Example sentences of "of [noun] [conj] can " in BNC.

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1 Marxists influenced by Gramsci 's analysis have also often asserted the impact of dominant ideas , but , in their view , acquiescence has been always problematic ; it has to be worked for through the establishment of hegemony and can never be simply taken for granted .
2 A coursebook is necessary as it acts as a visual record of progress and can thus be a psychological support to the students .
3 Many more take short-term assignments , a cheaper , less disruptive form of support that can be combined with company management training programmes .
4 And leaping animals , at least those whose weight might cause significant changes in the terrain leapt upon , presumably have some understanding of support and can perceive potentially dangerous or unstable structures .
5 There is only a limited amount of change that can be achieved by direct transformation in the ‘ swords to ploughshares ’ manner .
6 The lasting impression of these accounts is that everyone agrees that there was a ‘ permissive age ’ , or a process of change that can be described as ‘ permissive ’ , but that no-one can actually agree what constituted ‘ permissiveness ’ .
7 ( See further Appendix C. ) We shall offer many instances to show how interaction , between the relations within that construction and the semantic identity of individual words , governs the grammaticality and interpretation of phrases and sentences , and influences the range of adjectives that can occur in any one position .
8 As we have now seen , the latter supposition is by no means invariably true , and for this ( and other reasons which we shall come to later ) the ranges of adjectives that can be found in the two positions are actually substantially different .
9 There are always two sets of reasons that can be given for psychical events , one that is phrased in terms of the culture 's Weltanschuung , and the other which the psychoanalytic observer can bring in terms of the unconscious feelings underlying the system .
10 These are just a few examples of the types of products that can be found within the leading farm shops in Surrey who will also be exhibiting , including Secretts from Milford .
11 All of those BAe workers now facing the dole because of the ‘ peace dividend ’ must envy the French for having a diversified range of products that can keep the cash rolling in when one part of the market goes flat .
12 To raise the profile of Scholl as the experts on footcare , with a range of products that can solve and treat every problem , and prevent further problems .
13 Services Marketing Strategy — for marketers of products that can not be touched or seen and which are highly dependent on people for the quality of output .
14 It is therefore of little value in tests of the stability of products but can be applied in investigations of the stability of , for example , a new cosmetic ingredient .
15 If you have the type of hair that can take it , try to leave hair to dry naturally , without heat , scrunching it with a little mousse .
16 The situation changes when dealing with a liquid as remains unaffected by the addition of molecules and can be expected to be zero .
17 But a shortage of nesting holes probably limits the numbers of owls that can breed on an estate .
18 But even so there is a limit to the number of owls that can be packed into an area ; each pair probably insists on at least 20 hectares .
19 This may restrict the set of operations that can be provided for some or all of the data.types ; it also makes it easy for the programmer to use an instruction on an operand with the wrong format , although assemble-time checks may help to reduce the number of errors of this sort .
20 It is only now that men and women are beginning to realize that representative institutions are not necessarily guardians of freedom but can themselves become engines of tyranny .
21 Another chemist , Robert Bergman from the University of California in Berkeley , has made an organic derivative of iridium that can also split a carbon-hydrogen bond .
22 In the end support staff act as information switches and this is exactly the sort of function that can be taken over by electronic data processing .
23 As a result , each artist was chosen for at least four reasons , but with a common denominator : we decided to present individuals operating from an independent position , whose work has a certain degree of complexity and can not be reduced to one or two key ideas .
24 The communication of such a word implies the communication of the technique of grafting and can not be explained except as a Massaliote loan-word .
25 We are seeking to ensure that the er first area to be built up gives protection to the village of Hambleton and can be restored very quickly .
26 At present , most of the possible Zechstein accumulations would not be economically attractive in offshore situations , where the minimum size of field that can be commercially developed is about 100 Bcf .
27 A statement on her behalf said ’ the stories are an example of an abuse of privilege and can only be deeply regretted . ’
28 The poor are in reality simply experiencing the effects of inequality and can indeed be blamed for their condition .
29 But if descriptive phrases are necessary to introduce names or things that can be seen and pointed at , they are clearly even more necessary in respect of objects that can not be seen , or no longer exist .
30 The works of Bowlby ( 1979 ) and Marris ( 1974 ) offer the basis for a model of attachment that can be used to assess elders affirmatively .
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