Example sentences of "can [verb] [to-vb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It prepared them for exactly the kind of material they can expect to see on the day — and because it is written by the examiners themselves , you can be sure that it tells you exactly what the examiners are looking for ! |
| 2 | First Class offers plenty of realistic reading material with interesting examples of the kinds of documents trainees can expect to see in the workplace such as letters , faxes , telexes , bills , and receipts . |
| 3 | Are there any similar developments in the Programme of Work for this session which you can expect to see in the Catalogue for 1989/90 ? |
| 4 | DAVID HIRST can expect to return to the England fold today when Graham Taylor names his party to face Turkey in their second World Cup qualifier in a fortnight . |
| 5 | The company can expect to draw on the advice of many different specialists and institutions during and after the initial planning stage . |
| 6 | In this case , however , it seemed that the nature of the disease was systematically to destroy those nerve cells essential to the control of sleep , and these unfortunate people probably represent the closest that we can expect to find in the way of a natural experiment on the long-term effects of the denial of sleep . |
| 7 | They are then used to support recommendations concerning the organization of society and personal conduct resting on straight matters of fact , or at least the best available opinion on matters of fact , of the one kind around which clear minded people can expect to rally as a basis for human cooperation . |
| 8 | There may be a continuing sequence of ledges , shelves and drops which the rabbit can negotiate to escape from the ferret . |
| 9 | In explanation Van Valen put forward what he termed the Red Queen 's hypothesis , named after the Lewis Carroll character who found it took all the running one can do to keep in the same place . |
| 10 | Ms Clark conceded that there was ‘ little you can do to compete with the discount offered by School Book Fairs ’ , but urged booksellers to ‘ show the teachers your advantages ’ . |
| 11 | I am happy to say that my officials will be meeting representatives from the company tomorrow to see what ECGD can do to help in the present confused economic position in the Soviet Union . |
| 12 | This year , I have been having a series of informal discussions with Church leaders , the voluntary sector , leading members of the police , probation and prison services , magistrates and others to consider what we can do to get at the roots of criminality . |
| 13 | All right , so it 's a mystery , and there 's not a lot you can do to get to the heart of it yet , but you do n't have to let it get to you . |
| 14 | There are thus three distinct frames of reference which we can bring to bear on the concept of basic or general education : knowledge , culture and student development . |
| 15 | Second , the discrimination which emanates from ageism can appear to result from the natural process of biological ageing rather than social creation . |
| 16 | The second question concerns the care referred to in section 31(2) ( b ) ( i ) , namely , whether the care can refer to care by a third party , in this case a grandmother , who is offering to take over the care of the child . |
| 17 | Labour will develop a flexible decade of retirement between the ages of 60 and 70 , so that men and women can choose to retire on a full pension or continue in work without discrimination . |
| 18 | For instance , he can choose to work with the 4WD and diff-locks in the usual way — both functions have their own button and can be engaged and disengaged under full load . |
| 19 | In insisting on these limits , we are not concerned with the philosophical problem of whether there is free will at all , but with the evidence of common experience that although you can choose to think about a problem , be considerate to your wife , distribute pamphlets for a cause or pray for forgiveness for a crime , you can not by mere exertion of will hit on a new thought , love your wife , have faith in the cause , or repent the crime . |
| 20 | At least Americ-ans can choose to fly with the airline with the best chance of getting their luggage through in one piece . |
| 21 | Does anybody make pinions which I can use to put into the transfer box to replace the existing ones ? |
| 22 | But this talk about ‘ a frontier which is perceived from both sides ’ makes it sound as if in addition to the physical eye which I can use to get at the pin there is a sort of phantom eye in my skull with which I can see what goes on under my skin . |
| 23 | So I put it on the dim switch so as he can see to get in the bedroom . |
| 24 | Many fishkeepers prefer to add the gravel first , so they can see to work in the tank straight away . |
| 25 | This led him to see that , that only one thing which can begin to come to the rescue of human beings in this situation , and that is universal love , and on that basis he saw , almost instantaneously , that war , that violence , that coldness in personal relations even , are morally intolerable . |
| 26 | It 's only after I 've mastered the basic moves that I can begin to concentrate on the emotions . ’ |
| 27 | Should you be lucky enough to own a ‘ filofax ’ , there are many kinds of graph paper , different coloured notepapers , and diary sheets that you can purchase to make into a comprehensive section on your new diet and health programme . |
| 28 | According to Epting ( 1981 ) it is only through the continuous creation of new constructs that an individual can hope to deal with an ever-changing world . |
| 29 | This cause has been championed not because of the prestige which the word ‘ science ’ carries with it , but because it is only through the better employment of scientific method that sociology can hope to develop as a true academic discipline , free from the biases introduced by ideologists or the wish to sway current social policy . |
| 30 | There must be a point beyond which no set of built-in computer-like elements can suffice to account for an animal 's apparent grasp of its situation , particularly in the face of variable or unpredictable environmental contingencies . |