Example sentences of "thing [that] can [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are many things that can go wrong when training parents , or anybody else for that matter . |
| 2 | There are so many things that can go wrong . |
| 3 | When people are feeling wound up , there are different things that can unleash the barbed remark : another small demand for their attention , a lost key , not being taken seriously enough by the person to whom they are cataloguing the disasters of the day , or TOO MUCH NOISE . |
| 4 | The first thing to say is that this is one of those things that can disappoint us . |
| 5 | Yet still they work in improving the mood from where it is now and still there may be no perception that the depressed mood and damaging consequences of use could possibly be the responsibility of the very substances and processes that seem to be the only things that can make life better . |
| 6 | I mean , th there are other things that can give you a hit . |
| 7 | This is only one of the things that can happen to the electrons , but it is the one which is of interest in the production of TL . |
| 8 | However , it has occurred to us that to mention some of the unglamorous little things that can happen to you if you do n't might be highly effective in getting you to eat up your dietary fibre . |
| 9 | Erm and this is the reason why I brought this tape recorder , and I was saying to Bernard a moment ago , one of the most embarrassing things that can happen erm when talking to a group like this is when you pressed a button er whether it 's a , a tape recorder a video machine or whatever , you pressed a button full of confidence in all the latest technology and there 's an embarrassing silence . |
| 10 | So in the two things that can happen in conversation to give it To make it stop running smoothly are overlapping and interruption and like some of them are quite difficult to tell apart but usually it 's If you 're transcribing stuff it 's fairly obvious . |
| 11 | Now when you get to a T R P what are the three things that can happen ? |
| 12 | I think we can point to some of the things that can happen that worry us . |
| 13 | I think really what happens when you go into the past is not so much that the laws that we now use change , but we just find that there are many more new rules and particles and things that can happen , so the things that we know are the same , but there are many , many more different types of interaction and particle in nature which we have no experience of , which we have to take into account . |
| 14 | Okay , there was a survey carried out by British Telecom , and they asked some of their customers what were the most frustrating things that can happen to you on the telephone , and this was the answer , and some of the things that you 've come up with are here . |
| 15 | But there is a trick to feeling the need for a tenth rehearsal during the ninth rehearsal because one still hears many things that can become better , because one still knows something to say in the tenth rehearsal . |
| 16 | That 's one of the things that can come up in our meetings . |
| 17 | Look after yourself by eating a balanced and varied diet of protein , dairy products and fresh fruit and vegetables , getting enough rest and cutting out the things that can harm your baby . |
| 18 | Mm , you see , a lot of the er the English scriptures talk about the , the paradise in , in its right context , you can just examine the , the , the Christian script which you might get confused because there 's a lot of er things that can take them both ways |
| 19 | it 's not pronounced in mine , but , some er they say that with where it 's gone away , you know , there 's all sorts of things that can prove it I mean the obvious thing is we came from somewhere did n't we ? , we did n't just drop here with a flash of light and er they 've studied plants and other animals and they evolved . |
| 20 | Now there are lots of things that can cause you to be stressed , and I mean , I 'm talking about a lot here . |
| 21 | These are the things that can cause you to be stressed in your environment . |
| 22 | And you see er it 's one of those things that can wait . |
| 23 | One of the things that can emerge is a great deal of mutual help , so that there is not just one group of people giving out to another but a group of people reaching out to one another . |
| 24 | The simplest thing that can go wrong is the failure of one mechanism such as a pump , valve or thermostat . |
| 25 | He told The Scotsman the other day , ’ the only thing that can stop us is the Labour party . ’ |
| 26 | But you must think my displeasure the heaviest thing that can befall you . |
| 27 | To get back to that post-prandial scene , there is , I believe , just one thing that can jolt one out of one 's seat ; a bitter almond . |
| 28 | Conversation dries up , strain and tension increases and relatives will say that they know that the only thing that can break this living and extended nightmare is the death of the person whose bed they are sitting round , but ‘ What a dreadful thought to have . ’ |
| 29 | They are not going to say a thing that can help Portland in any way whatsoever . |
| 30 | It 's about ordinary people in an ordinary world and the most special thing that can happen to anybody is to fall in love , and the worst is to fall out of love . |