Example sentences of "[adj] can [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Those interested can write to Good Life Study Tours , Institute for Food and Development Policy , 145 Ninth Street , San Francisco , CA 94103 , US .
2 Anyone interested can write to 14 Mulheim Close , Darlington , or telephone .
3 When combined with the need to acclimatise to life at 3,000m ( at Breckenridge or Copper Mountain , for example ) , the after-effects of a journey like this can eat into precious holiday time .
4 This can lead to mutual anger and resentment and to a partner feeling worthless and depressed .
5 This can lead to unnecessary investigations .
6 This can lead to unnecessary investigations .
7 It is easy , with the credit now being offered , to get a house full of new furniture and a washing machine on HP , but this can lead to financial bondage .
8 This can lead to iatrogenic disease ( drug induced ) , a problem which may be far more wide-spread than is generally realised .
9 This can lead to other opportunities and commissions .
10 This can lead to unquestioning acceptance of what is really a hypothetical diagnosis .
11 This can lead to occasional problems over who has priority .
12 Unfortunately , a great deal of our flying is done by habit and this can lead to serious problems if anything goes wrong on the first flight in a strange machine .
13 Drastic dieting puts stress on the body , leaving less energy for synthesising non-essential proteins — such as hair — and this can lead to temporary hair thinning .
14 McCallum and Adams ( 1981 ) have pointed out that this can lead to major discrepancies .
15 Thus each extra code describes a block of several symbols , and with suitable data this can lead to considerable compression .
16 This can lead to considerable misunderstanding between members of different societies as the following example provided by Otto Klineberg shows .
17 This can lead to confused feelings of obligation towards ex-parents-in-law , stepgrandmothers , and so on .
18 Encourage the puppy to allow you to have the toy on occasions right from the outset so that it does not become unduly possessive in later life , as this can lead to aggressive behaviour .
19 This can lead to clinical problems including the deformation of the bonded cusps of teeth ( Fig. 2 ) or to interfacial debonding and the production of microscopic gaps between restorative material and natural tooth tissue , and thus the development of dental monomers with zero polymerisation contraction would represent a significant advance .
20 This can lead to fervent acceptance or rejection uninformed by understanding , the imposition of one mode of thinking on another .
21 In the extreme this can lead to intense fear , even to predicting ( their ) time of death .
22 If there were no damage to the bones there should be exact correspondence between the numbers of major limb bone elements like humerus and femur and numbers of mandibles and maxillae , and departure from this can arise from preferential damage to or selection against either group .
23 This can range from 24 hours a day to as little as four to six hours .
24 This can last for some weeks .
25 This can result from either of two extremes of handling .
26 Chronic illnesses such as epilepsy can cause adult sufferers to become dependent upon family members , which can lead to confusion about individual family roles : children may have to take on adult responsibilities , denying their right to be a child , and this can result in major adjustment and behavioural problems as they grow older .
27 The main disadvantage , compared with conventional biological reactors , is that the process is not operated in situ , and this can result in higher treatment costs .
28 This can result in higher outputs , lower prices and the reduction of monopoly profits .
29 This can result in many physical problems from indigestion ( caused by the flow of excess acid into the stomach ) to the high blood pressure , strokes and even heart attacks caused by the reactions described earlier .
30 This can result in fast access if the application files lend themselves to this type of structure .
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