Example sentences of "[noun] can [verb] in a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ No boat can live in a sea like that ! |
| 2 | Such tensions can emerge in a variety of forms . |
| 3 | Unlike cleaning chemicals which still perform even if they are grossly misused and , at worst can hardly leave a surface dirtier after application than before , misuse in disinfectants and sanitisers can result in an increase in bacterial contamination . |
| 4 | We need to know what a teacher can do in a crisis that could be called teaching . |
| 5 | A judgment of excessive prescribing can result in an amount being deducted from the doctor 's remuneration . |
| 6 | The consequences of a major breach of security can result in an organisation being put out of business , such is the dependence of today 's information society on its technology . |
| 7 | What the textbook can summarise in a page of results — life is cellular , cells have water and carbon , cells divide to multiply — our methods with the child 's own work , with his own hands , with his own microscope and his own laboured arithmetic may take six weeks of classroom effort . |
| 8 | References to experts are likely to be seen as occasions of what is known as " qualified privilege " , where a plaintiff can succeed in a defamation action only if he can prove malice on the part of the defendant . |
| 9 | ‘ You have no understanding of the conditions , no idea of the way things can change in a flash . ’ |
| 10 | that too much concentration on meeting articulated needs in an unimaginative and uncritical manner can result in a community education programme which , whilst reaching a section of the population never catered for before , in fact assists individual advancement but does little to assist collective advancement towards solutions to the problems of poverty and inequality found in working-class communities . |
| 11 | Failure to observe that enforcement notice can result in a prosecution in the local magistrates ' court . |
| 12 | I tried to explain to her that few elderly people can remain in a state of reforming fervour all their lives ! |
| 13 | So that the social , the social idea in the towns and people can gather in a market place and do what they will without too much trouble , but nevertheless and immediately you try to restrict , we , we run into trouble , but we must protect the people and that 's the purpose for the trading standards . |
| 14 | But then people can live in a village and not know anything about their own charities . |
| 15 | But since field staff can sample in a day only a minuscule proportion of the discharges and watercourses in their districts , the coincidence of sampling when a serious ‘ one-off ’ pollution is occurring is very unlikely . |
| 16 | Workers ' opposition to the constraints of the workplace can vary in a number of different ways . |
| 17 | The evaluation of performance can result in a revision of a programme , or a revision of the budget , or a modification in operations . |
| 18 | This is lower than the steady 3 points per move that both players can amass in a run of mutual cooperation ( and , by the way , this is the reason for the ‘ additional condition ’ left unexplained on page 204 ) . |
| 19 | When executed by humans with a sound knowledge of a subject and its terminology , free language indexing can result in an index which is both consistent in the assignment of index terms and which matches the perspective of index users . |
| 20 | Because minerals of different density and size have different critical concentrations and settling velocities , complex fluctuations in sedimentation rate and mineral proportions can occur in a multi-component melt . |
| 21 | Delayed introduction can result in a lot of resistance later ( Illingworth and Lister 1964 ) . |
| 22 | Babies can drown in an inch or two of water , so do n't leave them alone in a bath — even in a safety chair — paddling pool , or with a large bowl of water . |
| 23 | " We 've got a week — a hell of a lot can happen in a week . " |
| 24 | A long or short position can result in a profit or loss for a bank if the exchange rate alters from that quoted in the initial transaction . |
| 25 | Thus the policy ineffectiveness proposition can survive in a model in which prices exhibit some degree of stickiness , provided that the policy instruments exhibit the same degree of stickiness . |
| 26 | Sarah can engage in an arbitrage transaction worth a maximum of either £105 000 or £5 million . |
| 27 | Contaminated food , water or milk can result in an epidemic outbreak and these infections , such as the salmonelloses and bacillary dysentery , are further spread by unwashed hands contaminated with faeces . |
| 28 | In addition , all estimates of quantitative genetic variables by any method are sensitive to the environment in which they are measured ; misleading gene-environment interactions can occur in an environment other than that in which the life history evolved . |
| 29 | Limited scope exists for actors to develop individual characters : there is little room , in particular , to explore tensions between the sympathy and horror that Macbeth 's conflicts can elicit in an audience . |
| 30 | As can be imagined , trying to obtain reasonable samples of the general population for relatively short interviews on such topics as voting behaviour or food preferences can result in a lot of interviewers having to call at a lot of houses over all towns and cities in the country . |