Example sentences of "can [adv] be [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It ca n't be more than three minutes ago . |
| 2 | ‘ So if you were six when she died , William ca n't be more than five years younger than you , right ? ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I expect so , ’ he said , ‘ we ca n't be more than twenty-five feet up . |
| 4 | Unfortunately , each pattern ca n't be more than 16 steps long , a fact which leads to some limitations on time signatures and record resolutions ( for instance , you ca n't record triplet 16ths in a 4/4 bar ) , although there is a ‘ swing ’ function which allows you to program a rather rigid swing feel on 16ths . |
| 5 | Unfortunately , each pattern ca n't be more than 16 steps long , a fact which leads to some limitations on time signatures and record resolutions ( for instance , you ca n't record triplet 16ths in a 4/4 bar ) , although there is a ‘ swing ’ function which allows you to program a rather rigid swing feel on 16ths . |
| 6 | Ca n't be more than ten , twelve miles away . ’ |
| 7 | At the very outside , relief ca n't be more than two weeks away . |
| 8 | He ca n't be more than fifty . " |
| 9 | Ca n't be more than a thousand miles . |
| 10 | He ca n't be more than 25 years old . |
| 11 | You know , he ca n't be more than twenty-three at the most . ’ |
| 12 | Ca n't be more than fifteen quid for a night . |
| 13 | After starting out a special interest magazine , Skin 2 now looks like a mainstream style mag ( sometimes you feel it ca n't be long before S&M will make it into M&S ) . |
| 14 | ‘ As I said , it ca n't be long before you locate Suzie , and I 'm sure you 'll have more success in persuading her to go home than I would . ’ |
| 15 | It ca n't be long before they cross the Atlantic as the children of the 90s start replacing designer bodies with designer minds . |
| 16 | ‘ Come on , time to get out of here , there ca n't be long until your bombs go off . ’ |
| 17 | Pure logic is only a small part of the thinking we habitually do , and can only be so because it is only appropriate for certain limited activities . |
| 18 | However many facts I know about another person I can treat him as pure means , but I can not be perceptually and emotionally aware from his viewpoint without letting his inclinations interact with mine and affect my ends . |
| 19 | The date governing the first instalment can not be sooner than 14 days after the issue of the bill . |
| 20 | The unfulfilled potential for new roles can not be completely and unreservedly surrendered to the psychiatrist . |
| 21 | Once proceedings have been commenced a child can not be medically or psychiatrically examined or otherwise assessed for the purpose of preparing expert evidence without the leave of the court ( FPCR , r18(1) ; FPR , r4.18(1) ) . |
| 22 | In these circumstances it is essential that a direction is sought as the child can not be medically or psychiatrically examined or otherwise assessed for the purpose of providing expert evidence without the leave of the court ( FPCR , r18(1) ; FPR , r4.18(1) ) . |
| 23 | Today , despite assurances given by the Under-Secretary of State for Social Security in Committee , crucial regulations on disability have been botched together with the uprating measures so that they can not be effectively and properly considered by Parliament . |
| 24 | Understanding involves an area more extensive than that of which one can be conscious ; one can not be outside and inside at the same time … |
| 25 | In so far as the plaintiffs are seeking to recover from the third defendant money which he has obtained for his own benefit or for the benefit of companies which are , in effect , his alter ego , I can see that the third party would have an overwhelming argument that it can not be just and equitable to require him to contribute to whatever the third defendant is ordered to pay to the plaintiffs . |
| 26 | Marie McKnight , who prepared their submission , can not be here and has delegated OLIVER KEARNEY to present it for her . |
| 27 | It does not commend itself on the basis of observable experience in the everyday world , and it can not be easily and rationally justified . |
| 28 | Indirect costs ( also known as overhead costs ) are those costs that can not be easily and conveniently identified with a particular product . |
| 29 | If during the period of habituation the touch of the glass rod is coupled with some other stimulus — say a bright light — the original response at once returns in full , so it can not be merely because of exhaustion that it disappeared in the first place . |
| 30 | Reporters can not be everywhere and so press releases can help to ensure that newsworthy events receive the publicity they deserve . |