Example sentences of "can there " in BNC.
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| 1 | Can there be anything more telling about the deviousness of these people than his account of how they actually put on television and interviewed a man who was said to have died while in a prison cell , and that , moreover , they did it with the sole motive of demonstrating that he was alive and in good health . |
| 2 | Nor can there be much doubt that the experience is more painful for the men than the duped women . |
| 3 | The virtual demise of modern constitutional history as a subject of study has meant that there has been hardly any analysis of the major constitutional questions which arise out of the crisis — what role did the king play , what are the relative rights of the Prime Minister vis-à-vis his Cabinet , what is the relative importance of party and of the ‘ national interest ’ , and what justification can there be for a peacetime coalition government ? |
| 4 | Can there be , Berkeley asks , ‘ a nicer strain of abstraction than to distinguish the existence of sensible objects from their being perceived , so as to conceive them existing unperceived ’ ? |
| 5 | Nor can there be any doubt that the result would be a headlong descent into ruin , confusion , naked revolution and the final doom of our country . |
| 6 | ‘ How much more of a human angle can there be ? |
| 7 | For ‘ The great centralized State is a tremendous historical step forward from medieval disunity to the future socialist unity of the whole world , and only via such a State ( inseparably connected with capitalism ) can there be any road to socialism . ’ |
| 8 | And what better solution can there be for a decayed or threatened landscape park than for it to become a deer park once again ? |
| 9 | And what assurance can there be that the brittle , complex industrial structure will not collapse through the failure of some small but vital component ? |
| 10 | How can there be any doubt ? ’ |
| 11 | What possible sense can there be in a legal rule , for example , which has it that a woman is presumed fertile even though she is past menopause or has undergone a hysterectomy operation ? |
| 12 | Only thus can there be confirmation that the patient can not in fact sustain his own vital functions . |
| 13 | Nor can there be many librarians who have the time or knowledge to meaningfully sample large portions of the texts of books which are supplied on approval . |
| 14 | So how can there be one ‘ Homoeopathic ’ remedy to suit everyone with that ‘ disease ’ ? |
| 15 | What greater joy can there be ? |
| 16 | Nor can there be permanent over-production ; this over-production is relative and cyclical . |
| 17 | For if they are able to communicate danger ( what greater danger to a plant can there be that something destroying its leaves or roots ? ) , one wonders what other signals are they able to pass between themselves ? |
| 18 | What joy can there be in this kind of conduct ? |
| 19 | So we may well ask : can there be morality without religion ? |
| 20 | How can there be with England lining up a record-breaking third Grand Slam in a row ? |
| 21 | If a Christian uses these essential oils to heal and comfort the sick or suffering , what possible harm can there be if they are used properly ? |
| 22 | We are producing more goods in our factories of better quality than ever before , how can there yet be a recession ? |
| 23 | How can there be freedom , when people such as your father and mother are murdered for believing in something ? ’ |
| 24 | What proof can there be of a man 's feelings ? |
| 25 | ’ What better revenge can there be on an unfaithful mother who gives her body to another than to reject her , and with her the principle of nourishment , in becoming anorexic ? |
| 26 | CONCLUSION : CAN THERE BE A NONSEXIST LANGUAGE ? |
| 27 | Nor can there be any claim that the laws-of-war approach has been at all decisive anywhere in illuminating the issue of the legality or otherwise of possession of such weapons . |
| 28 | For example , can there be collective rights , or are rights necessarily individual ? |
| 29 | ‘ Can there be ? ’ |
| 30 | Given the racial , regional and economic diversity surveyed in the last chapter , how can there be such a thing as ‘ European ’ assumptions ? |