Example sentences of "[noun] can [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This rationality is well described by a former head of the British civil service , Sir Douglas Allen : ‘ The desire for uniformity of treatment , coupled with accountability for decisions , require elaborate codes and rules so that a multiplicity of decision-makers can produce acceptably similar results in similar cases ’ ( cited in Thomson 1983 : 141 ) . |
| 2 | All this should be obvious enough , but your real problem is to suggest how George and Marie can finance the changes needed , which will take time to become effective . |
| 3 | Marie can come back to the house and bring her baby and we can carry on like before with me sleeping on the floor and that . |
| 4 | " We do n't see people suffering immediately from drinking water , so the EPA can decide it 's not a problem they have to deal with right away " , he said , adding that , " the programme is a shambles " . |
| 5 | Lounging in bed long after waking can leave you feeling only half-awake all day . |
| 6 | To argue that religion can go wrong , and therefore should be rejected , is like saying that because surgery can go wrong , therefore all surgeons should be pensioned off . |
| 7 | The question thus with which we are confronted is that of whether this religion can contain the new consciousness of women . |
| 8 | But I would say to each of your listeners I sure you know people who find a tranquility , a centredness , a source of strength and confidence in their religious faith , they are the representatives of what religion can do , not the Ayatollahs , and not the fanatics , and not the people on television , but the people who spend their lives trying to be good and helpful , and one day they 'll look around and realise that happiness has snuck in the back door when they were n't even looking for it . |
| 9 | No limited , finite positive form of religion can encapsulate the universality or infinitude of religion . |
| 10 | The unacceptability of certain conversion methods is accentuated for Gandhi by his belief that all religions have elements of truth and error and that no particular religion can lay claim to a monopoly of the truth . |
| 11 | The basis of the book is that we are unfulfilled because we 've grown too sophisticated for God , we 're lonely , we 're morally confused , and I think God is the answer for this , it fashions , religion fashions the kind of community in which you 're redeemed from loneliness , it gives you the sense that when you come close to the end of your life you do n't have to panic that you have wasted your life because religion can show you that you have made a difference to the world . |
| 12 | As we have seen , Gandhi recognizes that no single religion can embody the whole truth , and that all particular religions contain errors since they are human constructs or formulations , but does it follow necessarily that when he speaks of Religion underlying all human constructs , or at the heart of all religions , he is referring to an ‘ essence ’ of an ‘ entity ’ or a ‘ primordial form ’ of religion after the fashion of Schleiermacher ? |
| 13 | His rejection of the right of a religion to claim superiority for itself over other religions underlines his claim that no particular religion can embody what he calls the one , true and perfect Religion . |
| 14 | A basic interest in questions about the meaning and purpose of life ( a ) to challenge secularist assumptions and to appreciate that religious truth-claims can not be easily dismissed ; ( b ) to understand what is distinctive about religion , that is , what it essentially concerns , and be able to distinguish between that and features of it which can vary and perhaps be dispensed with altogether ; ( c ) to realize in particular in how many different ways religion can masquerade as something else , and fail to be what it claims to be ; ( d ) to appreciate the highly controversial nature of religion and of almost everything that is said about it by anyone , whether religious or not ; ( e ) to have a firm grasp of criteria by which to evaluate precise examples and manifestations of religion in practice ; ( f ) to appreciate the force of the question-mark with regard to the ultimate divide between religion and non-religion , and to appreciate the reality of the dilemma , and the ways in which religion needs to be questioned for its failures , negative attitudes , hypocrisy and externalism . |
| 15 | ‘ Or do you see him as an inconvenient remnant of outmoded superstition — a bit like a gallstone — of which we must all be purged before religion can take on its true form , that is , without him . ’ |
| 16 | It is difficult to see how avoiding teaching about what is distinctive of religion can help people gain an understanding of it ! |
| 17 | Yet , as has already been discussed in Chapter 3 , it unfortunately is the case that religion can become a powerful ally of thuggery , violence , aggression , intolerance and denial of human rights . |
| 18 | Moreover , the tendency of the instinct to create beauty rather than ugliness can be protected only by the power that a ‘ god ’ and religion can provide . |
| 19 | So said Freud , it 's no wonder that people believe in religion , because religion can provide you with a lot , with a lot of gratification , but the fundamental psychological explanation for this , says Freud , is that these feelings that religion gratifies in adult life , are transferences of feelings that we all had in infancy . |
| 20 | There are times when a little extra speed can make a big difference to how your mail is received by overseas clients or family and friends abroad . |
| 21 | There 's stll Rocky and Tinkler in the wings , Wallace can play wide on either side and Speed can play in the middle , so we would still have enough cover . |
| 22 | Some words can go in more than one category : put them in the category of the simplest error , or the one that offers the simplest way in to teaching . |
| 23 | Mr Chairman , two points I want to make and er I get , I can link where the words can go on the top where under the leadership of County er survey , and the la at the end of that last paragraph . |
| 24 | ‘ You may think it is doubtful that any words can express what he did to that young girl , ’ he told the jury of eight women and four men . |
| 25 | But there 's a procedure and the procedure , our stewards recognized that the procedure was there to be effectively operated and if words can resolve a problem , and that 's how we became trained in the situation affecting all our members . |
| 26 | Erm if words can resolve the problem , then at the end of the day , there 's no need for a man or a body of men to lose money . |
| 27 | This drawback is offset by the chance to create absolutely anything words can conjure up . |
| 28 | Smiles can also be chilly , just as words can bite and sneer . |
| 29 | It 's strange that two quite different words can mean the same thing . |
| 30 | However one check to this theory should be that , although the poems all do fit their settings in the story very tightly , there is a strong sense even so that the same words can mean different things in different places . |