Example sentences of "[noun sg] can [vb infin] [adv] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No coalition can have over 325 votes , but coalition members can give up votes to stay within the limit . |
| 2 | The female tsetse can bear only one baby at a time and in all her six month life , she can produce no more than a dozen . |
| 3 | But some philosophers get themselves tied in knots because they implicitly assume that the cat can have only one history . |
| 4 | The time needed to reach a solution to a problem is much longer ( i.e. it could take several hours or even days ) than the implementation/repair ( i.e. replacing a module or a board/panel can take only 30 minutes ) . |
| 5 | During a typical marathon , your fatty tissue is whittled down by almost six ounces , your liver and leg muscles cough up about 11 ounces of carbohydrate , and — if you do n't drink properly during the race — your body can lose about 100 ounces of water . |
| 6 | Not only are they free , but one dead dolphin can bait over 350 traps . |
| 7 | As there are only a finite number of edge pieces and the process RU can take only one edge piece into a new ‘ edge piece ’ position , this sequence must cycle back to the beginning and we denote this ‘ 7-cycle ’ as ( FR , UF , UL , UB , UR , BR , DR ) . |
| 8 | The female cuckoo can mimic only one type of egg and must try to lay in a nest of this species if her offspring is to have a good chance of survival . |
| 9 | Whales ' penises can reach a length of ten feet and in Blue Whales , the largest animals ever known to have existed , each testicle can measure over thirty inches and weigh up to one hundred pounds ! |
| 10 | A person can spend about five days there , just in the dark . |
| 11 | Significantly , they are convinced that such extreme instances of violent behaviour can have only one purpose : killing and eating the enemy . |
| 12 | A nickname can mark just one incident in the life of the person concerned . |
| 13 | A MEMBER-OF-PARLIAMENT can only represent one constituency , and one CONSTITUENCY can have only one MEMBER-OF-PARLIAMENT . |
| 14 | Perhaps lawyers and judges accept that proposition as true by convention , which means true just because everyone else accepts it , the way chess players all accept that a king can move only one square at a time . |
| 15 | The railway bridge can take only one vehicle at a time and obscures visibility . |
| 16 | Du Pont says that its aerodynamic efficiency can cut about 10 minutes of biking time in a 180-kilometre run . |
| 17 | A beetle can pass only one gene to each of its offspring . |
| 18 | To estimate the number of synonyms that occur during creation of a direct file using a one-pass load , let us examine the result of storing n records at random in N addresses , on the assumption that each record has to be stored at once and each address can hold only one record . |
| 19 | The present church can hold only 60–70 people . |
| 20 | In theory the theatre can hold about 2,800 people , although new security measures limit this on most occasions to around 2,000 . |
| 21 | A standard dot-matrix printer can show only two states , black and white , but shades of grey can be used to represent colours if 2 x 2 or 3 x 3 dot matrices are used to display each single screen pixel . |
| 22 | However , some breeding takes place in thermal reactors , so the actual gain is that a fast reactor can generate about sixty times as much electricity as a thermal reactor from each tonne of uranium . |
| 23 | Under the new format , the ‘ A ’ list is expanded from 15 to 20 singles , each guaranteed a minimum of 15 plays a week , while the 20 singles on the ‘ B ’ list can expect around ten plays a week . |
| 24 | The richest in the land can pay only three times as much as the person in the most lowly valued , difficult-to-let council house . |
| 25 | — the system can consider only one interpretation of an ambiguous sentence at a time , but can easily ’ flip ’ between interpretations ( as in visual disambiguation of the Necker Cube ) ; |
| 26 | You will remember that electrons have a quantity called spin whose component in any assigned direction can take only two values , " up " or " down " ( p. 22 ) . |
| 27 | This partly explains why the review took the time it did , since the computer can spend nearly four days running a full set of figures . |
| 28 | The Fourier transform times depend on the computer used , but in our case can take around 100 ms . |