Example sentences of "[indef pn] can [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I ca n't understand how someone can work that way . ’ |
| 2 | Nobody can reproduce this intonation . |
| 3 | There 's a sort of audience participation because nobody can control these crowds . |
| 4 | I would imagine that nobody can do that gig without the inevitable EC comparison … |
| 5 | Nobody can have any faith in Health Secretary Virginia Bottomley who says that the NHS needs good managers to get patients ' waiting lists down . |
| 6 | The consequence has been to diminish the credibility of both ; for nobody can have any confidence that what either of them says one week will still be government policy the next . |
| 7 | Nobody can guarantee good health , or predict an accident . |
| 8 | There 's nobody can replace individual people . |
| 9 | But certainly at the moment , erm and at least until presumably the next general election , erm nobody can see much light at the end of that tunnel . |
| 10 | I keep coming back to the idea that everything can have some significance attached to it . |
| 11 | This result spills over onto the optimal output decision : since one can expect better sales prices with a higher σ or a lower k , one should accordingly produce more output with a higher σ or lower k . |
| 12 | Moreover , one can extend secondary relationships to the kin and compadres of a compadre , with whom one has a primary relationship . |
| 13 | In this one can draw obvious parallels to the appeal of Van Gogh , a traditionally popular artist recently made fashionable by the media attention generated during the centennial of his death . |
| 14 | Because trying to meet this criterion has occupied so much of my research time in the past two decades it is worth spelling out again that to adopt a reductionist methodology in research strategy — that is , to try to stabilize the world that one is studying by manipulating one variable at a time , holding everything else as constant as possible — is generally the only way to do experiments from which one can draw clear conclusions . |
| 15 | A key concern that runs through all these debates and to some extent actually inspired them in the first place is whether one can draw clear boundaries between the social classes . |
| 16 | Its interest , as will already be clear , is that it offers a prospect of closing the gap between fact and value , bypassing the issue of whether or how one can draw prescriptive conclusions from descriptive premisses alone : it affirms the apparently naive claim that to know how to act I have only to be sufficiently aware of myself and my surroundings . |
| 17 | The answer to that question depends in part on how sensitive the results are to the specification of the model , and one can view this Lecture as being directed towards throwing light on this issue . |
| 18 | The record in a profile can contain inputs spanning more than a hundred years , and under favourable circumstances it can be used to chart oscillations in recharge , from which one can infer climatic history . |
| 19 | One can not quite understand the process of informalisation in European countries if one does not take into account that here too one can observe upward movements of working-class traditions and downward movements of middle-class traditions of conduct , although it is not possible to speak of the emergence of a new more firmly established code of conduct . |
| 20 | Furthermore , one can observe different subjects making differential progress in understanding the various stages in the transition from myopic to dynamically optimal . |
| 21 | If microalbuminuria is an appropriate surrogate end point that could replace glomerular filtration rate changes in clinical trials , one can anticipate that enalapril will protect glomerular filtration rate better than hydrochlorothiazide in the long term . |
| 22 | We do not understand it , they say , by which they seem to mean that we can not set it out in everyday words ( though actually one can go some way towards doing so , as I tried to do in Chapter V of The particle Play ) . |
| 23 | One can invent other varieties , with different forms of output . |
| 24 | And this one can conduct twenty gallons a minute . |
| 25 | Now , one can distinguish two kinds of schematic knowledge . |
| 26 | One can regard these degrees of freedom as oscillators , each with its own position and momentum . |
| 27 | It 's just that one can tell these things , Cassie . |
| 28 | The differences between disciplines to which Taylor refers mean that the discussion will to some extent be an abstract one , moving at a level at which one can identify general ideas , characteristics and trends . |
| 29 | One can identify five phases . |
| 30 | One can do that if one can identify excessive profits , wage levels which depend on restricting access to labour markets and gross inefficiency in the running of government enterprises . |