Example sentences of "can have [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What seems to happen there is the bird that 's deserted has to stay with the existing family because if he or she erm deserts , those chicks will , will , will die , so er it 's what is sometimes called the Concorde fallacy that if you put a lot of resources into something , you 've got ta see it through , because if you pull out just before the end you can lose everything , whereas i if , if you stay on even if you know it 's a failure , erm at least you may get something out of it , so the , in that case wi with monogamous birds the parent that 's deserted the one that 's left may have to stay , because if they desert then they can have no reproductive success whatsoever whereas at least if they stay they get something . |
| 2 | It can have no practical effect and will only divert attention from where it should be pressed by those who feel strongly about it . |
| 3 | That way I can have no possible access to the receiver . |
| 4 | Moreover , the fund of 300 million is being provided for the purposes of compensating the owner of land for this reduced value … therefore the owner of land can have no possible claim to any part of the development value and it is logical and right that the State should , where development takes place , make a charge which represents the amount of the development value . |
| 5 | It is clear that this can have no retrospective effect on the actual forms of association , but it can have important other effects , since in presenting the history of philosophy or painting in this way it suggests forms of identification or association to new contributors . |
| 6 | It is ‘ manifestly impossible there should be any such idea ’ , for we can have no sensory experience of spirits . |
| 7 | His reply is that we have no idea of material substance because matter is an impossibility and could not exist ; whereas , though we can have no sensory idea of spiritual substance , minds are not an impossibility and could exist . |
| 8 | Both expressions embody the notion of an adverse unilateral act done to the prejudice of the owner and without his authority ; indeed , fraudulent conversion can have no other meaning . |
| 9 | Moreover , we can have no theory-independent way of describing the world . |
| 10 | And was Simone de Beauvoir ( 1972 ) justified in believing that , because women ‘ live dispersed among the males , attached through residence , housework , economic condition , and social standing to certain men — fathers or husbands — more firmly than they are to other women ’ , they can have no common identity or history ? |
| 11 | This is clearly a matter for moral or political evaluation and can have no objective answer . |
| 12 | The problem will then return to the Government 's desk , and I hope it will then accept that the country can have no more universities , and no more university places , than it can afford . |
| 13 | If they are really separate from each other , what happens in another universe can have no observable consequences in our own universe . |
| 14 | If we have no intimate relationship with God , then we can have no true intimacy within marriage either . |
| 15 | Without God as the supreme expression of goodness , love and personhood , human beings can have no true exaltation or dignity . |
| 16 | Perhaps one can have a personal ioniser that clips on the lapel or the belt . |
| 17 | Excitable children can have a similar effect , and so they may also have to be shown how to behave towards a puppy . |
| 18 | Short translation exercises can have a similar function : e.g. Student A translates a paragraph from L1 into L2 . |
| 19 | That 's why you can have a hundred dollars . ’ |
| 20 | It may well be that if you set the penalties so high , and if you can have a hundred per cent detection , then there may well be a deterrent element in these crimes , but basically the law is clearing up a mess , and the mess has occurred , and then the law comes along and does the best it can . |
| 21 | Melanin producing cells in our bodies are activated by ultraviolet light from the sun and can have a protective effect . |
| 22 | It may be that only when key supportive figures are lacking , or have been lost , that others in the wider social network ( the health visitor , ‘ befriender ’ or social worker ) can have a protective effect . |
| 23 | Established players like David Gower have learned to their cost that crossing Gooch can have a deadly effect on an England career . |
| 24 | Most are no larger than the palm of a man 's hand , but even spiders this small can have a deadly poisonous bite . |
| 25 | Aid can have a knock-on effect in neighbouring countries which are also in great need . |
| 26 | I can have a bloody big bag in front of me |
| 27 | The college is taking on extra staff to make sure that anyone who visits or telephones the college can have a confidential chat with adult education experts every day next week . |
| 28 | And for all pupils , a ‘ core curriculum ’ has been introduced , ensuring that all children can have a thorough grounding in the most important subjects . |
| 29 | By denying that we could empirically identify the linguistic framework employed by other agents ( or , indeed by ourselves ) , Quine challenged the claim that we can have a substantive prior conception of truth which can be used to formulate questions for transcendental reflection . |
| 30 | It is salutary to be reminded that in many situations and many respects society is not simply divisible into two parts , the majority and the minority , but is in fact a conglomeration of minorities , none of which can have a democratic claim to dominate , and which must therefore learn to live with each other . |