Example sentences of "[det] can [verb] [is] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The belief that this can continue is an illusion . ’ |
| 2 | One instance where this can arise is if there are two males of the same , or closely-related , species and they are of about the same size . |
| 3 | The most this can mean is that the people who voted for the party did so knowing that it was planning to do certain things , and that therefore these voters can be assumed to have consented to those plans . |
| 4 | The reason why this can happen is ( to recall figure 2.3 ) that economies of scope involve a comparison between points on the axes of a cost function drawn in output space , with an interior point . |
| 5 | Yeah erm one thing , you were a little bit nervous to start with and what that can do is to give you a tendency to piggyback questions , is that something you 're aware of ? |
| 6 | The answer will be N minus one where N is the number of paired scores , so the maximum value that that can obtain is N minus one . |