Example sentences of "[prep] this can [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only a resolutely historical critical approach such as this can begin to do justice to the life and work of Paul Nizan , inextricably enmeshed as it is in the illusions , deceits , hopes , aspirations , successes and failures of its time . |
| 2 | Conversations such as this can help children see the point : Penny : " I love giraffes — I love stroking them on my lap — I 'd love to have one for a pet . " |
| 3 | Large organisations such as this can impose such a bar , but domestic customers can not , nor should they be expected to do so . |
| 4 | A comment such as this can indicate to a friend that the person is working out their grief very strongly but is still stuck on the question : ‘ Is he gone for ever or is n't he ? ’ |
| 5 | However , there is now evidence that the mechanism responsible for this can act in a similar fashion in some normal individuals ; as one would expect these are people high in schizotypal traits . |
| 6 | Communication — both ways — is going to be a problem and the implications of this can set the deaf person apart . |
| 7 | An understanding of this can do much to damp down the fires of impatience , and kindle those of tolerance in younger people , for ‘ Granny 's old stories ’ . |
| 8 | All this is designed to tantalise — as soon as I ask if any of this can go on the record , he clams up . |
| 9 | The converse of this can apply if your table heights are at different levels . |
| 10 | All of this can come as no surprise , since one of the greatest difficulties which confronts the medical legal commentator in dealing with the treatment of the terminally ill is that techniques and technology have developed and changed with such rapidity in the past decade or so that it is only vaguely that the problems are perceived , let alone responded to by developing a general consensus in the form of law . |
| 11 | To show enthusiasm for a glance with them through the pages of old photograph albums , can often give immense pleasure ; and half an hour spent like this can mean more to them than a whole evening of television , for they are warmed by memories of happier days . |
| 12 | A real injury crisis like this can devalue the game . |
| 13 | When combined with the need to acclimatise to life at 3,000m ( at Breckenridge or Copper Mountain , for example ) , the after-effects of a journey like this can eat into precious holiday time . |
| 14 | ‘ A boat like this can carry a lot of food and drink . ’ |
| 15 | Even a large ship like this can become claustrophobic if you do n't get away once in a while , ’ said Lindsey . |
| 16 | ( Nobody knows the exact date , which is probably just as well : to categorize a house like this can take away some of its romance . ) |
| 17 | They may pick on a teacher 's mannerisms , dress , or accent and discussion of something like this can dominate a session . |
| 18 | You will realise that words of comfort like this can solve no problems for her ; they can do no more than bathe the wound she has sustained , but she will be badly in need of something to cling on to and because they are spoken by someone who loves her they may be exactly what she wants to hear when she is trying to reassemble herself and face the future . |
| 19 | A Health and Safety Executive spokesman said : ‘ Research like this can help us take steps to reduce the risk of a mistake being made that could have catastrophic consequences . ’ |
| 20 | All kinds of little situations like this can cause enormous problems , so having a bit of extra muscle-power will insure us against possible injury . |
| 21 | Later I saw the degree of animation which videos like this can stimulate among activists . |
| 22 | A pistol like this can hit somewhere near its target . |
| 23 | The SAD working group suggested that the development of options depended on clarification of the responsibilities between health Boards and local authorities — perhaps we have to await Griffiths and the NHS Review before this can happen conclusively . |
| 24 | If there were no damage to the bones there should be exact correspondence between the numbers of major limb bone elements like humerus and femur and numbers of mandibles and maxillae , and departure from this can arise from preferential damage to or selection against either group . |
| 25 | Bet the bloke listening to this can hear it smell it . |
| 26 | Something similar to this can happen in discussion if a speaker does not want to let another interrupt . |