Example sentences of "can have [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The researches into medical education going on at places like Southampton and Dundee confirm that smaller adjustments to medical courses can have useful effects on how students learn .
2 I 'll put the water on so that I , I can have hot water on my head .
3 You can elaborate the scheme so that the electricity can be produced when the water is both flowing in and flowing out , and you can have extra divisions to ensure that electricity can be produced at all hours of the day or night , regardless of the condition of the tide .
4 ‘ I can have dirty hands if I like .
5 Vitamins in large quantities can have certain tonic effects .
6 You can have first-rate candidates , experienced political and communications professionals and all the sophisticated equipment money can buy , but if you do n't have the grass roots organisation as back up you will probably fail .
7 Yes , family members can have addictive disease that is life.threatening : their own " family disease " can drive them to distraction and despair ( frequently misdiagnosed simply as a reactive depression ) and they may even commit suicide .
8 ( This can fail for other languages if they have more general forms of recursion : one can have distinct pieces of syntax unc and unc such that unc and
9 Bereavement can have devastating effects on our defensive cells , but even something as minor as taking an exam can make us more vulnerable to infection .
10 Television , for the NVALA , is a uniquely powerful medium , and one therefore that can have devastating effects on the social fabric if it is not checked .
11 This can have devastating consequences , and may cause long-term damage to the urinary tract .
12 The range of plants available , which are taken from our own nurseries , ensures that most premises can have living plants .
13 Plants , too , can have homeotic mutations , noted Heinz Saedler ( MPI , Cologne ) , although in the case of mutations affecting flower formation in Antirrhinum majus , at least , the proteins in question are related to the mammalian serum response factors , rather than containing homeoboxes .
14 Being a property tax — there is not now any contention between the two main parties about that — we can either tax the kind of house and say , for example , that all three-bedroom properties shall be taxed the same , in which case my hon. Friends should be aware that we would soon have tremendous anomalies as the same tax is placed on a Mayfair flat as is put on a flat in a mining village , or we can have regional banding , and then there must be boundaries between regions .
15 The idea of individual choice is very much there in Conservative ideology and so it becomes quite difficult to say you can have economic choice but not sexual choice in your private life . ’
16 Gluing is not so much a skilled job as a responsible one and a large number of mistakes are available to a determined man , all of which can have dangerous results .
17 Ultimately , then , reason can have emancipatory effects on thought and action , through the power of self-reflection and self-understanding .
18 This is the reason we can have solid bodies that do not collapse to a point or radiate away to infinity .
19 That is why what may at first seem to be a casual incident can have lasting effects .
20 Yet the distortions of prejudice can have subtle effects on people 's behaviour .
21 Mr Patten said that he had not turned against the idea of any and all new towns : ‘ So long as the location is right and so long as people can have real confidence that a decision in favour of a new settlement will relieve development pressures elsewhere , then new villages and new settlements could have a part to play in increasing the acceptability of new housing decisions . ’
22 such as ideologically based preferences and the need for linkage between central and peripheral implementation agencies , Tarrow argues that both the pluralist and the Marxist approaches pay insufficient attention to the political leverage which the periphery may exercise over the centre , and to the possibility of communal interests being voiced in peripheral areas in ways which can have real effect on the centre .
23 The distribution of television signals by satellite means that we can have easy access to programmes from other countries in other languages .
24 Similarly , although anything that exists is particular and individual , we can have general ideas .
25 The interview board can have covert purposes where the senior person who is the chairman of the board will use the opportunity to orientate the precise expectations from the post to be filled including settling differences of opinion between his subordinates who are also members of the board .
26 This reduces the risk of airflow interference from kite to kite which at close quarters can have surprising effects !
27 Failure to attend the creditors ' meeting can have expensive consequences .
28 ‘ You can have scrambled egg and smoked salmon if you like . ’
29 But why deny that history can have multiple meanings ?
30 For example , shareholders can have multiple votes attaching to their shares and so block the removal of a director under s303 Companies Act 1985 .
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