Example sentences of "[verb] can [adv] [be] [vb pp] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The distress this causes can usually be avoided if your vet warns you in advance . |
| 2 | Since recruitment is mainly by procreation it necessarily follows that , in most cases , a substantial proportion of any such population will be related to one another as biological kin ; but just how they are related can not be known and , from a social anthropological point of view , this fact of biological kinship is of no great interest . |
| 3 | The colliery at Newton-le-Willows is on a hit-list of 10 pits the government says can not be saved because they are uneconomic . |
| 4 | In this chapter I shall give reasons for rejecting this approach , or if not for rejecting it then for supposing that the questions it raises can never be answered and so that it leads directly to scepticism . |
| 5 | As in the case of all positional goods , however , those features of the rural environment that are so widely admired can only be retained if access to them by other social groups can somehow be restricted . |
| 6 | In each of these appeals it has been rightly accepted by counsel for the contemnor that the hearing below of the committal application was impeccable , that the sentence imposed for the contempts of court found proved can not be criticised and the committal order properly specified each of the contempts for which the contemnor had been sentenced . |
| 7 | Moreover , in most cases , the right to re-enter can not be exercised until the tenant has been given an opportunity of making good the breach of covenant . |
| 8 | In McCutcheon v David MacBrayne Ltd Lord Devlin suggested that a course of dealing can only be established where it can be shown that the party against whom the terms are to be enforced had actual knowledge of them as a result of the previous dealings . |
| 9 | But other research studies may necessitate some collecting of original data by means of observation , simply because the answers to the questions being asked can not be got except by the researcher going out and finding out . |
| 10 | The wisdom of selecting can often be appreciated when visiting old orchards , when it is necessary to either pick the apples using a ladder or waiting for windfalls . |
| 11 | client 's best interests a transaction which is fee or commission earning can not be recommended or effected unless the Firm reasonable believes it to be in the Client 's best interests |
| 12 | She implored : ‘ If the immediate family breaks up the problems created can still be resolved but only if the children have been brought up from the very start with the feeling that they are wanted , loved and valued . ’ |
| 13 | Since the letting can not be conceived as existing before the event permitted gets under way , to is not used with let , just as it is not used with see because seeing can not be conceived as taking place before the first moment of the event seen . |
| 14 | Any representatives received can not be treated as confidential in view of the provisions of the Local Government ( Access to Information ) Act 1985 , which makes available such documents for public inspection . |
| 15 | But in recent years the knowledge of the role of electricity in the treatment of disease has developed considerably , and there are no technical reasons why the findings and the techniques outlined can not be implemented and developed immediately by any competent specialist . |
| 16 | Whilst " non-standard " , agency working can scarcely be described as " precarious " for the majority of office/secretarial workers or for contract computer staff . |
| 17 | This he knows can readily be accommodated as yet another sort of consumer commodity , ‘ within the sphere of personal life permitted in liberal societies ’ . |