Example sentences of "can [adv] [vb infin] to [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think most policeman ca n't relate to sociology at all , because , you see , the way we 're taught everything is black and white : those who do bad should be punished , those who do good should be rewarded . |
| 2 | TRAGIC LUCY CA N'T GO TO SCHOOL WITH PALS |
| 3 | You ca n't go to school with green hair . ’ |
| 4 | Well you ca n't go to Isle of Wight at that time of day . |
| 5 | to work together and deliver an effective result because nobody gains anything in the eyes of the people of this county by allowing this thing to go on and on and on and what they feel is if we ca n't get to grips with it what on earth are we doing with our existence . |
| 6 | If you 're in a restricted area and you want somebody to do something you ca n't get to cranes in there , you 've actually got to say I 'll do that one and then I 'll do that one . |
| 7 | What Morrissey still ca n't come to terms with is that now , for some strange reason , hordes of people profess to have fallen in love with him and previous to the band , he often states , no girl ever even took him into consideration . |
| 8 | but erm , have erm problems with what this lady has described who ca n't come to terms with |
| 9 | ‘ You 're just crotchety because you enjoyed my kissing you and you ca n't come to terms with it , ’ he said mildly . |
| 10 | ca n't come to terms with it |
| 11 | The right way to indicate its nature is , therefore , to give instances where it is present , and to describe its interaction with other parts of the system to which it belongs , in particular when the interaction leads to predictions which can be checked ; simple as the system may be , we shall find that successive interactions can swiftly lead to structures of quite satisfying complexity ( see Appendix B ) . |
| 12 | Properly used , it seems to me that quantitative methods can only lead to advances in our subject . |
| 13 | The DTI consider that although the title of the Directive applies to all contracts involving consumers , the recitals and indeed parts of the text , imply that it can only apply to contracts for the supply of goods and services . |
| 14 | The United Kingdom therefore can not argue on the basis of the fact that article 7 can only apply to discrimination between ships if they are of different ‘ nationalities ’ in order to justify differences in treatment between natural or legal persons of different nationalities . |
| 15 | Since the Judicature Act , just as much as before it , if A sells the property to C , who knows nothing of the trust , and transfers the legal ownership to him , B's rights to the property are destroyed ; he can only look to A for compensation for the breach of trust . |
| 16 | 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 ) . |
| 17 | This merely enables the local authority to rely on the private law concepts relating to the passing of the burden of covenants attached to land , i.e. the burden of a covenant can not pass to successors in title at common law , Austerberry v Oldham Corporation , and only restrictive covenants , as opposed to positive covenants may pass under the equitable rules , first proposed in Tulk v Moxhay . |
| 18 | He may also face the prospect of long-term hardship , if he can not return to work at all . |
| 19 | They can not exist to society as a whole ’ . |
| 20 | ( Except , of course , that the type can not be more general than the lexical item used to refer to it : this apple can not refer to fruit in general . ) |
| 21 | Legal advice and assistance on child care matters is available under the green form scheme but can not extend to representation in court although it may cover the cost of a solicitor attending court with a client as an advisor ( Legal Advice and Assistance Regulations 1989 , reg 21 ) . |
| 22 | ‘ Part of the problem is that I can not come to terms with my image . |
| 23 | I really can not come to terms with the fact that I am … there 's lots of interesting work to do — there was in the job I did — and I want so much to identify with that rather than just sit back here and say ‘ I 'm a housewife and I 'm happy ’ … because I could n't be . |
| 24 | They just can not come to terms with the death of the Lancashire coalfield . |
| 25 | Some absorb the gas quickly , whereas others circulate it slowly and can not respond to floods of bright light . |
| 26 | Apart from a very limited number of highly specialist areas of the environment where changes will automatically trigger responses within the enterprise ( e.g. the financial markets , meteorology ) , an enterprise can not respond to changes in its environment unless someone , or some people make(s) a positive effort to transfer information about the changes to the person or persons within the enterprise charged with responding to the changes ( or not , as the case might be ) . |
| 27 | No , you can not get to India from what I 've heard , you can not get in |
| 28 | The morality of Ulysses 's speech just can not apply to life in the Greek camps ; base instincts clearly hold sway outside , as well as inside , the Trojan gates . |
| 29 | But , so far , government officials involved in negotiating the 1992 directives can not point to instances of the Germans becoming more obstructive . |
| 30 | The unpredictability of death can easily lead to embarrassment for the firm , not least because of the fundamental obligation of the personal representatives of a deceased partner to realise the assets comprised in his estate at an early date : and one of these assets will be the deceased 's share in the surplus assets of the firm or ( where the agreement so provides ) the right to be paid out for the value of that share . |