Example sentences of "the [noun] can [verb] [Wh det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because the writer can do what John Dickson Carr advocated : think backwards . |
| 2 | To return to the point made by the hon. Member for Islington , South and Finsbury ( Mr. Smith ) , this is all about transparency and opening up the process to much greater public scrutiny , so that the public can see what is going on , the taxpayer can see what his or her money is being spent on and the customer can see the standard of service being contracted to be provided . |
| 3 | Kerr deplores the invasion of privacy in small houses , where visitors rub shoulders with the tradespeople , where the sounds of the scullery can be heard in the dining-room , where the kitchen can hear what goes on in the drawing-room , and the dresser or cooking-range may be seen in the kitchen . |
| 4 | Broadly , the parties can choose what liabilities are to be taken over or treated as taken over , although liabilities to employees and liabilities attaching to specific assets pass automatically . |
| 5 | THE parties can make what agreement they wish about the time , place and manner of delivery and payment . |
| 6 | Where it appears that an item of income falls within Cases IV or V and also Case I the Revenue can choose which Case to apply . |
| 7 | The anecdotal evidence is that parties often want informal , non-legalistic meetings where the expert can hear what the parties ' non-legal representatives have to say , without any lawyers being present . |
| 8 | It does n't matter where he/she finishes , but whether the coach is only asking the eight-year-olds to spring 50m or trying to get all the senior team to really race hard over the first 1500m , he or she must be seen to experience it too or the children simply wo n't believe the coach can know what he/she is talking about . |
| 9 | ‘ The companies can charge what they like for drugs , then be as inefficient as they like , and stay under the profit ceiling . |
| 10 | Only the parents can specify what they can and can not do . |
| 11 | The most voiced reason for having a baby is that the parents can give what was not given in their own lives , to compensate for their own emptiness . |
| 12 | The child needs to learn how and why to use a potty and parents may need to be encouraged to take their child to the lavatory with them so that the child can imitate what happens , have a potty around , tell the child what it is for , and encourage him or her to get used to it by sitting on it . |
| 13 | These whiskers are sensitive not only to touch but to taste , so the fish can tell what on the river bed in front of its mouth is worth eating and what is not . |
| 14 | It is vitally important to create periods of reflection within a drama when the participants can consider what they have achieved as individuals and as a group ; when they think about the significance of their work and examine the implications of any decisions they may have taken . |
| 15 | Now the author can see what the document will look like as soon as the text is typed . |
| 16 | It 's certainly never anything stronger than that , for me at any rate , but the guests can have what they like . |
| 17 | The court can make whatever order it considers appropriate and can impose conditions . |
| 18 | The ‘ no meaning ’ atheist denies that the theist can state what observations would lead him or her to accept as true , or deny as false , the proposition that ‘ God exists ’ . |
| 19 | The written decision is usually relatively brief , though it must be sufficiently full and complete that the claimant can tell what facts have been accepted and rejected , the reasons for the rejection of any evidence and how the law has been applied to the facts as found . |
| 20 | Thus there is a set of channels ( the complement of those represented by X ) that the environment can offer which one process can deadlock on but not the other . |
| 21 | In either case , the fact that a charge could have been brought under section 15(1) , which covers both , in no way operates to prevent the charge being validly laid as theft under section 1(1) if the prosecution can prove what they must prove , as previously described , under that subsection . |
| 22 | Finally , as we have shown earlier , what is defined as criminal varies across time and place , thus making it difficult to argue that in-built differences between the sexes can explain what is a variable phenomena . |
| 23 | We therefore believe that until such time as the Government can clarify what proportion of the projected demand it is willing to satisfy under MPG6 , can be acceptably met through existing reserves , and what realistic mechanisms it intends to apply to extinguish the remainder , no new sources of supply should be permitted . |
| 24 | We therefore believe that until such time as the Government can clarify what proportion of the projected demand it is willing to satisfy under MPG6 , can be acceptably met through existing reserves , and what realistic mechanisms it intends to apply to extinguish the remainder , no new sources of supply should be permitted . |
| 25 | The Government can do what it likes with such sites and protests are too small to take into calculation . |
| 26 | The jury can say what it thinks later . ’ |
| 27 | At the end of each six week period we have an assessment session whereby they have to do a ‘ performance ’ to everybody else in that year , so the music can see what the dance has done … etc . |
| 28 | The Bank can choose what rate of interest or rediscount to charge the discount houses . |
| 29 | The children can sort which absorb most water . |
| 30 | ‘ The Press can do what they like , ’ says Nigel . |