Example sentences of "can the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Can the author be detected in this novel — come upon in his dark corner ? |
| 2 | ‘ What can the lairds be frightened of ? ’ asked Menzies innocently . |
| 3 | What can the social services department do to help ? |
| 4 | And can the virtue that thus went out of the spiritual reality called England ever be restored ? |
| 5 | How can the erotic stirring for Aeneas be ‘ new ’ , when it is explicitly saturated with sentiment for the old , the dead , for ‘ Sicheus ’ ? |
| 6 | But how long can the honeymoon last ? |
| 7 | But can the AFBD survive ? |
| 8 | From all quarters , and especially from the white business community , the message is the same : only with social justice can the country 's economic potential be released . |
| 9 | But can the record be maintained ? |
| 10 | Food : Strange appetites on the big screen : Can the British digest a film about food , sex and death , asks Deirdre McQuillan |
| 11 | Many Commonwealth leaders believe the movement in South Africa is the result of pressure already applied , and that only by turning the screw can the world be sure that there will be no turning back . |
| 12 | So can the traditional view any longer be maintained , especially perhaps in view of the picture of God that is found in the Bible ? |
| 13 | What can the car be used for ? |
| 14 | How can the blowing of such a bubble , and , once it was inflated and released , its durability , be accounted for ? |
| 15 | Can the fundamentally religious ritual be the new foundation of a piece of modern art , to be evaluated according to purely aesthetic criteria ? |
| 16 | ‘ I think you should get to know as many people as you can the further up the business you are , ’ he says . |
| 17 | For instance , if an economy grows at 5 per cent per year following a two-year disbursement of a structural adjustment loan , if the international price for the country 's commodity exports has risen by at least 5 per cent in the same period of time , can the loan be regarded as justified ? |
| 18 | There is good reason to ask to whom can the assets of the grain marketing board be sold ? |
| 19 | How can the reindeer tell which is Norway and which is Sweden ? |
| 20 | The gourd-breasts and the leather-thonged sorcerer 's switch can be seen as referring to indigenous culture , as can the snakes ' heads with which the yokes of her skirt appear to terminate . |
| 21 | This implied that only in the sphere of the mathematical sciences can the human intellect attain knowledge that is as objective and as certain as it is known to the divine mind . |
| 22 | Only on a long , fast bend can the tail be persuaded to step out , and then only under strong provocation and with little drama , as the drivetrain begins to feed the power rearwards . |
| 23 | Next week : can the pill help fertility ? |
| 24 | Can the body perform physical work equally well at all times of the 24 hours ? |
| 25 | It will be appreciated that these insubstantial structures can not form as satisfactory a basis for conversion into dwellings as can the traditional masonry-built flail-threshing barn . |
| 26 | Only in this way can the industry 's ‘ one voice ’ be in harmony rather than unison . |
| 27 | How can the production of food result in people going hungry ? |
| 28 | NO LONGER can the Government disguise the crisis surrounding electricity privatisation . |
| 29 | Can the party do it ? |
| 30 | ‘ Can the Secretary of State answer the question which has remained unanswered since this dispute began and remains unanswered . |