Example sentences of "can [adv] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gould , forced to operate at the lower end of the transfer market as Coventry tighten their belts , can only gaze in wonder as Dalglish spends multi-millionaire Jack Walker 's money . |
| 2 | The Tories are , as in 1966 , once more devoid of ideas and can only resort to attacking and insulting the other parties . |
| 3 | Normally the principal counsellee is a child ; but there is no reason why the process can not centre upon the problems of an older relative . |
| 4 | The balance-of-payments deficit is not as bad as it looks , partly because it stems from private sector choices rather than public sector profligacy , and is thus inherently less inflationary as individuals can not resort to the printing press to ease the burden of their debt ; and partly because much of it may be imaginary , since the figures omit the ‘ balancing item ’ of unrecorded net receipts from overseas assets . |
| 5 | But mothers can not parent in a social vacuum . |
| 6 | With all the good will in the world , an Arab writer or translator can not side with this admittedly more enlightened approach to gender without sacrificing the readability of the target text . |
| 7 | One is that , if there is going to be a high level of unemployment because productivity is rising faster than output , this means that the cost of goods and services is falling fast and either consumer demand is not increasing fast enough or industry can not gear up production fast enough to create the demanded extra output . |
| 8 | But having said that I ca n't see a job where you can just kind of swan in and you know and think about a million different things in one day or whatever . |
| 9 | backslash directory I think you can just type in file . |
| 10 | Yes , so that I can just sort of say , you know , we did invite and , that might help |
| 11 | Yeah okay so we can just sort of scrub that out or something . |
| 12 | So you can just sort of take them out and put them on your desk , all the bone erm all the pottery . |
| 13 | Erm if we can just sort of work out in our own minds what , I , I do n't want addresses or anything like that , so do n't say oh I 'll break into number six , or anything like that but just anywhere in the area of Farnsfield imagine houses yourself , is to what sort of type of house we break into . |
| 14 | Yes , erm Arthur as I have mentioned earlier was erm the fourth in command as it were and erm if I can just sort of go down the erm the pecking order , mm , Leslie was the Chief Education Officer . |
| 15 | Oh look it 's one of these that 's nice because you can just sort of nothing can come in behind you and that sort of thing . |
| 16 | Oh yeah , but I mean you can soon sort of make it so that it 's er |
| 17 | erm you know kind of er call that a first draft and then sort , you know , sort of try and sort of go through the books again and stick a few references in to back up the points you 've made so you can see it relates to other people 's evidence erm trying to go through it again and knock out the well you know what I mean kind of statements and , and , you know , you can gradually sort of make the er grad you know sort of but again it 's , it 's , it 's one of these processes that I find , you know , you need to go through again and again and again to sort of get it er get it together erm so erm |
| 18 | And you can still sort of ma make it elevated up this really nice and |
| 19 | And once you 've got your Steamatic all set up outside , you can always steam into the greenhouse or the conservatory to remove any mould that has accumulated and clean the glass too . |
| 20 | What 's nice about it as well is they , if ever you did want one anywhere , can always sort of could n't you ? |
| 21 | Treat yourself Angie , cos you can always sort of catch up like that . |
| 22 | Cos I can always sort of |
| 23 | Normally I 'd be reaching for ‘ annihilate ’ button when faced with such an ‘ aware ’ and ‘ right-on ’ selection of topics but Leatherface succeed where so many others have failed by virtue of the tuneful tempestuousness of their music , an assault with melody , muscle and sheer conviction which is irresistible , and the fact that Frankie Stubbs never sounds like a po-faced preacher — unlike a certain other native of the North-East whose name I can hardly type without sending my blood-pressure into the red . |
| 24 | Ericsson says the PABX can also interwork with Digital Equipment Corp 's Computer Integrated Telephony interface . |
| 25 | Where the prey is shoaling fish , the schools of common , spinner and spotted dolphins who feed on them can often number in the hundreds , sometimes even thousands . |
| 26 | No government can simply hand over services for vulnerable groups to a completely unregulated private sector , because the political repercussions of any abuse might be too serious and the reputation of private market provision might be damaged . |
| 27 | Rather the contrary : in Britain a wastesite operator who finds it too expensive to meet the rules can simply hand in his licence and walk away from the site . |
| 28 | They can even talk-back to the television . |
| 29 | so , you , if you , we can even sort of go through your figures and hopefully make the price that we , you know , we show better or |
| 30 | So I said well you know , I ca n't just wind it up over the next six months , I said er what I wan na do I said is erm I got ta carry it on for that transit for that Orion till I finished anyway so it 's got ta go another year so I said well what I 'm feeling about doing I said is er just sort of keeping a finger in the pie I said , he said , if I 'd said tomorrow , if I had finished the whole the tomorrow I 've got ta buy a car I can buy it finance so I 'm gon na get no tax relief on the H P I get no depreciation no nothing like that I said so at least if I still self employed I can if I have the sort of two or three vehicles or whatever three , four , five vehicles but I said at least I can have some erm and I can then sort of they would be more utilised , where as I said at the moment we got more vehicles than we really need to keep full capacity so he said yeah , yeah fair enough then . |