Example sentences of "can [adv] come [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But your conclusion can properly come to a decision on one side , and need not remain balanced ( so avoid : " both sides have their virtues and it is difficult to decide between them " ) . |
| 2 | They can literally come to you at the museum can they ? |
| 3 | It 's odd the memories that can suddenly come into your mind . |
| 4 | A grossly unstable patient from a referring hospital turns out to be a typical ( for us ) unstable angina ; a patient with life-threatening ventricular tachycardia can only come to Barts for the appropriate highly specialised medical or nursing therapy ( or one of the few other centres , most of which are also on the Tomlinson hit-list ) . |
| 5 | " A tomboy 's like a whistling woman and a crowing hen , who can only come to a bad end . |
| 6 | To undertake this kind of management requires considerable knowledge and close personal relations between central and field workers , qualities only bred of confidence and maturity of judgement which can only come with time . |
| 7 | As the final sentence of the chapter puts it , The belief which inspires every paragraph of the present Report is that this much-desired spiritual unity in the nation and the equally necessary uplift in the whole level of the popular imagination can only come through a general acknowledgement of the paramount place which the native speech and literature should occupy in our schools and in the common life of our people . |
| 8 | These can only come in a planned economic system and will never come through the irrationalities of the market . |
| 9 | Planck forbids that , for he says that the energy ( equals loudness ) of vibration can only come in packets of a size prescribed by [ 1 ] But as yet he was not taken that seriously . |
| 10 | Reaction against the weapons of ‘ The Thing ’ — I take that now , in concluding , as typical of some , though not all , of the classifications into which I have exhorted you to divide the breaches of law and order — reaction against its contradictions , its absurdities , its defiance of known , established , healthy reality , can only come from individual persons — and from individual persons who speak . |
| 11 | Such a deeply mistaken belief can only come from a citizen of a country with a disciplinarian attitude to politics . |
| 12 | And yet they , like peace and tranquility , can only come from within you . |
| 13 | If there is to be change and development in a person 's life , it can only come from within the individual . |
| 14 | Such openness can only come from confidence . |
| 15 | In the capitalist society , natural growth can only come from retained earnings . |
| 16 | For James Stansfield , a prominent repealer , the critique of regulationism was founded on the belief that ‘ humanity is governed by a providential law which can only come from one source ’ . |
| 17 | True knowledge and true understanding , it is implied , can only come from a divine source . |
| 18 | These are written with the precision that can only come from deep knowledge . |
| 19 | Yet even these others ( researchers ) have to be given a direction and that direction can only come from some pre-existing knowledge in the field . |
| 20 | It is that these additional deposits can only come from some other bank . |
| 21 | The regional tourist boards should now be strongly supporting the need for the national framework , for guidance and assistance that can only come from a central body — yet they dare not speak too loudly for fear that their reduced funding will be cut even further if DoNH reallocates it to the national level . |
| 22 | The ERA is conscious that change can only come from the residents themselves , and it begins to organize the women . |
| 23 | Harris ( 1982 : 52 ) points out , for instance , that the occurrence of self with the infinitive reveals the existence of what he calls a " subject " , so that , in transformational terms , " To hate oneself is unwise can only come from For one to hate oneself is unwise " . |
| 24 | No one can afford to keep open beds that are not being used , not just losing savings but soaking up resources that can only come from cuts in other vital social services . |
| 25 | This competition can not come through direct market mechanisms . |
| 26 | Meaningful change can not come through the existing political system . |
| 27 | Obviously the hypothetical death-genes can not come into action before later life . |
| 28 | The future can not come into being until the past is dead . |
| 29 | There is , he says , a social precondition for the emergence of such monsters : they can not come into existence without the ‘ collectively humiliated ’ masses who follow , boundlessly adoring and blind , German or Iraqi alike . |
| 30 | She can not come into gents ’ department until the marriage is over . ’ |