Example sentences of "can [vb infin] more than " in BNC.
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| 1 | And film makers can be confident that a single prize can earn more than enough to pay for the feasting . |
| 2 | They are also attracted by the pay : because it reflects performance , precocious types can earn more than their elders . |
| 3 | On the contrary , the total possible marks are divided equally among all the questions , and no answer can earn more than the appropriate marks for that question . |
| 4 | Germon is another wicketkeeper who can bat more than passably , like Young , Tony Blain , Adam Parore and , of course , Ian Smith . |
| 5 | First , it can cover more than just your PC . |
| 6 | The ‘ assumptions ’ of the topmost box can include more than experience puts there , but whatever finds its way in has to be transformed by deduction into predictions which can be tested by observation . |
| 7 | I can trust more than I can some of the others , some of the mistakes you get |
| 8 | There are many ways of saving for an event like a wedding that will make sure that you can buy more than just the confetti . |
| 9 | In crystallography , each lattice point can accommodate more than a single atom . |
| 10 | You can do more than play games : you can add them , multiply them , and develop them to a remarkable depth . |
| 11 | Making computers ‘ think ’ ( not necessarily as humans do , but in a logical , inferential way so that they can do more than arithmetic ) is a ‘ grand vision ’ for Edward Feigenbaum , one of the Prometheuses of AI , Feigenbaum is a computer scientist and senior investigator for computer heuristics ( common rules of thumb for thinking ) at Stanford University in California . |
| 12 | Only experience and personal teaching can do more than this to sharpen your talents . |
| 13 | We can do more than to reject such descriptions of ourselves ; we can ask further questions : are children like this ? is this why children are not autonomous ? |
| 14 | I do not pretend that these notions can do more than offer a way of thinking about the quantum world with some hope of doing justice both to the idiosyncrasy of its ways and also to the beautiful structure of the microworld which has been laid bare by the discoveries of elementary particle physics . |
| 15 | You can do more than just watch a programme once , straight through . |
| 16 | We shall not have a complete theory until we can do more than merely say that ‘ things are as they are because they were as they were . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ You can do more than that , with your contacts . ’ |
| 18 | This brochure can do more than introduce you to a few of the services that our personal customers find most useful . |
| 19 | ARA , with its clients ' co-operation , can do more than that . |
| 20 | And these days , it can do more than this : it can introduce all sorts of excitements in design , colour and texture . |
| 21 | The public domain , therefore , can do more than it is to secure the active citizenship of individuals . |
| 22 | Everyone today thinks of the great stillwater monsters but the slightly smaller fish of very many rivers fight well , look splendid and can grow more than respectable in size . |
| 23 | The size of the neat , compact body is deceptive : the Devon can weigh more than a Hereford or Beef Shorthorn . |
| 24 | True , only very talented people can use more than about six fonts on any one worksheet without making it look seriously overdressed , but it 's still an odd limitation . |
| 25 | A local council can spend more than its total guideline if it finances more from sales than the government assumes . |
| 26 | He realised that we can see more than half way round a small cylinder and that three views are available : that of the right eye , that of the left eye , and the total sensation , giving three outlines . |
| 27 | On a long cruise the courtesy ensigns can cost more than the charts and wear out quicker . |
| 28 | The description is saved as part of the worksheet , not as a separate file , so the filename you choose can contain more than the regulation eight letters . |
| 29 | The selection can contain more than just the numbers you wish to sum so you could have in your document Apples 20 ; Pears 25 ; Oranges 36 and having marked the passage you would use the command Ctrl-K-M ( Block math ) and see a message : |
| 30 | I do n't feel I can face more than a snack in this heat … ’ |