Example sentences of "can [adv] [vb infin] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But your conclusion can properly come to a decision on one side , and need not remain balanced ( so avoid : " both sides have their virtues and it is difficult to decide between them " ) . |
| 2 | ‘ If Rocastle feels he has no future at Leeds he can obviously ask for a transfer ’ |
| 3 | However tenuous it may have become , once a marriage is under threat it can suddenly turn into a territory which has to be defended at all costs , like the Falklands . |
| 4 | It must be emphasised that this legal position , whereby the company is exempted from certain rules of the host state , can only arise in a case in which services are provided without a place of business being established in the host state . |
| 5 | Breathless , she straightened up and said fiercely , ‘ You can only stay for a minute and then you must promise to go . ’ |
| 6 | According to the Heisenberg uncertainty principle this ‘ virtual ’ photon can only exist for a time . |
| 7 | The engine stopped and for a moment there was the silence that can only exist in a forest . |
| 8 | An affix is a grammatical element , belonging to a closed set , which can only function as a component of a word : dis — , un — , — ment , — ise , — ed , — s are all affixes . |
| 9 | I 'll stay an hour , you look as if you can only move at a crawl . ’ |
| 10 | Use of the explanatory framework provided by his ‘ indefinite ’ science , together with the application of the resolutio-compositive method to particular observed phenomena , can only result in a hypothesis about its unobserved generative causes . |
| 11 | Butler thus agrees with BRS to the extent that both cases see the battle of the forms as an exchange of counter-offers , which can only result in a contract when one side makes an unconditional acceptance , either intentionally , or in error . |
| 12 | Each driving the other towards the kind of frustration which you can only feel for a family member . |
| 13 | ‘ In all my years of motor racing , I can only think of a couple of times when I mastered the machine as at the Nürburgring in 1968 . |
| 14 | It is , however , possible to respect the limitations without totally abandoning the idea of a holiday altogether , or deciding that you can only go with a friend ( which could be disastrous ) . |
| 15 | The beam of electrons can only pass through a vacuum so the specimen(s) must be dry and therefore not alive . |
| 16 | What else is his Eucharist but , at a higher level , an endless act of fruitful out-pouring of his whole flesh , such as a man can only achieve for a moment with a limited organ of his body ? |
| 17 | Alter all , the swarm can only cover about a metre of ground every three minutes . |
| 18 | A body corporate may be a member of the committee ( r 6.150(3) ) but it can only act through a representative duly authorised in accordance with r 6.156 . |
| 19 | ‘ Brochures can only act as a taster , that may also turn you off , ’ said . |
| 20 | Overburdened by commitments elsewhere , Unesco can only act as a clearing house for independently sponsored initiatives . |
| 21 | This power can only belong to a person if others acknowledge him to be an expert . |
| 22 | The whole Wolfchild Red Indian routine can only work as a fantasy role if the music transcends the mundane and enables the listener to bliss out on that alone , and if the singer thinks he 's Geronimo , fine , after all we 're quite prepared to accept Black Francis as having some handle on space travel , David Bowie as an alien , Rock Messiah human being and Bono as a cowboy bluesman . |
| 23 | A guerrilla unit can only operate in a district where the people are staunch and know how to keep their mouths shut . ’ |
| 24 | Sobbing , Pc Kelly said : ‘ The next thing I saw , he was standing holding a gun with both hands in what I can only describe as a combat position . ’ |
| 25 | The next thing I saw , he was standing holding a gun with both hands in what I can only describe as a combat position . ’ |
| 26 | Although UCTA does not say so , the section must here only be dealing with sales or hire purchase of goods made to the consumer in the course of a business , because s 6(2) only protects persons dealing as consumers , and a person can only deal as a consumer if the person with whom he is dealing deals in his turn in the course of a business . |
| 27 | It is even of importance to him what the moral tone of the whole society is — shocking as it may seem to libertarians to raise this issue — because freedom and individual diversity can only flourish in a society where there is a general recognition of their worth . |
| 28 | The fear of Cardiff 's rivals is that , without the same resources , they can only lose in a transfer war , and some are looking to the Welsh Rugby Union for legislative salvation . |
| 29 | Incidentally this accounts for the interminable debate about education , since objectives are not specifiable the content can only emerge as a consensus within the current zeitgeist . |
| 30 | Such a deeply mistaken belief can only come from a citizen of a country with a disciplinarian attitude to politics . |