Example sentences of "can [adv] have " in BNC.

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1 So a poor diet can eventually have an effect on your hair condition .
2 This is a split that can rarely have been witnessed in Glasgow — which does not indicate that he was at fault in consulting his analyst , but does indicate that these autobiographies are sited in very different places .
3 She can rarely have travelled , for example , more than fifteen miles from Brackley , Northamptonshire , where she lived for most of her twenty-four years .
4 But descriptions do no justice to a design in which the vision of St John on Patmos can rarely have been so imaginatively conceived .
5 erm I 'm not going to keep you very long because I 've nearly finished talking so erm when I 've finished perhaps you would like to bring some of your things up and put them on the table and we can all have a look at them .
6 We should be looking to educate and train all people a lot more than we do at the moment where driving is concerned , so that from the very moment you pass your test you can feel confident , other people can feel confident and we can all have confidence on the road .
7 And we can impose solutions on our on our users , you know , You users can all have P Cs , you can all have erm dumb terminals .
8 And we can impose solutions on our on our users , you know , You users can all have P Cs , you can all have erm dumb terminals .
9 At this stage in the proceedings I 'm going to adjourn Cou the Council meeting so that you can all have your tea .
10 chip shop , we can all have fish and chip .
11 Why do n't they go out Well I can have somewhere else but they can all have their quiet place to talk .
12 Oh that 's this er they want they can all have one of these .
13 Having observed Thatcher 's boorish behaviour , Abse comments : ‘ Such a jealous and ruthless super-ego can only have been formed by a prohibiting mother who is brusque and prematurely insists upon early toilet training . ’
14 Now , I do n't think we know what was the exact Sterling equivalent of the fall in our reserves during the last financial year , but it can only have been a minority of that total of £1and1/2 ; billion of public expenditure which was met neither by the product of taxation nor by borrowing from the public .
15 But even at this date the alteration in emphasis can only have been a conscious attempt to attune to the wider audience , if still at that time mainly within Bavaria , which was beginning to show interest in Hitler in 1923 , and an awareness that anti-Marxism had a wider potential appeal than the mere repetition of anti-Jewish paroxysms of hate .
16 The relative lack of resonance of the boycott can only have indicated to Hitler that he had been right to keep a fairly low public profile on the ‘ Jewish Question ’ .
17 For these , it seems obvious , Hitler 's public association with the radical ‘ solution of the Jewish Question ’ and the linking of the Führer to the widespread knowledge and rumours of the extermination of the Jews in the east , can only have been a further negative feature of his image .
18 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 .
19 Bury and Stockport once more topped the list , with third place going to Bradford , an authority where the national attention paid to the city 's politics , and the polarising of political opinion on the ground , can only have increased electoral interest .
20 I feel this is possibly not a good thing at this present time , when every spectrum of Rottweiler size , shape and type can still be found in the show ring : further expansions of the gene pool can only have a destructive effect .
21 Implicit in the name is the ridiculous idea that you can only have fun on a funboard .
22 John Poole was a man of high Tory opinions , and the motive for introducing him to Coleridge and Southey can only have been mischievous .
23 This problem arises because each grid cell can only have a single attribute value and because the chosen grid dimensions are too large to resolve the spatial detail required .
24 He can only have it corrected if the official Hansard writers can be shown to have misreported what he said .
25 But the basic changes towards a farming system dominated by a limited range of plants , most of which are cereals , can only have reduced variety in farmland wildlife , including birds .
26 The fact that different dowsers can get very different results on the same site can perhaps be explained as the interaction between their own energy field and the field of the site , so that the dowsing patterns found can only have true meaning by looking at the dowser as well .
27 It is mentioned in the Old Testament and Pliny likened its appearance to human genitals , which can only have helped its amatory cause .
28 As Henry Ford said , you can only have it in black , or in this case , with one option — clear .
29 Also known as a boogeyman or bogeyman , one can only have an effect if its victim pays heed to it .
30 Most people who supported the government when it joined the ERM did so not because they believed the forecasters ( although they were happy to do this ) , but because they believed , as a matter of principle , in the ‘ New Consensus ’ — that the active use of macroeconomic policy can only have an adverse effect and that market forces alone can deliver non-inflationary growth and full employment .
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