Example sentences of "can [be] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With the ends waxed to reduce water loss , and packed in damp newspaper , budwood can just about survive for 10 days , until back at the nursery the buds skill and experience , this operation can be exasperatingly with skill and experience , this operation can be exasperatingly unsuccessful . |
| 2 | The improvements can be both in physical areas such as getting a back-swing right in tennis or in areas of fear or attitude . |
| 3 | Previously you could ask someone to type up first draft , second draft , maybe a third draft , but how far can you drive your secretary , and now they can be wholly in charge of this — they can change the layout of it as much as the words within it ; they can ask colleagues to come in and comment and even add a little bit . |
| 4 | Previously you could ask someone to type up first draft , second draft , maybe a third draft , but how far can you drive your secretary — and now they can be wholly in charge of this . |
| 5 | Hence the tribunal must give what the reviewing court regards as the correct meaning to the statutory terms , before the tribunal can be properly within the sphere of its jurisdiction ; mistakes as to the meaning of these terms become jurisdictional errors . |
| 6 | So what can be amiss with a torrent of intellectual change as imaginative and potentially as beneficent as that represented by the present condition of molecular biology ? |
| 7 | At the Tolly Cobbold site , this is even more crucial following the recent explosion at the near-by petrol depot , while terrorist activity in the Midlands has shown that the environment can be just as an effective target as military ones . |
| 8 | It can be well worth the additional expense of some private tuition for the audition and gaining one to one advice on your material . |
| 9 | The results , however , can be well worth the effort , and it will all come that much easier if you have prepared things in advance . |
| 10 | Egyptian rugs are often very expensive — sometimes commanding higher prices than comparable Persian items — but can be well worth the cost because of the high standards to which they are made . |
| 11 | Salary directed at highest gains Controlling the way your wage is paid can be well worth it , says STEWART RITCHIE |
| 12 | Slurry is injected into a 20mm ( 0.75in ) wide groove which can be up to 60mm ( 2.3in ) deep , and on all models , the slot is opened by a pair of discs mounted on a flexible arm , a feature which is said to ensure precise depth control . |
| 13 | The suspension , springs and dampers have to be robust to cope with the greater weight of the diesel engine , which can be up to 250lb , and the greater mileage that a diesel might be expected to cover . |
| 14 | In the Indian Ocean fish are caught in gill nets , which can be up to 50 k long , and are made of synthetic fibres . |
| 15 | With larger amounts you will have a choice of fixed or floating rates , which you can switch between to suit your development , while your repayment period can be up to 20 years . |
| 16 | 1 A filename can be up to 8 characters long ; 2 A filename may not contain spaces and most punctuation marks , except hyphens , round brackets and a few others ; 3 A filename may be typed in using either lower or upper case letters ; 4 Every file on the same disk must have a different filename ; 5 Every file , wherever it is stored , should have a different filename . |
| 17 | However it can be up to 1000 times larger if the host is amorphous , or non crystalline . |
| 18 | We gain that impression because the work the USSR reports can be up to 30 years old at its first publication . |
| 19 | They can be up to 200ft ( 60m ) in diameter and are mostly constructed of stones , with a rim , and spokes radiating out from a central cairn . |
| 20 | This is a kind of life and health insurance combined that covers replacement cost through death ( which can be up to £3000 in the case of a horse ) , theft or straying , and the cost of veterinary bills . |
| 21 | There prices can be up to £1,000 . |
| 22 | By the time some pupils reach secondary school they can be up to a year behind classmates who have had the proper amount of teaching , Government insiders claim . |
| 23 | At the height of the summer season there can be up to 42,000 people soaking up the sun in Benidorm , so the litter problem can be awesome . |
| 24 | Their expenses can be up to £126 a day , plus the cost of first-class travel from their home . |
| 25 | Forces that can be up to five times your body weight on each stride . |
| 26 | This can be up to 120 years , but in the most common bamboo , the flowering occurs every 70 years . |
| 27 | The bulbs in this unit actually stop working at the end of their useful lives which can be up to five years . |
| 28 | The 7490E can support transfer rates of 9M-bytes per second , up to 128 logical paths and can be up to 14 miles from the CPU via Escon channels . |
| 29 | Most obvious were the southern giant petrels : huge , dark brown birds , some with paler heads , and resembling an outsize fulmar , they glide ceaselessly to and fro along the waterfront on wings which can be up to two metres across . |
| 30 | I am unaware of any allegations of malpractice at the prison I visited , but it has often been claimed elsewhere that frauds are common among both staff and prisoners responsible for storing , weighing and distributing food , and that the actual consumption per prisoner can be up to 20 per cent below that laid down in the regulations . |