Example sentences of "can [be] [adv] [num] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | there is an element of abuse on the part of some debtors — it can be simply one way of not paying the debt |
| 2 | ‘ It makes you realise your life can be here one minute and gone the next , ’ Alison told her mum in a trans-Atlantic telephone call . |
| 3 | By contrast , when innovation is discrete and there can be only one winner of an R&D race , own and rivals ' R&D substitute for each other , meaning that spillovers from firm i to firm j reduce i 's chances of winning the current R&D race without giving it any compensating advantages in the future . |
| 4 | But the predatory Suffolk firm is adamant there can be only one winner . |
| 5 | Surely there can be only one thing more tedious than slow equal notes calling for inequality , and that is unrelieved inégales producing the saccadé ( ‘ jerky ’ ) result that Thibault ( op. cit. ) warned against so long ago . |
| 6 | I feel there can be only one conclusion . |
| 7 | In the final analysis , there can be only one conclusion to be drawn , and that is that the Christian promise of happiness in the ‘ hereafter ’ was in reality an appeal to ‘ selfishness ’ , which is also the appeal of the teaching of one of the basic premises of this book , namely , that life is to be enjoyed here on earth . |
| 8 | PAMELA : Why , Mrs. Jewkes , there can be only one reason , which is that I am a sad fool ! |
| 9 | There can be only one explanation . ’ |