Example sentences of "can [adv] [verb] more " in BNC.
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| 1 | So , for example , when I ask a group of students at the beginning of an interdisciplinary course in women 's writing and the visual arts , to come up with the names of any contemporary women artists , they can rarely mention more than one or two . |
| 2 | Orwell 's simplicity was much like that parent-figure : it can suddenly look more complicated , and more assumed , than one had at first supposed . |
| 3 | Now that the tussle has begun in earnest , the East European telecommunications industry can only grow more confused . |
| 4 | If , for example , a customer likes Marks and Spencers ' potato crisps , he can only buy more at the same shop ( or another branch of Marks and Spencers in a different town ) . |
| 5 | And if you are blissfully happy in your relationship , even if the odd unexpected event occurs , you can only become more united . |
| 6 | It can only become more heated . |
| 7 | As a public limited company , we have greater access to the money markets and we can thus offer more competitive rates . |
| 8 | From modesty to exuberance and one can scarcely get more exuberant than a water staircase ( Fig. 11 ) . |
| 9 | ‘ We can still use more . ’ |
| 10 | The creed had such a powerful hold upon the party that even Quintin Hogg , who later chose the life-peerage title Lord Hailsham of St Marylebone — you can hardly get more urban than that — was opining in 1947 that ‘ the Conservative believes that farming is more than a business ; it is a way of life , essential to the community in war and peace . ’ |
| 11 | He has stashed up reserves of arms , and can probably get more . |
| 12 | Visitors can also discover more about the castle with the popular cassette tour . |
| 13 | A child can also see more easily the one-to-one correspondence of the buttons and button holes on his coat . |
| 14 | Role-play can also introduce more than one viewpoint , allowing a start to be made in empathy work and investigating points of view , even at the age of 6 or 7 . |
| 15 | You can also get more detailed information from the Continence Advisory Service at the Disabled Living Foundation ( see page 134 for address ) . |
| 16 | Some of the SS-4 and SS-5 installations can also launch more than one missile . |
| 17 | Scientists can also understand more about possible links with extreme weather like hurricanes . |
| 18 | The word can really looks more like cau . |
| 19 | Those issues all interact , of course ; like those fiendish three-dimensional puzzles that children can often do more easily than adults , the pieces have to be put together simultaneously , or the whole thing falls apart . |
| 20 | Apart from getting the teacher 's overview of what happened , how it related to what he had planned , and how he regarded the unit 's contribution to events , the observer can often learn more about individual episodes . |
| 21 | ‘ The decision is unacceptable to all Teesdale farmers , who can now expect more expensive journeys to marts in Darlington and Bishop Auckland . ’ |
| 22 | On the positive side , the changes inside the Soviet Union will help : with the unprecedented flowering of Jewish cultural freedom , Hebrew classes are now a possibility ; potential immigrants can now learn more about Israel before they come . |
| 23 | We can now focus more directly on the philosophical potential of the fabliaux . |
| 24 | The rich world can now buy more Third World commodities at very low prices . |
| 25 | We can then become more competitive , sell more goods and employ more people . |
| 26 | Pavarotti , on compact disc by the fireside , can sometimes seem more attractive than Farnham Maltings or Tilford Church , but lacks the frisson of seeing a flautist trilling amongst the tombstones or drinking ones interval wine elbow to elbow with a charming soprano . |
| 27 | Another bonus is that the lower vantage point from the tops of these smaller hills , often with uncluttered surroundings , can occasionally provide more impressive views than from their big brothers . |
| 28 | Although overtly rustic in tone , the scheme can happily include more modern touches , such as the metal table and collection of colourful contemporary ceramics . |