Example sentences of "can [vb infin] [art] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | You can decree an end to the Cold War , but not to the arms manufacturers like Boeing . |
| 2 | In this section we merely want to put forward briefly the three main ways in which social policy has made and can make a contribution to increased consumption , investment , employment and hence to economic growth . |
| 3 | Solar heating does come into its own for the fairly specialised use of heating water for swimming pools and can make a contribution to heating the domestic hot water . |
| 4 | If there are no bridesmaids the groom can make a toast to his bride , who can speak next in reply . |
| 5 | I mean you 've got to be careful at the end of the tax year that you 're actually okay on that ground , er but , and you can make a declaration to the revenue if you 're over the limit , it 's just that I mentioned that because some people like a joint account for it to be received into so that they can both spend it basically . |
| 6 | Either way you can make a sale to a customer who otherwise may not be able to buy from you or who you may not have previously considered as a prospect . |
| 7 | Watch how you can make a difference to your environment . |
| 8 | Pupils often want to sit next to their particular friend and many classroom activities involve moving about , but even relatively small alterations can make a difference to the visual comfort of pupils with sight defects . |
| 9 | There is an increasing amount of evidence ( see Galloway 1985 , Reynolds and Sullivan 1981 ) which shows that teachers can make a difference to the levels of disaffection and alienation in their schools . |
| 10 | It is these basic measures which can make a difference to saving lives all over the world . |
| 11 | Any company or firm that believes itself to be a victim of behaviour by its competitors which infringes EC competition rules can make a complaint to DG IV against the parties concerned . |
| 12 | The case can make no pretension to scientific detachment : it is a declaration of nationalist faith , a recommendation of how we ought to see the world , not how it is . |
| 13 | One might attempt to reject that entire discussion on the grounds that whether we have free will or not can make no difference to the way we live our lives . |
| 14 | As a framework it can make no claim to be exhaustive or final . |
| 15 | The importing operation is very easy and you can specify just a range within a worksheet as well as an entire worksheet and can make the link to the source data active — so that when the data in your spreadsheet changes the chart in the slide is automatically updated . |
| 16 | I knew that the Vadinamian Intelloid who was the entry controller would guide Posi to orbital position where we would wait for our turn to land — for only one ship at a time can make the approach to Vadinimia 's unusual port . |
| 17 | can adapt a generalization to a new domain . |
| 18 | Get the change from 1st to 2nd right and you can cover the sprint to sixty in a fraction under five seconds . |
| 19 | Think of the different ways you can transmit a message to another human being : by waving , nodding , banging on the neighbour 's wall , writing a letter , frowning , slamming the door , moving away from someone who sits beside you , pointing , raising your eyebrows . |
| 20 | Typhoid is more difficult to eliminate because symptomless ‘ carriers ’ can transmit the disease to others , although most of the few cases today are imported ( see Chapter 7 ) . |
| 21 | Of course you can buy accounting systems with workflow management tools that can deliver a screen to you by mail for interactive questions and gathers data automatically to update the accounts . |
| 22 | ‘ If we do n't sell , we can lease the cellars to the Italians as they wanted . |
| 23 | This technique can relate a shape to its dual , eg , a dual of a horizontal line is a vertical line . |
| 24 | Anybody actually producing this expression with the intention of being meaningful would suppose that the addressee can make an attachment , can relate the language to some shared conception or perception of the world and so achieve the intended meaning . |
| 25 | You can insure a letter to most countries overseas . |
| 26 | If you can translate the act to the big time of global rock ‘ n' roll there 's the chance of a lifelong career but it 's a deceptively hard trick to pull off . |
| 27 | J 60010 DEF PROCE(B) 60020 REM Cambridge Computers Ltd. 60030 If B=0 THEN ENDPROC 60040 A=OPENOUT " : RAM.O/EE.CLI " You can append the editor to your BBCBASIC programs with the following command : *CLI. *EDBAS Your program should not , of course , use line numbers 60000 up . |
| 28 | Epinephrine can localise the sclerosant to the injected area , and maximise its effect . |
| 29 | ‘ We are checking rail stations but it seems you can catch a train to anywhere in the country at 5pm on a Friday from Leeds and so they could be absolutely anywhere . ’ |
| 30 | Strategically placed video cameras can alert the police to any trouble . |