Example sentences of "can [verb] [adv] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The female cuckoo can mimic only one type of egg and must try to lay in a nest of this species if her offspring is to have a good chance of survival . |
| 2 | But if you ignore the commemorative debris and assortment of international litter you Drill enjoy the most exhilarating views that can include over 100 Munros when visibility is good . |
| 3 | Not only are they free , but one dead dolphin can bait over 350 traps . |
| 4 | — the system can consider only one interpretation of an ambiguous sentence at a time , but can easily ’ flip ’ between interpretations ( as in visual disambiguation of the Necker Cube ) ; |
| 5 | I would be surprised if he did not agree with me that it is wrong that the Tate can buy only one picture a year . |
| 6 | As I sit at home , typing this book into a word processor , I can count over thirty devices around me which contain an integrated circuit of some kind . |
| 7 | If we can assist just one employee in every hundred to make a change to his or her lifestyle then we are having the desired impact . ’ |
| 8 | 6. if predated dog-whelk shells are available and you can collect about 30 specimens . |
| 9 | Under the new format , the ‘ A ’ list is expanded from 15 to 20 singles , each guaranteed a minimum of 15 plays a week , while the 20 singles on the ‘ B ’ list can expect around ten plays a week . |
| 10 | Robert Layton has spent five months preparing the British , French , Spanish and Portugese paperwork that will allow him to make two or three landings a day as he hops across Europe in a plane that can carry just ten gallons of fuel . |
| 11 | Modern coaxial systems , of the kind that American firms are supplying can carry around 50 channels . |
| 12 | However , some breeding takes place in thermal reactors , so the actual gain is that a fast reactor can generate about sixty times as much electricity as a thermal reactor from each tonne of uranium . |
| 13 | ‘ If they 're easy trousers , I can do maybe 30 pairs a day , as long as I start at eight in the morning and finish at eight at night . |
| 14 | A standard dot-matrix printer can show only two states , black and white , but shades of grey can be used to represent colours if 2 x 2 or 3 x 3 dot matrices are used to display each single screen pixel . |
| 15 | As we saw earlier , the claim that the STV can be a " vote for a coalition " must be rejected : if you have only one vote it can benefit only one party . |
| 16 | A nickname can mark just one incident in the life of the person concerned . |
| 17 | This partly explains why the review took the time it did , since the computer can spend nearly four days running a full set of figures . |
| 18 | A person can spend about five days there , just in the dark . |
| 19 | I can see only one way in which this question can be approached quantitatively . |
| 20 | I can see only one emergency following upon another as wave follows upon wave … , " . |
| 21 | Without moving our heads , we can see about 208 degrees around us , while a cat 's field of view is only about 187 degrees . |
| 22 | In other words , imagine a machine that can look ahead one move . |
| 23 | For £299 you can buy an Amiga 600 that can run over 2,000 games . |
| 24 | The fastest predator is the cheetah , which can touch nearly 60 miles an hour at its best , but it can not sustain this for very long . |
| 25 | Perhaps lawyers and judges accept that proposition as true by convention , which means true just because everyone else accepts it , the way chess players all accept that a king can move only one square at a time . |
| 26 | Whales ' penises can reach a length of ten feet and in Blue Whales , the largest animals ever known to have existed , each testicle can measure over thirty inches and weigh up to one hundred pounds ! |
| 27 | In a fast time , trial cylists can burn nearly 9000 calories ; that 's 3 football matches , or two running marathons . |
| 28 | The most recent improvements to Symantec it can recognize over 1,400 viruses in the US National Computer Security Association ( NCSA ) virus library , and can cope with the troublesome Mutation Engine viruses . |
| 29 | Note 1.2.3 One other thing 1.2.2 does for us is to prove that Z can contain only one subset N with the properties listed in axiom P. ( If M is a subset of Z satisfying P then either 1 or -1 belongs to M. It follows from 1.2.2 that unc and then from axiom P(ii) that , in any case , 1 ε M. Similarly 1 ε N and hence |
| 30 | Looking back to that nightmarish night in the wake of her conversion , Mary can suggest only one explanation . |