Example sentences of "to [pron] can " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ What you did to them can not have done much to put right what their own families had already done . ’ |
| 2 | First-time buyers ' purchases have halved since the last general election — which means that the existing owners who would have sold to them can not move either . |
| 3 | Having carried out such interviews ( and no set limit to them can be laid down ) researchers may then make a start on their topic headings and detailed questions . |
| 4 | The absence of any prospect of being able to do more than survive on the finances available to them can be deeply depressing . |
| 5 | ‘ Women get turned on in the head first so speaking to them can work wonders . ’ |
| 6 | They are even optimistic about conflicts between women , on the grounds that paying attention to them can produce gains in feminine self-realization ( e.g. Caplan 1981 , Orbach and Eichenbaum 1987 ) . |
| 7 | As with his genealogical history , Foucault 's meditations on power are not themselves without problems , but reactions to them can also be too hastily dismissive , often because it is assumed that they are proposed as a general theory . |
| 8 | It is also possible that guls possessed some mystical or totemistic significance , but although symbols aimed at warding off the " evil eye " are still found in some tribal weaving , any deeper meaning attributed to them can now be little more than conjecture . |
| 9 | And as those talking in this book illustrate , what has happened to them can easily happen to any girl . |
| 10 | It is only within the context of this ‘ world view ’ that particular features of the Victoria Centre and the attribution of meaning given to them can be understood . |
| 11 | However , there are now real problems and the solutions to them can no longer be delayed or fudged . |
| 12 | I said to them can I have a list they said oh yeah sure she went we 'll put it in your |
| 13 | You ca n't wave to them can you , cos you 're all covered up ? |
| 14 | This idea of type section for a particular stratigraphical division will be discussed in a later chapter ; all I must say here is that no type section known to me can possibly pretend to be representative of a whole unit of the stratigraphical column , however small . |
| 15 | Sometimes say people say to me can you give us |
| 16 | There is good reason to ask to whom can the assets of the grain marketing board be sold ? |
| 17 | To whom can shareholders turn for advice ? |
| 18 | They ca n't feel me cos they do n't know I 'm there , and if I want to I can fly over their heads and leave them behind and live in the sky . |
| 19 | What they belong to I can not say . |
| 20 | Up to you really chair , I mean they 're not signed in any way , so if you want to I can you know get them amended . |
| 21 | An inability to move through these feelings with some gentleness to ourselves can result in unresolved grief and even illness . |
| 22 | Scenes from the Dodekathlos , the canonical selected number of Twelve Parerga or Labours , to which can be added the Praxeis or Deeds , often incidental to the performance of the Parerga . |
| 23 | Such developments , to which can be added improvements in the quality of steel used in the making of armour ; the ability , as a consequence , to abandon the use of the shield , thereby freeing the left arm ; and the development of special rests which permitted the use of a much heavier lance , meant that the cavalryman , far from being an outmoded liability on the field , remained an indispensable element of the army , one whose value was , as we have seen , enhanced by training and by association with men using other weapons . |
| 24 | This is a sort of ‘ semi-film ’ , made by shooting the pictures of a specially drawn storyboard with a rostrum camera , which makes it possible to produce an almost moving picture with varying lengths of focus , to which can be added a recorded soundtrack . |
| 25 | The more common remedies are no less fanciful and voluntarist , from exhumation of the Schumpeterian entrepreneur to proposals for corporate cultural revivalism ( see Ray , 1986 ) and an evangelical faith in the explanatory purchase of ‘ economic culture ’ in its post-Confucian mode , an explanation to which can be attributed both the ‘ decline of the West ’ and the rise of East Asia . |
| 26 | Concepts such as these will have to be translated into readily understandable questions , the answers to which can serve as indices of the more abstract and theoretical concepts . |
| 27 | Network and relational database systems to which can now be added a fourth : |
| 28 | Once Newco commences paying dividends , these should be funded by payments of dividends from Target outside the group income election , so that Target must account for ACT , but Newco will receive franked investment income , the tax credit attaching to which can be used to frank its own ACT liability when it pays dividends to its shareholders . |
| 29 | As a consequence , ‘ it becomes apparent ’ , he says , ‘ that no proposition that makes assertions about the nature of a thing according to itself can be affirmed with confidence . ’ |
| 30 | This is the problem that behaviour which is privately profitable will not be wealth maximising overall where an actor can ignore the costs that its activities impose on others , for example where a company without cost to itself can emit into the atmosphere the noxious by-products of its production processes . |