Example sentences of "[conj] can [adv] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Without the talks process , there is a vacuum in Northern Ireland politics that can only lead to more violence . ’ |
| 2 | Because , by obvious reasons that can only happen to one person . |
| 3 | it has more explanatory power because it involves direct observation and can hence lead to remedies . |
| 4 | However it has been claimed that Markov probabilities do not give significant reductions in word error rate , and can even lead to an increased error rate ( Riseman and Ehrich , 1971 ; Riseman and Hanson , 1974 ; Hanson , Riseman and Fisher , 1976 ) . |
| 5 | The inevitable over-simplification , if not actual misrepresentation , of the richness , complexity and dynamism of religious traditions can be deeply offensive to religious believers and can even lead to charges of racism . |
| 6 | The patient is conscious and can even report to the surgeon any experience he or she may be having as the operation progresses . |
| 7 | Trampling of vegetation is one of the most widespread environmentally degrading repercussions of recreation and can also lead to excessive soil erosion . |
| 8 | Such additions to the software , which are necessarily written in machine code , are very effective but their production is fairly complex and time-consuming and can also lead to serious problems if transfer to a different machine is attempted . |
| 9 | This is by far the commonest cavity for lasers in general , but has major drawbacks from a theoretical standpoint : the standing-wave pattern greatly complicates the atomic response and can also lead to multimode operation , and time and space are much more intimately mixed in the feedback process . |
| 10 | The computer can record input and present analyses to a high level of detail , and can also dictate to an extent the order in which mathematical tasks are performed , e.g. estimation before computation . |
| 11 | This contains a software interface for personal computers and can also link to devices such as synthesisers or video recorders . |
| 12 | On such occasions , there is a process of mutual education and stimulation which can at times descend to mere manipulation of the delegates by the leadership and can also rise to a high level of discourse about the basic problems confronting the nation . |
| 13 | They are likely to be fairly extrovert personalities , who are clear and confident in their approach to people and can easily relate to a stranger by establishing immediate contact . |
| 14 | This is one of the most crucial periods when breeding any of the gouramis as the babies are very small and can easily starve to death if enough food is not in front of their noses . |
| 15 | The solicitors in whose favour the contract has been released , are then free to undertake a telephone exchange of contracts in accordance with Law Society Formula " A " or " B " , as appropriate , and can then return to the original solicitors at the end of the chain in order to complete the exchange of the released contract in the same way as they would if dealing with Law Society Formula " A " or " B " . |
| 16 | Plywood is a different story and can almost claim to be a new material and a most successful one . |
| 17 | The nature of allocation and apportioning of such costs tends to be arbitrary and can therefore lead to distorting the costs associated with products . |
| 18 | Although the Nursery is only a small unit , it is very much a part of the whole School and can therefore give to those pupils in the upper Senior School , who intend to pursue a child-orientated career , the opportunity of contact with young children by assisting in the nursery on a regular timetabled basis , while the Nursery children can benefit from their contact with their older ‘ brothers and sisters ’ within the Heriot 's Community . |
| 19 | You will not be driven like the commercial nursery into getting as many as you can per acre ( hectare ) , and can therefore afford to be a little more generous with spacing to give yourself room to move about more comfortably . |
| 20 | The traditional bran mash is very low in calcium and can therefore add to the problem instead of helping it . |
| 21 | And that means that even the AS/400 is potentially at risk , and can only continue to be a winner if IBM builds in a big discount to compensate for the fact that it is proprietary — yet instead of recognising this vulnerability , with its incredible but consistent short-termism , the company is squeezing AS/400 users until they squeal with its software pricing on the machine . |
| 22 | If it is true that meaning reduces to use , then surely all mention of " identity " is inappropriate and can only lead to confusion . |
| 23 | This affects petrochemicals and metal manufacturing but can also extend to processes like whisky bottling . |
| 24 | In either case he does not run the risk of being left with the goods ; if he can not find a purchaser he can return them to X. The answer is that he is X 's agent if under the terms of his contract with X he has no right himself to buy the goods but can only sell to a third party , Weiner v. Harris ( 1910 C.A. ) . |