Example sentences of "can [adv] [vb infin] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have now had time to reflect on whether the inherent constraints of working within the structure of a commission can appreciatively reduce the impact of a painting . |
| 2 | For a long time it has been known that heavy drinking during pregnancy can badly affect a baby 's development so that when it is born , its face and head are deformed and it is mentally backward . |
| 3 | Its just difficult to explain how the defence works as a team , and one weak link can badly affect the rests confidence . |
| 4 | I think it is important to concede that what we can loosely call the anti-antiracist position associated with sections of the new right and with populist politics has fed on crucial ambiguities in antiracist and multicultural initiatives . |
| 5 | We can not dictate what our children will make of the Community , but we must leave them in a position where they can effectively influence the shape of Europe , and that Europe must be one in which we retain our distinct national identity . |
| 6 | Paramount closed down its London office in 1968 , declaring that ‘ we now feel that by coordinating and controlling our production activities in Hollywood we can effectively control a programme that will continue to draw from a talent pool all around the world . ’ |
| 7 | Concessionary crownholds were also applicable to ‘ bodies which can effectively supervise the assignment of such houses ’ , such as housing associations . |
| 8 | By doing this you can effectively extend the scope of the language . |
| 9 | ‘ Team nursing is not merely a method of assigning individuals to a group : rather it is an implementation of the philosophy that holds that a group of people led by a knowledgeable nurse can effectively meet the nursing needs of a group of patients . |
| 10 | Rewriting inequalities such as ( 10.3 ) in this form shows that by allowing a constant term in the objective we can effectively make the goal zero for all objectives . |
| 11 | For example , if I normally doff my cap only to my superiors , but on an occasion doff my cap to an equal , then I can effectively communicate an ironic regard , with either a joking or a hostile intent ( the non-linguistic example is intended to draw attention to the great generality of the phenomenon ; for a study of a particular linguistic practice and the jokes thus made available , see the study of the openings of telephone calls by Schegloff ( 1979a ) ) . |
| 12 | In their view party leaders and presidents can effectively shape a much broader span of decisions in an open way which advances the representative quality of government . |
| 13 | Ultimately only peers or experiment can effectively deny the wish to try a drug . |
| 14 | Overcoming labour 's disadvantages requires an organization which can effectively sustain a ‘ dialogue ’ between the grassroots members of the movement and its leadership . |
| 15 | Incineration , for example , can effectively reduce the volume of rubbish but still leaves the problem of non-combustible material ; covering with rocks is not an ideal solution because the rubbish may be uncovered by scavenging yaks , herders and climbers ; incarceration in glacier crevasses is not recommended because it is likely that the rubbish will ultimately reappear . |
| 16 | The study will be concerned not only with the social processes which provoke behaviour disorder , but will also test the hypothesis that improved social and family circumstances , and a positive school environment , can effectively reduce the risk of deviance . |
| 17 | In this address I also criticised the fashion of ‘ deconstruction ’ , and I argued that we can effectively understand the cultures of alien peoples and remote epochs , although , naturally , we can also misunderstand them . |
| 18 | Nevertheless , failures will be encountered and such failures can eventually attain a degree of seriousness that constitutes a serious crisis for the paradigm and may lead to the rejection of a paradigm and its replacement by an incompatible alternative . |
| 19 | Random gain-and-loss of variants through such jumping mechanisms can eventually homogenise a family in all individuals . |
| 20 | So a poor diet can eventually have an effect on your hair condition . |
| 21 | Ape recruitment syndrome ( ARS ) is a primary cause of retarded company growth and can eventually turn an organization into a jungle ( if not a zoo ) . |
| 22 | However , shopping can eventually become an end in itself . ’ |
| 23 | If they are allowed to inbreed even further this can eventually spoil the species . |
| 24 | Adding a generation or two can vastly extend the possible claims . |
| 25 | In the last of an eight-part series , MICHAEL WILCOX show us how our knowledge of colour and colour types can vastly expand the palette |
| 26 | There is , however , a device that can vastly reduce the smell and the smoke if it 's used to extinguish the cigarette in place of the stub-filled ashtray . |
| 27 | Writing the software was somewhat tedious , but having to work at this level did help the designers to get away from preconceptions about interaction which they might have had if they had been working within the input/output facilities provided by a conventional mini or mainframe operating system ( for example , that it needs a RETURN to terminate user input or that the operating system can properly handle the echoing of characters to the terminal ) . |
| 28 | And where does that leave us historians , who are not only being told that only blacks and whites , or Basques , or Croats , can properly understand the history of these respective groups , but to invent the sort of history that they want to ‘ understand ’ ? |
| 29 | During beta testing , Bristol will be working with small independent software vendors willing to hand their source code over to Bristol so that it can properly babysit the whole operation . |
| 30 | We must know what these facts are in order that we can properly predict the enforcement of reparation , either specific or compensatory , in case of non-performance . |