Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [pron] [pers pn] can [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's an inset problem , and therefore one is looking inevitably at the reasons for which you can moved an inset boundary , supposing that one already exists , which it does n't , but let us suppose it does . |
| 2 | These six activity books provide children who are beginning to learn English with a wide range of activities through which they can practise English grammar and vocabulary , and develop their reading and writing skills . |
| 3 | If you have any queries about what we can do for you , please do n't hesitate to call us on |
| 4 | Thirdly , the obligation to pay loan interest on the due dates creates an immediate debt between the company and the loan stock holder for which he can sue , whereas a preference dividend does not become a debt until it is declared and due . |
| 5 | As soon as it is over and both males are exhausted they have a brief opportunity during which they can launch an attack and win the harem from both of them , and this has been seen to happen . |
| 6 | Some cretins like Pybus are only in football for what they can get out of it . |
| 7 | It has spiracles along its side through which it can breathe , but it neither feeds nor excretes . |
| 8 | Magic : it lubricates the gap between what we can see and understand , and what unhappy feelings haunt our dreams . |
| 9 | I 'll get you some sandwiches and some more tea and once you 've eaten we can get down to some practical thinking about what you can do next . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ These people ca n't just blow in with their grand illusions about what they can do in Northern Ireland , with this ‘ big brother ’ attitude that America can solve everyone 's problems . |
| 11 | Under the Law Society 's Scheme , representatives who are not accredited will have a period of six months during which they can develop their skills by being paid for work on less serious cases . |
| 12 | Is it the first time , for instance , you have been told you only enter into relationships for what you can get out of them ? |
| 13 | Are there steps through which we can begin to learn again what was so clearly a part of the New Testament church 's experience ? |
| 14 | One of the key benefits of the move will be to give Enterprise Training access to a professional marketing department through which it can promote awareness of its services to employers . |
| 15 | Well erm you see although I learned shorthand and typing it was better money and that was the reason I had to do it , I 've passed my exams in shorthand but er probably there were n't enough offices then to employ a good many clerks , but erm they er it was a very big fellow who used to ring the bell and the bell was on the outside , he was named Tom but I ca n't for the life of me think erm what his other name was but , erm it used to put the fear through us I can tell you if we were around the corner and we heard that bell ringing but erm they , they were a good firm to work for and , but they were strict but everywhere was strict in those days , we had to accept it but it was a long long hours , but erm they knew I had some , I , I enjoyed it and I 'd go back again only I 'm too old . |
| 16 | Both of them want to be close and both need to repair their inner confusion about what they can allow themselves . |
| 17 | Firth and his colleagues argue that the main reason for this gender difference relationships through which they can gain support for their domestic and child care responsibilities , whereas men 's lives are more dominated by work and careers in which siblings usually can not help . |
| 18 | ‘ Maybe if I played with another side I 'd get more recognition for what I can do . |
| 19 | yeah , no , not that we come back to that in a moment or to , I 'm just trying to see where this leads us though Mr , erm as a matter of legal analysis , erm y-y-y- your complaint , one particular one we 're talking about is that erm these standard , these are standard degrees which offend the competition rules now if it , if that 's right would not the consequence by erm across the ball , you 're saying you only , you only would render them invalid in so far as they happen to do any , happened to have done any particular name of , er that , I ca n't think , it did n't seem to be in any of the erm cases we 've looked at where the competition rules were applied , but that was a necessary condition if , if , if it 's that if it 's void , if people have suffered a loss as a result of it they can recover a lost , you do n't have to show a loss do you in order to , to , to be declared void |
| 20 | Filling in the two charts on page 32 gives the best indication of what you can afford . |
| 21 | Yet the effect of what you can play should be that you hear what Brahms wrote down , even if you do n't follow his notation absolutely to the dot . |
| 22 | Perhaps the slightest pleasure of which I can conceive is that of sucking a boiled sweet . |
| 23 | Yet the final equation of what you can afford to spend on a new car is likely to be influenced by what you get for the old one . |
| 24 | ‘ With a figure like yours you can take anything you like , love , ’ said Dad jauntily . |
| 25 | High oxygen levels are not important , for the fish has an air bladder with which it can breathe air . |
| 26 | You 'll receive a distinctive personalised Club card with which you can claim you Air Miles at participating Shell Stations . |
| 27 | Thus in this linking process , the teacher requires flexibility to help pupils build links at a speed with which they can cope . |
| 28 | Proud of the speed with which it can run Windows 3.1 applications on Sparc systems using its SunPC hardware and software combination , SunSelect vice president and general manager Carl Ledbetter could still not resist speculating that future technology for running PC applications from Sun would ‘ go way beyond the current generation , without the need for a card ’ . |
| 29 | Dingwall , in another context , calls these stories ‘ atrocity stories ’ ( 1977 ) , and Richman shows how they feature prominently in the discourse of traffic wardens , in an attempt to socialize new recruits into what they can expect , as well as being a means of stressing the moral worth of traffic wardens : a concern which was high on the priorities of such a stigmatized occupational group ( Richman 1983 : 115 ) . |
| 30 | Because language appears such a natural instrument with which we can describe reality , its terms and expressions seem to describe the way things are and will always be . |