Example sentences of "can [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only concerted action and investigation by the government can right these tragic injustices that continue to occur . |
| 2 | Microwave combination ovens can successfully prime cook fresh and frozen foods and regenerate ready cooked dishes from chilled and frozen . |
| 3 | Perhaps if it 's so successful if it can successfully this evening perhaps we will do it more often . |
| 4 | So long as they are not excluded candidates having " too few " votes must be allowed to collect if they can enough transferred votes to bring them up to the quota . |
| 5 | While we await the outcome of the general election , does he have any plans to discuss with the Northern Ireland parties how best we can all further inward investment ? |
| 6 | Rarely can so small a sum of money have been spent more fruitfully . |
| 7 | Seldom can so many so young have enjoyed the benefit of complimentary seating . |
| 8 | Only Sue Lewis , secretary to Lord Rees , can better that record . |
| 9 | who can better that tomorrow I wonder … now our action round up this week focusses on the final of the village cricket knockout competition at Lords … it 's between two Central South teams … |
| 10 | So you can obviously that 's gon na just be one person . |
| 11 | I think historically although you know historians can much better than me , erm historically maybe the way that the rock has been worked with a bagging system and it was you know and lots of quarry men had little bits of farm as well around Blaenau especially and you get a feeling er from reading about it that er you know they have a an almost self employed attitude to their to their work and their rock and the fact that er they 'd do it in their own you know wor work the rock in a certain way and this and very sort of proud erm of their work and that and From talking a lot to them and being close to you know it you feel that that that 's still very much the same really you know there is this sort of close relationship and that with their em employers there was you know a lot of you know was n't it was n't straight it as straight as you said a straight employer employee relationship that they was A lot of s sort of er give and take probably and I think they were outraged at this sort of McGregor type tactic really that you know this new machine . |
| 12 | But can less authoritarian forms of moral discipline be effective and if so , how are they to be achieved ? |
| 13 | I can only second Glynn 's remarks . |
| 14 | So that they , they can only twenty . |
| 15 | You can fine some information a bout each of these methods on pages 2–6 of this leaflet . |
| 16 | But if someone in the past was capable of inventing it , why can not other people be inventing it now ? |
| 17 | A quality , dry pale sherry can be substituted , but can not equal its unique , rich , mellow taste . |
| 18 | And he was fain to acknowledge the tenant 's insistence that the bargain was sacrosanct : ‘ I can not much saie against that ; but yet I perceaue I shalbe a losser still by this bargaine , thowghe I can not tell the reason why ’ More prosaically , landownership was hedged about by varying degrees of limitation resulting from the security of customary tenures , accompanied as often as not by inelasticity of rents . |
| 19 | This way , if I reach the end of the cone without noticing , the cone lifts off the floor and , as it can not possible pass through the tension assembly , I get plenty of warning without having the weights landing on my feet ( ouch ! ) and my knitting on the floor ! |
| 20 | Can not super sensitiv super sensitivity work both ways ? |
| 21 | In 1987 at one of the regular meetings of superintendents , I listened as the deputy chief constable talked his way through a potential problem for the increasing numbers of graduates in the service , who ‘ obviously can not all make it to the top ’ . |
| 22 | Things can not all be black , however . |
| 23 | Horses are individuals and can not all be trained in the same way . |
| 24 | Such formulae are complex and not easily resolved since the relevant factors can not all be readily equated , and in any case are not all quantifiable . |
| 25 | It does not take an intimate knowledge of logic , never mind Greek and Hebrew , to conclude that they can not all be right . |
| 26 | These connections can not all be dismissed as technological misapplications of innocent accidental discovery . |
| 27 | Students generally have been led to believe that they can not all achieve a worthwhile level of learning . |
| 28 | There is not enough evidence to decide this issue , but there is enough to be sure what we should feel about the conclusions he draws concerning Othello : One part of this antithesis follows — some men must be servants — but not the other : why can not all masters be served ‘ truly ’ ? |
| 29 | A set of desires can be inconsistent in the sense that they can not all be satisfied . |
| 30 | The non-owners of the means of production , however , can not all be described as proletarians . |