Example sentences of "can [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The boffins down at War-U-Like have invented a new toy ; a high-powered supa-dupa combat aircraft that can outfly and outblast anything in the air , and make a bigger noise doing it . |
| 2 | This much more elaborated nervous system is associated with a much greater range of what we can recognizably call adaptive behaviour . |
| 3 | Mrs Thatcher should do either as the Mail demands and replace Mr Lawson with a Chancellor of whose policies she can wholeheartedly approve or , as Mr Heseltine urges , lift her veto against the only course which could give credibility to an exchange rate policy . |
| 4 | I have now had time to reflect on whether the inherent constraints of working within the structure of a commission can appreciatively reduce the impact of a painting . |
| 5 | If we add some storage on a second chip , we obtain a complete microcomputer at an extremely low cost and small physical size , and this can economically replace hardwired logic . |
| 6 | The choice of a serial implement tat ion for a computer would affect the architecture to the extent that we must choose a representation for negative numbers that can economically be processed in a serial manner . |
| 7 | For a long time it has been known that heavy drinking during pregnancy can badly affect a baby 's development so that when it is born , its face and head are deformed and it is mentally backward . |
| 8 | ‘ It is easy to understand , although some austere persons elaborately refuse to understand , why these crowds in the industrial towns pay shillings they can badly afford to see twenty-two professionals kick a ball about , ’ JB Priestley wrote after being taken to a local derby march between Nottingham Forest and Notts County . |
| 9 | Its just difficult to explain how the defence works as a team , and one weak link can badly affect the rests confidence . |
| 10 | The holder of a licence or a club can disapply the section to premises by giving notice specifying the date of disapplication which fulfils the requirements of subs . |
| 11 | The French or Gallica roses are probably the oldest cultivated roses of European origin , and can arguably be traced back for 3,000 years . |
| 12 | Another example that can loosely be referred to as scavenging is bone collecting by harvester ants ( Shipman & Walker , 1980 ) . |
| 13 | The broad feature , which we can loosely refer to as a quasi-periodic oscillation ( QPO ) can not be seen directly in the light curve , because many cycles need to be averaged to overcome Poisson noise . |
| 14 | All of these processes combine to produce a particular form of language , what we can loosely call ‘ academic language ’ . |
| 15 | We must be sensitive to all forms of what can loosely be termed ‘ social control ’ . |
| 16 | I think it is important to concede that what we can loosely call the anti-antiracist position associated with sections of the new right and with populist politics has fed on crucial ambiguities in antiracist and multicultural initiatives . |
| 17 | There is wide agreement that the recent forest damage can predominantly be ascribed to atmospheric pollution even if there remains uncertainty concerning which pollutants are to blame at which locations and what the response mechanisms are for triggering damage , as well as over how the contributing natural stress factors should be weighted ( Hinrichsen , 1986 ) . |
| 18 | Labour continues to neglect the cause of socialism to this day and it can justifiably be accused of undermining its natural supporters in the province . |
| 19 | But come away with Club 18–30 , share your precious two weeks with others who , like you , want to make friends and have a good time all the time , and you 'll find out why we can justifiably claim to be ‘ Fun Factor ’ Number 1 . |
| 20 | He did serve in the war along with hundreds and thousands of other people and it 's something one can justifiably be proud of . ’ |
| 21 | With a new single imminent and a debut album currently in the writing stage ( both definitely on the funky tip ) , Jamiroquai can justifiably hold his head high . |
| 22 | Paul 's verdict : Bags have been around a long time now and Rohan can justifiably claim to have prompted other companies to come up with versions of their original . |
| 23 | It is not a term without some disadvantages , since it can justifiably be argued that the term ‘ handicapped ’ may have some negative overtones . |
| 24 | For Assiter , fantasy is not just a harmless and essentially solitary activity in which everyone engages to a greater or lesser extent , but is something which also has an effect on the way people behave towards others , and on the way they may feel they can justifiably treat each other , particularly women . |
| 25 | We can justifiably expect that academics will adhere to the demands of rationality in their professional work , developing the open character of their discipline . |
| 26 | As a result , while the Authority can justifiably take much of the credit for the transformation of certain aspects of primary education in Leeds which PNP began to yield , it may also need to accept responsibility for some of PNP 's manifest weaknesses . |
| 27 | Through the clerkly sympathies of the fabliau corpus we can justifiably reach back to other forms of literature and literary theory associated with students and the universities and assess the fabliaux in that light . |
| 28 | ‘ And in the back row , Tim Rodber and Ben Clarke can justifiably think of themselves as England candidates . ’ |
| 29 | Sometimes a seller is so financially powerful that he can blatantly insist on such a clause being included in the contract ; he can adopt a ‘ take it or leave it ’ attitude . |
| 30 | When you draw level , drop down onto your belly and slide to the edge of the bank until you can slowly raise your head to pinpoint their exact position . |