Example sentences of "can as [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Furthermore , extensive spreads of such seas can as effectively isolate pieces of emergent continent as spreading ocean floor , thereby creating barriers to migration of terrestrial organisms , and should also promote equability of the continental climate . |
| 2 | After all , the continuity between man and animal can as well be achieved by showing that man is a machine as by ascribing intentions to animals . |
| 3 | They are , we can as well say , certain conceivable changes in the universe , ways in which the universe might have been different . |
| 4 | Or , as we can as well say , Even if any events or conditions logically consistent with a and b had occurred , rather than those which did , if a occurred then b did . |
| 5 | If it is supposed that there is a want of definiteness about the idea of something 's " occurring within consciousness " , we can as well speak of anything whatever of which there is a logical possibility that an individual can discriminate it in his or her or its consciousness . |
| 6 | And so the men can try it just as much as the girls can as well . |
| 7 | Er and rush off and make a new will as soon as you can as well as . |
| 8 | This leads some to claim it for immediately after the return , but it can as well be immediately before the flight , and in any case it dates the change securely to the time around 480 . |
| 9 | She chose you , and she can as well abandon you if she chooses , and you had better be on your guard in future , for she wo n't put up with another such turmoil upsetting her established rule . |
| 10 | But what was simpler than to drive the car to Streatley , siphon petrol out of the Rolls into it ( possibly even siphon some into a can as well , to top it up near London ) and then drive back ? |
| 11 | George and Ringo sided with John and Klein launched into a ruthless purge , clearing out the parasites and the dead wood — but consigning any trace of idealism to the trash can as well . |
| 12 | Yes you can as soon as you 're dressed ca n't you ? |
| 13 | In the present state of our knowledge of provincial life during the late Tsarist and early Soviet periods , no precise scale can as yet be drawn up on any single topic , let alone a general model that encompasses and balances all factors . |
| 14 | ‘ While researchers can as yet give us no clear answers as to what this signifies ’ he said , ‘ it is probable that the brain will be affected by the chemical working environment as we nowadays know it in factories , office buildings with an unhealthy internal climate and polluted city air ’ . |
| 15 | Despite the fact that there are a number of top quality workshops in other countries , none can as yet be considered worthy of a place in the masterworkshop class . |
| 16 | Stanley was also an able stuccoist , but , as with his sculptural works , little can as yet be assigned to him with certainty until the 1740s . |
| 17 | In 1609 or 1610 Larkin painted the only picture which can as yet be linked to documentary evidence : a portrait of Edward Herbert , first Baron Herbert of Cherbury [ q.v. ] , |