Example sentences of "which [noun sg] can " in BNC.
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| 1 | The criminal law sees only some types of property deprivation as robbery or theft ; it excludes , for example , the separation of consumers and part of their money that follows manufacturers ' malpractices or advertisers ' misrepresentations ; it excludes shareholders losing their money because managers behaved in ways which they thought would be to the advantage of shareholders even though the only tangible benefits accrued to the managers ( Hopkins 1980b ) ; it excludes the extra tax citizens , in this or other countries , have to pay because : ( i ) corporations and the very wealthy are able to employ financial experts at discovering legal loopholes through which money can be safely transported to tax havens ; ( ii ) Defence Department officials have been bribed to order more expensive weaponry systems or missiles in ‘ excess ’ of those ‘ needed ’ ; ( iii ) multinational drug companies charge our National Health Services prices which are estimated to be at least , £50 millions in excess of alternative supplies . |
| 2 | a part payment of money , which is made so that the seller will not sell the goods to anyone else : You must pay a deposit to the hotel if you want them to keep a room free for you compare earnest(1) 3 an act or action of depositing : The rate of the river 's deposit of mud is about one inch a year deposit account n. a bank account which earns interest and usu. from which money can be taken out only if advance notice is given . |
| 3 | In order to understand their significance and the ways in which money supply can be controlled , it is first necessary to look at the various types of account in which money can be held and at the various financial institutions involved . |
| 4 | I 've been particularly impressed today to learn how people come here every year , particularly for this meeting and of all the various ways in which money can be raised . |
| 5 | Concessions contained within the agreement include the reduction in the number of days on which firing can take place , the replacement of high explosive high artillery rounds with training rounds by September 1998 and the exclusion of training from 400 acres of land at Quintin 's Man and Rough Tor . |
| 6 | Canning equally looked to ‘ justice and judgment not impulse and feeling since that is not a ground upon which parliament can be called upon to act ’ . |
| 7 | If she was , then the administration of a caution which presupposed that an answer could not be compelled would be a self-contradictory formality which Parliament can not possibly have intended . |
| 8 | That is a matter of social policy with which Parliament can deal by appropriate legislation if it wishes to do so . |
| 9 | Is this team to play in Europe ? … in which case can we have the Frog ? ( te he he ! ) |
| 10 | And then we wrote back to them and said we are very likely getting funding from , in which case can we use your money for other purposes er Well one reason specifically said chairs . |
| 11 | In which part can a child/adult stand on the bottom ? |
| 12 | The Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977 limits the extent to which liability can be excluded or limited for breach of contract , or for negligence , or under the terms implied by the Sale of Goods Act 1979 and other legislation containing similar provisions , such as the Supply of Goods and Services Act 1982 . |
| 13 | The extent to which liability can be established can be explained , each party putting his version before the court referring to any police report if a road acccident , together with counsel 's opinion on liability if such has been obtained . |
| 14 | Application should be made for a split trial under Ord 33 , rr3 and 4 , under which liability can be tried first and quantum tried when the plaintiff 's medical or employment position , or any other doubt on quantum , has been clarified . |
| 15 | There are no clear cut threshold speeds at which damage can be guaranteed to occur . |
| 16 | For the person with these projects the forwarding of them has an importance to which utilitarianism can not do justice , for it must regard them as simply among the many preferences of which as many as possible are to be satisfied . |
| 17 | Both are then held to be deficient relative to Marx 's conception of a ‘ mode of production ’ within which differentiation can be understood , made intelligible and ultimately accountable to a materialistically grounded ethics of emancipation rooted in a conception of a ‘ complex ’ totality . |
| 18 | A final series of studies will be concerned with the ways in which comprehension can be improved . |
| 19 | Consequently , there is a need for a means by which text can be translated from a paper form into an electronic form . |
| 20 | At a later stage the ease with which text can be manipulated provides learners with a powerful tool for thinking . |
| 21 | We try to bring about an environment in which creativity can flourish by selecting people of outstanding ability who wish to work on a problem of their own choice and for which we can imagine a substantial outcome . |
| 22 | ‘ The cookery book ’ Oakeshott writes , ‘ is not an independently generated beginning from which cooking can spring ; it is nothing more than an abstract of somebody 's knowledge of how to cook : it is the stepchild , not the parent of the activity . ’ |
| 23 | Second , quantifiable psychometric information can provide a useful baseline from which to work , and from which progress can be measured . |
| 24 | A realistic plan sets achievable targets against which progress can be monitored . |
| 25 | But that is talent speaking of genius , and it overlooks the protective colouring by which genius can seek to mask its own sensitivities . |
| 26 | In the same way that there are rules within sentences , limiting which words can follow others , so there might also be rules within discourses , limiting which sentence can follow another one , and if I write ‘ The knight killed the dragon ’ , then there might be limits , or constraints , on what I can put as the next sentence . |
| 27 | The ratio can rise either as a result of an increase in OM or through a fall in P. The only route through which OM can rise is a temporary budget deficit financed by the issue of fiat money . |
| 28 | This is an important book from which scientist can benefit and which lay people can enjoy . |
| 29 | Under the transitional provisions , where , on 9 March 1992 , employer-related investments that existed on 17 February 1992 exceeded the 5% limit , the fund in question may be required to reduce its net investment in the lease to a level not exceeding 5% of its resources on the earliest date on which payment can be enforced ( assuming the agreement was effected prior to 17 February 1992 ) . |
| 30 | It is important to recognise these natural reactions and their effect on groundwater quality , and so to establish a baseline against which contamination can be measured . |