Example sentences of "can [verb] [adv] at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Man 's cultural development can arise only at the cost of a persisting lack of satisfaction of those sexual impulses which are seen as improper by men and women — the higher the degree of civilization and education , the greater the number of unsatisfied impulses . |
| 2 | The moral of this tale you can carry away at the end of my story of two Corbetts . |
| 3 | There is nothing but House and Seven , hence the House can grow only at the expense of the Seven . |
| 4 | As resource allocation is a ‘ zero sum game ’ ( that is , authorities can gain only at the expense of others ) it seems essential to be able to explain why different formulas produce different results in terms other than the composition of the formulas . |
| 5 | ‘ Authorities can gain only at the expense of others . |
| 6 | However , such a transfer can happen only at the expense of the central authority . |
| 7 | In rugby , the demand to watch Five Nations matches continues to exceed the supply of tickets , partly because each country only stages two home games a year — a classic example of how less can mean more at the box office . |
| 8 | Offiah is hoping he can fly home at the weekend in readiness for the reconstruction surgery on his shoulder on Tuesday . |