Example sentences of "[noun sg] that [noun pl] can " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here we might note that Atkinson is largely following Dicey who talked of ‘ the delusion that wages can be raised by legislation ’ . |
| 2 | But do check the guarantee period and keep in mind that seals can fail after about 10 years . |
| 3 | This was the first clear demonstration that organisms can possess a yearly or circannual rhythm , regulated by day length . |
| 4 | One of the most remarkable findings to have emerged from contemporary cognitive neuropsychology is the demonstration that patients can show evidence of covert recognition of faces that were known pre-morbidly , in the absence of any conscious awareness that the face is familiar . |
| 5 | It is still maintained by the sophisticated falsificationist that theories can be falsified and rejected while it is denied that theories can ever be established as true or probably true . |
| 6 | ‘ To accommodate this problem we have written into the code of practice that caterers can use experimental surfaces under certain conditions . |
| 7 | In the five years since this judgment , Parliament has shown little interest , although the Labour Party has endorsed a proposal that those in the distribution business should be under a legal obligation to supply any publication requested by their customers — a reform which would require abolition of the rule that distributors can be held responsible for particular defamations of which they have no knowledge but which are nonetheless contained in libel-prone publications . |
| 8 | But it is usually the mark of a serious and deep-seated friendship that differences can be discussed and dealt with face to face . |
| 9 | The recognition that children can not simply be written off in the rationality stakes and can not therefore be denied autonomy on this account has led some writers to conclude that they can not , therefore , be denied it on any account . |
| 10 | The admission that facts can be causes will not much improve our willingness to suppose that universal facts can cause universal beliefs . |
| 11 | A similar system of HLCA payments is suggested to those available anywhere in the UK 's LFA ( minimum qualifying area per farm of 3 hectares ; maximum payments of 97 ECU/LU ) but with the added provision that HLCAs can be paid on the first 10 dairy cows per farm . |
| 12 | This particular passage is Bukharin at his sophistical worst , since he rails against the ‘ freedom to labour ’ in a manner that dodges the real freedom that workers can obtain by forming trade unions ; this was not a negation of the ‘ freedom to labour ’ , but rather a redefinition of that freedom in a positive manner . |
| 13 | This has the advantage that records can be sorted into descending count order for loading during reorganization . |
| 14 | Shelving based on slotted strips has the advantage that shelves can be arranged and re-arranged to suit . |
| 15 | Anthelmintic prophylaxis has the advantage that animals can be grazed throughout the year on the same pasture and is particularly advantageous for the small heavily stocked farm where grazing is limited . |
| 16 | Indeed the Lord Chancellor 's Department figures draw attention to the fact that solicitors make mistakes in court documentation and evinces the hope that improvements can be made in this respect . |
| 17 | There is still hope that talks can succeed . |
| 18 | The second type of positive interaction that parents can be taught is how to reward good behaviour . |
| 19 | Freud reinterprets the phenomenon of the loss of a sense of moral responsibility that crowds can show in terms of a crowd allowing the individual to be able ‘ to throw off the repressions of his unconscious instinctual impulses ’ . |
| 20 | Holland 1983 ; Rescorla 1985 ) , a term used to describe the finding that subjects can come to respond appropriately to a CS that is sometimes reinforced and sometimes not according to whether some other event ( the occasion setter ) accompanies the target CS . |
| 21 | We do n't expect to do it overnight , though — it 's only when we are performing at a consistently high level that customers can forget some of their previous unsatisfactory experiences . |
| 22 | It 's only when we are performing at a consistently high level that customers can forget some of their previous unsatisfactory experiences ’ . |
| 23 | Wearing a pair of men 's underpants and a scarf across my breasts , I have that unprepared look that Americans can abhor culturally and admire individually . |
| 24 | All involve difficult decisions and demand a fair assessment that employees can readily understand . |
| 25 | It has been taken for granted by most workers in this field that pigeons can home from unfamiliar starting points . |
| 26 | But I know from personal experience that gardens can get a bit messy — you ca n't take a dog for a walk every time it wants to ‘ go ’ , even with the best will in the world . |
| 27 | The damage that goats can inflict on each other with their sharp horns is so great that aggression has become highly ritualised . |
| 28 | Given the difficult economic climate , many clients have decided to opt for the old adage that things can only be managed if they can be measured . |
| 29 | Searle presented his argument , which attacks the basic tenet of artificial intelligence that machines can in principle understand symbols and signalled events much as we do , in the form of an analogy in a much-quoted paper : ‘ Minds , brains and programmes ’ ( Behavioural and Brain Sciences , vol 3 , p 417 ) . |
| 30 | There are obvious limits to the extra work that families can be expected to absorb and these limits may already have been reached . |