Example sentences of "[noun sg] can [vb infin] [to-vb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only substantial government control and ownership of industry can hope to deal with regional inequalities of employment . |
| 2 | Can my hon. Friend confirm that he will do all in his power to ensure that the Government are returned so that the Dover ferry industry can continue to benefit from high levels of exports ? |
| 3 | An American president can decide to focus on domestic policy only up to a point ; events in the wider world , leaders of other countries , have a habit of eating into time that the president thought he would spend on other things . |
| 4 | It is in this very area that European theology can start to communicate with that of Latin America , and this exchange of experiences and ideas on theology and communication can begin to inspire the different Christian traditions to look for a common language . |
| 5 | Drug abuse can lead to damage to main organs of the body , mental illness , malnutrition or death . |
| 6 | This Report focuses on some of the immediate problems , and suggests some possible solutions , but it must be emphasised that no single component of RBGE can hope to deal with all of these issues . |
| 7 | Now loan redemption is a matter for the Government to decide ( at least as to minima ) , and presumably comes down to a judgement about how much the Government thinks that local authorities as a whole can afford to redeem in any year . |
| 8 | If one assumes that any paddler runs a risk of shoulder damage when the shoulder angle is forced beyond 180 degrees , then a canoeist can choose to paddle at high risk with an arm position close to the limit or at low risk . |
| 9 | The topics and situations envisaged in the conversations should be those that the student can expect to meet in real life . |
| 10 | It is difficult to see how Evans-Pritchard 's approach can begin to cope with this sort of variation in responses to a culture 's religion . |
| 11 | popular books and magazine articles about science can help to put across new developments , but even the most successful popular book is read by only a small proportion of the population . |
| 12 | Her pension can continue to increase until such time as her husband gets his pension or reaches the age of 70 , whichever is sooner . |
| 13 | Even so , a 65-year-old male can expect to live for another 13.2 years and a female of the same age for 17.2 years . |
| 14 | Psychological experiments on human beings , and comparable studies of chimps , show that these species by contrast can learn to adjust to some systematic distortions of the physics of the visual field ( Stratton 1896 , 1897 ; Kohler , 1962 ) . |