Example sentences of "can [adv] [verb] [adv] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Neo-Marxists have gone much further and tend to claim that , in advanced capitalist societies , the state and its various bureaucracies have distinctive levels of relative autonomy from the different fractions of the bourgeoisie and , indeed , on occasion state functionaries can successfully play off one section of the bourgeoisie ( as well as competing classes ) against others , domestically or transnationally , in their own interests . |
| 2 | The distinctions at this high level are relatively unilluminating : we can better see how feeding ecology and feeding behaviour interact if we examine more closely a smaller group of species . |
| 3 | And the writer can only conjure up this gift for the reader if he/she is prepared , first of all , to write plainly what he/she believes to be true , rather than fall for the surface sweetmeats which seem to satisfy but which , like sugar , leave the reader hungry minutes later . |
| 4 | ‘ You can only experience so much fame , ’ he says . |
| 5 | A country can only stand so much excitement . |
| 6 | You can only carry out remedial action one step at a time , so you must start by removing the primary cause of the trouble , and that is the polluted water . |
| 7 | Note that where the speaker / writer is deliberately flouting a convention , upsetting an expectation for a stylistic effect , he can only bring off that effect because the convention / expectation exists . |
| 8 | Christian 's a fine man , but I can only take so much religion in a week . |
| 9 | ‘ Britain can only support so much research , ’ he says . |
| 10 | And certain kinds of knowledge you can only find out one way — through pain . |
| 11 | He can only pick up one person and throw him two metres … |
| 12 | We can not carry on increasing water service charges by ten to fifteen percent , year in and year out . |
| 13 | We know that we can not carry out this work using existing staff , and that we will be unable to take on extra staff . |
| 14 | Therefore , in cells that have no mtDNA ( termed cells ) , the electron-transport chain can not function and the cells can not carry out oxidative phosphorylation . |
| 15 | While we can not explain why this sense should be restricted to British English ( the Brown Corpus confirms Quirk et al. " s claim ) , it is possible to offer some explanation for its tendency to occur in the perfective aspect . |
| 16 | This matches darkly the closing of the gates of vision in ‘ Burnt Norton ’ where ‘ human kind/ Can not bear very much reality ’ . |
| 17 | This is because we can not observe how many baby universes exist out there , waiting to join onto our region of the universe . |
| 18 | All this adds up to the likelihood that the Government can not sort out the economy in the very short term and certainly can not do so this side of the general election ; they can not generate the feeling of happiness and cheerfulness about the economy which parties traditionally rely upon to win general elections . |
| 19 | Civilian users can not decipher as much information from the satellites ' signals and thus get fixes that are less precise . |
| 20 | Well , we can not rule out that possibility . |
| 21 | The cuts are part of a major shake-up at the laboratory which employs 1,300 staff and the company says it can not rule out more job losses . |
| 22 | Company says it can not rule out more job losses after a review of technical and administrative staff has been completed . |
| 23 | The important point for our purposes is that until some assumption is made about the generally expected price level we can not rule out any response of the economy to the upward shift in the aggregate demand curve . |
| 24 | However much he refuses to shy away from the hopeless , endless horror of what he sees , he can not give up that quest for the perfect paradise . |
| 25 | I can not give even one example where the meaning is changed in any way if the TH sound is voiced or not . |
| 26 | if they 're saying there are no restrictions , cos they can not , they simply can not give there good clearance if there was something which is something of a restriction of competition , they must give exemption , they have no jurisdiction to do anything else , if they look at a clause and say |
| 27 | While one can not assert unequivocally that determination will win , in the balance of life you can alter direction more easily on the move than you can if you are static , and if you have set the direction in this way it will almost alter itself . |
| 28 | ‘ It is unfair on the public because they can not know why some waiting lists are longer than others . ’ |
| 29 | It is a pity that I can not read out that speech because time is so short . |
| 30 | Preferably by retaining the two-thirds majority , but at least ensuring as my Noble Friend Lord has suggested , a clear majority and I myself will go on reiterating the principle , enunciated by Professor in the er and also much commended by some elements in the Conservative Party and he said you can not have real effective democracy without real effective local self government , and he said that in the light of his experiences in pre-war Germany . |