Example sentences of "can [adv] [vb infin] at [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus the cost of a path can not increase , it can only stay at the same level or decrease , and the algorithm is admissible . |
| 2 | Such ‘ town plans ’ are eminently satisfying but also dangerously deceptive , because in the absence of excavation , they can only hint at the potential complexity involved . |
| 3 | So down at squadron level we had this very much in our minds when in time the orders came down through Group , through station , right to the people who had to do the carting and the bombing , I feel I should explain right at the outset that I can only view at the later stages of the war the state of morale as I saw it in the entire Pathfinder Force . |
| 4 | But this can only work at the individual level : it can not work for the economy as a whole since the quantity of nominal money is fixed , and so one person obtains more money by selling bonds only with the result that someone else — the person who buys the bonds — finds himself with less . |
| 5 | In total one can only marvel at the numerous stations opened in the 1980s and it is pleasing to note that many more are in the pipeline . |
| 6 | We can not sleep at the new night time , we feel tired during the daytime ( at a time corresponding to night in the time zone we have just left ) , and our appetite is upset . |
| 7 | Bill Walker , Conservative MP for Tayside North , says : ‘ We can not continue at the current level of borrowing , so some new source of income has to be found . |
| 8 | And even an enthusiast like her admits that the growth in converts to her cause can not continue at the present rate . |
| 9 | FORMER Liberal leader Sir David Steel yesterday urged Labour to stand down for the Liberal-Democrats in seats they can not win at the next Election . |
| 10 | Such local compensation , however , can not occur at the small scale because the lithosphere has a finite strength and so changes in load result in regional isostatic adjustments over a greater area than that actually affected by the change in load ( Fig. 4.7(B) ) . |
| 11 | Er the County Council can not look at an individual building and say , this is a particular piece of land which is going to be developed and this is going to have this particular impact on the environment . |
| 12 | If British Rail is under pressure to increase the frequency of its service , there is a case for a coordinated transport system operating bus and rail services , If there is a need for transport when it is not convenient to run rail services , or if only a certain number of trains can run on a line because goods trains and passenger services can not operate at the same time — although perhaps British Rail should be more innovative in its mix of passenger and freight services perhaps it is a good idea for British Rail and the bus services — as they are today , not as they will be affected by the Bill — to get together . |
| 13 | As Einstein expressed it : ‘ The world that we have made at the level of thinking we have done so far , creates problems we can not solve at the same level of thinking ’ . |
| 14 | You can just look at the periodic erm |
| 15 | Esau , with all the animals Jacob has given him , can hardly proceed at a mad gallop . |
| 16 | At greater speeds they have a choice ; they can either swim at a greater depth ( away from the influence of surface drag ) or resort to their ‘ aquabatics ’ . |