Example sentences of "[det] [prep] [det] can [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the gold has been extracted from the crushed and ground rock , only about half of that can fit back into its original space . |
| 2 | Although the codes ( still voluntary ) have since been improved , the preface to them all still acknowledges that ‘ nearly all livestock husbandry systems impose restrictions on the stock and some of these can cause an unacceptable degree of discomfort or distress by preventing the animals from fulfilling their basic needs . ’ |
| 3 | It is amazing what damage a few of these can do to your plants . |
| 4 | The curtains at either end of the bed each has an embroidered design of a cherubic figure holding a golden trumpet ; each of these can fire off one Wind Blast spell per round . |
| 5 | Vehicle repairs and servicing may also be attached , as well as maintenance/carpenters ' workshops , and obviously each of these can have separate risks . |
| 6 | Each of these can mediate any or all of the others . |
| 7 | well subdued , a man finds a Lord such as few can find . |
| 8 | Conversations such as this can help children see the point : Penny : " I love giraffes — I love stroking them on my lap — I 'd love to have one for a pet . " |
| 9 | A comment such as this can indicate to a friend that the person is working out their grief very strongly but is still stuck on the question : ‘ Is he gone for ever or is n't he ? ’ |
| 10 | Large organisations such as this can impose such a bar , but domestic customers can not , nor should they be expected to do so . |
| 11 | Only a resolutely historical critical approach such as this can begin to do justice to the life and work of Paul Nizan , inextricably enmeshed as it is in the illusions , deceits , hopes , aspirations , successes and failures of its time . |
| 12 | Circumstances such as these can lead to real apprehension about returning to practice . |
| 13 | While forums such as these can take a community-wide approach , they rarely have executive power , being largely bodies for debate and comment . |
| 14 | If non-basic beliefs such as these can reduce the justification of basic beliefs , they can presumably also increase it , and in this case there would be the possibility that although our beliefs about our sensory states are always partially justified just because of their subject matter , they are never completely or satisfactorily justified unless there is confirming or at the least a lack of disconfirming evidence at the non-basic level . |
| 15 | Either of these can hinder an interview in a way which may be difficult to define after the event . |
| 16 | If all of that can combine to enable her to become that champion , that British champion , then never mind Spycatcher , the LTA will undoubtedly have pulled off … a very British coup . |
| 17 | All of this can come as no surprise , since one of the greatest difficulties which confronts the medical legal commentator in dealing with the treatment of the terminally ill is that techniques and technology have developed and changed with such rapidity in the past decade or so that it is only vaguely that the problems are perceived , let alone responded to by developing a general consensus in the form of law . |
| 18 | All of these can excite the mind , bring back lost memories . ’ |
| 19 | In our experience , all of these can flourish without throwing out Anglican distinctives . |
| 20 | All of these can interfere with the signal so that it can be misread . |
| 21 | electrical equipment generates positive ions and too many of these can result in irritability and depression . |
| 22 | I needed to remember that sea water is corrosive to a wide range of metals and the effects of corrosion on many of these can prove very toxic in a marine aquarium . |
| 23 | Scuba diving is a very complex sport and you are required to learn many aspects of the sport all of which are vital for example , pressure equalization , maintenance of equipment , assembling the equipment , nitrogen narcosis , decompression sickness and use of dive tables misunderstandig or neglecting any of these can result in very serious injuries or paralysis or even death you also learn practical skills like mask clearing to a timed diver low compass navigation must also be mastered and a theory and practical tests are undertaken to show you are competent at scuba diving . |
| 24 | All this is designed to tantalise — as soon as I ask if any of this can go on the record , he clams up . |