Example sentences of "[Wh det] can [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Any ‘ stable world ’ it presents is further overwhelmed by the progressive revelation that each narrator exists only as an imaginative device of a subsequent one , in a succession of evasions leading towards the unnamable author and the depths of an impulse to articulate , which can neither rest nor ever consummate its desires . |
| 2 | To possess someone in the mind is to be saved from a brutal repudiation in reality , and instead to love the ethereal , which can neither disappoint nor satisfy , but only act as a goad . |
| 3 | Countries which can neither supply raw materials nor offer substantial markets play relatively little part in Japanese thinking . |
| 4 | Typically these are pure public goods which can jointly benefit many people and where it is difficult to exclude people from the benefits . |
| 5 | Consideration of funding in relation to population distribution and the needs of the region seems to indicate a low and decreasing ratio of support from South East Arts to those areas of North Kent which can generally recognized as the Medway area . |
| 6 | For typical coupling constants , this curve ( figure 1 ) however yields two conformationally feasible values which can generally correspond to either B I or B II states . |
| 7 | These military and familial idealised images of cooperation and conflict , then , break down in the face of current realities so there has to be another metaphor which can both explain and inform behaviour when conflicts or interests arise between management and work force . |
| 8 | Spurious indicators of difficult concepts such as ‘ dependency ’ can result ( see for an example Booth ( 1985 ) ) , which can both alter service provision and lead to new forms of labelling . |
| 9 | History draws on the record of the entire human past ; it is a subject of immense breadth which can both inform , and draw upon , other areas of the curriculum ; ix ) to prepare pupils for adult life . |
| 10 | Evidence shows that untreated milk has a higher nutritional value and contains anti-infective agents which can both restrict the growth of contaminating bacteria in milk and give the consumer protection against infection . |
| 11 | This example illustrates the fact that the formal rules have to be understood against a background of constitutional conventions which can both expand and modify the strict legal rules . |
| 12 | Hypothermia is the cooling of your whole body which can eventually result in death . |
| 13 | Women , who apparently thrive on stress , display typically aggressive ‘ type A ’ behaviour , which often includes becoming ‘ hooked ’ on vigorous exercise , hormonal imbalance which can eventually lead to irregular periods and weight loss resulting in an early menopause , brittle bones , thinning and wrinkling of the skin , and falling hair . |
| 14 | We believe in fruitful dialogue and discussion , though we do not shirk necessary argument , and we provide courses and authoritative manuals for people who work in woods , manage our rivers and create new gravel pits which can eventually become havens for birds . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The other emerging trend is to provide PC-based systems which can either contribute to or make actual use of the documents produced on the main system . |
| 17 | Never under-estimate the power of the mind-body , which can either trap or liberate the spiritual aspect of self . |
| 18 | It is quite reasonable to make this identification : in practice , a process which can either behave correctly or diverge will probably do the former while it is being tested , but will do the latter when it is being used in earnest . |
| 19 | It 's important that if you do get an ache or a strain , treat it with a specialised spray similar to what trainers use with injured athletes which can either heat up an area or cool it rapidly , bringing relief . |
| 20 | It 's important that if you do get an ache or a strain , treat it with a specialised spray similar to those trainers use with injured athletes which can either heat up an area or cool it rapidly , bringing relief . |
| 21 | Figs 3 and 4 were generated by a flexible PostScript generator , show , which can either summarize the entire data-set on a single page , or show it in greater detail spread over several pages . |
| 22 | While commercial gravel tidies are available , these tend to be rather expensive , of a standard size and often as not , of an extremely fine mesh size which can soon block . |
| 23 | But as well as the bills and routine costs , there are of course the hidden costs of good health — hidden costs which can soon become expensive indeed . |
| 24 | The intense involvement which can soon develop makes programming one of those rather rare activities in which time can cease to exist and the passage of hours goes by unnoticed . |
| 25 | There is a pattern of initial frankness followed by aggrieved resentment which can finally sink to a self-excusing cynicism . |
| 26 | Small local software firms , which can ill afford overheads like publicity and advertising , are worried that the increasing preference for tie-ups will stunt their growth . |
| 27 | It is important to distinguish between systems analysis which can mathematically optimize some attribute of the links within and between systems , and General Systems Theory which purports that all systems can be understood by the application of systems principles . |
| 28 | In Spain Courtaulds Fibres , Barcelona , switched over to electronic mail two years ago , using a software package called DaVinci , which can easily link up with cc:Mail . |
| 29 | Weber gives as reasons for this power position of the bureaucratic and political elites their possession of the means of administration and the fact that they are small groups which can easily reach agreement upon any action necessary to maintain their power . |
| 30 | However , numerical experimentation has , of course , its own problems , lack of awareness of which can easily lead to spurious conclusions . |