Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [Wh det] can " in BNC.
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| 31 | This opens up for debate the question of what can be done , at each level of the system , to fix some problem . |
| 32 | Another pointer to their continued and increasing use is the recent interest in holistic medicine , the philosophy of which can have such far-reaching effects that the entire way of life of modem civilization may be completely altered by the time the twenty-first century is well under way . |
| 33 | A single , empty bar into which can be poured almost literally anything you want . |
| 34 | Citizens ' Advice Bureaux can also put compulsive spenders in touch with debt counsellors , who are able to assess their clients ' finances and thus establish an escape from what can feel like a financial swamp . |
| 35 | Although there have been few studies of public opinion and corporate crime ( Cullen et al. 1982 ; Newman 1957 ; Reed and Reed 1975 ; Rossi et al. 1974 ; Schrager and Short 1980 ; Sinden 1980 ; Wolfgang 1980 ) , they do provide a window on what can best be described as ‘ collective ignorance ’ . |
| 36 | The story of a children 's Christmas , climaxing in a party , comes towards the lower end of these two extremes , and we are going to take it as the plot on which can be built an interesting home movie . |
| 37 | It provides for the use of a simple and standard certificate of apostille in place of what can in some parts of the world be an elaborate and tortuous process of legalisation , a concept little known in the common law world . |
| 38 | The second type ( 2b ) consists of lexical sets , the membership of which can not be reliably predicted on phonological grounds alone , and this type is additional to the types of variable that were studied by Labov ( 1966 ) in New York City ( these were types 1 and 2a ) . |
| 39 | This is not a reference to any pet the Austrian physicist Erwin Schrödinger may have had but rather to a ‘ thought experiment ’ he proposed ( a thought experiment is one that can not actually be performed , but the examination of which can reveal scientific truths — or , at least , plausibilities ) . |
| 40 | The easier alternative for video is to record the scene as a two-shot ( page 73 ) , the static nature of which can be relieved by discreetly zooming in and panning between the two speakers from time to time and then zooming back to the two-shot . |
| 41 | It offers a reminder of what can be achieved without recourse to star names or the Vienna Philharmonic . |
| 42 | One example of access to certain parts of the British census of 1971 ( Schürer 1993 ) is a reminder of what can happen in the most favourable environments , whilst the account of the situation of Soviet and Russian data indicates how dependent electronic data is upon organizational structures ( Moiseenko 1993 ) . |
| 43 | Jennett argues that " most patients who now reach hospitals have progressive disease , the ultimate outcome of which can not be influenced " ( Jennett 1986 : 4 ) . |
| 44 | Roberton has taken what can best be described as an artistic look at this subject and I must compliment him on his approach because it provides a valuable visual record of what can never be again . |
| 45 | By virtue both of the imperatives already identified , and their financial overtones , every decision taken will have budget implications , the onus of which can no longer be passed to the policies of the LEA , safely remote from the staff-room . |
| 46 | Though she told her husband ‘ shrewdly and shortly ’ that she thought she had married beneath her , he proved on the whole a sympathetic and supportive husband in what can not by any standards have been a normal or comfortable married life . |
| 47 | The global system is most fruitfully conceptualized as a system that operates at three levels , knowledge about which can be organized in three spheres , namely the economic , the political and the cultural-ideological . |
| 48 | ‘ I think there has to be a realism about what can be achieved without turning London into a fortress , ’ he said . |
| 49 | And then there is the hypothesis put to the A 's Tony La Russa , the lawyer-manager and quiet ringmaster of what can be a wild Oakland circus troupe : ‘ What do you do if Will Clark ( the Giants big-hitting first baseman ) comes to the plate with the bases loaded ? ’ |
| 50 | It will not apply to tribunals which have an internal hierarchy , the top of which can impose a uniform meaning , nor will it necessarily apply where there is only one tribunal in an area . |
| 51 | Yet this relation , marked by many forms of co-operation , interaction and two-way movement between the ‘ market ’ and ‘ subsidized ’ areas , is nevertheless always precarious , for there can be little real doubt that it is the dominant area , the market , which either determines , or emphasizes and de-emphasizes , prevailing types of production , and there are then the familiar asymmetries : ( i ) between the notion of a necessary ‘ high culture ’ — and the pressures of the market on its continued viability ; and ( ii ) between the notion of plural ( ‘ liberal ’ ) culture and the actual profit-governed market selection of what can be readily distributed or even , in some areas , offered at all . |
| 52 | It is unusual to find a large deposit containing pottery the whole of which can be grouped into a narrow date bracket , and the most obvious examples on occupation sites are caused by the destruction of a building which has pottery in it , in store or in use at the time . |
| 53 | ‘ Red ’ , in the most basic sense , refers to a quality whose true locus is only in the perceptual fields of beings such as ourselves , but which in our most basic conceptualisations of the world we think of as being present more stably in a real world the character of which can clash with the world as immediately presented . |
| 54 | At the other end of the continuum , local actors have a large area of discretion within what can be termed ‘ Athenian ’ authorities . |
| 55 | The operational station — the engineering workshop and so " on which was previously accommodated within the bus station has been shunted off to a glorified shed on what can best be described as a piece of waste ground " . |
| 56 | Accompanying this progressive distancing , there is a distancing from graspable reality , an increasing emphasis on what can not be known or explained : " resembling mysterious incomprehensible crazy of aspect as if abandoned no sign … " . |
| 57 | The long term aim is to provide evidence on which can be based policies for effective school provision . |
| 58 | The other degenerate case in which can also be transformed to a Schwarzschild space-time but , in this case , the interaction region corresponds to the upper region inside the horizon and all trajectories end in the future singularity . |
| 59 | However , we also had an opportunity to study restored sites and we were generally impressed by the quality of what can be seen . |
| 60 | The Rules ( a summary of which can be found in Chapter 12 ) provide for the raising of contributions to the Fund from every partner and every other solicitor held out by his firm as a partner . |