Example sentences of "can [verb] what [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet it has also spawned some monstrous offspring which include such distortions as a dismissive attitude towards women , a view of work as punishment , a view of pain and hardship as revealing personal guilt , a view of the body and anything to do with it as inherently evil , a view of the earth as the property of homo sapiens who can choose what to do with it , a view of God as an insensitive , self-opinionated , unjust task-master concerned about protecting his own property and the slavish obedience of the human-beings he has created . |
| 2 | Do n't know but I can remember what happens with the alkali and the acid , you get calcium chloride , er it 's the same . |
| 3 | Yet no one , it seems , can discover what lies behind Graham 's complaint — a condition which is all the more curious because on the surface his skin , while rather pale , seems quite normal . |
| 4 | Then he can decide what to do with it . ’ |
| 5 | We 'll then have heard from the hospital and can decide what to do about the situation . |
| 6 | The most important question seems to be how far individuals believe they are in control of their own environment and can control what happens to them . |
| 7 | Ordinary Earth Dwellers are discovering that they can control what happens to their planet . |
| 8 | At least at first , the jump from the Friday pay-packet to the monthly pay-cheque can create what seems like two or three weeks of cash starvation . |
| 9 | I can safely claim that nobody at all can read what follows without learning something new about him , any more than I could have imagined , when I began preparing it , how much unrecorded information I would find . |
| 10 | However , it is characteristic of quantified patterns that they can conceal what lies behind them and so they can be interpreted much more deeply than in this unilinear way . |
| 11 | If you go north from Porta Venezia , taking Corso Buenos Aires to reach Via Palazzi , and taking the third turning to the left , you can view what remains of the Lazzaretto , the church of San Carlo — of no great merit despite being the work of Il Pellegrini — and a section of the portico that forms part of the northern section of the school at No.12 Via Tadino , the first road crossed by Via Palazzi . |
| 12 | Thus if two vehicles collide and neither driver can say what happened after ( and there is no corroborative evidence ) , the judge can not simply refuse to make any finding . |