Example sentences of "[prep] these [noun pl] can [verb] " in BNC.

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1 Since breaches of these norms can lead to an acquittal , there is a strong temptation to conceal breaches , especially when the police believe that they have strong evidence of guilt .
2 All of these faults can occur within two years of the kitchen being installed and the cost of mending the damage is often more than it would be to replace all the cabinets — so it 's better to check .
3 Prolonged tightening of these muscles can produce headache , and possibly migraine ( for more on this see p l26 ) .
4 Both of these strategies can keep non-projected dramatic playing at bay for a long time if necessary .
5 Another problem may be that you only have one machine for both recording and playback so that only one of these activities can go on at one time .
6 The circuits of these devices can rectify currents induced by RFI , especially at higher frequencies , into pulses confusingly similar to desired digital signals .
7 It appears that the scent of these oils can affect the etheric body , perhaps creating the right atmosphere for particular states of consciousness , and ancient peoples may have been aware of this .
8 And one must not forget that many of these functions can become dysfunctions , and assume a negative or pathological form : faulty selection , awkward induction , rigid structure , poor teaching , inadequate materials , invalid assessment , and so on .
9 Inappropriate medical management of these cases can cause food refusal later because of inappropriate feeding experiences during early life .
10 Therapy aimed at amelioration of these behaviours can reduce the risk of relapse ( Leff et al. 1982 , 1985 ) especially if combined with family-orientated problem-solving ( Falloon et al. 1982 ) .
11 Experiments that can accurately measure the abundance of naturally-occurring rare isotopes , such as beryllium-10 , carbon-14 , aluminium 26 , silicon-32 , chlorine-36 and iodine-129 , would be important in archaeology and geology , because the proportion of these isotopes can give a measure of the age of rocks and artefacts .
12 Despite the French reputation for gastronomic prowess , none of these girls can cook .
13 Each of these problems can have alternative solutions and an optimal decision must be tailored for each individual firm .
14 All of these elements can vary .
15 Every one of these parents can recount stories of being not believed , not looked at , not spoken to : that is what dead people experience , if the dead have experiences .
16 Certainly none of these technologies can provide an instant cure-all for the problems inherent in the current nuclear balance of terror .
17 Each of these situations can give rise to different forms of fee arrangement , examples of which are :
18 By a variety of plausible means much of these gases can escape from Io and become dissociated and ionized .
19 The detailed make-up of these proteins can vary from person to person — variation that comes from differences in the gene which describes the protein .
20 We find that , instead of reducing Fe(III) indirectly through the production of sulphide , some of these bacteria can reduce Fe(III) directly through an enzymatic mechanism , producing siderite rather than iron sulphides .
21 The changing nature of these relationships can tell us much about broader aspects of political change in Mexico , in particular the extent to which the corporatist pact with peasants , labour and popular sectors has been eroded by the impact of the economic crisis and the search for new forms of political representation within civil society .
22 Each of these hazards can reduce the tensile strength by several percent .
23 But both of these points can conflict with the interest of the rest of the working population .
24 A combination of these techniques can benefit from their individual strengths , whilst at the same time compensating for their individual weaknesses .
25 All of these features can have a sound attached , and there is a selection of four hundred different ones to choose from .
26 All of these features can have a sound attached , and there is a selection of four hundred different ones to choose from .
27 The use of these tests can seem threatening to the status of the interviewee , in the sense that hidden secrets are going to be discovered .
28 When frozen , some of these waterfalls can offer ice-climbing practice , but in a hard winter the cloughs often fill with deep snow and their ascents can vary in difficulty from Grade I to impossible .
29 Some of these clients can misread political realities , others may perceive that they are ‘ involving clinicians ’ in management whereas they could also be seen to be merely ‘ indoctrinating ’ .
30 But none of these tricks can insure against a mutation .
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