Example sentences of "can [adv] [verb] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With a new single imminent and a debut album currently in the writing stage ( both definitely on the funky tip ) , Jamiroquai can justifiably hold his head high . |
| 2 | When you draw level , drop down onto your belly and slide to the edge of the bank until you can slowly raise your head to pinpoint their exact position . |
| 3 | By de-recognizing these representatives , employers can effectively ignore their obligations in Europe and thereby deny workers ' rights accepted as basic conditions in the eleven other member states . |
| 4 | We 've said that when it 's a baby inside its mum , does n't have to control its own temperature , and in actual fact it 's several days after birth , after the baby 's born that it can effectively produce its own heat and its metabolism functions efficiently . |
| 5 | Where the board can effectively determine its own composition it has generally been assumed that it becomes immune from direct shareholder influence and hence that control has shifted from the owners to managers . |
| 6 | Thus the development of an area can eventually produce its own counter-tendencies not just because of congestion , or because the buildings and infrastructure are ageing , but also because of the rising living standards ( and therefore cost ) and better organization of labour . |
| 7 | No purely theoretical studies of world climate can properly achieve their objectives without an adequate base in observational data . |
| 8 | Let us go , says the second proposition , and find somebody else , some wise man who will be able to answer the unanswerable , who can tell us which are the sheep who can properly raise their prices , and which the goats who ought to keep their prices stable or lower them ; and then , when he tells us , we will all go and scream blue murder at the goats and make them thoroughly ashamed and sorry for themselves . |
| 9 | Historians still have before them the difficult task of charting the area before they can properly explore its hidden riches . |
| 10 | This is a particular case of a general rule about Greenaway 's films : that only a person as obsessionally preoccupied with formal patterns as the director — and that is a tall order — can properly share his shock when death turns out not to be deterred by lists and games after all . |
| 11 | When we identify such a structure , then it means that we can successfully explain our observations in terms of concepts that we genuinely understand already . |
| 12 | In normal circumstances the capitalist state can successfully conceal its class character . |
| 13 | The followers a a are obliged to believe it and so the faith , the creed of the Catholic Church then becomes an article of membership and if you do n't subscribe to the creed , then this has implications for your standing in the group and you can for example be persecuted and Catholics not believing , whereas in a group like this , I do n't think we need a creed , we certainly would n't persecute anybody because we did n't believe a particular thing , because we can all negotiate our personal relations face- to-face . |
| 14 | Well Charlie 'll have to so we can all wash our hair . |
| 15 | Well I was , there 's nothing to say they 've got to all stick together they can all do their own thing ca n't they ? |
| 16 | Why do n't they go out Well I can have somewhere else but they can all have their quiet place to talk . |
| 17 | At this stage in the proceedings I 'm going to adjourn Cou the Council meeting so that you can all have your tea . |
| 18 | well in the sense that they can all adopt their own way of joining words together |
| 19 | But it is also possible and not less agreeable to regard it as the gradual assumption by all the nations concerned of that larger sovereignty which can alone protect their diverse and distinctive customs and characteristics and their national traditions . ’ |
| 20 | You can so aim your plot that the events you will have to describe reflect on whatever current preoccupation of society it is that has fired your imagination ; your theme . |
| 21 | erm , er and I 'm have to take some time over this , so I think erm in the circumstances the better thing to do would be to adjourn this case till Monday morning and hope that Mr can so arrange his affairs to address me at half past ten on that day , er with Mr and with erm , whatever rights he has to erm deal with matters of this , come up a fresh in reply and to finish off , I 'm gon na leave it like that , a very much , and as I say as far , as far as tomorrow 's concerned that 's er not a difficulty with erm , either Mr informs me which is unlikely or I can , at least get a , make a start , er on the other aspects of the judgement , alright then half past ten on Monday morning |
| 22 | Sometimes the most doting and caring of parents can so overwhelm their child with protectiveness and a stifling form of love that they do not allow that child to develop . |
| 23 | In residential areas there are no attempts to create shared space on the Woonerf model and there is no discussion of the environmental works that can so improve their habitability . |
| 24 | The challenge is to find ways to support the existing popular structures so that they can better continue their struggle . ’ |
| 25 | Will the Minister explain why European companies can apparently provide their workers with better conditions in terms of hours and minimum wages than this country 's employers ? |
| 26 | The problem is that no amount of self-knowledge can entirely express our full humanity , precisely because we are incomplete beings . |
| 27 | The book-collector can obviously fight his corner here with examples from well-known authors and historic figures who either drew the cheques or were at the receiving end . |
| 28 | Although they can gently put their point of view , parents must then accept the situation . |
| 29 | Obviously there is also the money element , and by returning to work you can perhaps give your child other benefits you might not otherwise be able to afford such as foreign holidays or maybe a private education . |
| 30 | I studied all over again those marvellous descriptions and illustrations , and you can perhaps understand my growing excitement at the notion that I might now actually undertake a motoring trip myself around that same part of the country . |