Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] what can [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are given as an indication of what can happen and a suggestion of some of the ways in which similar ideas might be explored by different children in different circumstances . |
| 2 | Doctors at the National Epilepsy centre at the Park hospital in Oxford carry out research into what can trigger epileptic fits . |
| 3 | Citizens ' Advice Bureaux can also put compulsive spenders in touch with debt counsellors , who are able to assess their clients ' finances and thus establish an escape from what can feel like a financial swamp . |
| 4 | One example of access to certain parts of the British census of 1971 ( Schürer 1993 ) is a reminder of what can happen in the most favourable environments , whilst the account of the situation of Soviet and Russian data indicates how dependent electronic data is upon organizational structures ( Moiseenko 1993 ) . |
| 5 | Handpumps provide the classic example of what can go wrong . |
| 6 | The Ivory Coast is a fearful example of what can result from full scale exploitation . |
| 7 | This is but one example of what can happen . |
| 8 | BELGIUM LAST WEEK John Major pointed to Belgium as a cautionary tale of what can happen under PR . |
| 9 | A new theory on what can cause childhood leukaemia was covered by several newspapers including the Times which said the Health Department was considering changing its advice ‘ in the light of evidence that injections of vitamin K , given to half the babies born in Britain , may increase the risk of leukaemia ’ . |
| 10 | This account of how aircraft accident investigations are conducted , or should be conducted , in the field is necessarily only a brief outline of what can take place and does not include much of the work that goes on when the wreckage is examined in detail in a hangar , or in the case of AIB at their substantial facility at Farnborough . |
| 11 | It 's a warning of what can happen to me if we have five years of a Labour Government . |
| 12 | Concern for people requires an understanding of what will motivate individuals to work harder and more effectively , and also an understanding of what can make a work group as a whole improve its motivation and norms of working . |
| 13 | Some of the personalities themselves have provided unhappy proof of what can happen when stress and temptation take over where the much-publicised diet leaves off , while the thousands — sometimes millions — who bought their books have come to realise that the Hollywood way to fitness is a career in itself , a course in self-absorption and physical management that only those who are paid to pursue it can afford , either in terms of time or money . |
| 14 | Some months later I got a cheque for six hundred dollars — apparently a programme in America had done a feature on what can happen when you ask a stupid question and that was my fee for being included . |