Example sentences of "[pers pn] can [be] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I recreate the absent proprietor ’ , he says in The Thief 's Journal ( p. 129 ) ; and in a 1975 interview : ‘ I would like the world , and pay attention to the way I 'm saying it , I would like the world not to change so that I can be against the world ’ ( Gay Sunshine Interviews , 79 ) . |
| 2 | SHe has eluded me completely , which leads me to believe SHe can be in the only place secure enough to hide from me , namely the Roirbak complex at Acropolis Park . |
| 3 | Madge charges £2 provided she can be in the audience . |
| 4 | Once you have a theme you can be on the lookout for souvenirs on holiday , or provide people with inspiration for presents . |
| 5 | Or else you can be on the way back from from from Europe and suddenly find , Oh I 'm sorry that plane 's not leaving tonight Mister would you mind going and spending the night in the holiday hotel in so and so and so and so . |
| 6 | And you must also have , have that , naturally , before you can be on the committee . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'll guide you upstairs so you can be with the others , ’ Bryce said . |
| 8 | But with a little practice you can be near the top of the scale . |
| 9 | You know yo you can be in the best place in the world but if yo if you do n't fit in , if you do n't feel right there you 're not going to flourish are you ? |
| 10 | ‘ With the bikes we can be on the road in 15 minutes . |
| 11 | ‘ Fifteen minutes after finishing a meeting , we can be at the airport and on a plane , ’ he says . |
| 12 | We think we can be in the high teens or 20% going forward . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ I 'm sure that once in a while we can be in the same kitchen without explosions occurring , do n't you agree ? |
| 14 | ‘ Youse can be at the codding , when youse like , ’ he mumbled thickly , ‘ but if this auld one in here — ’ he tapped the coffin with his glass — ‘ if this fella wants to , I tell ye , he 'll be sittin' up as bright as ye like and be givin' us all the ‘ Lark ’ , just as he was doin' that night when — ‘ |
| 15 | The animals will become as well fitted as they can be to the local conditions . |
| 16 | Tales are usually of the past , but they can be of the future too . |
| 17 | For this one day a year , the usually gridlocked streets of New York were closed to traffic and lined with nearly three million people who proved that when the craziness and complexity is forgotten for 24 hours , they can be among the most decent and welcoming supporters of the human spirit they were witnessing and cheering in the runners thronging their streets . |
| 18 | This , a particularly wide and extraordinarily far-reaching implication , obviously lurks within the interstices of the decision in Corbett Ormrod J. was no doubt acutely aware of what a decision in favour of Miss Ashley could be construed as meaning , even if in fact it were limited , it can be on the arguments advanced above , to its particular and very u usual facts . |
| 19 | It can be on the plates in readiness , and then Jean and I will do the rest . |
| 20 | The force need not be applied on the victim 's body : it can be on the clothes he is wearing : Day ( 1845 ) 173 ER 1042 . |
| 21 | Caterham is as ready as it can be for the single European market , which is of critical importance since 60% of its production is exported . |
| 22 | Lol , a former council brickie , said : ‘ Boxing has been wonderful for me and it can be for the kids too . |
| 23 | I know people say well oh it 's , of course it 's changed ownership , well things change ownership and it can be for the better as well for the worst ca n't it ? |
| 24 | You 'd recognize this if you are a driver and especially a driver who maybe has the opportunity of travelling long distance , now years ago when I was younger and perhaps some of you in the audience when you were younger , you could go from here to the South of England with no trouble , without a break and you 'd head on down the motorway and you , you 'd be alert and alive and er ready to meet up with all sorts of emergencies and you 'd drive quite well all the way down , non stop down the South of England , but if you 're like me now , when I get to Stafford on the motorway you 're beginning to feel as if you 've had enough and it 's difficult to try and keep your concentration as you used to years ago , and that 's how it can be in the truth sometimes , when we 've been with it a long time that , we grow older not only physically , but spiritually too we become very experienced in the truth and we become very sort of fat spiritually , we can live off of that fat ca n't we ? |
| 25 | She married Roger , and they now live in leafy north-west London so that he can be near the cricket at Lord 's . |