Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [pron] [pron] can " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thirdly , the obligation to pay loan interest on the due dates creates an immediate debt between the company and the loan stock holder for which he can sue , whereas a preference dividend does not become a debt until it is declared and due . |
| 2 | The second was the enthusiasm for something which can be — depending on the individual — a love of wisdom ( philosophy ) , the English ( anglophile ) , or postage stamps ( philatelist ) . |
| 3 | ( This implies of course that consciousness in animals is a hypothesis for which there can be no evidence at all unless we resort to anthropomorphism , which we usually do . ) |
| 4 | As soon as it is over and both males are exhausted they have a brief opportunity during which they can launch an attack and win the harem from both of them , and this has been seen to happen . |
| 5 | Second , it easily misrepresents religion as something which can be neatly packaged up in sections . |
| 6 | Some cretins like Pybus are only in football for what they can get out of it . |
| 7 | They see labour as something which can be bought and sold and , for them , that is all there is to it ; when they use that idea of labour they are unaware of and unconcerned with what has caused it . |
| 8 | It has spiracles along its side through which it can breathe , but it neither feeds nor excretes . |
| 9 | Magic : it lubricates the gap between what we can see and understand , and what unhappy feelings haunt our dreams . |
| 10 | I 'll get you some sandwiches and some more tea and once you 've eaten we can get down to some practical thinking about what you can do next . ’ |
| 11 | The problems lie in the presupposition that moral duty is an absolute rule in the sense of a rule for which there can be no exceptions . |
| 12 | Certain moral considerations are involved in his actions , yet they are not absolute in the sense that they are an infallible guide to conduct , or constitute a rule for which there can be no exception . |
| 13 | One of the key benefits of the move will be to give Enterprise Training access to a professional marketing department through which it can promote awareness of its services to employers . |
| 14 | Well erm you see although I learned shorthand and typing it was better money and that was the reason I had to do it , I 've passed my exams in shorthand but er probably there were n't enough offices then to employ a good many clerks , but erm they er it was a very big fellow who used to ring the bell and the bell was on the outside , he was named Tom but I ca n't for the life of me think erm what his other name was but , erm it used to put the fear through us I can tell you if we were around the corner and we heard that bell ringing but erm they , they were a good firm to work for and , but they were strict but everywhere was strict in those days , we had to accept it but it was a long long hours , but erm they knew I had some , I , I enjoyed it and I 'd go back again only I 'm too old . |
| 15 | Then it is also objected that utilitarian thinking , which has reached its apotheosis in modern cost benefit analysis , regards all values as commensurable , and therefore thinks of every harm as something which can be compensated for , reaching , it is felt , particularly repellent extremes when the value of a human life is calculated as something to be set against the goods achieved by a motorway or by economy in safety precautions at a factory . |
| 16 | Both of them want to be close and both need to repair their inner confusion about what they can allow themselves . |
| 17 | ‘ Maybe if I played with another side I 'd get more recognition for what I can do . |
| 18 | yeah , no , not that we come back to that in a moment or to , I 'm just trying to see where this leads us though Mr , erm as a matter of legal analysis , erm y-y-y- your complaint , one particular one we 're talking about is that erm these standard , these are standard degrees which offend the competition rules now if it , if that 's right would not the consequence by erm across the ball , you 're saying you only , you only would render them invalid in so far as they happen to do any , happened to have done any particular name of , er that , I ca n't think , it did n't seem to be in any of the erm cases we 've looked at where the competition rules were applied , but that was a necessary condition if , if , if it 's that if it 's void , if people have suffered a loss as a result of it they can recover a lost , you do n't have to show a loss do you in order to , to , to be declared void |
| 19 | Filling in the two charts on page 32 gives the best indication of what you can afford . |
| 20 | Yet the effect of what you can play should be that you hear what Brahms wrote down , even if you do n't follow his notation absolutely to the dot . |
| 21 | Perhaps the slightest pleasure of which I can conceive is that of sucking a boiled sweet . |
| 22 | Nor is it simply looking at them with no further end in mind , which might be the listless action of someone who can think of nothing else to do . |
| 23 | Yet the final equation of what you can afford to spend on a new car is likely to be influenced by what you get for the old one . |
| 24 | These machines , which are comparatively new to the domestic market , have jog/shuttle dials with the aid of which you can rapidly pinpoint edits by playing the tapes back and forth at any speed you like from single-frame and slo-mo to five or more times faster than normal . |
| 25 | This applies to all disputes , but it is the territorial disputes with religious backgrounds that are causing so much suffering , and which so badly need a completely new criterion against which they can be judged . |
| 26 | ‘ With a figure like yours you can take anything you like , love , ’ said Dad jauntily . |
| 27 | High oxygen levels are not important , for the fish has an air bladder with which it can breathe air . |
| 28 | After nine years association with him he can still move me to tears , and other people in the Labour Party who might be more cynical than I am . ’ |
| 29 | You 'll receive a distinctive personalised Club card with which you can claim you Air Miles at participating Shell Stations . |
| 30 | He puts forward the concept of the ‘ eye-beam ’ as an instrument of perception with which we can actually touch and feel objects : |