Example sentences of "[noun sg] that [pers pn] can [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er if you were er some people had a gas ring , you know , not a cooker , a gas ring those sort of ring that you can boil a kettle on , or you could have a saucepan . |
| 2 | Wright has such talent that he can become a much more exciting player than Lineker because he has the added bonus of being able to play with the ball as well as without it . |
| 3 | I wo n't wax eloquent about my doings etc … in the hope that we can arrange a rendezvous … |
| 4 | If the Conservatives are the largest single party , should he hang on as Prime Minister in the hope that he can do a deal with another party ? |
| 5 | POLICE in the Castlemilk area of Glasgow yesterday appealed for a taxi driver to contact them , in the hope that he can provide a clue to the murder of 66-year-old Daniel Currie at the weekend . |
| 6 | Next morning over breakfast I decide to go back into Þingeyri to catch a plane back to Ísafjöđ3ur in the hope that I can get a boat or bus from there . |
| 7 | Before we go , a reminder that you can see a new look Central Lobby after our late news this evening . |
| 8 | It 's only when all the minerals have been ‘ mopped up ’ by the soap that it can form a lather . |
| 9 | They may , indeed , deliver another painful lesson in what promises to be a fascinating derby match but Alex Ferguson 's team go into that encounter with pressure eased in the knowledge that they can drop a minimum of six points on a seven-match run-in . |
| 10 | That famous dish of cheese stewed with white wine and flavoured very expensively , but very necessarily , with kirsch , has of late years received so much publicity that you can find a recipe for it in almost any cookery book or magazine you pick up . |
| 11 | The belief that you can make a profit from investing in property has remained strong until recently . |
| 12 | And it does seem to me that erm I ca n't quite understand why it 's possible or it seems to be an argument that you can accommodate a bit more development , squash a bit development into Leeds and Bradford and it does n't matter very much . |
| 13 | By denying that we could empirically identify the linguistic framework employed by other agents ( or , indeed by ourselves ) , Quine challenged the claim that we can have a substantive prior conception of truth which can be used to formulate questions for transcendental reflection . |
| 14 | It is a characteristic of a task requiring vigilance that it can span a long time , minutes or hours or even a whole work-shift . |
| 15 | It is only when we begin to face an illness that we can find a cure . |
| 16 | What they 're ac what they 're trying to do is coordinate enough local parties with the same poster that they can make a block booking I would have thought . |
| 17 | Or they can converse in a sense that they can get a chord progression or a melody together that actually works , and says something , irregardless of the words . |
| 18 | And I said that 's the reason that you can get a car anytime you want it . |
| 19 | Yes , it says on the thing that you can attach a job description to the back , but I should say that probably they want it appraisals that you get back , there is n't a job description attached and there 's nothing written on the board . |
| 20 | It is a thing that you can have a little bit more of , or a little bit less of . |
| 21 | Perhaps we will refer later to the blatant dishonesty — I am sorry , I must watch my language ; let us say something bordering on the dishonest — of the suggestion that we can have a banding system which avoids for ever the problem of revaluation . |
| 22 | It is only with the help of adult hindsight and historical analysis that I can detect a period charged with political tension , of doomed innocence in waiting . |
| 23 | ‘ He needs to get fit and to improve his sharpness but it 's up to him to show that he can do a job for us , ’ said Flynn . |
| 24 | So that if we deal with it er er in a way that we can find a professionally acceptable |
| 25 | Psychometric testers have no doubt that they can construct a profile of your personality and aptitudes by asking 1,000 questions during a four-hour session , and by following them with an intensive two-hour interview with an occupational psychologist . |
| 26 | There is no doubt that we can fit a rule concerning evidentiary findings into our traditional terminology . |
| 27 | Identify placements which can be made available to school children in order that they can gain a firsthand view of the health service . |
| 28 | Indeed it is this alienation that is the welling source of their pride and self-esteem but in order that it can thrive a psychic and political boundary has to be drawn around it . |
| 29 | The occult power of dictators does n't lie in the fact that they 're clever they 're frequently quite limited , and I think Milosevic is a very limited man but in the fact that they can draw a great number of people and even whole nations into the circle of their mad ideas . |
| 30 | participating students ( and trainers ) from other member states are impressed by the fact that they can gain a nationally-recognised certificate from Scotland . |