been justifying your existence in the last twenty-four hours and can you name the guilty man ? ’ |
| 28 | Perhaps we can take it apart , but can we put the thing back together again ? |
| 29 | Each of us knows the nature of his or her own sensory states ; but can we know the nature of the sensory states of others , or even that there are any other minds to have the sensory states which are not ours ? |
| 30 | I appreciate your concerns but can we take the recommendation on the fourth and fifth pages of the report . |