Example sentences of "[adv] can [adv] [vb infin] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One person alone ca n't do much but perhaps … |
| 2 | I obviously can not give that guarantee . |
| 3 | TARGET has a ‘ -scan ’ option so can automatically scan all files and archives for viruses . |
| 4 | ‘ Robots , ’ he said , ‘ gave me a means of venting my anger , ’ a remark whose logic baffled me until I read another ‘ Logic alone can not explain this . ’ |
| 5 | Professionals alone can not tackle this difficult and distressing subject . |
| 6 | The best solution is to have two different amps — I do n't think that one amp alone can ever provide all the sounds you ever need , and people who use Dumbles and Soldanos for their dirty sound will often prefer a Fender Twin for clean . |
| 7 | Compact-disc video makes its entry into the British marketplace during October , but punters generally ca n't afford any new format because they are buying the various versions of singles that are deluging the record shops . |
| 8 | If you 're at football tonight ca n't do any recording tomorrow night or will you record on the way again ? |
| 9 | ‘ But surely , that show tonight ca n't have much to do with Christianity , Celtic or otherwise ? ’ |
| 10 | I think Miss P had a real point ; you do have to know when you just ca n't stand any more trouble , not tonight anyway . |
| 11 | erm sort of , at fir , you know , at first I thought sometimes you know oh , you know what 's the matter with you like but , she admits herself , her I Q , you know how they judge your intelligence has gone right down , she has to have tests every now and again , er she ca n't concentrate on things , or , you know some things she just ca n't do any more , so she 's at , supposed to be getting all this compensation and it 's been going on now , it was two years ago , three years ago that we met them and she 's only just had the first part of her money , she 's had five thousand pounds , that 's all she can get for the time being all the rest is , cos all solicitors and everything and doctors having to come and check things , so she knows , she knows she 'll get money eventually , but er , it 's just when , but is n't it an awful thing ? |
| 12 | But I just ca n't do this with anyone else , because a long time ago I was raped , and my lover is the only man I could bear to touch me . |
| 13 | But yo , you need somebody who 's gon na work with him every day and with an individual programme and you just ca n't offer that in a class . |
| 14 | There are times , especially in winter , when the average daysack just ca n't handle all you want to shove into it . |
| 15 | I just ca n't spell that word ) . |
| 16 | It 's part of the capping programme which we just ca n't make this year , and I think that 's erm that 's that saving . |
| 17 | But the company boss said : ‘ It does n't do any good telling the police because they just ca n't cope any more . |
| 18 | You just ca n't nail these men . |
| 19 | There 's nothing wrong with their immune system , they 're perfectly normal they just ca n't metabolize this one particular type of protein , so they have no milk , no fish , no meat , no cheese |
| 20 | I just ca n't release that report in environmental |
| 21 | And and many times I apologize for asking where various places are , because I just ca n't visualize Most of the other things from school come without being beckoned , er one thinks of er the economy , they taught about us about various things of the economy . |
| 22 | We just ca n't take any more risks by manufacturing in the UK . |
| 23 | ‘ I 'm ending our affair because I just ca n't take any more Luke ! |
| 24 | I do n't know of any other event where you get that kind of pressure and you just ca n't simulate that . |
| 25 | Again , it takes money to stock a shop , so we just ca n't provide these goods any more . ’ |
| 26 | You now have to get , in er er , because there was a sort of erm gradation from being off ill , which was n't familiar , to being off long term sick which you ca n't have any experience of to erm early retirement on health grounds and you just ca n't have any experience of that either erm to being retired and it 's , i i it 's , it 's quite interesting |
| 27 | What I do n't un I do n't un no you do n't , er what I do n't understand is why , instead of putting that in a booklet , why I ca why you ca n't just say what you 're talking about before I mean ca just ca n't say all that bollocks before |
| 28 | You just ca n't trust these toffs , mind . ’ |
| 29 | You just ca n't trust these thespians — any residual loyalty vanishes once the last cheque has been banked : according to the Evening Standard , Maureen Lippmann , who played the ‘ typical Jewish mother ’ Beattie ( BT , geddit ? — we did n't at the time , but then we detest brutal acronyms in place of meaningful names ) to the mutual benefit of British Telecommunications Plc and her bank balance , when asked to reveal her favourite word , replied , without hesitation , ‘ Mercurial ’ . |
| 30 | I just ca n't grasp these things . |