Example sentences of "can [adv] [be] [verb] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I honestly ca n't be bothered to bullshit , ’ he says . |
| 2 | The Minister will know that , contrary to the Government 's views about linking business with the environment — we all agree that coal can successfully be converted to coke — for some reason the Coalite works in Bolsover seems to be polluting the whole environment . |
| 3 | In contrast to neighbouring Cuxton , where a most important Palaeolithic site was discovered in 1962 , the prehistory of Hailing as known at present can only be shown to date from Neolithic , or New Stone Age , times . |
| 4 | then he or she can only be forced to hand back the item if the price it cost him or her is paid in compensation [ Art . |
| 5 | It can be said that works of this kind — and there are many other possible examples begin more evidently from the actual art and culture in question , and can thus be assigned to history or criticism . |
| 6 | The general technique for converting an equation valid for SR into one valid in all frames , namely replacing normal derivatives by covariant derivatives , can not be applied to gravitation . |
| 7 | Mr Fuchs has made it clear that he can not be called to task for the museum 's deficit and has blamed two principal factors . |
| 8 | They can not be sent to prison — at least not yet . |
| 9 | High priority can not be given to presubmission enquiries ; in urgent cases they can be made in the form of a one-page fax . |
| 10 | Its nuclear establishments and their facilities such as the reactors and hot cells can not be decommissioned to greenfield status in the short term . |
| 11 | If Italian politicians can not be moved to action by protests from within their own country , it is up to us outside Italy to turn on the pressure in the world media . |
| 12 | Many have , and will , continue to argue that the private sector model can not be transferred to health care . |
| 13 | ‘ There are certain eternal values which can not be put to referendum , ’ he announced . |
| 14 | I have been there three times , but each time they say I must go back to the Home Office and try to get my daughter a visa for longer than a six months ' stay in Britain ; otherwise she can not be admitted to school . |
| 15 | The conclusion to the argument will be that there is a specific form of violence of a political kind outside of state control which can not be reduced to crime . |
| 16 | Power is not unitary , it does not reside in the stats , it can not be reduced to class relations ; it is not something to hold or use . |
| 17 | This does not mean that these procedures can not be adapted to classroom use . |
| 18 | This may be due to its availability as a popular aquarium fish , but it certainly can not be attributed to lack of sex identification . |
| 19 | As the Committee emphasised , however , the acoustic problems are of long standing and can not be attributed to television . |
| 20 | A Design Change ( DC ) which is in the state CREATED ( state 1 ) can not be submitted to LIFESPAN for assessment without at least one module name being listed on PAGE 3 of the DC form . |
| 21 | The danger is that the question of methodology can easily be turned to dogma according to any premises . |
| 22 | This explains why women place a high priority on the right words , soft music , anything that can generally be attributed to romance . |
| 23 | If there is an element of design on Pechorin 's part in the duel he fights , an element which incorporates a knowledge of the loaded dice to be employed by his opponent in the form of an unloaded pistol , the outcome can still be ascribed to chance , in a sense that must be meant to characterise the hero 's fine indifference . |
| 24 | The indexes , in Latin and English , are followed by seven practical lists , similar to those in the catalogues of many leading nurserymen today and they can still be consulted to advantage . |
| 25 | It has less memory than the MP version , but can still be upgraded to MP capability . |
| 26 | Starving Somalis , and now it seems , starving Bosnians , and many others have reason to be grateful that the generous conscience of America can still be roused to action , often at major risk to American lives . |
| 27 | Some words are already almost music : Shakespeare 's words are already so musical that they can hardly be set to music . |
| 28 | To take but one example of overlap , the kinds of question that are routinely asked in media education can fruitfully be applied to literature : who is communicating with whom and why ; how the text has been produced and transmitted ; how it conveys its meaning . |
| 29 | The method can also be extended to aggradation deposits of interglacial age . |
| 30 | Dolbec and Le Flem 's ( 1980 : 310ff ) argument from the use of a predicate adjunct with the French infinitive can also be applied to English . |