Example sentences of "can [verb] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 And we can disappear outside and everyone 'll be talking .
2 Bodies often float to the surface , but you of all people must know that those who drown in the Thames can disappear altogether and are probably taken by undercurrents down through London and out to sea . ’
3 However , matters can be arranged so that the judgements required of human observers are only those which they can make reliably and accurately .
4 I do n't need to copy it down when initially build it but er I might just put a little bit of extra work in I can make so and can copy it down .
5 each one of you have to be louder and also it also means that you can make , one person can make more than one sound , okay , work it like , just you can substitute for the other two
6 Wearing a pair of men 's underpants and a scarf across my breasts , I have that unprepared look that Americans can abhor culturally and admire individually .
7 This case shows that real problems can arise even if an agent is specifically instructed to make tachochart analyses .
8 False perception can arise only if the nervous system has spontaneous activity independently of any causative external object .
9 Chaotic behaviour can arise only when the governing equations are non-linear .
10 ‘ They are let out of a greyhound-style trap and can cover more than 100 metres in a matter of seconds when they get a whiff of food , ’ says Michael , 52 .
11 You can worship there and the nation will understand that you are a Muslim .
12 I ca n't talk for other sports but I can stress again that we 've got the highest ratio of black members of any golf body in the world .
13 This point still requires confirmation as a general phenomenon , but there is little doubt that polymer molecules are not totally frozen or immobile when in the glassy state and that small sub units in the chain can remain mechanically and dielectrically active below T g .
14 After mating she soon goes off heat and the two can remain together if necessary until the fifth week of the gestation period , when the male ferret is removed .
15 This wage inflation can exist even when there is high unemployment and when there are no inflationary expectations .
16 The conclusion of the first section was that a just government can exist even if its subjects are not bound by a general obligation to obey it .
17 The point is that an orderly community can exist only if it shares many practices , and that in all modern pluralistic societies a great measure of toleration of vastly differing outlooks is made possible by the fact that many of them enable the vast majority of the population to accept common standards of conduct .
18 Citizen involvement requires the opportunity and incentive to act , which in turn can exist only if political structures offer many points of relatively easy access — which means strong local government .
19 Angels can eat voraciously if they like what they are getting .
20 You can eat well and stay slim !
21 The things we really want to know are too difficult for straightforward intuition ; we must therefore ask our informants questions that they CAN answer reliably and accurately .
22 Some of these you can answer directly because we 've already the music .
23 ‘ So Uncle Walter can stay here till his leg 's mended ? ’
24 ‘ Well — we can stay here till the panic 's over , or we can go out and be trampled to death , ’ I said , pretending to misunderstand him .
25 Right , you can stay here till it 's better .
26 You can stay here and look after the place whilst we 're gone .
27 ‘ Ben Gunn , ’ they said , ‘ you can stay here and find Flint 's money .
28 You can stay here and take Shelley out to dinner .
29 You can stay here or go on without me , ’ said Fenella , returning the stare very straightly .
30 ‘ You can stay here as long as you like , even though you have deprived me of my oldest friend . ’
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