Example sentences of "[adv] can [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They eliminate what I call the " instinct " reporter , who perhaps can not pass exams but who is still street-wise , intelligent and eager . |
| 2 | Nor need your eyes miss seeing what your feet perhaps can not take you to . |
| 3 | Thirdly , the debates over how far to forge a strategy either for winning power or for promoting economic development in a post-revolutionary society have not been satisfactorily resolved , and indeed perhaps can not be , given that counter-revolutionary response to any successful formula will ensure that it will be that much more difficult to apply the same tactics in another situation . |
| 4 | The Left believes that , generally , given the concentrated forces arrayed against them , people perhaps can not get into ‘ real politics ’ . |
| 5 | The Archbishop of Canterbury , William Sancroft , composed a lengthy statement of " Reasons against Subscription " , in which he condemned the Indulgence for " endeavouring to abrogate Lawes for their [ the Dissenters ' ] sake " , laws which , he added , " perhaps can not be repealed " . |
| 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 . |
| 7 | If you obviously can not get down ahead or if you have doubts about it , then you have no alternative but to turn off , but check your speed first ! |
| 8 | In 1987 at one of the regular meetings of superintendents , I listened as the deputy chief constable talked his way through a potential problem for the increasing numbers of graduates in the service , who ‘ obviously can not all make it to the top ’ . |
| 9 | There must be quite a number of readers who have had Uxbridge Cottage Pie at some time — and I obviously can not tell how the 1991 version compared with earlier versions — but I can say that I enjoyed this particular dish and that the taste and texture were very good . |
| 10 | However subjective the ‘ standard of living adequate for health and wellbeing ’ , it obviously can not be achieved if population is outstripping subsistence . |
| 11 | Since monographs can go out of print a year after publication , and since the heaviest use of monographs is normally in the year and a half following publication , librarians obviously can not rely upon reviews as a selection tool . |
| 12 | The initial hypothesis suggested above about baptism being more a social than a religious ceremony is so general and broad that it obviously can not be tested without being broken down into its constituent parts . |
| 13 | And of course it all ends happily when the Arab obviously can not bear to part with his horse : |
| 14 | For such enquiry is based on idealization , the extraction of what is seen as essential from observable data , and idealization obviously can not be free of ideological influence : it must be related to some pre-existing framework of belief . |
| 15 | Such people obviously can not be approached to fill in a questionnaire ! |
| 16 | If a trailer can carry goods ( a piece of mobile plant obviously can not ) it must be taken into account if over 1020kg unladen weight . |
| 17 | On the battlefield , a night patrol about to scout out the lie of the land , or mount a surprise attack , obviously can not afford to stumble around with flashlights pointing in all directions . |
| 18 | I obviously can not swear allegiance to the principles of equal opportunities then justify the exclusion of some students purely because of the severity of their disability . |
| 19 | He concludes that changes in genetic factors obviously can not explain the crime wave . |
| 20 | There obviously can not be a specific method of completing the forms . |
| 21 | The technicalities of local government finance obviously can not avoid the political nature of the decisions being taken ( Sharpe and Newton 1984 ) . |
| 22 | As Karl Barth expresses it , woman is to man as B is to A ; why should woman mind ? 17 The idea that western religion has itself been a cause of attitudes which have deeply harmed women obviously can not be given entrance by them . |
| 23 | This obviously can not be counted as a social welfare gain ( or loss ) . |
| 24 | But that is not to say , and it obviously can not be the case , that he is still the statutory tenant for all purposes , so as to be in the same position as if the order had never been made . |
| 25 | Only last week , the last time I sat in court er there was an instance of one individual who had had twelve cautions in a period of eight months er he was still a youth so his name obviously can not be divulged , erm and it 's not only the cautions , I wonder how many warnings he 'd received as well . |
| 26 | I obviously can not give that guarantee . |
| 27 | It obviously can not be justified . |
| 28 | Because proceedings are now pending , I obviously can not comment any further . ’ |
| 29 | In the UK , market researcher Andy Ryman says : ‘ The name of any new development obviously can not clash with any other competitor developments in the area . |
| 30 | In a sentence such as ( 30 ) , the event saw obviously can not be conceived as existing before the beginning of the crossing : ( 30 ) I saw him cross the street . |