Example sentences of "[to-vb] [Wh adv] [pers pn] can [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He is , however , frequently contacted by landowners who want to know how they can make better use of their trees . |
| 2 | Parents really do want to know how they can bring their children up to understand , very simply , what is right and what is wrong . |
| 3 | One of the things we are doing during International Women 's Celebrations is we 're putting on a jobs and training opportunities fair , in Templar Square in the middle of Cowley Centre erm on the fifteenth of March between ten and four , so any women who want to know how they can get back to work , or what training opportunities there are available , are welcome to come . |
| 4 | Now , no doubt your predecessors , and certainly mine , would be astonished to know how we can meet in this way , but I wonder whether they 'd approve ? |
| 5 | I think it 's wrong to underestimate erm i i it 's particularly initially , how , how positively reinforced it can , it can be around you erm , just this the idea of losing weight and that er you know , people will be wha , for whatever reasons are , either envious or they want to know how you can do it , they want to know , and particularly if it 's linked with exercise then it 's all very good things to do and you know , the media 's telling you and a , everyone 's telling that this healthy lifestyle that actually then goes out of control through being so controlled erm e e , there 's a , well there 's a thin line between it , being a very positive experience , and you 're suddenly buying smaller jeans and erm you know , it 's just everything is is feeding , if that 's the right word , this idea that it , that that it 's tremendous to be |
| 6 | They want information about what the band is doing ; or they want to know where they can get T-shirts , sweatshirts , concert tickets and other merchandise . |
| 7 | I need to know where I can find a woman who has recently returned to her family after having run away with a man called Resenence Jeopardy . ’ |
| 8 | And incidentally er about that video , ca n't tell you where you can them on the air but if you want to know where you can get Portrait Of A City , if you ring us on we 'll tell you . |
| 9 | And he wants to know where he can buy them in Ipswich . |
| 10 | ‘ They 'll be pestering me to know when they can see you again … ’ |
| 11 | You will want to know when she can go home . ’ |
| 12 | And the best remedy for this doubt is to know the sure and sufficient reasons God has given us , to know why we can know God is there , to know why we can trust his revelation as true , to know why we can be sure of his love and his goodness , and to stand firm in our understanding of these truths . |
| 13 | And the best remedy for this doubt is to know the sure and sufficient reasons God has given us , to know why we can know God is there , to know why we can trust his revelation as true , to know why we can be sure of his love and his goodness , and to stand firm in our understanding of these truths . |
| 14 | God , how novelists recover ! … and you begin to wonder how you can make use of it with a little shifting here , and a little adding there , something can be made of it , surely ? ’ |
| 15 | If you would like a ‘ love story ’ of your own , someone to love and care for , and you are beginning to wonder where you can find that special person , come to Dateline . |
| 16 | If you would like a ‘ love story ’ of your own , someone to love and care for , and you are beginning to wonder where you can find that special person , come to Dateline . |
| 17 | A BRITISH woman is waiting to hear how she can reclaim a family estate deep inside the former Soviet Union . |
| 18 | If so , say how you see retirement as affecting you , and try to discuss how you can organise more time together , balanced with time spent on independent interests . |
| 19 | I am trying , within the context of the debate , to identify how we can move forward from the 1990s to the 21st century , the problems that we as a nation will have to face , our relationship with Europe and how we can learn from the nations that we have said are the best , such as Germany , and develop a sound strategic regional policy . |
| 20 | To illustrate how they can indicate the scale and structure of a turbulent motion , we now look at typical properties of double correlations . |
| 21 | If we find that cats are sensitive to very small vibrations or changes in the static electricity of their environment , then we might come to understand how they can predict earthquakes . |
| 22 | In that sense it 's a glorified soap — and I 've heard it dismissed more than once as a yuppie Dallas , though I find it as difficult to understand how anyone could see it that way as those people would find it to understand how I can curl up , laugh and cry with the characters each week and carry their dilemmas around with me in the days in between . |
| 23 | the University may wish to consider how it can ensure that its procedures for probationary staff are being applied uniformly across departments . |
| 24 | If I may take one more minute just to convey this when I was a child in South Africa and we demonstrated and the police would come you know , ready to fire ready to kill if necessary and you had to calculate how you can avoid that situation and then you try in your normal life after the demonstration to do something against the regime to organize people and so on , and then like a juggernaut the state comes and destroys all the work that you and others have done for years and you just see it as a child of what your parents and others had done . |
| 25 | Why is contemplating black holes any different from wanting to understand why you can whip cream but not milk ? |
| 26 | I mean , you had where you , it was a hotel , you had to watch where you can take the children into the not that that 's a place that we do n't want to take you , there 's places they do n't want children . |
| 27 | And if in the County Council 's view , they 're all equally interchangeable and the anybody , then I fail to see how they can have come to a a view that the maximum acceptable environmental figure is their forty one thousand . |
| 28 | It strikes me as a great idea , and it 's hard to see how they can lose when you consider that 2000AD magazine sells 300,000 copies a week . |
| 29 | While the key features of each — the limited liability company , the use of collective bargaining and the state provision of welfare — all have something of a Christian basis in terms of providing outlets for savings , strengthening the family , and correcting injustice and providing for those in need , nevertheless it is easy to see how they can become taken over by humanistic philosophy — so that they become unlimited freedom to create wealth , the use of collective power and the denial of individual merit and the state as the alternative for the family and private charity . |
| 30 | With Coventry having scored only nine goals since Mr Howe took charge it is obvious where their problem lies and it is hard to see how they can solve it . |