Example sentences of "can a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is a prior question : can a European Union committed to maintaining an agricultural policy whose size is historically specified also realistically hope to compete will all comers in advanced technology ? |
| 2 | Can a non-printing font be defined ( for operator 's notes , etc. ) and displayed ? |
| 3 | A second , related problem is that business ethics has mostly concerned itself with grand theorising , trying to answer questions such as ‘ Is capitalism ethically justifiable ? ’ and ‘ Can a profitable business ever be ethical ? ’ . |
| 4 | Only through manual addition of the syntactic and semantic information can a suitable lexicon be achieved . |
| 5 | How can a young man buy an island ? |
| 6 | What good can a tied inspectorate do ? |
| 7 | Flow can a causal succession be established between them ? |
| 8 | How can a complex institution like a prison be judged ? |
| 9 | Yet how can a certain number of equations account for the complexity and trivial detail that we see around us ? |
| 10 | It aroused a lot of opposition initially because it upset the existing viewpoint : " How can a black hole emit anything ? " |
| 11 | Well , can a better system be devised ? |
| 12 | Can a new floorcovering be laid over quarry tiles ? |
| 13 | Consideration of threats — ; what is the competition doing , are some markets closing ? — and opportunities — are new components now available , can a new product create its own market ? — together with company capabilities , result in an R&D strategy and plan which corresponds to the 3 , 4 , 5 loop in the company strategic plan . |
| 14 | The Sword Masters are so superlatively trained that they can wield these mighty swords as fast as an ordinary warrior can a normal sword . |
| 15 | Certainly this freedom is obtained when using graphics terminals or playing computer games with their trackballs and joysticks but how can a serious user benefit ? |
| 16 | 13.13.3 Can a serious breach be shown ? |
| 17 | Can a turn-off situation be redeemed ? |
| 18 | How can a belted knight speak for us ? |
| 19 | How , then , can a poor country maximize its benefits from such projects ? |
| 20 | So what can a poor boy do ? |
| 21 | How can a poor mother keep the bottle ( waiting for the unknown diarrhoea episode ) when she can get cabbage or tomatoes with that money ? |
| 22 | Feeling there was a gap in the market between what was good advice on skin care and what the public was being given , she interviewed leading New York dermatologists and wrote a very honest feature entitled ‘ Can a Great Skin be Created ? ’ |
| 23 | Kermit Lynch , Adventures on the Wine Route How can a rare bottle of wine fetch the price of the great work of art ? |
| 24 | Can a major part of a church be demolished without consent on the grounds that part of it remains in ecclesiastical use ? |
| 25 | The question is can a small shareholder do anything for Rushdie , am I doing damage for Pearson ? |
| 26 | Even the House of Commons Select Committee on Energy , reporting on the PWR in 1981 , said that ‘ all reactor types require regular inspection , but to the best of our understanding , in none of the others can a small failure in the inspection procedure lead directly to the risk of a major emergency or accident … ’ |
| 27 | I know Range Rover diffs can be fitted , but can a five speed Range Rover box be used with this engine ? |
| 28 | Only when this phase has been completed , and perhaps only for a relatively brief period at the height of a crisis , can a second phase of overt conflict between proletarians and capitalists become manifest ( Przeworski , 1977 ) . |
| 29 | Secondly , can a naturalized epistemology provide the perspicuous self-conscious understanding of inquiry which we saw , in the last section , to lie behind some traditional theorizing — can he cope with normative issues and questions of justification ? |
| 30 | The fact that this is an open question is obviously related to our earlier open question : can a standard route to chaos always be identified in transition to turbulence ? and |