Example sentences of "can [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They say they will spend as much time as they can together in the interests of their children . |
| 2 | Fitting such a claim into the requirements for a derivative action would , however , demand greater judicial creativity than can perhaps in the circumstances be realistically expected . |
| 3 | The learning that can be prescribed , they say , can only at the most be a framework within which a vast amount of day-to-day scope for creativity and choice must remain . |
| 4 | However , X can not without the seller 's consent assign his burdens under the contract ( i.e. the obligation to pay ) . |
| 5 | I can not for the life of me imagine a place as distant as Italy . |
| 6 | I can not for the life of me understand anglers who use those lifeless , poker-like , stepped-up carp rods coupled with lines of 12lb or less . |
| 7 | Only my problem is , all my package-tour details were in the small valise , and — would you believe it ? — I can not for the life of me recall where I am checked in . |
| 8 | I can not for the life of me see why children have to take so long to grow up . |
| 9 | I can not for the life of me see why the County Council as the Statutory Authority and supposedly an independent er er body to British Coal is so resistant to a full public inquiry when only the clear er proposals of British Coal will come out . |
| 10 | I can not for the life of me see why they 're so resistant to it . |
| 11 | I can not for the life of me see this is a reasonable attitude on the part of the County Council . |
| 12 | I can not for the life of me see Wilko releasin Rocky , especially for only 1 Million . |
| 13 | Everyone experiences disturbing life events from time to time , and although they may cause a good deal of psychological distress , they can not on the whole be considered to have a deleterious effect on health . |
| 14 | They can not at the same time absorb and spread the credit risks of their corporate clients as well . |
| 15 | Even if reinstatement or re-engagement is ordered , an employer can not at the end of the day be forced to take you back . |
| 16 | First , if holism and individualism are to be distinct , causation and autonomy must be mutually exclusive categories : if the autonomous character of action is to stand in the way of the truth of determinism , actions can not at the same time be caused . |
| 17 | We can not at the moment reconstruct with certainty what the ordering of relevant environments in EModE might have been , or whether it was always nasals that were decisive : as Lowland Scots preserves evidence of a raising rule before dentals/alveolars ( for example in glad , gather , Saturday ) , it is not impossible that hendes , bend attest to pre-dental raisings . |
| 18 | ‘ It may be said that the duty is difficult to define , because when the act of negligence in manufacture occurs there was no specific person towards whom the duty could be said to exist : the thing might never be used : it might be destroyed by accident , or it might be scrapped , or in many ways fail to come into use in the normal way : in other words the duty can not at the time of manufacture be other than potential or contingent , and only can become vested by the fact of actual use by a particular person . |
| 19 | In Coke , Littleton 212b. , Lord Coke says : ‘ where the condition is for payment of £20 , the obligor or feoffor can not at the time appointed pay a lesser sum in satisfaction of the whole , because it is apparent that a lesser sum of money can not be a satisfaction of a greater … |
| 20 | If I am writing on this side of the paper I can not at the same moment be writing on the other side . |
| 21 | As we shall see , if the interest rate is used to control exchange rates , it can not at the same time be used to achieve money supply targets . |
| 22 | Whilst I can not within the scope of a short book consider what each religion in turn has to say about God , I can at least take note of the religious pluralism of our time . |
| 23 | In devising titles , avoid over-florid forms , however , as well as epigraphs ( i.e. quotations placed between the title and the main body of text ) , since these can make the essay appear to aspire to a grandeur or scale that it can not in the circumstances fulfil . |
| 24 | She asks why women can not by the same token ‘ wrench back some wordpower ’ . |
| 25 | One of them told Trent to fetch a gas can over to the Co-operative quay to be filled at the Co-op 's gas pump . |
| 26 | So you can up to the colliery and see if you can get one there . |
| 27 | And then you can also for the same money which by the way I think is er No I 'll let me come to that later . |
| 28 | But if you can out about the trailer |
| 29 | ‘ We have come to the end of that chapter , they have spent the money , sold off the assets , squeezed the public services , cut the training , tossed everything they possibly can out of the boat , and it is still sinking . |
| 30 | He 'll get what he can out of the T'ang . |