Example sentences of "can [adv] [verb] [pron] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If we analyse the relation between the event of " passively experiencing " denoted by have and that of saying or happening denoted by the infinitive , it becomes obvious immediately that the two must be conceived as occurring in the same stretch of time : one can only experience something while it is happening . |
| 2 | Yes , but I can only do it if I am convinced . |
| 3 | You can only do it if you miss out that . |
| 4 | ‘ I can only do it when we 're in the middle of a conversation and you look at me speculatively and then say something anodyne in a voice that is so deliberately empty of judgment I can practically feel the strength of will you are exerting to keep it so , ’ said David with the hint of a laugh in his deep voice . |
| 5 | You can only do it when you 're in the right mood . |
| 6 | But you can only do it when you 're at home or out ? |
| 7 | … faced with this world of faithful and complicated objects , the child can only identify himself as owner , as user , never as creator ; he does not invent the world , he uses it : there are , prepared for him , actions without adventures , without wonder , without joy ( Barthes , 1973 , p. 54 ) . |
| 8 | ‘ I can only assure you that I did not break into your house with any harmful intent . |
| 9 | I can only assure you that it does help , sometimes . |
| 10 | We can only assure you that , as the years go by , you 'll be more and more delighted you took it up . |
| 11 | ‘ I can only assure you that you have the wrong person , Mr Wyatt ; there are many models , and more than a few work in the Midlands , and several must have other business interests . |
| 12 | I can only tell you that it is intended to be read by a very limited circle of people in the medical profession . |
| 13 | I can only tell you that had I done that … |
| 14 | I can actually recall a press release which came to me about a a principal tourism officer who had just been appointed to be the head , you know the president for the year of his professional body , and in his own town a press release was put out in which his name was incorrectly spelt , and the conference at which he was about to be invested was actually taking , and I blush to say that it was in Brighton , I can only tell you when I got that press release I did what I frequently do , which is outline in highlighter the mistakes on the press release , put it back into the envelope and send it back to the relevant officer . |
| 15 | ‘ The compositions are always so bad I can only face them if I do so right away . ’ |
| 16 | So it 's getting in control of this you can only control it if you understand it . |
| 17 | One can only regard them as victims of other people 's loose ends , just as the terrible sustained anxiety of Raskolnikov 's mother and sister on his account is the measure of his power to make others suffer as well as himself in that limbo which his friend — his only friend — Razumikhin calls being out of the practical swim . |
| 18 | Moving on to Zimbabwe 's admission to Test ranks , one can only congratulate them and wish them well , while inevitably questioning their prospects in that kind of company . |
| 19 | In fact , we can only doubt something if we believe something else . |
| 20 | there 's another meaning to the word respect , which is what is shown up by the Stoke Newington incident , and other similar incidents , in that , you can only respect somebody if they actually live up to the standards that they actually hold out to the rest of you . |
| 21 | because obviously , we can only help them when we have space . |
| 22 | I can only take it that he was n't that concerned , that perhaps the Chief Constable does n't share Mr 's concerns , and is perhaps happy that he has received the generous funding that we state he has . |
| 23 | Of all the visits Scott can only recall one where the SSD would have delivered all eight key tasks in time for April regardless of the Support Force . |
| 24 | Many leisure activities would hardly figure because we can only value them as ways of relaxing from engagement in what really matters . |
| 25 | The dogmas of his consubstantiality with the Father and of his possessing two natures in one person , can only mislead us if they are taken as objective , factual descriptions of the constitution of his being . |
| 26 | and that was for that , then I had a letter back to say that we were having , there was too much money coming in a week for me to draw unemployment and then they , then a few days later I had this double page letter a big one that says you are entitled to no prescription help , X amount of pounds after erm eighty pounds per glasses you are responsible for the first eighty pound , we say that you can afford to pay that , so much on your teeth , if you 're visiting somebody in prison then you exceed a certain amount of mileage you can only get it if you exceed more than twenty five pound incurring , then I thought oh blow it , forget it , and I never done it , that all come to then , that 's why I wanted a ten of your wage , wage slips you remember now ? |
| 27 | Certainly , but that displacement can only occur it if is also a struggle in and for representation — specifically , the representation of the repetition as re-presentation/inversion/displacement of the norm . |
| 28 | So when Esquire ask for their 2,000 words next month about the connection between the Croatian Winter Olympics team uniform and Public Enemy , or the brutal point of Michael Barrymore , I can somehow contrive it that I end up writing about how it feels waiting for Maddy 's first smile , about the wonder of her 35th day , about her growing up and me growing up . |
| 29 | We certainly can not create it and thus , in view of our ignorance on one hand and our inability on the other , what right have we to terminate this gift of a beneficent Creator ? |
| 30 | ‘ If man can not create anything or move anybody , if he can not break out of the prison of his total narcissism and isolation , he can escape the unbearable sense of vital impotence and nothingness only by affirming himself in the act of destruction of the life that he is unable to create . |