Example sentences of "can a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Can a revolution dispense with repeated affirmation of the new order ? |
| 2 | Can a revolution dispense with rhyme ? ’ |
| 3 | How can a belted knight speak for us ? |
| 4 | But how can a sentence have a causal role in relation to other sentences if the second sentence 's causal role is defined in terms of its relation to the first sentence ? |
| 5 | Only by such understanding can a ballet be created with style and expression . |
| 6 | can a radically different work still be carried on under a single heading or department when there is not just diversity of approach but more serious and fundamental differences about the object of knowledge ( despite overlapping of the actual material of study ) ? |
| 7 | How can a 77-year-old man with a mission admit that he was wrong all along ? |
| 8 | Thus can a man , in three five-minutes sessions , attain a multilateral tan . |
| 9 | How can a demoralised off-licence manager work up the enthusiasm to sell what an increasingly adventurous customer has no desire to buy ? |
| 10 | These legal services include advice on band names , partnership agreements between band members , social security rights and entitlement , and music licences — anything and everything relating to music , even including : ‘ Can a freight company hold on to my instruments/equipment because the tour promoter has n't paid the bill ? ’ |
| 11 | How can a family produce three geniuses ? . |
| 12 | How can a country which is so deeply intolerant of sexual differences in real life offer so raucous a welcome to such creatures ? |
| 13 | Kermit Lynch , Adventures on the Wine Route How can a rare bottle of wine fetch the price of the great work of art ? |
| 14 | How can a single thread be drawn to link the peasants of Peru with the sararimen of Tokyo , or the rumbustious politicians of Australia with the venal cadres of communist China ? |
| 15 | Only under a secular constitution can a nation of nearly 850m people that is divided and then sub-divided by race , religion and caste stay peacefully together for the journey ahead . |
| 16 | But how , the misunderstanding goes , can a market be efficient when on October 19th 1987 the New York stockmarket was suddenly and inexplicably worth 23% less than it was on October 16th ? |
| 17 | In other words , can a computer imitate the process the archaeological expert carries out by eye when he constructs his standard typologies ? |
| 18 | Can a satisfactory line be drawn here ? |
| 19 | Only by retaining an experienced independent consultant can a farmer make first a judgement about which way to go and secondly an objective purchasing decision . |
| 20 | Oh , how can a child of mine be so lazy and disobedient … so ungrateful ? ’ |
| 21 | Stupid really , because what good can a bit of information like that ever do you ? |
| 22 | Where , now , can a man , even a good man , find peace ? |
| 23 | How can a man do such a thing ? |
| 24 | And by this means , perhaps , by being ambitious or ‘ miriad-minded ’ , I can perhaps address myself to the nature of this foulness : how can a man do such a thing ? |
| 25 | The idea of boredom is not very distressing to us because if we are bored we can usually do something about it , and so can a horse in the wild . |
| 26 | How can a sufficient number of specific stimuli arise during development to elicit different activities from cells ? |
| 27 | So , is Chinese art still collectable , can a dealer still set up with stock of quality ? |
| 28 | Jennings asks : ‘ How can a man who was a fascist run an organisation which is supposed to be non-discriminatory ? ’ |
| 29 | With the effective removal of a huge percentage of licensed venues in the United Kingdom from the list of places where royalties were once automatically eligible for collection , how can a composer now feel that his rights are ‘ adequately protected ’ ? |
| 30 | Can a party of government be a pseudo-religious miracle-worker , getting the lame to walk and the blind to receive their sight ? |