Example sentences of "can [adv] [adv] [vb infin] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Always keep in mind what it is you need and want to practise , then decide how you can most effectively do that . |
| 2 | Will he further accept that service men are looking for the opportunity to obtain a rung on the ownership ladder and that the Housing Corporation and its satellite housing associations can most assuredly provide that ? |
| 3 | Now that our account of the concepts and positive knowledge of development is complete , we can most easily understand that controversy . |
| 4 | The individual reader can most conveniently update statistical trends for topics in this chapter by reference to Social Trends and Regional Trends ( HMSO , annual ) and OECD ( annual ) . |
| 5 | When tightening hook knots , pull the line very slowly — this helps to prevent heat from friction , which can so easily damage fine diameter monofilament . |
| 6 | Above all , Mr Aldous is happy that Robson Rhodes has avoided the fate that can so easily befall small and medium-sized accountancy practices in the current harsh economic climate — having to merge with a rival . |
| 7 | Moreover , cetaceans can dive to these remarkable depths and return rapidly from great deep-sea pressures without suffering from any of the compressed-air conditions like the ‘ bends ' ’ , which can so easily kill human SCUBA divers . |
| 8 | The gulf between theory and practice , which can so easily thwart real progress at such meetings , was not in evidence here . |
| 9 | Human nature can so easily become competitive and aggressive , fearful and defensive ; and then bigotry , intolerance , bitterness and enmity are born , as unfortunately the history of all religions shows . |
| 10 | Despite calls for ‘ new incentives to encourage increased private sector support ’ , and a proposed recomposition of the gallery 's ‘ ineffective ’ board , it is uncertain how the Gallery can so quickly become semi-autonomous . |
| 11 | It is possible that epinephrine can only temporarily stop bleeding and keep vessel existent , while a sclerosing agent can actually clot the vessel , and thereby decrease rebleeding . |
| 12 | On the supply side , firms maximize profits and entry occurs until the marginal firm can only just break even . |
| 13 | and er hopefully if we can only just bring enough fish each and every time erm we 'll even get it higher . |
| 14 | Well sort , there sort of like little coves are n't they and they 're you can only just see one van from where they are . |
| 15 | The relative maturity of children at different ages can only partly explain this ambivalence in attitude and government policy about care and education outside the family . |
| 16 | If half the funds and the intellectual effort which has gone towards developing strategies for finding alternative families had been put into what we can only lamely call preventative work there would be unquestionable advantage to all concerned . |
| 17 | : You can only really see one eye at a time as they 're right on the side of the head . |
| 18 | I can only really remember one occasion when my husband knew that I was I was taking Pills at the time , I think I took about twenty eight in one night . |
| 19 | On this view , we can only realistically expect positivist criminology to produce ‘ probabilistic ’ theories — associating variability of cause with variability of outcome ; we should expect no more than loose associations between specified causal variables and criminal behaviour . |
| 20 | You can only realistically learn one point at a time . |
| 21 | Clearly , you need to use the time you have available to consolidate what is going to be in the foreground — what is central to your essay — rather than in mugging up materials which at best can only ever form marginal elements of the final piece of work . |
| 22 | Note that this direct hit can only ever affect one model . |
| 23 | Perhaps we can only ever see this when we have been ‘ broken ’ by God , perhaps through failures or disasters that he has allowed us to experience . |
| 24 | They can only ever produce provisional generalizations , even as the theorist realizes the crucial importance of their persistent production ’ . |
| 25 | Yeah , you can normally only have one person to four children you see |
| 26 | I remember I had this one on my arm and we were we , I was wearing a short sleeved t-shirt and there was some Americans sat behind and I said , ca , I can just always remember one thing Gosh ! |
| 27 | " I think I can just about manage that . " |
| 28 | In a good light , I can just about tell white from red . |
| 29 | You , you can just about grow old gracefully |
| 30 | Intellectually I can just about accept that violence is salutary , that violence is good . |