Example sentences of "[adj] [that] a [noun sg] can " in BNC.
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| 1 | Paragraph 2.9 of the Code of Practice to the Act makes it clear that a person can be detained on the basis of a known history of mental illness following non-compliance with medication . |
| 2 | From these , it is clear that a buyer can be owner of the goods even though he has not paid for them and even though they remain in the seller 's possession . |
| 3 | However , it is clear that a mistake can relate to two quite different types of circumstance , namely circumstances qualified by mens rea and circumstances not qualified by mens rea . |
| 4 | It is clear that a gift can amount to a potentially exempt transfer if it is an outright gift to an individual or it is a gift to an accumulation and maintenance trust or indeed it is a gift to a trust under which the beneficiary has an interest in possession . |
| 5 | Whilst it is clear that an employee can not be prevented from using his general skill and knowledge once employment is over , there has been some doubt until recently as to whether the employer could exert any control over such use during employment or whether the law would imply such control . |
| 6 | I had literally had everything possible that a judge can give you . |
| 7 | It can not in our judgment be right that a judge can refuse to allow the prosecution to discontinue before their case is concluded if he believes the evidence already called raises a prima facie case . |
| 8 | It 's ironic that a prostitute can get a hotel room by bribing someone but if you 're a respectable woman you are likely to be arrested if you even try to get through the front door . |
| 9 | Organisations are reassessing their priorities , says Price Waterhouse consultant Nick Cherrie , and , if they are not convinced that a project can offer a quantifiable and speedy payback , they are likely to shelve it . |
| 10 | He concludes : ‘ I am very sad that a friend can only write to another friend through a third country because of the border that separates us . ’ |
| 11 | I find it frightening that an artist can sign with a gallery for five years . |
| 12 | The power of the microcomputer , with its television screen , in affecting the classroom situation is such that it is less likely that a teacher can bend a unit away from its designer 's intentions towards his own style and purpose than is the case with printed material . |
| 13 | Only where under-provision has resulted in really serious deficiencies is it likely that a librarian can argue successfully for extra funding to put the balance right . |
| 14 | It is quite easy to see , intuitively , that a crack is a nasty dangerous thing to have about the house but it is by no means so obvious that a step can cause a bad stress concentration . |
| 15 | Ministers are , significantly , confident that an upturn can be achieved in good time before the next election . |
| 16 | In the last resort all that a test can give is a relation between two or more quantities such as load , displacement , time and temperature from which it is inferred that this is the general relation connecting these quantities throughout the body , for the assumption of such a general relation is at the basis of elasticity theory and continuum mechanics . |
| 17 | The Hybrid Tea ( abbreviated to H.T. ) is the type most gardeners regard as the epitome of all that a rose can and should be . |
| 18 | Reserve police in the RUC wear the same uniform , for all that an outsider can distinguish , and as a consequence face the same security risks , but most are marginalized by the restricted range of duties they perform and the short-term status of their contract . |
| 19 | A bank is concerned that a loan can be serviced throughout its term , even although fundamental changes might take place in the political system of the country in which the borrower is resident . |
| 20 | In the same way as discussed in section 3.1 that a plane can be found which is tangential to a curved two dimensional surface , a Minkowski space can always be found to match space–time locally . |
| 21 | She said that she 's shocked that an organisation can behave this way . |
| 22 | It is essential that a transmitter can be inactivated as soon as it has conveyed its message ; if it were not so , the system would be clogged or would receive needless repetitions of the same message . |
| 23 | Lavishing so much care on the offspring , cherishing them until they are well advanced in their growth , inevitably reduces the number of young that a female can produce . |
| 24 | However , it will presumably be rare that a business can be held not to be acting in the course of business if it sells goods on its standard terms . |
| 25 | The resemblance is so close that a human can easily mistake the new song for the sound of a trimphone . |
| 26 | The best that a practitioner can do is to have regard to the sort of multiplier which has in the past been adopted by judges in similar circumstances to those with which he is concerned . |
| 27 | We are keenly aware that a University can seem a large and forbidding place to those on the outside . |
| 28 | The most that a strategy can realistically hope to win in an average one of its 1 5 pairings can not be much more than 600 points . |
| 29 | The most that a strategy can realistically hope to win in an average one of its 15 pairings can not be much more than 600 points . |