Example sentences of "can [verb] [adv] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two spayed females disputing a territorial boundary can caterwaul as dramatically as any ‘ rutting toms ’ . |
| 2 | But the 10-barrel John Hickey plant can knock out more when the occasion demands . |
| 3 | Michel Montignac preaches that you can eat fabulously well while losing weight . |
| 4 | Now one of the things that sex one of the consequences of sex is that a population which reproduces sexually can evolve more rapidly than a population erm which reproduces asexually . |
| 5 | The older the child the longer you can wait so long as there are no other signs of serious illness . |
| 6 | The water-soluble vitamins , B and C are particularly at risk and levels can fall even further if food is kept hot . |
| 7 | An advantage of this system is that work can commence much earlier than in the traditional system because much of the design work will take place at the same time as the actual construction . |
| 8 | It 's odd how you can chat so animatedly whilst someone you 've only just met is poking your most intimate spots , is n't it ? |
| 9 | ‘ He has enough sauce for a king 's fool , but impudence I can stomach so long as I do n't have to ride something that big on my own . ’ |
| 10 | In practice this means they can borrow more cheaply than banks and thrifts which , being unable to compete with them , have increasingly decided to join them . |
| 11 | The Government is the most credit-worthy ( ! ) body in the country and so can borrow more cheaply than any other institution . |
| 12 | Trained keyboard users can type much faster than humans write by hand , but speech is much faster than either of these for the majority of people . |
| 13 | So you can give away more than they , they gi than they pay you ? |
| 14 | E2L teachers can contribute greatly here if they work closely with subject teachers in developing an appropriate curriculum and content . |
| 15 | He can do no better than argue that it involves apprehending things simultaneously rather than in succession though he does not explain how the successful mystic can transcend the limits of the magic number seven , which most psychologists agree is the maximum number of entities that can simultaneously be held before the mind . |
| 16 | If you want the whole rumbustious , arrogant , self-satisfied , smug , righteous , courageous , opinionated , dedicated , class-ridden , adventure-seeking , patriotic life of an era in full technicolour , you can do no better than collect Victorian bindings . |
| 17 | In our view , we can do no better than quote from Sahlin 's direct attack on sociobiology : |
| 18 | There are three strands of answer to this , each of which has much purchase ; I can do no better than to let the espousers of the three strands speak for themselves . |
| 19 | Wirral 's heroin ‘ epidemic ’ ‘ incubated ’ unnoticed and in documenting this fact we can do no better than quote an epidemiologist ( Hughes 1977 ) working within a similar heroin outbreak in Chicago during the early 1960s : ‘ In this epidemic there was a tragic time lag between the contagious stage during which heroin use spread and the stage when the epidemic 's full impact was felt and reacted to by the host community . ’ |
| 20 | I can do no better than to quote Thos . |
| 21 | I can do no better than give it my full recommendation . |
| 22 | I can do no better than to draw the attention of the House to this statement in Labour 's charter for sport : ’ We will review the composition and powers of the Sports Council to free them from political bias ’ . |
| 23 | I can do no better than to quote from the trust application document . |
| 24 | ‘ We think this can do even better because it 's for home charities and also because many of the names involved do n't usually contribute to compilation albums , such as Genesis and Cher . ’ |
| 25 | While this study is limited to one university and deals with a relatively small intake of mature students over a period of six years it does demonstrate that non-standard entry mature students can do particularly well when compared with other students . |
| 26 | However , they will be able to waive best execution , and indeed can do so even if they are discretionary customers ( which is a helpful relaxation and reflects the new spirit of liberalisation ) ; the best practice would be to have this waiver in writing . |
| 27 | The patient may have to move about in a relatively confined area , so you have to make sure he can do so safely before he begins . |
| 28 | Though the latter can , within limits , create reasons , it can do so only when there is a non-will-based reason why it should . |
| 29 | Section 22 empowers the Secretary of State to make an order dealing with the trade practice but he can do so only if the following requirements are fulfilled : |
| 30 | The treaty provides for the possibility that member states will wish to adopt a single currency later this decade , but they can do so only if they meet strict convergence conditions — conditions for which the British Government have pressed from the outset . |