Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] which can [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Male homosexuals in a large number of cases , says Freud , do not give up the mother and find another woman as sexual object , but they identify with their mother : ‘ he transforms himself into her and now looks about for objects which can replace his ego for him and on which he can bestow such love and care as he has experienced with his mother ’ . |
| 2 | Erm , how much flexibility do we have if there is a sudden epidemic , if flu virus for instance which can make a tremendous intake or , or people requiring care . |
| 3 | The search for animals which can identify kin has now led to the discovery that honey bees discriminate between full and half sisters . |
| 4 | A class inter is also defined , for elements such as lists which can appear either within or between chunk elements . |
| 5 | Equally at home with highbrow or no-brow cinema , Kael is unapologetic about feeding a sweet tooth for vulgarity which can seem incongruous in the New Yorker 's staid pages . |
| 6 | It is also the location for equipment which can link the islands of Westray , Stronsay , Sanday , Hoy , Papa Westray and Rousay with Kirkwall and Stromness , or even Aberdeen , for interactive lectures , tutorials or lessons . |
| 7 | Despite their differences , however , both initiatives are associated with an increasing interest in modular-based curriculum provision , and with forms of assessment which can take into account the wide range of outcomes they are designed to achieve . |
| 8 | In other words , to the extent that Christianity is seen as providing a source of values which can legitimise the market economy , those same values undermine the assumptions from which a humanistic defence of the market economy starts . |
| 9 | To sum up this section , we can say that the first phrase of a theme may be followed by a second phrase to make a complete sentence , either through exact repetition , or by various degrees of change which can extend to the introduction of completely new material . |
| 10 | It is the major reason why there is a discrepancy between the sets of adjectives which can appear in attributive and predicative positions ( other reasons appear in later chapters ) . |
| 11 | Other world-wide eustatic causes of sea level change include sedimentary infilling of ocean basins which could give a sea level rise of 4 mm/100 years equivalent to 40 m in a million years ( Higgins , 1965 ) ; orogenic eustasy whereby orogenic uplift creates ocean basins of different size ; geoidal eustasy whereby the ocean surface reflects the variations in the geoid surface due to the earth 's irregular distribution of mass which can give a difference between lows and highs of as much as 180 m . |
| 12 | Capitalist industrialisation in the periphery , often because of transnationals which can import sophisticated technology , has not been able fully to absorb all the labour available . |
| 13 | British Telecom produced evidence which differed from that of the Ministry of Defence and which clearly highlighted the fundamental conflict of views which can occur in such a merger . |
| 14 | Sometimes our resistance to the idea of dependence leads us to a degree of enthusiasm which can impair our judgement about need . |
| 15 | LEFT Iron objects are best drawn with the aid of X-rays which can give the shape and form of an object under the corrosion . |
| 16 | MEDICAL students are falling ill because of debts which can top £8,000 . |
| 17 | Although population pressure is the most common attribute of these peasantries and pastoralists , there are many cases where declines in population through outmigration or apocalyptic disasters ( e.g. Latin America during and after the Spanish Conquest , Boserup 1965 : 62–63 ) have led to a coarsening of agricultural technology , a labour-saving cropping pattern , and an allocation of labour which can encourage soil erosion ( e.g. Bunyard 1980 for Palestine ) . |
| 18 | There is also a large group of words which can refer to either sex — words like driver and friend ; they are said to have ‘ common gender ’ , and the question of concord is decided in each specific instance ( that is , driver will sometimes be she , other times he ; there is also the problem of the unspecified , generic driver , the appropriate pronoun for whom is a major linguistic headache for today 's speakers ) . |
| 19 | Statistical methods of analysing the large amounts of data which can arise from such studies are at present inadequate . |
| 20 | There is a carefully defined hierarchy of offices which can provide the organisation with continuity via recruitment from below . |
| 21 | The kind of tactic which can work here is this : the adventurers bluff , say they 've left their invitation behind , retire downstairs , write an invitation , and seal the paper or vellum with an impressive wax seal which they then flourish at the Homunculi . |
| 22 | A difficulty is that psychology has narrow terms of reference which can give only a few useful results , for example on the question of illusion . |
| 23 | Reorganisation of classes so that they contain children of more than one age range , changes in swimming or peripatetic music provision are typical of matters which can generate a great deal of heat . |
| 24 | The catalogue of errors which can produce this effect is broad , encompassing taking account of irrelevant considerations , failing to take account of relevant considerations , acting for improper purposes , asking itself the wrong question , and acting in breach of natural justice . |
| 25 | And it is this spirit of competitiveness which can cause a link to be forged between the " categorical assertions " of religions and the dark side of religion . |
| 26 | disciplinary rules and procedures and the types of circumstances which can lead to suspension or dismissal ; |
| 27 | Maintain an awareness of circumstances which can affect standards of care and act accordingly . |
| 28 | It considers , in very broad terms , the variety of circumstances which can cause a change of dependence/independence status for the AL of maintaining a safe environment . |
| 29 | Generally speaking , there are certain well-recognised ways of dancing which can serve as a basis . |
| 30 | The following is a specimen layout for a typical bill of exchange although there are many different styles of exchange which can satisfy the definition given above . |