Example sentences of "this can [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When combined with the need to acclimatise to life at 3,000m ( at Breckenridge or Copper Mountain , for example ) , the after-effects of a journey like this can eat into precious holiday time . |
| 2 | This can eat into the rest of your working day but you must be properly briefed and have given thought to managing the event . |
| 3 | I wonder if this can tell us anything useful about meeting situations which may cause stressful tension ? |
| 4 | This can form part of the deeper work of a support group or a counselling relationship . |
| 5 | This can form the basis for collective political action : in the 1960s and 1970s many middle and working-class blacks united in various organizations under the banner of the Black Power movement . |
| 6 | The regular adherents of the congregation are about 100 ; the average attendance from 150 to 200 , and the number of members as far as can be ascertained about 25 , but this can form no criterion of what the congregation may become under a regular and thorough ministry . |
| 7 | If a critic has a very decided political or religious point of view , this can override other considerations in judgements about art ; the viewpoint may also give a bias to the description or interpretation made . |
| 8 | This can clear the air and leave everyone with the determination to cope . |
| 9 | Originally , rendering was on the inside , but this can flake off and block the drain , so rendering ( if used ) is now put on the outside . |
| 10 | This can progress to bile duct destruction , biliary cirrhosis , and sometimes cholangiocarcinoma . |
| 11 | This can present problems for teachers . |
| 12 | This can present a problem id you happen to be the unhappy owner of a particularly noisy air pump . |
| 13 | This can present a difficult timing problem , because it is often not sufficiently appreciated that because of the many requirements as to these documents it may be necessary to have two or three drafts before lodging the plans . |
| 14 | The trouble is that this can present psychological problems if , like me , you are not one of those people who has been riding since you first told some condescending aunt from your pushchair ‘ It 's not a horsy , it 's under 14.2hh ’ . |
| 15 | This can disturb the normal eye movements that would be used by a fluent reader , and visual scanning can be impaired . |
| 16 | This can lengthen the negotiation and decision-making process . |
| 17 | Under certain conditions , when the zander are actively hunting , this can pay off . |
| 18 | Show that this can generate a steady-state distribution with a Pareto tail . |
| 19 | This can justify both the formula for C and the expression for the probability of switching sj while annealing . |
| 20 | This can enable them to be ‘ fast-tracked ’ through the system reducing their waiting time and enabling the medical staff to be directed to the more seriously ill . |
| 21 | This can enable those who , because of mental illness , may pose a significant risk to their own health or safety or the safety of other people and who are limited in self-awareness , to accept treatment or care , whether or not including medication . |
| 22 | Ordering replenishment and display may be looked after by the publisher and this can lift a lot of the administrative burden of stock control from the shop , although they are normally offered only where sales justify it . |
| 23 | But they also aim to address the full range of social influences on behaviour , and this can complicate them . |
| 24 | This can meet her need temporarily when she is at some crisis point , providing , for all concerned , a trial period of living under the same roof , in this tactful guise of a holiday — without commitment on either side . |
| 25 | This can matter if you expect to be working late and the bus stage is some distance away from your place of work . |
| 26 | This can lock onto a target and stay there . |
| 27 | This can comprise a single or double outflow to allow water to be discharged as both fountain and waterfall , although , as intimated earlier , one or the other is more desirable . |
| 28 | And it is also important not to make the noise by stamping or banging against a hard surface , because this can set up vibrations that even a totally deaf cat can detect through the sensitive pads of its feet . |
| 29 | This can set a mood or enhance a period of reflection . |
| 30 | Communication — both ways — is going to be a problem and the implications of this can set the deaf person apart . |