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 | Exposing fruit flies to X-rays or certain chemicals produces mutations , many of them lethal , as a result of which the flies can not survive at all . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | As a result of this , it is now possible to leave a natural history museum knowing that some fleas can jump 130 times their own height , and that elephants can not jump at all , and that as many as a thousand dead ants have been found inside the stomach of a single mole . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Treatment for tapeworms can also start at this age . |
| 8 | First commissions could be obtained through political interest , and this would appear to have been the situation of Philip Hay , whom Admiral Lord Keith managed to place in the 11th Foot as an ensign on the strength of imaginary past service , though his patron remarked that ‘ if his father can not get at old General Grant or Lady Sutherland he may not be confirmed . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Prices can not remain at this level for long , but potential buyers can be assured that their money will be safer in one of these than in almost any other car . |
| 11 | Currently , individual LIFESPAN processes can not communicate at all . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | There are numbers of rooms that an individual can not enter at all , or only at certain times , for reasons of status , sex , or even age . |
| 14 | In contrast , Coltheart ( 1980 ) and Saffran , Bogyo , Schwartz and Marin ( 1980 ) suggested that in deep dyslexia the normal reading system can not operate at all , and that the reading that the patient can manage is mediated by an alternative processing system located in the right hemisphere , a system which might play no role at all in normal reading . |
| 15 | 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 ’ . |
| 16 | If the patient can not walk at all , you should have a special wheelchair for outdoor use ; while an indoor wheelchair has large back wheels and relatively thin tyres , the outdoor version may have four small wheels with thick fat tyres , which should be kept pumped up to the correct pressure . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Although the family in the orthodox reader can not exist at all — there is no family so griefless , angerless , humourless , or so utterly devoid of conflict as the family in the orthodox reader — it is recognisable in externals … the detached house … father at leisure with the lawnmower ( or going to the office with the brief case ) , the large dog and the aristocratic cat , the tidy organised family consisting only of one father , one mother , one son , one daughter . |