Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] can [vb infin] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A family member who is addicted to " fixing " others and being a caretaker for them can hinder the chances or primary sufferers finding progress or recovery for themselves . |
| 2 | That children who experience a level of difficulty in learning significant enough for a Record of Needs to have been opened up for them can learn a foreign language within a special school setting . |
| 3 | CONGRATULATIONS to the Department of Health and the Ministry of Agriculture , Fisheries and Food , for proving the law that if one department is capable of one stupid press release , two between them can raise the stupidity by an order of magnitude . |
| 4 | Although there is no animosity between the players , most of whom can see the benefits of joining forces , there remains a strong rivalry between those few people in either camp who have resisted amalgamation . |
| 5 | There is a captive audience , most of whom can understand the relevance of the message , and many are prepared to participate as they await their flight . |
| 6 | The crackling of a fire , the dawn chorus of the birds , the sound of waves upon the shore ; most of these go unnoticed and yet each of them can give a great deal of pleasure if we could only learn to become aware of them . |
| 7 | In a normal conversation , the people involved are of equal status , and any one of them can change the topic under discussion or introduce new points . |
| 8 | The conditions for perfect competition are that : ( a ) there should be many small firms producing identical products ( so that no individual firm can influence the price of the product or the wage rate ) ; ( b ) there should be many individual workers ( so that no one of them can influence the wage rate ) ; ( c ) there should be perfect mobility of all factors of production ; ( d ) all labour and jobs should be homogeneous ; ( e ) there should be perfect information on the part of all buyers and sellers ; ( f ) wages and prices should be perfectly flexible , upwards and downwards . |
| 9 | Seven of them use wheelchairs and so staff need to raise an extra £4,000 so twelve of them can accompany the residents , who are paying their own way . |
| 10 | A defect in any of them can disturb the balance of the whole system , and the use of the right drug to restore balance had evident possibilities , if the right drugs could be discovered or invented . |
| 11 | But neither of them can match the pungency of the original , an atmosphere of beaujolais , cigars and malevolence , and of political or legal plots being brewed in the all-night brasseries of Les Halles . |
| 12 | If there are many siblings who must compete for the mother 's favours , and if no one of them can exclude the others , each will probably demand equality as the next best thing to preference , and most definitely as the best way of preventing the preference of others . |
| 13 | So loud are these calls that a single insect can be heard half a kilometre away and a chorus of them can set a whole forest ringing and echoing . |
| 14 | Similarly , there are a number of actors who specialize in doing the commentary or ‘ voice over ’ on commercials : some of them can do a variety of voices and accents very convincingly , but others become extremely recognizable and , in effect , boringly over-exposed . |
| 15 | Any one of these subsidiary factors may be sufficiently important to render a farm unsuitable , but no combination of them can make a viable farm if the land has insufficient potential . |
| 16 | Spiders are close relatives of scorpions and many of them can deliver a painful bite . |
| 17 | Jasper Carrott and Phil Cool : Middlesbrough Town Hall It is always good to see big-name comedy acts reaching the North-East other than in Newcastle , more especially when there are two such acts and both of them can keep a crowd laughing all evening . |
| 18 | There may be many reasons why a patient under hypnosis is able to experience past-life regression ( or , as the doubters might call it , ‘ flights of fancy ’ ) , but any of them can play a significant part in the overcoming of that patient 's particular problem . |
| 19 | Lack of them can produce a number of illnesses . |
| 20 | There is now considerable knowledge from research in the behavioural sciences about body or non-verbal language , use of which can enrich the AL of communicating . |
| 21 | This will be seen in chapter 8 , particularly in relation to accessibility to cultural , educational , information and social services , the improvement of which can enhance the quality of life for rural residents . |
| 22 | But even a craft workshop can require car-parks , loading bays and improved access , all of which can change the character of the place as much as a residential conversion . |
| 23 | Most classrooms have a wealth of materials such as sand , clay and wood , and make collections of natural things like shells , leaves and pebbles , all of which can form the basis of much free play and experiment . |
| 24 | For example , periods of ill-health , retirement , changes in family circumstances or bereavement , all of which can trigger a range of personal , physical and social consequences — such as an increased need for support . |
| 25 | For example , scar tissue may form or there may be a disturbance to the blood supply , both of which can affect the working of adjacent regions . |
| 26 | Once we have definable categories of patients , each of which can have a defined treatment regime , it then becomes a fairly straightforward task to build up a defined treatment cost . |
| 27 | Those who have not tried to sell — and particularly sell in a highly competitive market where there are very large contracts , the possession or loss of which can have a fatal effect on one 's whole business — do not know how testing it is of courage and nerve . |
| 28 | It is salutary to be reminded that in many situations and many respects society is not simply divisible into two parts , the majority and the minority , but is in fact a conglomeration of minorities , none of which can have a democratic claim to dominate , and which must therefore learn to live with each other . |
| 29 | What seems clear from the above analysis is that local authorities operate within a wider political system incorporating a range of national organizations and institutions , all of which can have a direct effect upon local government . |
| 30 | A useful feature divides the working area into multiple screens , each of which can display a selected part of the main drawing at any level of magnification . |