Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [Wh det] [pers pn] 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 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 .
3 Some cretins like Pybus are only in football for what they can get out of it .
4 It has spiracles along its side through which it can breathe , but it neither feeds nor excretes .
5 Magic : it lubricates the gap between what we can see and understand , and what unhappy feelings haunt our dreams .
6 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 . ’
7 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 .
8 Both of them want to be close and both need to repair their inner confusion about what they can allow themselves .
9 ‘ Maybe if I played with another side I 'd get more recognition for what I can do .
10 Filling in the two charts on page 32 gives the best indication of what you can afford .
11 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 .
12 Perhaps the slightest pleasure of which I can conceive is that of sucking a boiled sweet .
13 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 .
14 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 .
15 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 .
16 High oxygen levels are not important , for the fish has an air bladder with which it can breathe air .
17 You 'll receive a distinctive personalised Club card with which you can claim you Air Miles at participating Shell Stations .
18 He puts forward the concept of the ‘ eye-beam ’ as an instrument of perception with which we can actually touch and feel objects :
19 Thus in this linking process , the teacher requires flexibility to help pupils build links at a speed with which they can cope .
20 All such options need to be examined for their effectiveness in reducing emissions so as to achieve air quality standards , as well as for their technical and economic feasibility , the speed with which they can be implemented , and their enforceability .
21 Earls Court made a successful return to hosting seated events last year , in a move made possible by new developments in demountable seating and the speed with which they can be constructed and dismantled .
22 Proud of the speed with which it can run Windows 3.1 applications on Sparc systems using its SunPC hardware and software combination , SunSelect vice president and general manager Carl Ledbetter could still not resist speculating that future technology for running PC applications from Sun would ‘ go way beyond the current generation , without the need for a card ’ .
23 Advances in computer technology have improved the possibilities for the amount of information that can be stored , the speed with which it can be retrieved , the level of sophistication of information analysis and the simulation of future possibilities .
24 There is no biographical key with which it can be unlocked — and I have not been trying to turn one in this essay of mine , which does not believe it , for that matter , to be locked .
25 Because language appears such a natural instrument with which we can describe reality , its terms and expressions seem to describe the way things are and will always be .
26 These include a heated swimming pool , sauna and solarium , crazy golf , Exmoor club in which you can enjoy free entertainment , a shop and ‘ Country Kitchen ’ restaurant , launderette , good bar food and take away meals .
27 For a programme in which you can devote six hours a day to language learning , Brewster and Brewster suggest the following amounts of time on each phrase : In your daily programme you may experience two reactions — boredom or frustration .
28 However , unlike definitions , there is no convenient repository from which they can be instantly extracted .
29 The Duke turned Friar in Measure for Measure cultivates at least two different prose-styles , a plain and business-like one for his benevolent deceptions , and that of a moralist disappointed with the world — a persona within which he can also rise to more serious denunciatory verse as the occasion warrants ( for verse within this prose role see III.ii. 19–39 ; 261–82 ; IV.ii. 108–13 ) .
30 If the car is low to the ground , it is likely to be extremely difficult for the patient to get in and out , so you might try using a car in which you can raise and lower the suspension .
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