Example sentences of "[Wh pn] can [verb] [Wh det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So as we can not predict human behavior , we may as well adopt the effective theory that humans are free agents who can choose what to do . |
| 2 | Yet it has also spawned some monstrous offspring which include such distortions as a dismissive attitude towards women , a view of work as punishment , a view of pain and hardship as revealing personal guilt , a view of the body and anything to do with it as inherently evil , a view of the earth as the property of homo sapiens who can choose what to do with it , a view of God as an insensitive , self-opinionated , unjust task-master concerned about protecting his own property and the slavish obedience of the human-beings he has created . |
| 3 | Mrs Browning was still pale and shaky as we settled ourselves by the fire ( and what the moon saw , or what it might have seen if its beams could have penetrated the closely-drawn curtains supplemented by plastic sheeting to foil the poison gas , might have seemed a little unusual ; but who can tell what strange sights are enclosed within the cheerful light of a curtained window ? ) . |
| 4 | Many date Mrs Thatcher 's real loss of credibility with the public to her own appearance on Yes , Minister ; fanciful perhaps , but in a semi-literate age who can tell what apparently innocent excursion will not produce serious results ? |
| 5 | After the trade wars with the West over cars and electronic goods , who can tell what that might mean for a country so dependent on trade ? |
| 6 | ‘ Who can tell what lies ahead ? |
| 7 | ‘ Who can tell what 's in there ? ’ |
| 8 | West Ham are one of the favourites to go straight up , but who can tell what the pressures of promotion will do to them in the final weeks . |
| 9 | ‘ A week wanting all these , and who can tell what tune you 'll be singing ? |
| 10 | Whereas in the classic Italian historical novel , Manzoni 's The Betrothed ( 1827 ) , much admired by Eco , the omniscience of the author consists in his ability to probe at will into the psychology of his characters and , at the same time , to link this to broad historical movements and even some sense of a providential ‘ plot ’ in history , in Eco it is closer to the power of the master craftsman who can make what he will with the materials to hand , and unmake it too . |
| 11 | Again , it is , as Sen puts it , ‘ the tradition of thinking in terms of what exists rather than in terms of who can command what ’ ( Sen 1981 : 8 , quoted in Redclift 1982 : 1 ) which ignores the vital question of access to food production and the fuel to cook it . |
| 12 | He is usually an old male who can anticipate which way the colobus will go and climbs a tree well ahead of them , so completing their encirclement . |
| 13 | There will be someone on the staff at your antenatal clinic who can explain what benefits you can claim . |
| 14 | This , of course , is fine if you have an on-board pilot who can feel what is happening . |
| 15 | He may just as well be a decision-maker , one who can foresee what decisions he will have to make , and what may happen as a result of them . |
| 16 | There is no one who can foresee what are the ultimate results . |
| 17 | In any event , all the adventurers who can see what 's going on feel excruciating hunger pangs and take an automatic Wound . |
| 18 | We do n't just need closed circuit T V , we need lighting on all the Park and Ride sites , we need proper heated warm , clean waiting rooms , supervised with a person with a glass window , who can see what 's happening there , who has all the monitoring screens and can look at the closed circuit T V and what 's happening all round the car park . |
| 19 | Who can predict what Brazilian carnival queen might not cross his path ? |
| 20 | Who can remember what four things which four things go into a blast furnace ? |
| 21 | Hands up who can remember what any of those stand for without looking on er |
| 22 | This is because it is only the school and its daily managers who can assess what it can afford — and what it has to afford — to do in terms of staff time and money and because it is the school which has , in the end , to initiate any assessment of the type of community assistance which will provide its partners with the benefits they seek . |
| 23 | Its leaders and pastors have long been the only people who can say what they think ; its press , although censored , is freer than the state media and its synods and congresses are the only places where people can openly discuss the problems in the country . |
| 24 | Who can say what will or will not contribute to the solution of problems ? |
| 25 | And who can say what will be going on by the time you read these words ? |
| 26 | A quest awaits us , no less , and who can say what it will bring ? ’ |
| 27 | ‘ But who can say what will happen between now and then ? |
| 28 | Chris is the only person who can approve what ? |
| 29 | If your organisation is a " high tech " company and works in areas such as microbiology or electronics it will be useful to have a trained scientist who can translate what the company is doing into terms which most people can understand . |