Example sentences of "can [vb infin] [to-vb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The pastoral mode is undoubtedly , in its essence , a medium through which the poet , and indeed the reader , can endeavour to escape to other , more perfect , surroundings than the perplexing and chaotic , contemporary world they live in . |
| 2 | In answer , one might presume that implicit justifications can exist to deal with implicit criticisms . |
| 3 | limbo yeah , you 're coming together again in the house or whatever you have , a reception , and you need to go through that to come to terms with it or you can , you can need to go through that , but some people ca n't take the pressure emotional pressure of , you know , all the , hour , two hours , three , four hours before that it just , they |
| 4 | This opposition , expressed in terms of adult education , seems out of all proportion given that most women can expect to spend at most three or four hours a week in women-only classes as against a lifetime in the world of men . |
| 5 | Women of 60 can expect to live to 80 , men of the same age to 75 ( Victor , 1987 , p. 109 ) . |
| 6 | Even so , a 65-year-old male can expect to live for another 13.2 years and a female of the same age for 17.2 years . |
| 7 | The topics and situations envisaged in the conversations should be those that the student can expect to meet in real life . |
| 8 | We can expect to speak in other tongues , as I 've already mentioned from Mark sixteen , Jesus said it would happen . |
| 9 | Women can expect to have between live and eight children as a general rule , and in rural areas it is not uncommon for women to have up to I5 pregnancies . |
| 10 | The depth of colour you can expect to achieve in one week will depend on how dark your skin is naturally . |
| 11 | At recent rates about 80 per cent of married women can expect to work at some time in their married lifetime ( Martin and Roberts 1984 ) . |
| 12 | The intuition behind this optimal strategy is straightforward : it is optimal to sell all or nothing — all when the current price is higher than the price that one can expect to get on future sales , nothing otherwise ; it is optimal to produce at the point where marginal cost equals the expected price on sales . |
| 13 | ‘ Anything we can do to help with young Wilson ? |
| 14 | Is there anything I can do to safeguard against this ? |
| 15 | In accordance with the terms of the contract , you can choose to retire at any time after the age of 60 , when the policy will buy you a regular pension plus the option of taking part of the money as a tax-tree lump sum . |
| 16 | You can choose to play as one of two characters , Emily or Edward . |
| 17 | If one assumes that any paddler runs a risk of shoulder damage when the shoulder angle is forced beyond 180 degrees , then a canoeist can choose to paddle at high risk with an arm position close to the limit or at low risk . |
| 18 | The public profile of the CBI 's director general mainly derives from his willingness to pronounce in public on issues of political interest , his fluency and persuasiveness in doing so and the fact that he can claim to speak for British industry . |
| 19 | The selling division is thus motivated and the buying division has information it can use to arrive at proper economic decisions . |
| 20 | What is required here are rules which courts can use to distinguish between legal and illegal armed conflicts , and between legal and illegal methods of conducting legal armed conflicts . |
| 21 | It is difficult to see how Evans-Pritchard 's approach can begin to cope with this sort of variation in responses to a culture 's religion . |
| 22 | Within some relationships , the two partners can begin to move in opposite directions . |
| 23 | If we can get out from behind pride , we can begin to see with genuine appreciation the efforts and accomplishments of other people . |
| 24 | It is also now an independent body , and can begin to look for new ways to finance itself and improve its amenities . |
| 25 | Enterprise democracy differs from this in that ( a ) workers can begin to fight for such an objective in the absence of a socialist government and ( b ) it is by nature impossible for even the most ‘ socialist ’ of governments to develop enterprise democracy ‘ from above ’ . |
| 26 | ‘ As I watch , ’ she wrote , ‘ and it gradually gets later , I can begin to understand about different lights and see colours in the scene which I never before would have imagined … ’ |
| 27 | You could treat the fish with ‘ dips ’ out of the pond , but all you can hope to do at this point is to control the spread of secondary infections , such as ulcers and fungus and bacterial infections . |
| 28 | Only substantial government control and ownership of industry can hope to deal with regional inequalities of employment . |
| 29 | This Report focuses on some of the immediate problems , and suggests some possible solutions , but it must be emphasised that no single component of RBGE can hope to deal with all of these issues . |
| 30 | An American president can decide to focus on domestic policy only up to a point ; events in the wider world , leaders of other countries , have a habit of eating into time that the president thought he would spend on other things . |