Example sentences of "[Wh pn] can [adv] be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The federal government also plans and builds the largest and most expensive central facilities with the active participation of the state governments , who can also be persuaded to find fairly large experimental facilities at universities . |
| 2 | Only the plain-clothes thugs of the security police , who can easily be told by their well-fed oafishness , their training shoes and anoraks , go out of their way to move close in and stare down at anyone writing . |
| 3 | If there is any doubt about the authenticity of a masterworkshop rug , always consult an independent translator , who can probably be located through a translation service or language school . |
| 4 | Leapor also satirizes the intellectual pretensions of a figure in Crumble Hall who can tentatively be identified as the young William Henry Chauncy who had recently gone up to Oxford : |
| 5 | We have said goodbye to a person who can not be replaced and the rest of us will have to work the harder and care the more in order to try to fill the gap left by his passing . |
| 6 | The power is wide enough on the one hand to allow the statement of an eye-witness to an accident to express an opinion ( eg that one of the drivers was going too fast ) and on the other hand to allow a party to put in a medical report from a doctor who has died or who can not be called for any other reason . |
| 7 | There are others like the Pharisees who can not be forgiven , for they believe they never do wrong ! |
| 8 | Thirdly , the scheme will bind any shareholders who can not be traced by the target , although the court will wish to approve the arrangements for dealing with such shareholders ( see para 2.4.6 below ) . |
| 9 | Abraham would seem to be dealing with a God who has his own cruelty , and who can not be relied upon to keep his promises . |
| 10 | The role of the team leader is to support the village health worker in her activities by providing consultation , treatment that is beyond the skill of the village worker , and referral of patients who can not be treated in the village to the main health centre ( the third tier ) in Jamkhed which has facilities for diagnosis , acute care , in-patient treatment , and training . |
| 11 | Sadder occasions occur ambulance charters need to be carried out , typically to Southampton with a patient who can not be treated satisfactorily in the islands . |
| 12 | In this country a hospital accepts and cares for any person who can not be cared for in their own home , but to step into their admission halls is not always the loving experience needed . |
| 13 | Many people are curious as to who can and who can not be hypnotized . |
| 14 | Inaudible backstage mutterings are the sum total of rebellion to the little dictator who can not be deposed , but is often despised . |
| 15 | The only character in the tale who can not be regarded as the target figure in any way is Alison , the woman , who sails through " " upright " " , laughing and unscathed . |
| 16 | Similar anxieties exist about the morbidity and mortality of patients who can not be seen within a satisfactory time . |
| 17 | The customer 's brother — who can not be named for legal reasons — came into the shop a little later and started an argument . |
| 18 | The man , who can not be named , told police : ‘ I wanted to hurt her as she hurt me . ’ |
| 19 | The woman , who can not be named for legal reasons , denied assault but was found guilty and given a conditional discharge . |
| 20 | While on bail , the 44-year-old machine operator — who can not be named for legal reasons — attacked his wife 's boss believing they were having an affair . |
| 21 | The 15-year-old , who can not be named , claimed he was acting out a seduction scene in Home And Away when he asked her : ‘ Do you want sex ? ’ |
| 22 | The child , who can not be named for legal reasons , was staying with her grandparents in south Devon . |
| 23 | A full care hearing about the girl , from Rotherwell , Leeds , — who can not be named for legal reasons — will be heard on February 23 , Leeds County Court decided . |
| 24 | The son , who can not be named for legal reasons , enjoyed a new-found freedom while his mum lay dying , the inquest was told . |
| 25 | The man , who can not be named for legal reasons , was on police bail in Liverpool after being arrested over a burglary . |
| 26 | The boy , who can not be named for legal reasons , stole thousands of pounds of property from cars , garages , school changing rooms and sheds in the company of two other youths , both aged 14 . |
| 27 | Mr Justice Potts told the 17-year-old youth , who can not be named for legal reasons but comes from the Bury St Edmunds area , a custodial sentence was ‘ essential ’ . |
| 28 | The teenager , who can not be named , appeared at a specially-convened youth court at Chesterfield charged with unlawfully killing Mr John Turner ( 80 ) and his wife Marjorie ( 74 ) of Whitwell , Chesterfield , Derbyshire . |
| 29 | The 40-year-old woman from Wakefield , West Yorkshire — who can not be named to protect her child 's identity — was charged with murdering John William Lockwood ( 65 ) of Halton Road , Wakefield . |
| 30 | The 16-year-old , who can not be named for legal reasons , was granted bail at Sunderland , Tyne and Wear , on condition he stayed at a residential school run by the local authority until his next court appearance on October 7 . |