Example sentences of "can [adv] [verb] at [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She ca n't talk at the moment . |
| 2 | ‘ I know it all sounds good , ’ she says , ‘ but what I want most of all is to spend more time with my little girl — and that 's the one thing I ca n't do at the moment . ’ |
| 3 | " You 've been lovely and I 'm leading you on but I ca n't deliver at the moment . |
| 4 | Now of course you ca n't predict at the level of the individual school what the population is going to be , but you can nevertheless be very clear that the system as a whole is going to have many erm fewer pupils . |
| 5 | ‘ More people now appreciate that you ca n't look at a relationship and say , ‘ It has n't got a hope ’ . |
| 6 | If you ca n't look at the rushes , you come in every day wondering . |
| 7 | And I did n't go , but a chap that I knew from whose name I ca n't remember at the moment , did go and he was killed within about three months of his er arriving in Africa . |
| 8 | I ca n't remember at the policy and resources why it was decided by a majority because in in replying to this report on making our comments to this report , I first had consultations with officers to go through some of the items that we had done and issues that we had covered in this authority especially the members ' services sub committee and we knocked off the bare bones of er a report to the policy and resources committee and the policy . |
| 9 | A happy theatre a happy ship if you like a corny phrase to use is very very apparent and I 'm sure my colleagues and friends around here would appreciate because they do believe they ca n't get at the management committee and they would like to so please Tom will that be possible at some time in the near future ? |
| 10 | I ca n't get at the underside of my staircase ; how can I fix loose treads from above ? |
| 11 | ‘ So we ca n't get at the marriage certificate , ’ George brooded . |
| 12 | Our problem is we ca n't get at the buyers . |
| 13 | afford , ca n't afford at the minute , I was just saying to dad Bri 's gon na get us some shopping on his cheque book , I tell you , did I tell you about his embarrassing moment ? |
| 14 | erm Is education as good , we all think it 's a splendid idea , but surely in this , this day of , of crisis , financial crisis , of hardship , of shutting down hospitals , erm people losing their jobs , surely this is something we really ca n't afford at the scale at it exists at present ? |
| 15 | ‘ I ca n't train at the moment , ’ he added . |
| 16 | We ca n't buy at the moment . |
| 17 | ca n't find at the moment . |
| 18 | However , because ‘ newly-born ’ micelles can only arise at the expense of the preexisting ones ( there is a finite amount of water in the system that must be shared between all the micelles ) , the average radius of the micelles decreases . |
| 19 | An audience can only sit at the front of the stage and the hall stretches back for miles . |
| 20 | This picture can only hint at the intricacy of the colourful markings . |
| 21 | I 'll stay an hour , you look as if you can only move at a crawl . ’ |
| 22 | Therefore , without looking to the policy of this agreement , I think it is void for want of consideration , and that the plaintiff can only recover at the rate of £5 a month . |
| 23 | Unlike so many hotel kitchens , which are completely enclosed , La Rive 's has the unusual feature of being surrounded by windows , with a door on to a magnificent herb garden , where guests can only go at the invitation of the chef . |
| 24 | A person who fails to comply with this rule can only appear at the hearing with leave of the court ( r 6.23(4) ) . |
| 25 | For one thing , we can only guess at the proportion of actual offences known to the police . |
| 26 | The police can only guess at the scale of the problem , for stealing from gardens is not treated separately in station crime-books . |
| 27 | One can only guess at the reasons for such underreporting ; but it seems possible that exporters understate values in the hope of retaining part of the foreign exchange that they would otherwise be obliged to surrender to the authorities , while importers may wish to minimize their import duties ( and also avoid enquiries into the source of the foreign exchange used for imports ) . |
| 28 | The fact that we can only guess at the figures is one of the first clues to their situation . |
| 29 | She confesses her team can only guess at the causes of the bird 's decline . |
| 30 | ‘ I can only guess at the reason , ’ Becker said . |