Example sentences of "can [indef pn] [vb infin] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Can everyone see that ? |
| 2 | Can someone explain this apparent paradox please ? |
| 3 | But how can one do this with so many instruments ? |
| 4 | Nor can one feel any sympathy for the various ladies in his life , all of whom conform outwardly to the strict etiquette of the enclosed society of the Austrian court . |
| 5 | How can one acquire such loyal employees ? |
| 6 | Can one imagine any circumstances in which it might be possible to launch the Continent-wide equivalent of a Buy British campaign ? |
| 7 | If one 's intervention is not based directly on some need for sexual assistance , how can one raise these delicate topics without provoking a defensive or offended reaction ? |
| 8 | ‘ Smith 's chief themes are loneliness , and death , fear and renunciation … nowhere in modern poetry can one find such concentrated agony . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ But , Father , can one believe such wickedness of any man ? |
| 10 | Can anybody shed some light on an old air pump I got in a box of aquarium bits recently , at a car boot sale ? |
| 11 | I mean can anybody answer that ? |
| 12 | And I said can anybody hear that ? |
| 13 | The other man shook his head , held up his paper , and shouted out , ‘ Can anybody read this ? ’ |
| 14 | Can everybody see that ? |
| 15 | Okay can everybody see that reasonably well ? |
| 16 | Okay can everybody understand that ? |
| 17 | ‘ How can anyone justify such shameful behaviour ? ’ lamented Smith . |
| 18 | Can anyone confirm this ? |
| 19 | Can anyone confirm this ? ? ? |
| 20 | ‘ How can anyone believe that ? ’ |
| 21 | She said : ‘ I broke my own 12-year-old British open ( short course ) record a few months ago , so how can anyone say that ? ’ |
| 22 | How can anyone take this seriously , when the same people endorse the amputation of tails and toes in conscious pups up to the age of seven days ? |
| 23 | The whole country needed ‘ cleaning up ’ , particularly of the ‘ coons ’ , Alf ranted ( can anyone imagine that happening now ? ) . |
| 24 | Is this a record , or can anyone top that ? |
| 25 | Can anyone help this poor , unfortunate guy ? |
| 26 | Can anyone condone that sort of spending when schools are crumbling , when we 're short of teachers , books and equipment for the National Curriculum . |
| 27 | Can anyone wonder that disbelief and despondency settled upon many schools in time to give way to anger and protest at the possibility of carrying out tasks that has been imposed on them under impossible conditions . |
| 28 | Erm right now , er if you look at the minutes then of last meeting erm , can anyone see any thing they want to correct there at all ? |
| 29 | Can anyone doubt that celibate men like Christ . |
| 30 | Reviewing the song in Record Mirror , Dylan Jones wrote : ‘ The predictable and unnecessary Smiths backlash is now in full flight but can anyone dislike such a masterful song as this ? |