Example sentences of "can [vb infin] to [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Everyone can relate to the problems of accommodating all their desires in the same place . |
| 2 | ‘ The attraction of wrestling with the six-year-olds is that they can relate to the characters . |
| 3 | The trader can appeal to a magistrates ' court against the notice and obtain compensation if there has been no contravention . |
| 4 | If for example the fire officer requires a company to introduce new fire precaution equipment in an office and the owners of the office consider the fire officer is being unreasonable , the owners can appeal to the magistrates to adjudicate on the matter . |
| 5 | ‘ The catering industry needs things like industrial cleaners for dishwashers which are phosphate free , for instance , and if we can speak to the suppliers as an industry , rather than as individuals , we have more power of persuasion . ’ |
| 6 | Although the timescale of artificial selection experiments means that new mutations can contribute to the responses , in the above experiments accumulation of partially recessive mutations could not account for the decline in early performance , because the drop persisted in crosses between ‘ old ’ lines . |
| 7 | The loss of such facilities can contribute to the difficulties experienced by small communities . |
| 8 | The planning system , and the preparation of development plans in particular , can contribute to the objectives of ensuring that development and growth are sustainable . |
| 9 | The relief that chamomilla can bring to the parents , to say nothing of the baby , after a succession of sleepless nights and frantic days has encouraged a number of medical practitioners to look further into this system of therapeutics . |
| 10 | Many arrive full of goodwill and good intentions , but fail to perceive the often unanticipated consequences of their arrival on the lives of the local inhabitants , and even an oversensitivity of the need to spread goodwill around the village can appear to the locals to be both patronizing and unnecessary . |
| 11 | invites the Bar Council to consider as a matter of urgency the legal assistance it can provide to the families of the victims of racial murders ; and |
| 12 | The world wants to know if Britain can adjust to the facts of life or will allow old fears , old habits , old prejudices , old prides to weigh down its vitality and eat up its resources . |
| 13 | Against this background we can return to the issues outlined at the head of the chapter . |
| 14 | Erm but taking a very broad approach to it it may be that we can suggest to the receivers of that erm taking the inconvenience , the extra cost and so on , roughly say half of that account erm |
| 15 | At last the respectable citizen can take to the streets and get himself home . ’ |
| 16 | If they still do not pay , the council can apply to the magistrates court for a summons to be served . |
| 17 | A tribunal is given power on the existence of certain conditions ; there are certain preliminary questions that it must decide before it can proceed to the merits . |
| 18 | This is only one of the things that can happen to the electrons , but it is the one which is of interest in the production of TL . |
| 19 | Is there a limit to the amount you can leave to the children at that point ? |
| 20 | This problem causes the available land to be used unevenly , and can lead to the birds ' droppings saturating the ground surrounding the house . |
| 21 | A similar effect can lead to the summits of mountains in orogenic belts increasing in elevation as the incision of deep valleys between peaks causes unloading of the crust . |
| 22 | Most people find such diagrams much easier to understand than paragraphs of explanatory prose but the flexibility itself can lead to the difficulties illustrated in Fig. 1.22 . |
| 23 | ‘ These problems are what lead to that sense of being left out , of isolation and despair , which in turn can lead to the symptoms we are familiar with — drug and alcohol abuse , crime and vandalism , debt and family break-up . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ What better way to show that going grey can lead to the heights of success and power than the example of a world leader such as yourself , John , ’ we said . |
| 25 | I ca n't even wait until I 'm older so I can go to the discos like Georgina . |
| 26 | Your task is to let him know how you feel about housework — that you hate it just as much as he does , and if you do it together , you can go to the pictures — or to bed — twice as quickly . |
| 27 | Never mind we can go to the Lakes instead |
| 28 | We 've said people can go to the conferences with the right to speak , not the right to vote , because that principle applies , but the right to speak . |
| 29 | If " adornment " is to be identified in linguistic patterns which have no semantic utility , we can point to the alliterations clustered in the last few lines . |
| 30 | More recently , one can point to the ways in which the press covers industrial relations news or news about welfare . |