Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] can [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In considering the issue of legitimacy in relation to our constitutional arrangements and the exercise of governmental power , what has to be done is to examine a range of practices , decisions , actions ( and non-practices , -decisions and -actions ) statements and policies which between them can amount to a portrait of power , so that we can form a judgment or an assessment of that power set against the principles of limited government outlined and discussed so far . |
| 2 | ‘ I wo n't allow myself to be tortured , ’ Raskolnikov tells Porfiry , but our sense of their three long encounters is that there 's nothing either of them can do about it . |
| 3 | But it will hurt , and each time it happens , it will feel like a shock , and a sad renewal of the realisation that a loved companion is beginning to drift away from her , and that there is nothing either of them can do about it . |
| 4 | The calves are reared for beef , veal or replacements for either dairy or suckler herds , and the best of them can gain about 1,154g/day . |
| 5 | The College maintains close and constant links with the other seven Welsh colleges which run courses in agricultural education and students who obtain a National Certificate in Agriculture at one of them can transfer to the Welsh Agricultural College on to an Ordinary National Diploma course . |
| 6 | Some of them can revel in the return of their long lost river . |
| 7 | ‘ If any of them can play by Saturday ( when Rangers face Celtic ) , that will be time enough for me , ’ said Roxburgh . |
| 8 | The lot of you can roast in hell . ’ |
| 9 | Yes , that 's right , I mean it 's that most of you , most of you can , most of you can arrive at work in the morning and if somebody says what the traffic 's like you would n't know , because you do n't know how you got there . |
| 10 | However , if your elderly parent has no telephone and neither of you can pay for one , you should contact the local authority social services department , who are empowered to provide assistance towards the cost or , in some cases , free telephones for disabled housebound elderly people and others , under the Chronically Sick and Disabled Persons Act 1970 , although the extent of need is determined by the local authority in the light of resources . |
| 11 | People who do this are actually given a training , this does n't hurt the baby , they do n't mind , their bones are very soft you 'll look at your baby , all of you can look at babies that you 're caring for and you hold them and you see well is that leg longer than the other ? |
| 12 | If you can manage to get one photo of a gunmen in all that crowd , how many more were there they did n't get a photo of you know , erm , so that 's bull shit for a start the said that they only fired upon identified targets , going on motorbikes , and erm , I mean the thing is , the para 's are a highly disciplined , highly trained apparently at a you were n't even allowed to go out there without at least five years experience yeah , they were soldiers , they need and I ca n't believe that they negligibly you know , cos there was women and children there , and nearly all of them had wives and kids , you know , and there was reports from like the Irish saying oh yeah , they were mixing body er , care and body people and fucking laughing and joking over dead bodies and my old man said yeah if you just , if you just seen something drop most people will laugh and joke about it , you know I do n't know if you 've ever meet this sort of , old man , but the service sort of a , a unique sense of they can laugh at anything , you know they can see somebody with its guts put out in front of them and they 'll fucking crack out about it , its the only way they can stop themselves cracking up , or fucking crying sort of thing . |
| 13 | So where , if I 'm putting twelve thousand in for sort of a , a holding fund for , for individuals I might put three thousand into a local society so they can pop down to the Nottingham Building Society for any bits and pieces , and th the , the bulk of it can go into a postal account to , with a better rate . |
| 14 | Which of us can hope for anything better than that to be said about us ? |
| 15 | It 's not a works , so that none of us can boast on any account . |
| 16 | Although most of us can recognize without difficulty the importance that the emotions play in our lives , the subject has been given little systematic attention by the disciplines most concerned with furthering understanding of human behaviour . |
| 17 | We have no objection to the principle of a motion on involvement across Europe , especially following our recent friend 's city 's re-emergence into democracy as both of us can benefit from future E C funds . |
| 18 | On a broader canvas , many of us can think of moments of encounter , of blessing , of poetry , of art , of music , of sunsets and dawns which were to us deeply sacramental . |
| 19 | The Experiences evoked are human ones i.e. experiences that all of us can relate to and share because we are all ‘ Jock Thampson 's bairns ’ . |
| 20 | ‘ None of us can sit on the fence . |
| 21 | This is an excellent choice for the aquarium and by buying these captive bred animals each of us can contribute to the conservation of an important commercial food animal . |
| 22 | But you 're stuck with it , and I 'm stuck with it and there 's nothing either of us can do about it . |
| 23 | Our marriage has been on the cards from day one , and there 's not a damned thing either of us can do about it . ’ |
| 24 | Meanwhile , there 's nothing much either of us can do for them . |
| 25 | Not all of us can aspire to this level but we can ask questions such as ‘ what would be the effect of building a motorway between towns A and B ? ’ |
| 26 | There are many good foreigners here at Rangers and only three of us can play at one time . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ None of us can account for our movements precisely . |
| 28 | Up to the age of 40 to 50 , most of us can see at a distance and read close to without any difficulty . |
| 29 | P. T. Geach , Mental Acts , refers to the Cartesian idea ‘ that introspection can give the word ‘ I ’ a special sense , which each of us can learn on his own account' . |
| 30 | That accounts for the particularly speedy data transfer and seek times you can see in the benchmarks box . |