Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [Wh det] can " in BNC.
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| 1 | Secondly , there is uncertainty about what can be kept electronically , and what should be kept . |
| 2 | Choreographers today choose to interpret a vast range of subjects through what can be termed the purely physical movements of the body , sometimes coloured by moods ranging from the tragic to the comic and even the ridiculous . |
| 3 | The modes which he adopted were such as to licence elisions and lacunae , to enable him to leave out bits of his life — a procedure which would seem to be connected with his scepticism about what can be known about people by biographers . |
| 4 | It is much harder to move from a visual , qualitative appreciation of what can be seen under the microscope to more quantitative measures of how much or how many of any component is present ; yet unless something entirely new was being synthesized as a result of training , then what we might anticipate observing would be small changes in the number , pattern or distribution of existing structures , particularly synapses . |
| 5 | Those who have not tried to sell — and particularly sell in a highly competitive market where there are very large contracts , the possession or loss of which can have a fatal effect on one 's whole business — do not know how testing it is of courage and nerve . |
| 6 | New forms of behaviour are the result of what can be regarded as a ‘ mind climate ’ or group mental energy creating a morphogenetic field . |
| 7 | All these agencies have local offices in many areas of the country , the addresses of which can be found in the telephone directory or the local public library . |
| 8 | It is designed as a case study of what can be achieved on almost any upland farm in Britain , and the changes are being scientifically monitored so the results can be shared with other conservation agencies . |
| 9 | It was an impressive demonstration of what can now be done . |
| 10 | Among the supporters of what can be called , for want of a better term , the democrats are three important groups . |
| 11 | They are given as an indication of what can happen and a suggestion of some of the ways in which similar ideas might be explored by different children in different circumstances . |
| 12 | The AEF 's concept is being taken forward by representatives of two groups which might be seen as having totally opposing interests : the IATA-sponsored Air Transport Action Group and the AEF — a co-operative effort which is in itself an encouraging indication of what can be achieved . |
| 13 | This week 's threat by Ofgas regulator Sir James McKinnon to take legal action against British Gas if it does n't reduce its prices is an indication of what can be achieved by forceful regulation of the privatised utilities . ) |
| 14 | Shaking our heads in grateful disbelief to the darkness of a deserted car park , the empty witness of which can not prevail against us , whose minds have been imprinted thus . |
| 15 | The emotional , mental and spiritual levels form an energy field around the body known as the aura , aspects of which can be seen by some people and which have recently been partially demonstrated by modern technology . |
| 16 | Lyrical Ballads nevertheless remains a very strange publication , the full effect of which can only be appreciated by studying a facsimile edition , or one of the reprints of the first edition . |
| 17 | In the meantime , of course , he had become a Schopenhauerian , the relevant effect of which can only have been to confirm the validity of his preoccupation with music and his suspicion of the new musical idiom . |
| 18 | A side effect of which can be that you can develop gout . |
| 19 | It was only much later that I realised the reason for the request and also for the resulting laughter , namely the enjoyment of a broad Somerset accent which had come with me , and traces of which can still be recognised by West Country people nearly seventy years later . |
| 20 | Such building , multiplied many times over , provided France with a network of fortified towns ( some of them very large by the standards of the day ) , impressive traces of which can still be seen today . |
| 21 | The caveat , to state it simply , is that it is to be taken as a view of only our conception of what can be called standard effects : all those where the effects are not decisions , choices , like mental acts of persons , or ensuing actions . |
| 22 | Doctors at the National Epilepsy centre at the Park hospital in Oxford carry out research into what can trigger epileptic fits . |
| 23 | The Springbok all-rounder of the 1960s and 1970s has been appointed coach of Transvaal in what can be seen as a determined bid by the lions of the north to regain their position as the top dogs of South African domestic cricket . |
| 24 | Both of these veteran airliners gave a spritely performance despite their age , proving that there are no bounds to what can be preserved in flying condition in the USA . |
| 25 | Does my right hon. Friend agree that that shows that there is scope , through a range of Government and quasi-government bodies , to encourage action beyond what can be done with direct Government money ? |
| 26 | They help to keep the structure open while adding substance and weight to what can be an inconveniently light product . |
| 27 | Standard thin sections required for teaching collections or archive purposes can now be given self-adhesive labels on which can be written all the details of the sample . |
| 28 | It has been subtly shifting the goalposts of what can be done in and through art . |
| 29 | My own family was at once strongly nuclear and part of what can only be called a clan . |
| 30 | Further north along Corso Venezia is Palazzo Serbelloni , an enormous building in Neo-Classical style created in 1793 for Duke Serbelloni by the enlarging of a seventeenth-century palazzo , part of which can still be seen — the brick section in Via San Damiano . |