Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [Wh det] can " in BNC.
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| 1 | Taking their cue from quantum physics , Allen and Starr theorise only about what can be known , not about what ‘ exists ’ . |
| 2 | They also review the history of the main hypotheses of atherogenesis : response to injury , lipid infiltration , monoclonal smooth muscle proliferation , thrombogenic ‘ encrustation ’ , and autoimmunity , but they weave these together into what can fairly be called a consensus view . |
| 3 | Indeed , so firmly did they reject the view that adults should be given the right to choose their own cinema entertainment — ‘ whatever turns you on ’ , as the saying went — that their Report marked the beginning of a historic swing of the pendulum away from what can now be seen as the libertarian heyday of British media law . |
| 4 | One member followed me around all day abusing me verbally with what can only be called dirty talk . |
| 5 | In Britain , American experience is commonly cited as setting a precedent both for what can be done and for the policy strategies necessary for success . |
| 6 | They range also from what can be seen , simply , as the ‘ translation ’ of ‘ ideology ’ into directly sensuous material , to what is better seen , in terms of the physical and material processes of art work , as production of a distinct and general kind . |
| 7 | Rates of interest offered to investors by building societies are coming down and in some cases are now below what can be obtained elsewhere . |
| 8 | My view , which locates racism in the core of politics , contrasts sharply with what can be called the coat-of-paint theory of racism ( Gilroy , 1987 ) . |
| 9 | What you did went far beyond what can be acceptable to the rule of law . |
| 10 | Let us look now at what can happen when the ‘ top-down ’ view that children should learn to ‘ predict their way through a text ’ — is put into action with children whose reading has fallen behind even average expectation . |
| 11 | This is well below what can be obtained from building societies . |
| 12 | Although I 'm strongly against what can only be described as the ‘ bastardisation ’ of a property , a little out-of-keeping decor is often unavoidable unless you restrict yourself to a very limited range of choice . |
| 13 | A seven-year-old lovable imp turned overnight into what can only be described as a ‘ demon ’ . |
| 14 | The exercise of decomposing the system models will aid this process , progressively bringing the systems ideas closer to what can be observed in practice ; imaginative use of unsophisticated computer software can also help , particularly where the level of detail makes manual analysis impracticable ; simple matrices similar to those employed to good effect in many of the studies described in this book can also be of benefit ; not forgetting , of course , the significant value of discussing ideas with experienced staff from the organisation being studied . |