Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [Wh det] can " in BNC.
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| 1 | The significance lies in what can be done with it . |
| 2 | Whereas the descriptions of the opening chapter are confined to what can be seen from within his shack , visual perspectives increase in variety and number when he ventures out of doors . |
| 3 | Gerry Tissuer looks at what can go wrong |
| 4 | She warns against what can sometimes be a knee-jerk support of abortion technology for fear of playing into the hands of the right wing . |
| 5 | At around the same time , the effects were being felt of a new system ( introduced by the government in 1995 ) of individual budgets for each prison — in effect cash limits on what can be spent on staff in each prison — which has also been blamed for giving rise to understaffing . |
| 6 | I think she is looking at what can be done in the school . |
| 7 | One is to put meaning sternly aside and concentrate on behaviour , on the ground that science must stick to what can in principle be tested against experience and observation . |
| 8 | Look at what can happen when parasite genes and host genes do share a common exit . |
| 9 | If the UK Government is serious about stopping the greenhouse effect it should stop wasting time on long-term impracticalities such as nuclear power and look at what can be achieved now . |
| 10 | Up till now we have only considered the potential uses of the various desktop publishing products but it is important to look at what can be done with the things that they produce . |
| 11 | A new course is teaching women how to deal with what can be a frightening situation . |
| 12 | Many teachers argue that the more important things that they are concerned with , the ‘ something more ’ , are qualities that can not be measured by tests of competence ; if teaching is geared to what can be measured , objectives in other words , then these important qualities will be omitted and both the teaching and students will be the poorer . |
| 13 | In almost all cases children have some relevant experience to draw on which can account for otherwise surprising ideas . |
| 14 | Nevertheless , the City Council has behaved in what can only be described as a lax , sluggish and offhand manner towards one of the few private initiatives at the very centre of Dutch cultural life . |
| 15 | It was two or three days earlier that I had made my appointment , and as luck so often has it , the due day arrived to what can only be described as ‘ one of those days ’ . |
| 16 | Choice , however limited in scope , implies debate , and debate implies a degree of freedom , even if limits are set on what can be debated . |
| 17 | The resistance , to my mind , does not amount to what can properly be called an argument . |
| 18 | Having been responsible for recruiting patients to one of the landmark studies in this field , which Alberto Maran and colleagues reference , I can testify to what can happen in the heat of combat . |
| 19 | Collie then turns to what can be identified as the second area of instability within the new English : its claims to inculcate a sense of social responsibility . |
| 20 | Once Newco commences paying dividends , these should be funded by payments of dividends from Target outside the group income election , so that Target must account for ACT , but Newco will receive franked investment income , the tax credit attaching to which can be used to frank its own ACT liability when it pays dividends to its shareholders . |
| 21 | Arthur Andersen argues that this ‘ goes beyond what can realistically and responsibly be done … in most cases it will be impracticable . ’ |
| 22 | Despite the use of country risk analysis it must be conceded that competition for loan business has sometimes encouraged banks to ignore their own country or regional risk assessments and indulge in what can be described only as imprudent bank lending ( dealt with in Chapter 8 ) . |
| 23 | One of the companies involved in what can only be described as the latest round of unity talks among the warring Unix camps , which appear to be being sponsored by Unix International Inc , says that for all the fear , uncertainty and doubt unleashed by Microsoft Corp with Windows NT , the initiative still lacks the compulsion that galvanised the part of the industry — led by those that saw Unix primarily as a threat — to form the Open Software Foundation five years ago . |
| 24 | One of the companies involved in what can only be described as the latest round of unity talks that Unix International seems to be sponsoring ( UX No 423 , 424 ) says that for all the fear , uncertainty and doubt unleashed by Microsoft Corp , the project still lacks the compulsion that galvanized the industry to form the Open Software Foundation five years ago . |
| 25 | Differences are played down and the self surrendered in what can become a metaphysical experience of the kind described by John Donne : |
| 26 | I think from a financial point of view , what is er , of interest , and the economical use of these places as opposed to er , residential care , particularly specialist residential care , where p where we 're able to provide er , at a cost of eleven , about eleven thousand two hundred and fifty pounds per child , as opposed to what can be considerable expenditure on er , on specialist out-county places . |
| 27 | A further factor tempering government enthusiasm for LDDC relates to what can be called the ‘ Prince Charles ’ Factor . |
| 28 | However , I am not sure that everybody who looked at what can and should be done in the Province would necessarily agree with all the elements of the policy that he put forward . |
| 29 | THE PEOPLE who run industrial operations are often haunted by what can happen when stray radio transmissions spark off electrical discharges in parts of their plants . |
| 30 | That is a strong incentive to ensure that what is being bought has been properly tested against what can be provided in the private sector . |