Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] can [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fielding , Amis once remarked , showed that fiction can uphold a moral seriousness ‘ without evangelical puffing and blowing ’ ; his Take a Girl Like You ( 1960 ) has been aptly called a modernised replay of Richardson 's Pamela ; and when asked by a journalist which of the great novelists of the past he felt the closest affinity with , he replied reverently : ‘ With Fielding , though it seems a gross impertinence … ’ . |
| 2 | To perceive that fiction can describe a known and shared experience — to accept , in effect , the chief claim of realism — is to perceive that , in the end , no single or simple doctrine , whether Marxist , Christian or other , can do the whole job . |
| 3 | Although political ideology can play a significant part in re-shaping the penal system , as it did in 1964 through the influence of Crime — a challenge to us all , and to a lesser extent as it would have done had the Conservatives regained office in 1966 , incoming governments customarily do not pack in their baggage detailed blue prints on criminal policy . |
| 4 | It will be looked back upon by history as one of the remarkable achievements of the human spirit to have discovered how a very little violence can destroy the good conscience of the major institutions of society , and interchange the positions of sense and nonsense , right or wrong . |
| 5 | A hint of a good fake tan and a touch of a warm earthy blusher can transform a jaded looking face into a radiant one . |
| 6 | These days , that figure can represent an entire print run . |
| 7 | Despite this increase in size , and the fact that regional aid can contribute a significant input of resources to any particular area , it still remains the case that the extent of Community regional assistance is small , amounting to just 25 per cent of the total EC budget by 1992 . |
| 8 | Although the pilot study demonstrates that a domain-specific dictionary can make a significant contribution to the recognition of a same-domain document , it is not necessarily the case that this effect will be repeated in other domains . |
| 9 | The politicians and bureaucrats at this level can have a profound effect upon the local people , and can obstruct , alter or intensify central government actions . |
| 10 | The findings support other evidence of the importance of doctors ' attitudes towards helping patients to achieve good glycaemic control and that skilled strategies to support dietary change can make an appreciable contribution to glycaemic control and may even affect survival . |
| 11 | Given that microcomputer power costs a tenth of the price of minicomputer power , while minicomputer power costs a tenth of the price of mainframe power , a small shift in this direction can make a dramatic difference to revenues . |
| 12 | A high-tech battleground 's been built where the meekest would-be gunfighter can become the new Arnold Swarzenegger . |
| 13 | The question thus with which we are confronted is that of whether this religion can contain the new consciousness of women . |
| 14 | In some cases , however , the exigencies of timetabling for examinations and the demands made on students by applications for courses of further study can reduce the effective time available to the one-year foundation courses to as little as twenty or twenty-four weeks . |
| 15 | A patriotic feeling or the witnessing of a noble or generous action can evoke the same emotion . |
| 16 | However , social anthropology can offer no general panacea for our present ills and discontents . |
| 17 | But in some cases the having a different isomer can affect the three dimensional properties in such a way that it will no longer function efficiently as an enzyme as a catalyst to the reaction it 's supposed to catalyse then you start to get problems . |
| 18 | Why is it that German competitiveness can stand the social chapter and British competitiveness can not ? |
| 19 | This question can become a major source of friction . |
| 20 | It is hoped that this work can contribute a better empirical basis to discussion about the adequacy of benefit levels . |
| 21 | The best hope is that the effect of the recession on pay bargaining coupled with prudent fiscal management can preserve the competitive advantage for a considerable time . |
| 22 | The best hope is that the effect of the recession on pay bargaining coupled with prudent fiscal management can preserve the competitive advantage for a considerable time . |
| 23 | If they are really separate from each other , what happens in another universe can have no observable consequences in our own universe . |
| 24 | For some igneous and metamorphic rocks formed at great depths and at high temperatures and pressures this adjustment can involve a complete transformation of their constituent minerals . |
| 25 | High grade can have a shorter history , systemic symptoms , abnormal exploratory and laboratory findings , gastric tumour masses , stage IV disease , and a worse outcome . |
| 26 | Now and then a fine drizzle of sulphuric acid droplets may fall , plus other cloud particles , and the occasional thunderstorm high overhead can give a heavier rain . |
| 27 | An eye with this device can have a large opening , relying on the lens to bend the light so that spreading rays converge to form a sharp image . |
| 28 | No candidate who fails to see this point can get a first class on that question . |
| 29 | Failing that , a wet towel can smother an accidental fire . |
| 30 | Having decided to take the plunge and get yourself ‘ done ’ , there are a number of routs by which a would-be sitter can approach a likely artist . |