Example sentences of "can [adv] be brought to " in BNC.

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1 It can only be brought to an end on or after the date it runs out by a notice in a prescribed form , served by either the landlord or the tenant .
2 Students , the argument continues , can hardly be brought to this level of understanding unless their teachers are active in research .
3 Samples can also be brought to the house if matching with curtains and/or furnishings .
4 We should remember , too , that " emphasis " has an insidious tendency to become an all-purpose cause credited for a whole variety of syntactic and phonological variations where intuition suggests that there is a difference to be explained but where no other cause can immediately be brought to light ; all that is needed , apparently , is that a speaker ( or even a linguist ) should be able to imagine himself uttering one of a pair of variants with a certain emphasis on some occasion , while at the same time feeling that he could have said the other without any emphasis being implied .
5 A good idea can therefore be brought to a successful and polished conclusion in a very short time at the cost of only a few sheets of paper and with the minimum of effort .
6 An animal obviously can also suffer in this way , although like plants and watches and unlike the reader , the fact can never be brought to the creature 's attention .
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