Example sentences of "can have [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How can we possibly retain that self-reliance and confidence if we become more and more a nation of programmed consumers , stuffed with the produce of an automated technology over which we feel we can have little influence ? |
| 2 | Though the scientific matching of book and reader is theoretically possible one can have little faith in it . |
| 3 | If there is little to distinguish the Christian from his non-Christian neighbour , then discipleship can have little significance . |
| 4 | there is little point in correcting the spoken language of pupils in any general way and as part of their routine language use because it is unlikely to have a beneficial effect : against the pressure of home and the peer group , teachers can have little hope of changing how pupils speak . |
| 5 | Whereas the counsellor can hope to point retired people towards new activities and new sources of friendship , the loss of income associated with retirement is a matter over which counselling can have little direct influence . |
| 6 | Looking back over the season it seems to me supporters can have little cause for complaint . |
| 7 | Although factors such as stature , age , and duodenal ulcer disease affect the absolute values of Vg they can have little or no effect on the changes in someone consequent upon smoking a cigarette : thus despite the small numbers studied the 25% fall is highly significant . |
| 8 | A building adapted or retained in its totality can have many lives ; keeping just the facade might prolong its life by no more than twenty years . |
| 9 | It can have many different kinds of answers . |
| 10 | The act of controlling for a third variable can have many possible results . |
| 11 | Reading failure can have many causes . |
| 12 | Nearly all children want to go out in the snow and , if they are suitably dressed , they can have many mathematically rewarding experiences as well as lots of fun . |
| 13 | This can have many causes , including bacterial , parasitic and internal disorders . |
| 14 | The action of aiming a rifle can have many reasons and a vendetta is only one of many possibilities . |
| 15 | Thus we can see that the sentence ‘ The window is open ’ can have many different functions , depending on who says it , to whom , and in what situation . |
| 16 | The fragments can have many sources , the past as well as the present . |
| 17 | This particular example has a unique solution , but a constraint satisfaction task can have many goal states which all fulfil the task 's goal . |
| 18 | This means they can have many particles in the same state . |
| 19 | Moving to a residential home or nursing home can have many advantages — such as more company and a feeling of security — but it also means a major change in someone 's way of life . |
| 20 | In other words , one DOCTOR can have many PATIENTS , but a PATIENT is only assigned one DOCTOR . |
| 21 | As the details of a parent are only held once , though it can have many children , these details can be integrated with the details of any subordinates as required , and this introduces redundancy . |
| 22 | On the issue of hospitals taking more control over their affairs , Professor Kean said : ‘ Hospitals to a very large extent can have that without turning the health service into a sort of supermarket . ’ |
| 23 | We can have that when we get to where we 're going . |
| 24 | ‘ Oh , aye , you can have that and welcome , for what it 's worth . |
| 25 | well if you get three amps we can have that er , that |
| 26 | a couple of sentences , something which will fit on a piece of paper that size , because if you can , we can have that on one bit , and the well to one side or the other we can have the information that we want , and we can photo then photocopy those two things , next to each other |
| 27 | Youth , when death has no reality ( she does n't mean fear of death , children can have that ) , and our actions and pleasures are for their own sake , for what they are now and new . |
| 28 | I mean that can have that can sort of |
| 29 | The primary concern of the judiciary , said Lord Hailsham , must be ‘ to retain the respect of the public for their independence which involves not merely their real independence of mind , but also the belief which the public can have that they are seen to be independent in every respect ’ . |
| 30 | And you can , you can have that thing looking very very difficult , very , in very short time . |