Example sentences of "[adj] that [pron] can [vb infin] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Optical fibre is made of very thin glass , which is flexible and so transparent that it can transmit light with very little attenuation . |
| 2 | It 's understandable that they can admire academics , but that 's not quite the same as loving them for the person they are . ’ |
| 3 | Some have hearing which is so acute that they can detect insects as tiny as a midge up to 60 feet away . |
| 4 | Pull it down to something a bit more real that you can get hold of . |
| 5 | For Eliot and Sisson it is unthinkable that one can venerate Dante without venerating Virgil , and vice-versa ; whereas Pound was firmly pro-Dante , and yet often raucously dismissive of Virgil . |
| 6 | It is governed by the difference equations ( from ( 9–13 ) , ( 9–14 ) and ( 9–15 ) ) , It is assumed that the random terms , and , are independent across individuals , and that the population is sufficiently large that we can replace sample moments by the corresponding population moments , in this way moving from a stochastic to a distributional model . |
| 7 | I mean it 's obvious that you can put petrol in a diesel engine and diesel in a petrol engine |
| 8 | Well he only asked , I mean that 's obvious that he can say children |
| 9 | " I 'm not sure that we can trust Death , so be very quiet , and I 'll think . " |
| 10 | It was a place where there were huge contrasts between the ‘ haves ’ and the ‘ have nots ’ — between those who worshipped at the altar of a comfortable middle-class lifestyle and those who worshipped at the altar of envy and jealousy of those around them — and I am sure that you can find echoes of those things in Exeter at this end of 1991 . |
| 11 | I certainly advise you to keep asking questions throughout because as I say although they 're speaking in a very very general way the often slip up and give you a particular that you can take advantage and if you lead them on then the more information is available to you . |
| 12 | ‘ The offices are used not just by us but also by several local voluntary organisations , and we are anxious that they can have access to them again as soon as possible , ’ Mr Alton said . |