Example sentences of "can [verb] to be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The voting pattern for the parties is so uniform throughout the country that the influence on a constituency of a particular candidate is insignificant ; candidates without the support of a major party can expect to fail and minor or ad hoc or single-interest parties can expect to be swept aside … |
| 2 | Those who pursue explication can expect to be seen as suspicious , for they embody the marginality of the anthropologist , described by Lévi-Strauss ( 1973 : 67 ) as being someone who is ‘ psychologically speaking maimed , an amputee ’ . |
| 3 | According to Goffmann , what lends credibility to our concepts of personal self is the recognition of certain rules or conventions which limit the claims we can expect to be acknowledged with respect to freedom from untoward threat , interference and so forth . |
| 4 | Field men can expect to be contacted not only with requests to handle complaints , instructions to attend pollutions or collect samples , but also on quite trivial matters . |
| 5 | But King He can expect to be freed in three years ' time but Don King is convinced the former champion 's conviction will be overturned at a forthcoming appeal . |
| 6 | With both types , the lenders have your new home as security , but since they 're taking a bigger risk than normal , you can expect to be charged a higher rate of interest . |
| 7 | If it succeeds , other shops can expect to be brought to court . |
| 8 | Neil Tennant may wonder how they can expect to be taken seriously but , to millions of record buyers the world over , they are the ultimate realisation of the rock dream ; tribal passion , myth , commitment and the belief that guitars really can bring down governments . |
| 9 | You can expect to be promoted within two or three years of qualifying . |
| 10 | City goalkeeper Tony Coton can expect to be carpeted by the FA following spitting allegations during Tuesday 's win at Wimbledon . |
| 11 | A new entrant into a creative department can expect to be doing such jobs . |
| 12 | A pure Scot arriving in New York , Cardiff or any other of the non-Scottish capitals can expect to be welcomed by other Celts , whatever their original nation and however many generations have passed since their ancestors left it . |
| 13 | The average household can expect to be burgled once every forty years , for example , while violent confrontation between the intruder and victim is very rare — one per cent of ail cases . |
| 14 | A bureau that promises more output than it can deliver can expect to be penalized by lower budgetary allocations in the future ( Niskanen 1971 , p. 42 ) . |
| 15 | The lieutenant believed ‘ it will be a long time before he can expect to be advanced to be captain in so old a corps . |
| 16 | We are indebted to Beumont et al for having grasped the nettle in laying down the grade at which a girl or woman can expect to be respected as a climber and transcend the status defined by ‘ bimbo , ’ i.e. interesting only if she happens to be pretty . |
| 17 | There is now good authority that the plaintiff can decline to be interviewed by an employment consultant ( Larby Thorogood ( 1992 ) 136 SJ ( LB ) 275 ) . |
| 18 | For example , within a particular phoneme class , social groups can appear to be differentiated by greater or lesser preference for one particular phonetic realization of a single sound-segment . |
| 19 | In the early stages of maturity the fruit of a pure Chardonnay Champagne ( ie , a blanc de blancs ) can appear to be understated and cut by a certain ‘ steely ’ character , the deceiving taste of undeveloped and unharmonious extract . |
| 20 | Bondholders who fancy a punt on the bourse can choose to be paid in shares in newly-privatised companies . |
| 21 | He can no more diminish the amount of income which he has power to enjoy by the amount of his expenses than any other taxpayer who chooses to expend his income , however prudently , can claim to be taxed on what is left after the expenditure . |
| 22 | Whether or not Woolwich can claim to be awarded that interest depends on whether it had a cause of action to recover each payment as a debt due it on the date when it was made . |
| 23 | The apprehension of being ‘ seized ’ by the police is always present , but some of the arrests are pro forma so that local authorities can claim to be showing the necessary zeal . |
| 24 | Whereas we used to have what you might call an across-the-table relationship with our customers , now we can claim to be sitting on the same side of the table . ’ |
| 25 | In summary , it seems rather unlikely that forecasts taking the mid-1980s as a base year can claim to be measuring demand accurately . |
| 26 | The sooner the Liberal Democrats accept that they too need a pre-election deal to avoid extinction , the sooner some viable opposition to the Tories can begin to be created . |
| 27 | The new Labour government will begin the phased release of receipts from council house sales so that houses can begin to be built again . ’ |
| 28 | When the various negatives are put together , a case can begin to be made that sport is a destructive influence on American public life . |
| 29 | Furthermore , recording them on video allows for discussion in which the ‘ rules of appropriateness ’ can begin to be described rather than being left to instinct . |
| 30 | Postings to specialist courses are made by the Personnel Management Centre , for which recruits can apply to be nominated after one year in the service . |