Example sentences of "can [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Can I short circuit that question and say , what in fact is your hundred percent ? |
| 2 | No , can I next week ? |
| 3 | ‘ Oh , where , oh , where , oh , where , can my true love be ? ’ |
| 4 | Having given us that excellent news , can my hon. Friend confirm that the commitment to spend £2.5 million on the start of phase 2 of the Whipps Cross hospital development will continue under the new trust arrangements ? |
| 5 | Bearing in mind that 500,000 Nepalese soldiers served with the British forces in the two world wars , that no fewer than 50,000 were either killed or seriously wounded , that 13 won Victoria Crosses , that 13 British officers serving with the Gurkhas also won Victoria Crosses , and that under ’ Options for Change ’ we are proposing to reduce the number of Gurkhas from 8,000 to 2,500 , can my hon. Friend assure the House that the Foreign Office will take into account the reduction in what amounts to aid , currently provided through pay and pensions , in its future plans for aid to Nepal ? |
| 6 | Can my hon. Friend confirm that it is the Government 's intention to continue to reduce taxes and deregulate , both of which will help small businesses ? |
| 7 | Can my hon. Friend the Minister give any reassurances in that respect ? |
| 8 | How can my hon. Friend argue that compensation should be given to haemophiliacs because , sadly , they suffered a congenital disease and that a sick person who required a blood transfusion was in a different category ? |
| 9 | If prices reflect international conditions , can my hon. Friend explain why in Britain , almost uniquely , there is no differential between petrol and diesel prices ? |
| 10 | Can my hon. Friend say whether the recent bombing campaign has had any impact on prospects for future investment , and whether any new initiatives are under consideration to boost the figures further ? |
| 11 | Can my hon. Friend confirm that when he announces new proposals for deregulation he will ensure that he and his officials have consulted the Minister for small businesses to see that every effort is made to take into account the needs of small businesses and that deregulation , wherever possible , is increased , so that small businesses can get special exemptions where possible from what can be very complicated regulations and procedures that the Government introduce ? |
| 12 | Can my hon. Friend say how far that is due to privatisation ? |
| 13 | Can my hon. Friend say what the price increases are likely to be in the forthcoming year ? |
| 14 | Can my hon. Friend confirm that he will do all in his power to ensure that the Government are returned so that the Dover ferry industry can continue to benefit from high levels of exports ? |
| 15 | Given that the burning of municipal waste is a major element can my hon. Friend estimate the number of landfill sites that will no longer be needed , and whether an increase in the burning of waste will lessen the problem in places such as Crossways in my constituency , where vast areas are threatened with landfill ? |
| 16 | Stedman Jones ' ( 1982 ) re-examination of chartism , for example , argues that its political form can not be understood as a simplistic response to the putative material experience of a class , nor can its political language be seen as an expression of that experience . |
| 17 | Not only can its causal links be shown but its habits , strengths and weaknesses can be determined so that ultimately disease may be tackled . |
| 18 | ’ Can you call-beam link with it and access its controls ? ’ |
| 19 | This is n't London fire oh can you re- run that please ? |
| 20 | ‘ Can you two men row as well as my daughter ? ’ |
| 21 | Can you rubber bands . |
| 22 | How can you half meg , you 're in er , when like , when I first got my computer , get half meg extra was about a hundred pound , yeah , for the one . |
| 23 | Nor can his late nights : he often sits till three in the morning watching a film on TV . |
| 24 | Lord Joseph 's family was ‘ minimally observant ’ but ‘ maximally acknowledging ’ of Judaism , and his concern for poverty is , in a way , quintessentially Jewish , underpinned by a sense of charity and a belief that prosperity can be encouraged , as can his favourite condition , embourgeoisement . |
| 25 | As can his older brother Greg , and mates Drustan Ward and Adam Hillier , all swaying and nodding in the back of the lurching van as the dreaded remix of Arrested Development 's ‘ Tennessee ’ begins . |
| 26 | Following that up when , when can your long suffering shareholders er , expect to see any return on the B Sky B stake and a follow up on that ? |
| 27 | Can your precious ethnography tell us anything which would be of practical use about managing these queues ? |
| 28 | Can your own country 's residents deposit and borrow in the ECM ? |
| 29 | How can our fragmented society make itself whole again ? |
| 30 | How the hell can our national flag be labelled ‘ excessive ’ when almost every High Street in the land is scarred by garish signs for everything from Indian restaurants to American burger joints ? |