Example sentences of "a [noun] [indef pn] can " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is about a paradise one can not have . |
| 2 | There 's one on now : for less than a tenner anyone can have a four point safety check . |
| 3 | There are extraordinary cases , however , and in a story anything can happen , even the digestion of tables . |
| 4 | Yet Souleymane Cisse has made a movie anyone can enjoy . |
| 5 | Dominique is shocked , but agrees that it is a car everyone can enjoy , ‘ although my mother would have a heart attack in it ’ , she adds with glee . |
| 6 | One does n't need to compare and contrast — It 's a moment one can be justly proud of . |
| 7 | They have been fighting a real war , a race war , a class war , a war over resources and territory , a war in which real children die every day , a war nobody can win because no territory is conquered and the body counts do not mean victory . |
| 8 | Sex-appeal is a commodity one can not buy . |
| 9 | By choosing the right substance to crystallize on a surface one can often get the new crystals to form almost entirely upon the fine irregularities of the surface and thus show them up . |
| 10 | ‘ Well , she 's not a person one can really dis like . ’ |
| 11 | It 's traditional Club 18–30 at its best — the time of your life at a price anybody can afford , and a great chance to make new friends in the sunshine . |
| 12 | Quantifying the size of the market is a game anyone can play . |
| 13 | In a sense one can not blame them for that , but we in the SSPCA feel that it would be much better if some of those payments from the Government came in the form of food tokens which could be redeemed when farmers purchased feeding stocks . ’ |
| 14 | Contrariwise , whenever one takes a rule or a directive as a reason one can not add to it as additional independent factors the reasons which justify it . |
| 15 | Let no one ever be sincere with me — it is a failure of respect , and respect is a thing one can never get enough of . |
| 16 | In such a system one can say ‘ my own ’ or ‘ my true father ’ and this is often done . |
| 17 | Unless one knows in advance how information is represented in part of a brain one can neither stimulate the right combination of elements , nor produce the correct temporal pattern of activity . |
| 18 | I 've tried it sometimes , never long enough to know whether I did it successfully or not , but I found there is absolutely no way of telling because even if it changes in a way one can predict , what one can predict is the way oneself changes or the world changes at the same time . |
| 19 | With a dentist one can understand what the chap is actually saying . |
| 20 | The banshee 's lamentations are in a language no-one can understand , and her cry is an appalling blend of a wild goose 's screech , the screams of an abandoned child and the howl of a wolf . |