Example sentences of "can [adv] [verb] [adv] a [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Please remember that you can only appeal once a year . |
| 2 | For example , many people have four weeks ' holiday a year , but not many people can take that four weeks all in one go , there are usually restrictions that you can only take maybe a maximum of two weeks . |
| 3 | The surgery is the only one in Northern Ireland with a revolutionary new ruby laser which can permanently blast away a tattoo with no risk of scarring . |
| 4 | Erm if your diagram 's pretty reasonable and you measure the wrong thing , you can still get quite a lot of the marks . |
| 5 | ‘ Afternoon duty is quite pleasant : I can usually get quite a lot of reading done in the library because there 's little activity on the gallery after three o'clock . |
| 6 | If you are going to the school yourself , you can probably collect quite a lot of this general information by chatting with the teacher and pupils and noting down details of the surroundings . |
| 7 | ‘ She can now speak quite a bit of English as well as Romanian . |
| 8 | Sophisticated feminists can now study quite a range of art history , such as Mary Garrard 's brilliant monograph on Artemesia Gentileschi , as well as the general rewriting of male-dominated art history produced by scholars like Germaine Greer or Griselda Pollock . |