Example sentences of "which can [adv] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | It does not appear as the arena of significant events , of accidental developments which can nevertheless have the most far-reaching consequences , of puzzling loose ends , or of real contradictions and inexplicabilities . |
| 2 | It is quite the opposite for a charge distribution which can easily have a non-zero oscillating electric dipole moment . |
| 3 | The price for the first seems high and for the second low for a house with six acres and a lodge , but it used to be the headquarters of British Coal 's opencast mining subsidiary , which can not have done it any good . |
| 4 | It is true that these processes may well have a spatial expression in a specific situation , but there are others to which it is difficult to attribute any physical manifestation , or by definition which can not have a spatial expression at all . |
| 5 | This is an old place , indeed a Roman place , as is known from an inscription which has been built into a chapel on top of the highest of the surrounding hills , and which is dedicated to a local Romano-Iberic divinity of the name of Herauscorritsehe , which can not have tripped too easily from the pious tongue . |
| 6 | The reaction within the industry has been almost totally favourable — an irony which can not have escaped Altman , who gave wry smile as he received a standing ovation at Cannes this year and the prize for Best Director . |
| 7 | So to limit the interpretation of the word would follow the principle that words in a statute which have , or can have , a general meaning may have to be given a specialised and narrower meaning in order to make sense of the legislation and to avoid the conclusion that changes have been made to the existing law which can not have been intended by Parliament . |
| 8 | Oswald and ( probably ) his brother , Oswiu , were the sons of Aethelfrith by Acha , sister of Eadwine ( HE III , 6 ) , and this may have facilitated acceptance of Oswald as king among the Deirans and the restoration of an overkingship , but the deaths of many of the Deiran royal family will have left a political vacuum at the heart of the Deiran kingdom which can not have been immediately filled by Aethelfrith 's sons . |
| 9 | It is mentioned in the Old Testament and Pliny likened its appearance to human genitals , which can only have helped its amatory cause . |
| 10 | In the history of the sciences in France , as in German critical theory , it is a matter at bottom of examining a reason , the autonomy of whose structures carries with it a history of dogmatism and despotism — a reason , consequently , which can only have an effect of emancipation on condition that it manages to liberate itself from itself . |
| 11 | Although it hardly seemed to notice the Hooligan affair , and its only immediate response was a front-page poem ‘ Hot Weather and Crime ’ which can only have been intended as a slap in the face for The Times leader on ‘ The Weather and the Streets ’ : The message was clear enough : if it took crime and violence to attract the attention of the mighty to the lives of the poor , then so be it . |
| 12 | But if one manages to gain their confidence the reward is a feast of learning and interesting comment which can only have been acquired by a lifetime spent largely in reading . |
| 13 | In the meantime , of course , he had become a Schopenhauerian , the relevant effect of which can only have been to confirm the validity of his preoccupation with music and his suspicion of the new musical idiom . |
| 14 | An interesting bit of supporting evidence for this view of person in the infinitive is provided by weather verbs , which can only have a third person support ( it ) because of their notional import . |
| 15 | Lord Lawson , in a speech on Monday night , the timing of which can hardly have been welcome to the Government , called for stringent public expenditure cuts and immediate tax increases to a total of £6 billion . |
| 16 | Lord Lawson , in a speech on Monday night , the timing of which can hardly have been welcome to the Government , called for stringent public expenditure cuts and immediate tax increases to a total of £6 billion . |