Example sentences of "what can " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the nurses rings back , discusses the situation and says she will ring the hospital and/or his GP to see what can be done . |
| 2 | What can your church do ? |
| 3 | What can be deduced from a self-portrait is often controversial ; a critic is especially likely to read into a self-portrait some opinion held about the artist . |
| 4 | The modes which he adopted were such as to licence elisions and lacunae , to enable him to leave out bits of his life — a procedure which would seem to be connected with his scepticism about what can be known about people by biographers . |
| 5 | So , what can you learn from looking so closely at the actor on stage , TV and cinema ? |
| 6 | So what can we do ? |
| 7 | Out of that what can come ? |
| 8 | ‘ What can we do to persuade you to stay ? ’ the headmaster asked . |
| 9 | ‘ In court it would have been his word against mine , so what can you do ? |
| 10 | The atmosphere 's a bit tense , understandably — listen , what can I do for you ? ’ |
| 11 | If I think I have shingles what can I do ? |
| 12 | What can I do to avoid catching head lice ? |
| 13 | what can I do about it ? |
| 14 | It is surprising what can be achieved in an old and complex building to provide for disabled people and also how much the internal and external architecture can benefit from the refurbishment that the opportunities of converting a building for disabled access can provide . |
| 15 | But if attempts to produce this concrete research are doomed to neglect or derision or to be defined as ‘ espionage ’ , then what can be achieved ? |
| 16 | for it is difficult to see how the native could have any interest in the project of unveiling what can go on existing only if it remains veiled . |
| 17 | The squad I ran became what can only be described as more ‘ disordered ’ and ‘ polluted ’ than had been the accepted norm , and we exhibited many verbal and nonverbal signals of this divergent nature . |
| 18 | ‘ What can the lairds be frightened of ? ’ asked Menzies innocently . |
| 19 | So what can we say about these ‘ representations ’ ? |
| 20 | But Fodor goes on to argue that much of what can be said about reflexes can also be said about processes which we would normally regard as ‘ cognitive ’ rather than ‘ neurological ’ or ‘ behavioural ’ : the parsing of heard sentences , for example . |
| 21 | What can I say in answer to this charge of irrelevance ? |
| 22 | The philosopher Mark Johnson has recently produced what can only be called a constructivist account of linguistic meaning and reasoning . |
| 23 | What can she please her with ? |
| 24 | ‘ What can I do with the sun ? ’ |
| 25 | ‘ What can I do with the sun ? |
| 26 | So what can that be ? |
| 27 | What can the social services department do to help ? |
| 28 | Two contrasting examples of what can happen when music is borrowed are Tomassini 's arrangement of Scarlatti 's sparkling music for Massine 's The Good-Humoured Ladies and the arrangement of the same composer 's music for Cranko 's The Taming of the Shrew which merely gives overall and rough phrase rhythms as time-keepers for a three-act ballet . |
| 29 | He based the latter on his research into Victorian and Edwardian ‘ salon ’ music and showed what can be done by looking into such highways and byways of music when a particular period atmosphere is needed . |
| 30 | Choreographers however should avoid what can be called a purely technical analysis of the music by matching particular patterns of steps to particular musical phrases whenever they appear . |