Example sentences of "can to " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We 're doing everything we can to be positive , to look to the future , and to be realistic about the present , ’ said that chirpy fatuity , Neil Kinnock , on the News ‘ 92 phone-in , perhaps the most dementing phone-in of them all ( Radio 1 , daily at 6.30 pm ) . |
| 2 | The move as quickly as you can to the nearest place where there are other people such as a bar , a restaurant or a house with lights on . |
| 3 | But it is necessary to start on this battle at school , and it is the duty of teachers to give all the help they can to their pupils to win each engagement . |
| 4 | Once a week ministers will get their intelligence summary in the ‘ Red Book ’ , all the trouble spots in the world , and one pays clever people like you to actually sit there and be plugged in as best one can to the trouble spots , with much better sources of information than the poor old chap in the street , to alert ministers on our behalf of potential disasters . |
| 5 | Neutralizing agents are usually either acids or alkalis which neutralize the odorous gas on impact , so for example acidic gases such as fatty acids , sulphur dioxide , chlorine , hydrogen-chloride and sulphides and mercaptans can to some extent be neutralized by contact with sodium hydroxide or sodium carbonate ( both alkalis ) whilst weak sulphuric acid or phosphoric acid for example can be used as a neutralizing media for alkaline gases such as ammonia or amines . |
| 6 | Similarly , the patients who injure themselves do not form a homogeneous group , but include individuals who can to a large extent be classified into three subgroups on the basis of the type of injury inflicted and the associated degree of suicidal intent : |
| 7 | So stick if you can to satin-finish Cezanne |
| 8 | I 'll do all I can To be freed of the |
| 9 | An important contribution to staying calm is arriving at the interview conscious that you have done everything you can to be thoroughly well prepared . |
| 10 | A spark can just as easily set light to your clothes as it can to a dryer full of washing . |
| 11 | We keep up standards by running training awards for Upholstery and Soft Furnishing trainees , these trainees are our future craftsmen and women and we are doing all we can to ‘ uphold ’ the same standards we had in the past and maintain them into the future . |
| 12 | Remember that ‘ small is beautiful ’ , so make as near as you can to ‘ one bite ’ food to avoid wastage . |
| 13 | Although the coin is removed it will feel like it 's still there and the victim will shake as hard as they can to the encouragement of the observers with such calls as ‘ Shake it off ’ . |
| 14 | Not being a drinker , I do an obligatory flip round the post-show party , consoling or congratulating and giving what little advice I can to grieving or glowing parents . |
| 15 | For organisations like the Runnymede Trust , it is crucial to be alert to the various fronts upon which racism appears , and offer whatever support we can to those who want to challenge it . |
| 16 | ‘ I want to get as high as I am able to , and to contribute as much as I can to the team . |
| 17 | You leave what you can to me . ’ |
| 18 | In the USA the absence of a strong socialist movement can to some degree be explained by ( a ) the ‘ newness ’ and apparent ‘ classlessness ’ of their social structures , especially the absence of an aristocracy ; ( b ) extensive social mobility ; ( c ) the multiplicity of ethnic cleavages ; and ( d ) the fact that universal suffrage arrived before large-scale industrialization , which meant that the working -class did not have to struggle for the franchise . |
| 19 | Migration and fertility decline are alternative escapes from population pressure in societies sufficiently developed for mortality to be declining ( as in eighteenth century France ) and can to some extent substitute for each other ( Davis 1963 , Friedlander 1983 ) to relieve population pressure ( Woods and Smith 1983 ) . |
| 20 | The formulation of restraints upon State activities through the adoption ( often by consensus ) of Resolutions and Codes of Conduct within international organisations makes it hard for a State to claim non-party status , as it can to a treaty it has not ratified . |
| 21 | The work of individual carvers can to some extent be identified by the style and edge mouldings of the bench ends . |
| 22 | I would still want to be able to see and buy items of equipment , not to do so would be an opportunity wasted , but I can to my machinery stocklist to see most of what I saw at the show . |
| 23 | ( b ) As chairman of the cabinet , he can to a large extent determine the nature of discussions within cabinet . |
| 24 | An STV constituency can to a limited extent have the number of its seats adjusted in accordance with its magnitude . |
| 25 | Thus to the expository lesson , the period of exercise and drill , the set readings from the class textbook , the tests of memory and comprehension , and all the other useful ploys of the good teacher , have now been added sessions when the student is placed in direct confrontation with a variety of information sources , print.form , audio visual and three-dimensional , in small groups or on his own , in a situation which requires his active involvement and which can to a greater or lesser extent be tailored to meet his individual needs . |
| 26 | Both can to some degree be controlled and both vary in intensity or extent . |
| 27 | the smallest lens , and start with it as close as you can to the stage |
| 28 | You can to some extent |
| 29 | And the key therefore to writing scenes of action is to limit yourself as strictly as you can to describing happenings . |
| 30 | Such benefits can to some extent compensate a widow for lack of access to occupational scheme benefits in her own right and for financial disadvantage arising from the traditional domestic division of labour . |