Example sentences of "[det] can [vb infin] [prep] " 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 | This can progress to bile duct destruction , biliary cirrhosis , and sometimes cholangiocarcinoma . |
| 4 | This can lock onto a target and stay there . |
| 5 | Unfortunately , a great deal of our flying is done by habit and this can lead to serious problems if anything goes wrong on the first flight in a strange machine . |
| 6 | This can lead to unnecessary investigations . |
| 7 | The sleeves must come at least mid-way down the forearm and they must not be folded , since this can lead to injury . |
| 8 | Thus each extra code describes a block of several symbols , and with suitable data this can lead to considerable compression . |
| 9 | True enough , but how easily this can lead to the conclusion that anyone who attempts to deal with things that matter must be a bore , that rather than run the risk of talking nonsense one should play it safe and stick to charming trifles … . |
| 10 | ‘ This can lead to judgements being made about the unsuccessful , the unemployed , the poor and the unintelligent which are both uncharitable and untrue . |
| 11 | This can lead to judgements being made about the unsuccessful , the unemployed , the poor and the unintelligent which are both uncharitable and untrue . |
| 12 | This can lead to judgements being made about the unsuccessful , the unemployed , the poor and the unintelligent , which are both uncharitable and untrue . ’ |
| 13 | This can lead to judgements being made about the unsuccessful , the unemployed , the poor and the unintelligent which are both uncharitable and untrue . |
| 14 | If the under-development applies to renal rhythms then the production of urine at night might be considerably higher than in normal children and this can lead to the problem of bed-wetting . |
| 15 | Not surprisingly this can lead to a great deal of guilt and remorse at the thought of things left unsaid , or perhaps an argument that had taken place just before the person left the house , never to return . |
| 16 | This can lead to friction , acrimony and lack of co-operation between functional groups . |
| 17 | This can lead to iatrogenic disease ( drug induced ) , a problem which may be far more wide-spread than is generally realised . |
| 18 | Suggestions that this can lead to relaxation of the guiding principles of regular rations and insulin are disquieting . |
| 19 | This can lead to misunderstanding , mutual frustration , anger , quarrelling and perhaps aggression . |
| 20 | In the extreme this can lead to intense fear , even to predicting ( their ) time of death . |
| 21 | This can lead to mutual anger and resentment and to a partner feeling worthless and depressed . |
| 22 | This can lead to very wide discrepancies in the dimensions of adjacent components . |
| 23 | This can lead to clinical problems including the deformation of the bonded cusps of teeth ( Fig. 2 ) or to interfacial debonding and the production of microscopic gaps between restorative material and natural tooth tissue , and thus the development of dental monomers with zero polymerisation contraction would represent a significant advance . |
| 24 | For the great majority of women sterilisation provides peace of mind by removing the fear of unplanned pregnancy and this can lead to a happier sex life . |
| 25 | This can lead to unnecessary investigations . |
| 26 | It is easy , with the credit now being offered , to get a house full of new furniture and a washing machine on HP , but this can lead to financial bondage . |
| 27 | If the water is maintained at 26–28°C and the eel breathes in cooler , free-moving air , this can lead to the loss of your fish in the same way as with Anabantids . |
| 28 | Drastic dieting puts stress on the body , leaving less energy for synthesising non-essential proteins — such as hair — and this can lead to temporary hair thinning . |
| 29 | Given that they 're feeling unwell to start with , this can lead to tears . |
| 30 | This can lead to fervent acceptance or rejection uninformed by understanding , the imposition of one mode of thinking on another . |