Example sentences of "[adj] can [adv] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | This can not have been untypical — the late medieval Weald was far from being the empty desert so often described . |
| 2 | We have known for some time that this can not have been the case . |
| 3 | Pericles ' position is ( almost everywhere : see p. 126 on finance ) described by Thucydides as if his authority depended solely on charismatic qualities of leadership , but this can not have been the whole of it . |
| 4 | This can not have been the intention of Parliament when it prevented drivers from contracting out of their liability to a passenger . |
| 5 | Loss of balance , dizziness and tingling can result from close contact with the stones , but this can also have a positive effect on the health and fertility of people brought into such contact . |
| 6 | This can hardly have been the enlightening effect of reason and liberty since in France the outcome of the same ideals was the triumph of the guillotine . |
| 7 | Quite what that meant is unclear and perhaps was unclear then ( the terms of the 817 Ordinatio would have needed updating anyway since Pippin I had died ) ; but the one thing that was perfectly clear was that Lothar was abrogating the 839 division-plan. |
| 8 | Although the rebels ' demands for personal freedom are conspicuous in the chronicles , this can hardly have been the main motive of the Kentishmen , one of the most prominent groups among the peasants , because in Kent there was no serfdom . |
| 9 | Though there may have been some hostility between the victuallers and the non-victuallers , this can hardly have been the only factor involved . |
| 10 | National councils were an obvious forum in which churchmen could attempt to secure lay assent to their wishes , and this can seldom have seemed more desirable than in the years around 1000 . |
| 11 | This can only have come about by a high level decision on the military products and supplies . |
| 12 | Policy must of course be converted into practice ; in both these schools overall spending policy and staffing priorities were significant expressions of commitment by the heads , and this can only have strengthened the resolve of those members of staff who served on the library committees and immersed themselves in the day-to-day business of winning a place in the project . |
| 13 | While this can only have arisen on the basis of particular cases , it too has now become fossilized ; it is now described in terms of relative order of fixed groups of adjectives , and there are even cases where purely formal requirements concerning serial order actually override the organization appropriate to the semantics of what is intended ( see Chapter 8 for some instances ) . |
| 14 | FOR 15 hours on Tuesday Palestinians worldwide were faced with a prospect which few can seriously have thought about before — that of the PLO without Yasser Arafat as leader . |
| 15 | If something is not property , the accused can not have an intention permanently to deprive the owner of that property . |
| 16 | Yet since these can not have presented much of an obstacle , they were of little or no use against large and determined forces of men , against whom only walled towns and castles constituted reasonably sure places of safety . |
| 17 | Back-bench MPs may be able to promote new policies through ‘ private members ’ Bills ' : These can not have direct financial implications for the government , and they have little chance of becoming law without government support . |
| 18 | The extracellular matrix laid down by microbial cells in microbial biosensors will show a more random orientation of structural components , but these can also have a dominant influence on the flux of the product and the substrate . |
| 19 | In one family the daughters " attended dances " regularly , but these can hardly have been like the dance-halls of the inter-war period . |
| 20 | In concentrated forms , they can , these can actually have very serious effects on people 's health . |
| 21 | If think I 've got this written down wrong , classes of occupation one , two and three can only have a four week deferred period , that 's no |
| 22 | In welcoming the crew , the Rajah Curry House in Liverpool 13 can not have anticipated the battlefield of cables , cameras and kormas it was to become . |
| 23 | Plainly article 9 can not have effect so as to stifle the freedom of all to comment on what is said in Parliament , even though such comment may influence Members in what they say . |
| 24 | The fact that she was approaching thirty can not have made the decision any easier . |
| 25 | Yields of 1:1 can not have been normal — or we should be dealing with a sub-subsistence economy ! |
| 26 | That can not have pleased the Megarians or their daughter-cities in the region , like Byzantium . |
| 27 | I saw a live TV transmission of Il trovatore from the Metropolitan in New York a few weeks ago that can only have confirmed a lot of people 's worst prejudices about opera — dull production , dull filming , all wrapped round with a certain amount of superstar hype . |
| 28 | ‘ You 've got to fancy his chances , particularly after Graham Taylor watched him against United — that can only have helped his cause . |
| 29 | And it has to be said that most of us are likely to have some kind of experience when our ego is deflated ; and that can often have a beneficial not a negative effect . |
| 30 | When there were contractors to be handed out directors may have tried to help one another , but that can hardly have been a sufficient reason for buying up large blocks of shares . |