Example sentences of "[noun] can [adv] [verb] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although this chapter can only look at national-level data , indicators of acute housing shortage are much more evident in certain areas such as London since the geographical distribution of housing does not match the availability of employment and the location of places in which people want to live , and regional differential price rises in houses exacerbate this problem . |
| 2 | Working hours were thus dictated by tides , and the mill can only operate at favourable times . |
| 3 | he was greatly concerned , too , with getting the correct scale of things , emphasising that the eye can only see at one glance an object which in size is one-third of the distance between the object and that eye ; in other words if you are painting a man six feet high you should be 18 feet away from him . |
| 4 | In other rocks , water can hardly flow at all : clay has very small pores , whereas pumice is full of good-sized holes but they rarely link up . |
| 5 | Treatment for tapeworms can also start at this age . |
| 6 | It has been commonly assumed that in controversy even if we could finally agree on what is objectively so , the moral debate has not yet started ; you can still find good what I find bad , and unless we discover common principles from which to argue , the debate can never begin at all . |
| 7 | However , in his researches , Professor Mark Rosenzweig was able to prove that this was not so and that , given sufficient stimulation , the brain can actually develop at any age . |
| 8 | Mr De Klerk justified his decision on the curious grounds that an inquiry would take too long and would create ‘ a climate of suspicion and distrust ’ which ‘ the country can ill afford at this stage in its history ’ . |
| 9 | As I have said , the courts can now look at white papers and official reports for the purpose of finding the ‘ mischief ’ sought to be corrected , although not at draft clauses or proposals for the remedying of such mischief . |
| 10 | Thus , the more mobile a dipolar group , the easier it is for it to follow the electric field up to higher frequencies , whereas the less mobile groups can only orient at lower frequencies . |