Example sentences of "can [adv] [verb] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | But come away with Club 18–30 , share your precious two weeks with others who , like you , want to make friends and have a good time all the time , and you 'll find out why we can justifiably claim to be ‘ Fun Factor ’ Number 1 . |
| 2 | Although overdue , two elements of the bill can properly claim to be breaking new ground . |
| 3 | AS A LEAD-UP to the World Cup , I thought I would check to see who can rightly claim to be called favourites for the tournament . |
| 4 | And that means that even the AS/400 is potentially at risk , and can only continue to be a winner if IBM builds in a big discount to compensate for the fact that it is proprietary — yet instead of recognising this vulnerability , with its incredible but consistent short-termism , the company is squeezing AS/400 users until they squeal with its software pricing on the machine . |
| 5 | What has been said above about sampling can only hope to be the very lightest of scratches on the surface of what is a vast subject in itself . |
| 6 | This is not a wholly negative development , but in the new atmosphere it creates antiracist initiatives can only appear to be a patronizing and unacceptable form of special pleading . |
| 7 | It can only appeal to be welcomed to the Friend 's breast ( 110 ) , to seek ‘ pity ’ for its harmful deeds ( 111 ) . |
| 8 | Hence Sharon and partner Martin can only get to be with their pedigree chum for a few precious hours on Sunday mornings at kennels in Wickford . |
| 9 | However , issues like those listed above can only begin to be seriously addressed if more fundamental assumptions about primary practice are challenged at the same time . |
| 10 | To say that the patient can not demand to be stabbed because he can not suspend the operation of the criminal law and absolve the other of liability begs the question , depending as it does on a determination of what the criminal law is . |
| 11 | but we can not demand to be desired , for desire operates in complex , often unconscious ways . |
| 12 | People expect risks they did not ask for and can not control to be much lower -by 10 or 100 times — than those which they run willingly . |
| 13 | Red , oedematous swelling ; burning and stinging pains ; face puffed and pitted ; swollen eyelids ; can not bear to be left alone ; very sensitive to touch or pressure ; sweat comes and goes . |
| 14 | Intense pains , neuralgic pains , can not bear to be touched , in agony ; worse ( < ) night and especially in the evening . |
| 15 | And Michael Palin can not bear to be scrutinised . |
| 16 | They have satisfied all physical desire , but still can not bear to be parted . |
| 17 | The Government can not pretend to be concerned with security at army barracks and then , without regard for the soldiers , put them on the streets of London as easy targets for the terrorists . ’ |
| 18 | The Government can not pretend to be concerned with security at army barracks and then , without regard for the soldiers , put them on the streets of London as easy targets for the terrorists . ’ |
| 19 | But Scotland , with an economic base now concentrated on light rather than heavy industry , and services and decision-making centres far away from Edinburgh and Glasgow , can not hope to be spared the effects of recession . |
| 20 | It can not hope to be complete , but with luck Bromberg will even now be working on a detailed history of the TFTR experiment . |
| 21 | The aim of this small investigation , which can not hope to be truly scientific , is to investigate the extent of the problem and to see if there are any obvious patterns . |
| 22 | None of these difficulties are likely to trouble us much in daily life , but they remain genuine difficulties none the less and raise issues of fundamental importance ; for if there can be no absolutely reliable and unequivocal criteria for deciding whether any given existent remains numerically , and not merely qualitatively , the same from one moment in time to the next , then we can not hope to be able to " define " the distinction between numerical and qualitative identity in terms of the criteria of particular-identification . |
| 23 | Over a twelve-month period a field-worker 's persistent inquisitiveness is bound to become something of an irritant , and van Maanen notes how field-workers can not expect to be liked by all respondents ( 1982 : 111 ) . |
| 24 | For I can not expect to be offered help , nobody else will care to take a turn at the heavy work of pushing . |
| 25 | Mr Crosby said : ‘ I also have 10 important League matches left and have said all along that if we do n't win these as well I can not expect to be given the job here . ’ |
| 26 | If a surveyor does his work badly it goes without saying that he can not expect to be paid for it , but usually the client will also wish to claim damages as financial compensation . |
| 27 | Teenagers who consistently fail to let parents know when they will be home , or where they are likely to be , can not expect to be allowed to stay out to all hours . |
| 28 | You can not expect to be asked the questions exactly as they appear here and you will be badly thrown if you have programmed yourself with exact responses to very particular questions which do not crop up in the way you had anticipated . |
| 29 | Believe in God for wrong reasons or for no reason at all and you can not expect to be free from doubt . |
| 30 | Indeed , you can not expect to be paid a great deal , but on the credit side you have no overheads and you will find the practice valuable , both in reading the pattern and using the machine . |