Example sentences of "can [be] [verb] [adv] at a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some issues can be tackled only at a European level . |
| 2 | In a more explicitly theoretical paper , Lavandera ( 1982 ) presents the general argument that syntactic variation can be studied only at a superficial level if the analytic method does not take account of the use which speakers make of variation for stylistic and discourse purposes ; frequently they exploit subtle differences in meaning of the kind which ( for example ) Weiner and Labov deliberately simplify . |
| 3 | Based on the principle of customer loyalty , their Price Promise guarantees to refund the difference if an item stocked by them can be purchased locally at a lower price . |
| 4 | An innocuous bachelor party can be held either at a respectable restaurant where food is served along with drink , or with food and family present at home . |
| 5 | The company is banking on communications technology arriving in time so that the dispersed machines can be linked together at a speed of at least 100 Mbytes per second — FDDI runs at 100 M-bits per second , and the company is looking at Asynchronous Transfer Mode , the emerging broadband fixed-cell packet system for the links . |