Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] can [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And that 's when , you see during I can just remember previous to the war them coming there and then of course during the war there was very very few of them on the road then and then after the war they started to come back and that 's when this Billy and Harry and that came up from the side . |
| 2 | The machines in the spring department gave off choking fumes and a grey pall seemed to hang over the department … about 90 per cent of the work force are coloured , many of whom can not speak English . |
| 3 | Again , it has been held that the Prison rules are merely ‘ regulatory ’ and that breach of them can not give rise to a cause of action for damages although it may found an application for judicial review . |
| 4 | We have all had these emotions but when they reach such a pitch that our suppression of them can not cope , we explode , turning against whoever or whatever is in our way in an attempt to destroy it . |
| 5 | ‘ A lot of them can not come to us , because we are near the projects . |
| 6 | ‘ If each of them can just improve a little bit in 10 ways , the team will improve in a hundred ways and that 's not asking a lot of them . ’ |
| 7 | All of them can then double as a desk , homework table , sewing or drawing table . |
| 8 | In this section , we adopt the view that there is some truth in all of these approaches , but that no one of them can fully explain the causes of unemployment . |
| 9 | In this section , we adopt the view that there is some truth in all of these theories , but that no one of them can fully explain the causes of inflation . |
| 10 | In The Act of Reading , Wolfgang Iser argues that the literary work should be understood as a means of communication rather than as a representation of the world : ‘ It is a vital feature of literary texts that they do not lose their ability to communicate ; indeed , many of them can still speak even when their message has long since passed into history and their meaning no longer seems to be of importance ’ ( 1978:13 ) . |
| 11 | And all of them can only do just carry on , the money 's not there , it 's not there is it ? |
| 12 | However , numerical experimentation has , of course , its own problems , lack of awareness of which can easily lead to spurious conclusions . |
| 13 | It is one of those rare books the love of which can easily turn into an addiction . |
| 14 | Shaking our heads in grateful disbelief to the darkness of a deserted car park , the empty witness of which can not prevail against us , whose minds have been imprinted thus . |
| 15 | Lord Lawson , in a speech on Monday night , the timing of which can hardly have been welcome to the Government , called for stringent public expenditure cuts and immediate tax increases to a total of £6 billion . |
| 16 | Lord Lawson , in a speech on Monday night , the timing of which can hardly have been welcome to the Government , called for stringent public expenditure cuts and immediate tax increases to a total of £6 billion . |
| 17 | It was also necessary to explain how divergence occurs — how a single original species can be divided into a group of distinct but related forms , each of which can then undergo a unique process of further evolution . |
| 18 | In the meantime , of course , he had become a Schopenhauerian , the relevant effect of which can only have been to confirm the validity of his preoccupation with music and his suspicion of the new musical idiom . |
| 19 | Overheating and loose valvegear chains , both of which can abruptly extinguish all mechanical life , are its ( avoidable ) weaknesses . |
| 20 | G M B is one , T & g 's another and there 's a third which I 'm not going to name , but most of you can probably guess . |
| 21 | Stage 3 : Determination of We can now substitute values for qp and n(CH3OH) directly into equation ( 10 ) : |
| 22 | The rejoinder must be : although we may generally have neither the time nor the inclination to look at literary language under the microscope in this way , the fact that it can be done is important , and the doing of it can not fail to sharpen observation , by making us aware of how larger effects are built up from smaller ones . |
| 23 | Although there is enough food there to feed 800,000 starving people for one month , most of it can not get through because of looters and bandits . |
| 24 | If the rest of us can not beat the gangsters , we may well be tempted to join them . |
| 25 | In the end you have to become part of the establishment , Gareth , but never let them remove or circumscribe your right of free speech ; you use it too well and the rest of us can not do without it . |
| 26 | And yet the truth is , we accept persons such as Mr Marshall or Mr Lane to be great , though most of us can not claim to have ever scrutinized them under such conditions . |
| 27 | Few of us can honestly quarrel with the concept of more choice , more competition . |
| 28 | By the same token , if the London Marathon can be persuaded to run round and round Wembley Stadium , then the rest of us can happily offer to sponsor it . |
| 29 | We are ready , we 've been eating raw meat and some of us can still move which is a major bonus to us |
| 30 | How many of us can now recall the real Maria von Trapp or Fanny Brice ? |