Example sentences of "[noun sg] [Wh det] can [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A rationale after a command which can obscure what is required and encourage the child to ask questions and side track , e.g. ‘ Please pick up your toys , you 've got a friend coming and I want your room to look tidy ’ . |
| 2 | ‘ I believe he is smart and intelligent enough to realise he is now at a club which can satisfy him emotionally . |
| 3 | The common police services must be combined in a central police agency so that we can deal with serious and organised crime , not necessarily crime which immediately affects the lives of constituents but crime which can affect them through the stealing of their pension funds or the misappropriation of their assets and savings . |
| 4 | This will provoke a strong pull-back which can draw you towards the opponent Lash out with a back fist the instant this happens . |
| 5 | Navel-ill is another disease condition which can affect your young foal . |
| 6 | ‘ Bob , I understand now that nothing in life is as easy as it at first seems , and that being in love is a condition which can cause one a great deal of pain . |
| 7 | And they 're not help particularly by this text which can consume them with a sense of guilt as far as their faith is concerned . |
| 8 | The letters on the chart indicate visual reference points mentioned in the text which can confirm his position , and the pictures , taken during the flight , correlate the actual geographical feature seen from the air with the appearance of the feature on the map . |
| 9 | Sometimes our resistance to the idea of dependence leads us to a degree of enthusiasm which can impair our judgement about need . |
| 10 | Therefore , the only committee which can over-ride it , is this one . |
| 11 | Because intensive livestock production renders the animals more susceptible to disease most stockmen have developed a degree of veterinary skill which can make them a decisive factor in the profitability of any livestock enterprise . |
| 12 | No , I was thinking of a far worse fate Which can o'ertake you when you 're 28 . |
| 13 | As this indicates , most are somewhat one-sided and limited in scope , and we need to move towards a synthesis which can enable us to grasp the most significant relationships and processes involved in the local politics of an increasingly diversified , and ‘ restructured ’ , Britain . |
| 14 | It is the subjective nature of ethnicity which can make it tricky to handle as a speaker variable . |
| 15 | A bolt thrower is a powerful weapon which can hurl its bolt through several ranks of troops , piercing each warrior in turn . |
| 16 | With the current state of the UK economy and the level of unemployment any tool which can increase your chances of getting that perfect job must be well worth the money . |
| 17 | If you have a shop which can sell anything , why ca n't a grocer sell anything ? |
| 18 | Trust that you have a deeper self which can handle your day better than ‘ you ’ can , and see what happens . |
| 19 | It is perhaps appropriate that in an age which can design its high-speed trains to resemble aeroplanes and its low-speed trains to resemble buses , its stations should equally have no identifiable association with the railways . |
| 20 | The castle is a human body and while retaining a conventional castle architecture , Spenser sets out to show how the well-organised body is a fortress which can maintain itself from attack by savage exterior forces . |
| 21 | This love seems to vary in intensity from near non-existence in some creatures , turtles for example , to the intense feeling which can reach its highest value in the love of the human parent for a child . |
| 22 | Central to our vision of the New Europe , therefore , is an industrial strategy which can enable us to compete and succeed in the modern world . |
| 23 | This saves on unnecessary drying which can damage your hair . |
| 24 | Justice for the Poor is a vision which can unite us all . |
| 25 | The MPs are here to scrape the rust off the derelict machinery of government , to recreate the corroded institution that will have to elect a president and produce a government which can impose its rule on Lebanon — and on the militia leaders . |
| 26 | Adoption has primarily been seen as a means for infertile couples to gain a family , but other people may also choose to adopt : birth relations eg , grandparents ; step-relations ; those wishing to increase their family and offer a child a home ; families already fostering the child ; families with hereditary illness which can affect their biological children . |
| 27 | And it also shows the special circumstances which tend to tie women into the sort of close personal relationship with a weekly credit caller which can mean they are using a relatively costly form of credit almost automatically — see chapter 5 . |
| 28 | It is very distressing to find out at a later date that you have made a mistake which can cost you dearly . |
| 29 | Our choice of ‘ aware ’ , as a philosophically uncorrupted word which can help us to approach philosophical problems from a different angle , does have something to do with its recent currency in the valuations of ordinary discourse , as when someone is said to apply abstract principles without being aware of other people as persons , or to have lost by too exclusive concentration on the uses of things awareness of the colours of dawn and the scent of the flowers . |
| 30 | He joined Bell Cowan in 1964 , which was the driving force behind the merger in 1975 that eventually produced Bell Lawrie , a firm which can trace its roots back to 1815 . |