Example sentences of "can [indef pn] [vb infin] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah well if you want to that then that 's fine as well , I mean that Tell you what , the best thing then is can everyone put a note in my pigeon hole by Monday in other words , you 've got the weekend to decide for definite . |
| 2 | Also , can someone explain a bit more the team formation . |
| 3 | Are there any home games in the Xmas/New year period ? and can someone give the phone number of the booking office at Elland Road . |
| 4 | First , how can someone enter the Tower , murder Sir Ralph , then leave the fortress without being noticed ? |
| 5 | Er can you Well hopefully in the minutes I need to can somebody make a note , we have to fund raise for that . |
| 6 | ‘ With modern verse , can one tell the difference ? ’ |
| 7 | This is the meaning of de Gaulle 's exasperated remark , ‘ How can one govern a country which makes 400 different types of cheese ? ’ |
| 8 | Arjuna asks : ‘ How can one reach the truth if one is born in illusion ? ’ |
| 9 | The difficulty we all share is how can one construct a planning framework which allows for strategically significant inward investment to be accommodated without declaring an open season of speculative proposals from developers and uncertainty at the local level up and down the county . |
| 10 | It is proposed here that the need to represent a spatial support in order to get a mental representation of an event is another such requirement : how can one conceive an event as something taking place in time without also conceiving at least virtually someone or something realizing it ( or undergoing its realization , as in the passive ) ? |
| 11 | It is important in this case , because only on this assumption can one explain the experience a reader gets from The Inheritors of " looking round the sides " of Lok 's world view , to see a more substantial reality behind it . |
| 12 | How else can one explain the emergence of the ‘ throwaway philosophy' ? |
| 13 | Only if the early universe was very smooth and uniform , with a high pressure , can one explain the absence of observable numbers of primordial black holes . |
| 14 | How far can one measure the chronology of these changes or plot rises and falls within it ? |
| 15 | Where else in the world can one get a pledge of a 6.25 per cent . |
| 16 | How quickly can one learn a language ? |
| 17 | Can one imagine a situation where Parliament passed legislation regulating the internal affairs of the United States of America ? |
| 18 | How can one communicate the importance of culture , the painstaking values of scholarship and of science in a society dominated by the superficial values of consumerism ? |
| 19 | The ultimate objective test of free will would seem to be : Can one predict the behavior of the organism ? |
| 20 | Nowhere else in Europe outside Russia can one find a willingness to treat men of this social standing with such brutality . |
| 21 | Can one determine the inductance of any of the practical configurations with relative ease ? |
| 22 | Nor can one escape the difficulty that Nagel ascribes to all ‘ reductive ’ theories of the mental , that their truth is logically compatible with the absence of any subjective aspect whatever . |
| 23 | Only if one believes that the prospect of privatization is the only way to improve management performance in nationalized industries can one attribute the benefit to privatization itself . |
| 24 | Can anybody see the car box ? |
| 25 | Now — can everybody reach a paper ? ’ |
| 26 | ‘ Now , can everybody see a paper ? |
| 27 | There are shipping costs and so on , I know , but can anyone justify an increase of 500% ? |
| 28 | You 're going to say , ‘ How can anyone tell the difference ? ’ or ‘ Well it makes a change from being on holiday , ’ or something nasty and bitter and hurtful like that . |
| 29 | Can anyone explain the divergence of theory and advice ? |
| 30 | By the end , can anyone give a damn about these silly people and their empty lives ? |