Example sentences of "[det] [prep] this can [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . " |
| 2 | 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 ? ’ |
| 3 | Large organisations such as this can impose such a bar , but domestic customers can not , nor should they be expected to do so . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | All this is designed to tantalise — as soon as I ask if any of this can go on the record , he clams up . |