Example sentences of "can [adv] [verb] a [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless , failures will be encountered and such failures can eventually attain a degree of seriousness that constitutes a serious crisis for the paradigm and may lead to the rejection of a paradigm and its replacement by an incompatible alternative . |
| 2 | Erm And you can all get a copy of this is you want to write to the water authority . |
| 3 | We can merely give a number of examples . |
| 4 | It 's one that we can perhaps put a bit of pressure on if we issue an application for you by getting ACAS involved and seeing whether ACAS can either get you back there or er get you a compensation off them . |
| 5 | You have no helpers and can only devote a total of 4 hours observation time to the task on any day . |
| 6 | Your release may be 600 words but , if the editor can only print a story of 400 , the easiest means of editing is to cut the last part of the story . |
| 7 | In such circumstances , the historian can only present a number of different wage histories . |
| 8 | As a physician of Italian origin , I can only express a sense of surprise and shame which , I hope , is shared by the whole Italian biomedical community . |
| 9 | As weak springs can only stored a fraction of the potential energy that a strong spring can hold , the remainder is lost as heat and if the change from a strong to a weak spring takes place over a period of time , equivalent to the observation time , then the energy loss is detected as mechanical damping . |
| 10 | It was shown above ( cf. ( 45 ) ) that watch can only evoke a process of voluntarily laying hold of sense data by means of visual perception . |
| 11 | If economists can only incorporate a bit of psychology , they 've got it made . |
| 12 | The result of the provisions relating to duration is that the owner of the right can only have a maximum of 10 years to exploit the design commercially . |
| 13 | Moreover , Unix can only recognise a maximum of 1,024 devices and it does n't support multiple volume files . |
| 14 | I 'm very shy and I can only take a lot of people in small doses . |
| 15 | Indeed , Leonard can only recall a volume of the Russian writer Gogol on her shelf , by which she presumably kept in touch with her own more distant — if painful — affiliations , though influencing Leonard , perhaps , unconsciously , with Gogol 's sense of fantasy and comic genius — as well as his need to travel . ) |
| 16 | Note , however , that you can only add a maximum of 10 modules to any one SPR . |
| 17 | Note , however , that you can only add a maximum of 10 modules to any one SPR . |
| 18 | The human body is very complex , and the human mind even more so — a book such as this can only provide a glimpse of the factors that may be involved in your child 's illness . |
| 19 | This leaflet can only include a selection of the topics covered by the Environmental Charter . |
| 20 | A user can optionally specify a set of ‘ sleeping probes ’ , which are ignored when ordering the clones but which are output next to the probes used to order the clones . |
| 21 | Their policies and performance can thus illustrate a range of problems that many developing countries face . |
| 22 | ‘ All that talk of coming between brothers and so on — but she can not speak a wort of any language but English , and is furious if one says the smallest phrase in French . ’ |
| 23 | Pigmented preservatives must n't be used when overpainting , as they can not hold a coat of paint for more than a few months . |
| 24 | Bukharin was suggesting that one can not construct a theory of transition a priori but must pragmatically steer towards a given objective , only then will the theory of transition emerge upon the basis of practical and concrete experience . |
| 25 | So within a pension quarter , the same ruling applies in that your pension and your re-employment earnings can not exceed a quarter of your salary reference . |
| 26 | ‘ If your own family is so badly brought up , ’ thundered a Scottish columnist , ‘ so lacking in moral fibre that it can not make a go of its marriages , what price all those Christmas homilies ? ’ |
| 27 | ‘ You can not make a habit of coming here . ’ |
| 28 | But we saw in Chapter 5 that , as key institutions in the modern state , institutions of higher education can not attain a position of pure autonomy . |
| 29 | As it is put by the Department of Health Guidelines for Ethics Committee ( August 1991 ) : ‘ The giving of consent by a parent or guardian can not override a refusal of consent by a child who is competent to make that decision . ’ |
| 30 | But if expectations are rationally formed , the government can not expect a policy of linking the change in the money supply to the previous price level to succeed , for people will not be fooled by it . |