Example sentences of "can [be] [verb] at all " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its proposals are workable and provide a framework for services which can be applied at all levels from the government at the top right down to the professional worker in direct contact with the recipient of services . |
| 2 | In a large proportion of the cases , when they can be applied at all , both uses — associative and ascriptive — make equally good sense because the facts observed or imagined can be described equally well either way ; the mental , linguistic , difference is there but both mental representations can be mapped onto the same single external situation . |
| 3 | We also advertise in the leading Oxon newspapers and the lists can be obtained at all ADKIN offices |
| 4 | The structure of a spoken language determines not who says what to whom , but what can be said at all in a given tongue , irrespective of who the interlocutors are . |
| 5 | The analogy must not be overstretched , but the fact that it can be made at all shows how integrated mass media were into the rhythms and activities of society . |
| 6 | Chemical structure determines also , of course , the chemical properties of the polymer such as solubility , reactivity , the optical and electrical properties and , most basic of all , whether the polymer can be made at all from the small molecules which constitute the monomer . |
| 7 | The outlines shown by daylight are obscured ; shapes and colours are different , if indeed they can be perceived at all . |
| 8 | It conveys strain and effort ; the psychological rendering of a concentration on each separate moment and the feeling that every moment will be recoverable in memory ( perhaps strobe-like stop-motion would be more logical here , but it could provoke laughter or distraction , a break in concentration on the story ) ; and finally the suggestion that the action is so rapid that it must be slowed down so that it can be perceived at all . |
| 9 | This can be debated at all levels from ministerial to street level . |
| 10 | Clearly , it suffers from the charge of an unexplained psychologism which can be levelled at all Schumpeterian versions of long-wave theory ( see Chapter 1 ) . |
| 11 | Sometimes it is not so much specific answers to specific doubts that bring relief but rather that doubts can be discussed at all . |
| 12 | You can elaborate the scheme so that the electricity can be produced when the water is both flowing in and flowing out , and you can have extra divisions to ensure that electricity can be produced at all hours of the day or night , regardless of the condition of the tide . |
| 13 | It is the stuff of dreams and memories and heady ways on the rock : all the more valuable in that it can be enjoyed at all levels of difficulty . |
| 14 | " It would be wrong for me to pretend that these problems can be solved quickly — if they can be solved at all . |
| 15 | Mini-castors , which can be bought at all good hardware stores , should be fitted to every piece of furniture that will take them except chairs , which can be fitted with small metal domes so that they slide gently and slowly . |
| 16 | The person who leaves the company 's employment er could I ask you , each of you in turn briefly for some comments about how you feel deferred pension rights can best be preserved , if they can be preserved at all er adequately . |
| 17 | A wide variety of alpine flowers and grasses can be found at all altitudes . |
| 18 | There are for instance extreme examples of the inhibition or punishment of the sexual act in which laughter can not be other than inhumane if it can be found at all : for example in Connebert , where a lecherous priest has to castrate himself in order to save his life , or Le Prestre et le leu , " The priest and the wolf " , a laconically brief tale of just twenty-eight lines relating how a peasant digs a trap for a lecherous priest , into which first a wolf , then the priest , and then the wife 's maid sent to see if the priest is coming fall in turn , after which the peasant kills the wolf , castrates the priest , and chases off the maid . |
| 19 | And sometimes no specific cause can be found at all . |
| 20 | Such visions can be utilised at all levels within an organisation and are not the sole prerogative of those at the top . |
| 21 | By using containers that can be used at all stages , it enables the caterer to optimise the organisation of all storage areas . |
| 22 | However , there is in addition a standard objection which holds that no such lessons can be drawn at all , at least in any directly logical way , since any project of deriving ethical content from premisses of evolutionary theory commits the ‘ naturalistic fallacy ’ , an error which is today often equated with that of trying to derive ought from is . |