Example sentences of "can [adv] [verb] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sand grains themselves are confined to a layer very near to the surface and thus their erosive effect is very limited in vertical extent , while surface creep can obviously affect only an extremely limited vertical range . |
| 2 | I just hope there wo n't be too many … the music room can only hold about a hundred , comfortably . |
| 3 | Please remember that you can only appeal once a year . |
| 4 | For example , many people have four weeks ' holiday a year , but not many people can take that four weeks all in one go , there are usually restrictions that you can only take maybe a maximum of two weeks . |
| 5 | Surfing can only sustain about a dozen photographers . |
| 6 | The relation ’ — larger than — ’ can thus generate only a non-branching hierarchy ; in such a hierarchy we would have to say that B and C above jointly occupied the same position . |
| 7 | And you , Bruno , can not remain here a moment longer . |
| 8 | Living Together as Husband and Wife is very concerned about being ‘ fair ’ to the married couple , but the only way they could truly be ‘ fair ’ to the married housewife would be to entitle the single housewife to less SB than she gets … and you can not entitle even a single housewife to less than nothing . |
| 9 | Thus , in many cases we can not have both a true and fair view and an unfudgeable figure ’ . |
| 10 | In this sense of the word , a body can not have both a power and a duty in respect of the same action . |
| 11 | The uncertainty principle says that particles can not have both a well-defined position and a well-defined velocity . |
| 12 | Colleges with their own halls can normally house only a small proportion of students . |
| 13 | The surgery is the only one in Northern Ireland with a revolutionary new ruby laser which can permanently blast away a tattoo with no risk of scarring . |
| 14 | Erm if your diagram 's pretty reasonable and you measure the wrong thing , you can still get quite a lot of the marks . |
| 15 | Most people can usually recall only a few numbers when these have two figures in them . |
| 16 | ‘ Afternoon duty is quite pleasant : I can usually get quite a lot of reading done in the library because there 's little activity on the gallery after three o'clock . |
| 17 | If you are going to the school yourself , you can probably collect quite a lot of this general information by chatting with the teacher and pupils and noting down details of the surroundings . |
| 18 | One can often choose just a few significant words for the accompaniment , and avoid the rest . |
| 19 | In a ‘ hung council ’ deals hammered out between rival party groups can often have either a direct or indirect effect on local policy-making . |
| 20 | ‘ She can now speak quite a bit of English as well as Romanian . |
| 21 | Sophisticated feminists can now study quite a range of art history , such as Mary Garrard 's brilliant monograph on Artemesia Gentileschi , as well as the general rewriting of male-dominated art history produced by scholars like Germaine Greer or Griselda Pollock . |
| 22 | They should be reminded too that canned baked beans in tomato sauce are highly nutritious and can be a quick and convenient addition to many main meals or can even make quite a good meal on their own if they are served on buttered toast . |
| 23 | It can therefore provide collectively a formidable knowledge of the University and bring to bear an enormous fund of experience . |