Example sentences of "can [adv] at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ca n't at the moment no . |
| 2 | It will appeal to people who would like to live in a large country house but who ca n't at the moment , and also to foreign customers who do n't have a base in this country |
| 3 | Well I ca n't at the moment can I ? |
| 4 | No I ca n't at the moment sweetheart , because I 'm feeding the baby . |
| 5 | I ca n't at the moment , I 'll do it in a minute for you . |
| 6 | You 'll be able to , but you ca n't at the moment . |
| 7 | But to say ‘ well we may run into erm problems which we ca n't at the moment foresee , or problems which may make life temporarily a little difficult ’ I do n't think should prevent us from tackling the problem . |
| 8 | We can not at the moment reconstruct with certainty what the ordering of relevant environments in EModE might have been , or whether it was always nasals that were decisive : as Lowland Scots preserves evidence of a raising rule before dentals/alveolars ( for example in glad , gather , Saturday ) , it is not impossible that hendes , bend attest to pre-dental raisings . |
| 9 | Even if reinstatement or re-engagement is ordered , an employer can not at the end of the day be forced to take you back . |
| 10 | ‘ It may be said that the duty is difficult to define , because when the act of negligence in manufacture occurs there was no specific person towards whom the duty could be said to exist : the thing might never be used : it might be destroyed by accident , or it might be scrapped , or in many ways fail to come into use in the normal way : in other words the duty can not at the time of manufacture be other than potential or contingent , and only can become vested by the fact of actual use by a particular person . |
| 11 | In Coke , Littleton 212b. , Lord Coke says : ‘ where the condition is for payment of £20 , the obligor or feoffor can not at the time appointed pay a lesser sum in satisfaction of the whole , because it is apparent that a lesser sum of money can not be a satisfaction of a greater … |