Example sentences of "can [vb infin] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In religious organizations reconciliation can persist for long periods of time . |
| 2 | Perhaps the most obvious use you can make of non-ELT materials on video is to introduce topics which are relevant to your students . |
| 3 | Generally , links with other services are poor and the contribution that doctors and nurses can make to specific treatment is entirely lost . |
| 4 | In this chapter , the discussion focuses on the contribution social policy can make to economic growth . |
| 5 | With these points in mind the next section will return to the contribution that liability rules can make to increased management efficiency . |
| 6 | Its role as a regulator and director of development has recently been enhanced , partly in reflection of the contribution it can make to encouraging sustainability . |
| 7 | Previous reports from the study group dealt with the contribution training can make to good safety performance , and the prediction f human error through the technique of ‘ human reliability assessment ’ . |
| 8 | There are , however , contributions that accountants can make to differentiated product strategies . |
| 9 | Perhaps the greatest contribution that fictional novels can make to human rights and changing attitudes is in giving us a timely reminder that all the statistics we 're constantly bombarded with actually constitute human lives , just as valuable as our own . |
| 10 | He points out that we need to distinguish between the contribution that research can make to policy and that which it can make to social work practice . |
| 11 | the contribution that the programme can make to realistic career expectations . |
| 12 | The CC programme has highlighted the vital contribution the private sector can make to urban regeneration . ’ |
| 13 | However , our discussion will concentrate on the contribution each can make to public sector accounting . |
| 14 | Compared with shifting coalitions of Independent councillors , party groupings can make for coherent policy planning and administration . |
| 15 | In any event , if great prominence came to be given to APR , many people could be misled about the comparative value of competing credit arrangements ; partly because our calculations show that small and sometimes insignificant differences in what the buyer actually has to pay for credit can make for huge and therefore misleadingly imposing differences in APR ; partly because it will tend to make longer-term borrowing look more attractive than shorter-term borrowing even when ( given that the great majority of people prefer to pay off their debts as quickly as possible ) this may not be best for people . |
| 16 | But it is arguable that the soundness of statements about wider matters such as authorial style relies ultimately on the statements we can make about particular texts . |
| 17 | Is he further aware of the important contribution that it can make in large and more geographically remote areas , as it allows casualty access to larger regional hospitals in the event of mountaineering or road accident emergencies ? |
| 18 | ‘ Children will be the special target if you start with them you can build in good habits for later life . ’ |
| 19 | No doubt you can think of reflex behaviours you have learned in this way . |
| 20 | Everyone , is says , can think of black sheep of their acquaintance . |
| 21 | You can think of ordinary , real time as a horizontal line , going from left to right . |
| 22 | They 'll need to patch up their wounded defence and wounded soldiers , before they can think of premier league football next year . |
| 23 | What is , or is not , consistent with human dignity is obviously a value judgment , which can neither be confirmed nor refuted ; and , of course , one can think of other activities that could be construed as being inconsistent with human dignity , which are not criminalized . |
| 24 | It would be most interesting to know if you can think of other potential members — our seminars have in the last year or two proved popular and have been extraordinarily cost effective . |
| 25 | And we can think of other people like Mother Theresa too , in the face of so much er you know what people have said to her is , you know , do n't you think that er what you 're doing is just a drop in the ocean ? |
| 26 | ‘ I can think of other and better things … ’ |
| 27 | I am innovative and can think of new ways of using old materials , such as making toys from everyday household items |
| 28 | Erm perhaps you can think of daft things like think of someone kicking the kettle . |
| 29 | No doubt you can think of various acts which are crimes in this country but not in other countries ; and of behaviour which is against the criminal law of other societies but which is not criminal in Britain . |
| 30 | So , we can think of different modules from Dennett 's flow-chart as being stored and functioning in the same place in the machine , just as we can think of different levels of translation of programming language as being carried out in the same place in the machine . |