Example sentences of "[conj] [prep] [Wh det] can " in BNC.

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1 One of these can form part of a reference archive , the other is a working copy , upon which notes and details can be written , or over which can be placed transparent overlays to mark grains , microprobe analysis sites etc .
2 The whole character of faith is that it does not rest on itself , nor on what can be seen as an extension of itself , but on what is quite other than itself , by which its own emptiness is filled .
3 It was in the field of cult and religious objects , of decorative and decorated-utilitarian articles , and of what can eventually be distinguished as , in a modern sense , works of art , that reproductive technology became a major cultural mode .
4 3 Make sure that personnel who are to be present from sections other than the PR department are fully briefed on their role and on what can and can not be said .
5 It is clear that these larger groups or phyla have arisen because of what can only be called co-evolution : the changes to take place in their body types have been more or less continuously in tune with evolutionary changes in their habitat or environment .
6 Never before have I heard a would-be Prime Minister show such a crass insensitivity as to what can and can not be done , with propriety , in this particular free society .
7 Debate has been fierce between Liberal and Labour historians as to what can be proved from the by-elections of 1911–14 about the relative strength of the two Progressive parties ; it is an indecisive argument in its very nature because of the confused pattern of results and the lack of any truly comparable figures for 1910 or 1906 .
8 We can pull out of the Common Market and out of NATO , but there are practical limits as to what can be done from within British politics to overcome the external constraints on the development of public policy in Britain since we are part of the world economy .
9 ‘ You have a very narrow range of ideas as to what can be done with Pickerage in the bog .
10 Will you advise us as to what can be done ?
11 This matter is of the greatest concern to my constituents , many of whom are at their wits ' end as to what can be done to halt the murderous menace of the theft and racing of cars in residential city streets .
12 The decision in Housecroft v Burnett [ 1986 ] 1 All ER 332 provides very clear and comprehensive guidance as to what can be claimed in cases of serious injury .
13 I can stand in front of the screen , I can look at the simulations , I can stop them whenever I want to stop them and look at them , it gives me ideas about how the buildings might have looked at that time and it gives me a whole range of variations as to as to what can be done in terms of their reconstructions .
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