Example sentences of "can [adv] [adv] [vb infin] to " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | For example , checking the items in the wrong order is totally unacceptable because it can so easily lead to missing something out altogether . |
| 2 | As such it could be seen as an alternative to armed conflict , an alternative to blind acceptance of an unsatisfactory and perhaps explosive status quo in the control of disputed territory , and even as an alternative to democratic political methods of dispute resolution which can so often lead to legitimately and dangerously dissatisfied minorities . |
| 3 | They 'll want to spend time looking at equipment they ca n't afford or can only just run to and will be at some stage of agonising over whether to buy or not . |
| 4 | With this particular letter I can not say why he chose not to , but he receives so many letters that he can not physically respond to all of them . ’ |
| 5 | With this particular letter I can not say why he chose not to , but he receives so many letters that he can not physically respond to all of them . ’ |
| 6 | We can not simply appeal to ‘ reality ’ and ‘ truth , as Miller and Swift do ; we can not root out prejudice by fiat nor make sexism disappear just by exposing it ; we have even less power to control what people say or mean than the prescriptivist defenders of sexist convention . |
| 7 | You can not simply propose to me with no more reason than the discovery that I happen to sleep with a woman and expect an instant answer . |
| 8 | Whereas the authentic socialist realist writer , by virtue of his/her ideological position , is able to " describe the forces working towards socialism from the inside " , the critical realist , although potentially capable in Lukacs 's terms of " grasping the new realities of the old order and of the old consciousness in their actual novelty and not as elements of disintegration of decay " can not ultimately accede to a socialist revelation of the world , trammelled as he/she is by vestiges of bourgeois ideology . |
| 9 | ‘ Perhaps I can rely upon the Merkuts , for they can not yet aspire to the throne . |
| 10 | ‘ If you act as a rubber stamp you can not also expect to be taken seriously as a watchdog . ’ |
| 11 | And we have no relatives there , so we can not even travel to West Germany to see uncles and aunts . |
| 12 | He has decided that the reason Iago proffers for his villainy ( especially the absurd idea that both Casio and Othello have slept with his wife ) are genuine , if deranged convictions , rather than the dispassionately improvised rationalisations of a mind that can not even account to itself for its limitless evil . |
| 13 | New methods will come , no doubt , with the fruition of that research which the Home Secretary has urged and supported ; but we can not even claim to be using existing methods , when 7,550 prisoners are sleeping tonight three in a cell , and when policies which , but for the war , would have been on the statute book in 1939 , and have already been on the statute book for half a generation , have hardly begun to be carried into effect for lack of premises . |
| 14 | At the general election we shall be justified in saying that the Conservative party can not again claim to be the party of law and order . |
| 15 | We can not therefore appeal to a widely accepted body of theory , and much of the discussion is qualitative in nature . |
| 16 | We can not rightly attribute to the Spirit any teaching which does not shed light on Jesus , or any religious experience which is not congruous with the life of Jesus . |
| 17 | These ‘ god-like ’ qualities can not really belong to more than one being . |
| 18 | I can not really add to the answer that I gave the hon. Member for Birmingham , Erdington ( Mr. Corbett ) . |
| 19 | Still , if you knew the pressure on beds here during the Festival you would be glad not to be in a tent in the gardens — often the fate of the young I do not , however , anticipate being away , as I can not really afford to be ( either literally £££ ) or away from job search which gets daily more depressing . |
| 20 | It is built up as it ‘ gathers up from the influences of the environment the demands which that environment makes upon the ego and which the ego can not always rise to … . ’ |
| 21 | It can not then go to the carer no matter how long the care has lasted . |
| 22 | However , the position may be different if the party seeking to enforce the terms knows that the other has never had actual knowledge of them , since he can not then claim to reasonably believe that the other was agreeing to the terms . |
| 23 | As a consequence of rule 12 an order for costs can not now lead to a taxation other than on a standard basis or indemnity basis . |
| 24 | He can not only bring to our remembrance what Jesus taught , but can reveal to us the deeper significance of his person , his death and resurrection which we could never have grasped by historical contemporaneity . |
| 25 | It is soon supported by words that a child can not only respond to but also make . |
| 26 | The likes of us we 've got a man behind us , but the likes of them I feel sorry for , they can not actually afford to be sick and that 's it . |
| 27 | Now it might be argued as was done by Kant , for example — that the idea of a non-arbitrary , objective , order is built into the very concept of an external object ; that one can not significantly refer to external objects qua external without acknowledging by implication the existence of such an order ; and in a sense this is of course true . |
| 28 | If Mr Sisulu senior ( and his seven fellow detainees ) are allowed to take part in political activities , his wife Albertina and their son Zwelakhe , a newspaper editor , can not realistically continue to be restricted . |
| 29 | I can not possibly explain to a lay audience the techniques I used to study these genes — although I can tell you they involved the use of a type of radio microscope , and considerable extremely complex computer work — the programming alone involved almost a year 's work . |
| 30 | He argues that Y-cells are so rare in the retina they can not possibly contribute to visual perception because their resolution , by themselves , is inadequate to convey any useful information . |