Example sentences of "can be any " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to my dictionary , a tree can be any perennial plant having a self-supporting woody main stem . |
| 2 | The nominal transformation ratio n in the instance shown is 4:1 step down , but unlike some other voltage-changing schemes using capacitors , n can be any whole number ; it is not limited to powers of 2 . |
| 3 | A sample rate of at least 8kHz is needed and the microprocessor can be any 8-bit variety with simple software . |
| 4 | unc can be any number we care to choose ; different values merely alter the scale of the inversion . |
| 5 | This gives great emphasis to the contention that it is only through the teaching of the children that there can be any progress towards a better world , and by which the complete breakdown of man 's fragile and very young civilisation can be avoided . |
| 6 | He rejected the idea that there can be any revolutionary change in society without force , even if that force is merely latent or potential : |
| 7 | These can be any species but Cabomba or Myriophyllum seems to be preferred because of the small leaf structure . |
| 8 | This means the yarn produced can be any ply from two to eight and also be a mix of qualities and even colours if the customer wishes . |
| 9 | Parcels can be any size you like , mine are approximately 14 stitches × 14 rows . |
| 10 | What is also involved — and this was the point at issue between Barth and Brunner — is whether there can be any valid Christian understanding of creation , or nature , or sin , apart from Jesus Christ . |
| 11 | I do not think that there can be any combination that we did not try during my time in the parks , and the only thing that did not look positively awful were the short growing , pale , less intense blues of violas and lobelia under pink and red roses — other colours and growing heights were invariably a tasteless rag-bag . |
| 12 | The second new router , the Model 7250 , is designed as a low-cost high-performance feeder node for the other RX 7000 models , and is basically a three-port version of the Model 7500 : it holds one forwarding processor and up to three interface cards which — as with the rest of the family — can be any mix of Ethernet , Token Ring or wide area interfaces . |
| 13 | To encourage developers to write more modular software that can take advantage of systems that support Threads — a Thread can be any part of an application or programme that is not dependent on the result or outcome of another ( that can be treated as a task in its own right ) — Posix has a committee working on a Threads application programming interface standard . |
| 14 | But it can be any image that comes to me at second-hand , whether it be postcard , film still , TV or whatever . |
| 15 | It is a little more difficult for stocks , since one needs to aggregate ( add ) the prices of various stocks ; to do this , one uses weighted averages ( the weight for stock X can be any observed characteristic of the firm ; for instance , the value of its assets ) . |
| 16 | This can be any amount from £500 to £3,000 — the choice is yours and is based on what you think you will need . |
| 17 | For a verb such as ’ collide ’ , all that is specified by the case restrictions is that the object case can be any inanimate entity . |
| 18 | A kilogram or two of surgical plaster or plaster-of-Paris depending on the size of the housing ( you can buy powdered plaster at a chemist 's shop ) ; a dish to act as a mould for casting the plaster block-the dish can be any size from 10 cm × 20 cm up to about 20 cm × 20 cm , but should have a flat bottom and sides that slope slightly outward ; a sheet of glass to cover the housing ; a sheet of black cardboard ; Plasticine ; small blocks of wood or small plastic boxes ( the round boxes used for typewriter ribbons are very suitable ) ; cotton-wool . |
| 19 | Moreover , the prima facie evidence for [ h ] -dropping continues well into EModE — long after there can be any suspicion of direct Anglo-Norman scribal interference . |
| 20 | The shares must have a fixed value , which can be any amount . |
| 21 | It is only if the interests of the child render it appropriate that the courts of [ England ] rather than [ Australia ] shall determine its future that there can be any exception to an order for its return . |
| 22 | It is only if the interests of the child render it appropriate that the courts of country B rather than country A shall determine its future that there can be any exception to an order for its return . |
| 23 | women are not sexy skinny women are not sexy , really skinny women we have to be like the Madonna type woman and I think that the , the , its about money and its about co , its about the consumer and about money and about making money from an image that somebody somewhere has seen as the normal perfect woman and the norm can be any thing it could be whatever you want it to be . |
| 24 | In this sense , a sentence can be any finite sequence of terminal symbols . |
| 25 | From the monist point of view , if there can be any " irreducible relations " , they can be found perhaps only among non-pluralist relations such as these . |
| 26 | In short , if there can be any meaningful talk of " reduction " here at all , it is perhaps only of a possible reduction of properties to ( non-mental and logically independent ) relations , not vice versa . |
| 27 | Your herb wheel can be any size , and as part of a lawn or a paved area . |
| 28 | It must be stressed , in this connection , that the ‘ poetic ’ text in question is not necessarily a part of what is normally described as poetry , but can be any form of literature that possesses aesthetic or artistic properties . |
| 29 | In all these societies there are contradictory movements , either to limit or to expand the social services ; movements which take place in what are still substantially free market economies , but raise the question whether there can be any further development of the welfare state without restricting still more the operation of the market and eventually creating a more socialist type of economy in which public ownership of some major productive resources and financial institutions , and more extensive planning , would have a larger role . |
| 30 | We shall index these markets or islands by the subscript , where z can be any number between 1 and the number of islands in the economy , N. We begin the model by writing down the supply of output in the th market as where is the quantity of output supplied in market in period t ; p ( ) t is the price of output in market in period t ; Formula ; is the expectation formed in market of the economy-wide average price of output in period t , p t , using all the information available in the th market at the beginning of period t ; and β and β : 1 are coefficients , where β 1 is positive . |