Example sentences of "can be [adv] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Comparisons between the rugs of certain groups are more difficult because they are produced in such a diverse range of qualities that the gulf between the best and worst pieces may be greater than that between the groups themselves : e.g. , the lowest grade of workshop Kerman may cost slightly less than a good quality Russian Shirvan , but the finest workshop Kermans can be over five times the price . |
| 2 | They are magnificent birds to watch in flight , soaring effortlessly on wings which can be over two metres from tip to tip . |
| 3 | For example , sexual differences in body size range from species , like worms of the genus Bonnellia , where females can be over 25 times the length of males ( Barnes , 1974 ) to species like the southern elephant seal , Mirounga leonina , where mature males average eight times the weight of females ( Bryden , 1969 ) . |
| 4 | At ground level , NOx is three times more potent than C02 , but at the height at which aircraft normally cruise ( around 12 km ) , it can be over 300 times as powerful . |
| 5 | These leaps can be over 3 metres high , and the accompanying kicks release scent from glands on their fetlocks into the air . |
| 6 | The individual polja can be over 65 km ( 40 miles ) long , but are seldom more than a few kilometres across , their long axes conforming to the north-west to south-east direction of the Dinaric trend lines . |
| 7 | there is an element of abuse on the part of some debtors — it can be simply one way of not paying the debt |
| 8 | ‘ It makes you realise your life can be here one minute and gone the next , ’ Alison told her mum in a trans-Atlantic telephone call . |
| 9 | Obviously the available time imposes an upper ceiling on this game , for there can be only one K per generation . |
| 10 | THERE can be only one Prado … |
| 11 | By contrast , when innovation is discrete and there can be only one winner of an R&D race , own and rivals ' R&D substitute for each other , meaning that spillovers from firm i to firm j reduce i 's chances of winning the current R&D race without giving it any compensating advantages in the future . |
| 12 | But the predatory Suffolk firm is adamant there can be only one winner . |
| 13 | Surely there can be only one thing more tedious than slow equal notes calling for inequality , and that is unrelieved inégales producing the saccadé ( ‘ jerky ’ ) result that Thibault ( op. cit. ) warned against so long ago . |
| 14 | I feel there can be only one conclusion . |
| 15 | In the final analysis , there can be only one conclusion to be drawn , and that is that the Christian promise of happiness in the ‘ hereafter ’ was in reality an appeal to ‘ selfishness ’ , which is also the appeal of the teaching of one of the basic premises of this book , namely , that life is to be enjoyed here on earth . |
| 16 | PAMELA : Why , Mrs. Jewkes , there can be only one reason , which is that I am a sad fool ! |
| 17 | ‘ And because of his unusual name there can be only one Martin Offiah . ’ |
| 18 | There can be only one explanation . ’ |
| 19 | erm , I can be there two days , two and a half days beforehand |