Example sentences of "[pers pn] can [be] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I can be doing the most mundane of tasks , and quite suddenly I 'm in another place , with different people . " |
| 2 | Now read the U.K 's leading collection of shareware for this month and remember , if you order by phone you can be using the programs tomorrow . |
| 3 | We can be producing the same quantity of electronics goods , of many household appliances and so on , with many fewer workers than have been used in past . |
| 4 | What with the excellent Emlyn Hughes International Soccer on the Megatape , and ripping round-up of every footy game released for the C64 ( not to mention a clutch of spiffing soccer videos to give away ) , we think we can be excused the odd cry of ‘ Gooooaaaaa ! ’ though . |
| 5 | Much more to the point , lawyers are always aware that a big aircraft accident inquiry is the preliminary to much subsequent civil litigation , and that if they can persuade the court to a point of view favourable to their client they can be paving the way to considerable financial benefit at a later stage . |
| 6 | Alternatively , they can be offered the chance to contribute to society economically , socially and culturally . |
| 7 | Hard-won working conditions and employment protection are now routinely jettisoned by many cowboy operators , secure in the knowledge that if workers complain they can be shown the door , outside which is a four-deep queue of would-be replacements willing to thole all manner of demands provided there is the prospect of regular work at whatever depressed rates . |
| 8 | The long-running recession has meant that interest in these properties is low , but if they can be sold the cash raised will be put back into further improving the remaining operations . |
| 9 | For example , it can be argued the expansion into amalgamated police units has enlarged the organization to a point where it is no longer accessible to the man in the street ; alternatively , it may be that the use of a centralized computer and complex technical aids has alienated the public even at the same time they are increasingly fed a diet of violent news snippets which reinforce a fear of crime and generate another ‘ folk devil ’ of criminal menace , which demands the impossible : a policeman on every corner . |
| 10 | Milton 's high style allowed Samson to be read in a manner which reassured the very groups it can be argued the poem attacks . |
| 11 | It can be argued the flames have been fanned in part by attitude displayed by Milne 's hooking rival , Brian Moore , who once summed up the England approach by saying : ‘ Nobody likes us and we do n't care . ’ |
| 12 | It can be called the logical problem , and briefly expressed it is this : in general , what are the premisses or grounds or bases for dependent conditionals ? |
| 13 | Temperatures increase with altitude above the tropopause , and from here to where the atmosphere becomes negligible it can be called the thermosphere . |
| 14 | It was now clear that this was because an atom in its ground state has nowhere else to go , unless it can be given the rather large amount of energy necessary to lift it to an excited state with n greater than I. |
| 15 | This example serves to indicate how comparatively easy it is to legislate for change and how difficult it can be to implement the legislation . |
| 16 | M oral philosophers are accustomed to start from the individual pursuing his own ends ; at once the question arises ‘ Why should I prefer anyone else 's to my own ? ’ , and until it can be answered the advantage lies with the egoist . |
| 17 | It can be surprising the amount of pressure a little wet concrete puts on shuttering . |
| 18 | At the outset , it can be asserted the Young Conservatives we studied in no way constituted an ideological group like the Young Socialists . |
| 19 | But the difficulty with finance is that the more fluent a market becomes , the harder it can be to trace the original cause of an outcome . |
| 20 | City streets have also provided Matthew Carr with material , though now he has abandoned his old habit of pulling people in off the pavement , ‘ as it can be taken the wrong way ’ . |
| 21 | If so , you 'll know what a bind it can be to remove the mushroom cover and clear the blockage . |
| 22 | Dangerous driving is usually reserved for intentional dangerous driving or where it can be proved the defendant was driving in such a way as to fall within the new definition of ‘ driving dangerously ’ in section 2A ( 1 ) to ( 4 ) of the Road Traffic Act 1988 . |
| 23 | And maybe that 's the case , or appear to be the case but it can be hurting the cause of Christ . |
| 24 | He can be denied the nomination only by an extraordinary blocking coalition of ‘ super-delegates ’ — party bigwigs who make up nearly a fifth of the voting delegates at the convention — and delegates already won by Tsongas and by Brown , plus a handful of delegates ( more than a tenth of the total ) who are already pledged as ‘ uncommitted ’ . |