Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] can [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | In addition to police help and helicopters , the British controller can call on a network or volunteer mountain rescue teams in the region at any time . |
| 2 | However , if you are unsure of what to do , do n't mess around for what could be a simple job for a trained engineer can turn into a nightmare if an inexperienced user starts to experiment . |
| 3 | Only a local authority or an authorised person can apply for a care order or a supervision order ( s31(1) ) . |
| 4 | In general , it seems that an ontological concept can occur below a simple one . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Populist theories of political democracy which suggest that meaningful forms of social organization can emerge from a principle of " one man , one vote " fudge the issue . |
| 7 | That is , high productivity can lead to a misleadingly high ratio . |
| 8 | Social interviews can vary from a candidate being taken over to the pub for a drink and a sandwich , so that future colleagues can see whether or not the newcomer will fit in , to full-scale formal affairs . |
| 9 | Metabolic blocks can occur for a variety of reasons : |
| 10 | Moreover while the analysis of interrelationships at the verbal level can draw on a highly-developed set of tools , in the form of the concepts and categories supplied by linguistics , the same analysis is much more difficult at the levels of content . |
| 11 | Trainee-computer communication failures for very simple reasons can lead to a complete hiatus unless they are detected and restored by an experienced trainer who can explain to the trainee why the system is failing to respond adequately . |
| 12 | And similar explanations can account for a lot of the variation found in human societies ( Goody , 1976 ) . |
| 13 | Too much protection of young , nervous dogs can lead to a condition known as learned incompetence , whereby the dog fools the owner into always being ready to protect him . |
| 14 | Stephen Lippard and John Caradonna of Columbia University , New York , working with Michael Crait and Mohinder Singh of the Medical Research Council 's Molecular Biology Laboratory at Cambridge , have shown that cis- DDP can bond to a double stranded chain of DNA as well ( Journal of the American Chemical Society , vol 104 , p 5793 ) . |
| 15 | The use of standard terms can result in a different problem . |
| 16 | Fully developed hedgehogs can grow to a length of around 225mm and weigh between a half and one kilo . |
| 17 | And as in Dreams separate realities can fuse in a single image or sequence , so here words fuse as Joyce attempts to cast in a single form the body of his culture , the depth , variety , the body of his feelings — the feelings of his body . |
| 18 | If the majority of identifiable allophones can occur as a result of coarticulation both across word boundaries and word-internally , the case for introducing this kind of phonetic representation is considerably weakened . |
| 19 | If the title is registered it still is n't essential to register the devolution , because personal representatives can deal with a registered title without themselves being first registered as proprietors ; but if the property is not to be disposed of forthwith , either on sale or by a vesting assent , it 's desirable to register the devolution to the personal representatives as soon as practicable . |
| 20 | The entire plant can grow to a height of up to 24ins ( 60cms ) . |
| 21 | The issue of new ordinary shares can lead to a shift in the balance of power in the offeror . |
| 22 | AN EARLY casualty of the Gulf war has been the idea that the European Community can act as a unified power . |
| 23 | Individual users from their humble PC can tap into a wealth of information , on an international scale ( Figure 5.1 ) . |
| 24 | BRADFORD and Bingley Building Society are extending until June 30th the deadline by which buyers of their possessed homes can apply for a 6.99 percent mortgage rate — one of the lowest in Britain . |
| 25 | Stern 's ironic and humane gaze can stand as a tiny but glowing symbol of everything that Britain gained from his generation of migrants . |
| 26 | All too often large advances can seem like a ticket to stardom . |
| 27 | In fact all polymers can enter the glassy state , even though there may be crystal phases present as well , and the glassy state can exist in a very wide range of materials which are not polymers — such as ethanol , propylene glycol , glycerol and sulphur . |
| 28 | Lacan also refers to the subject 's appeal to the Other , which is when the subject demands a guarantee of absolute recognition from another , that goes beyond what the other human being can offer as a response . |
| 29 | Clearly there are minimum and maximum dimensions outwith which no opening in a human habitation can count as a ‘ doorway ’ . |
| 30 | Unlike zoanthids , where large colonies can form by a similar process , the young mushroom polyps separate from the parent completely . |