Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] can [adv] [be] [verb] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | The matrix transform thus becomes : unc The spatial transformations can thus be included by raising the level of the coordinates to a value of N so that : unc The final model-to-view space transform thus results in three coordinate values . |
| 2 | Opponents of the hunt say that killing seals for non-essential products can not be justified economically or ecologically . |
| 3 | Other changes such as sample decomposition , crosslinking , and the existence of polymorphic forms can also be detected . |
| 4 | At that point , we believed that the Bill would be an irrelevance and unnecessary given that prisoners can already be charged with a wide range of criminal offences , including offences under the Public Order Act 1986 . |
| 5 | Although personally we believe this to be of only secondary importance , its probable role in motivating innovative acts can not be ignored . |
| 6 | Since private shareholders can not be expected to subsidize the wider goals of society as a whole , public ownership may then be inevitable . |
| 7 | Few of London 's historic houses can still be seen as they were intended . |
| 8 | As Gittins has put it , ‘ The commonsense notion that all families in the past were much more solidaristic and stable institutions can not be borne out — death saw to that ’ ( Gittins , 1985 , p. 9 ) . |
| 9 | Secondly , he rejects the very assumption of classical theory that economic phenomena can ultimately be explained as the result of universal needs . |
| 10 | Eternal values can also be sought in art , as they were by the French art historian Élie Faure , whose open mind accepted disparate arts , a view which he expressed like this : ‘ It is not paradoxical at all to affirm that an Ivory Coast mask and the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel express the same need to manifest a harmonious rapport which exists between mankind and the universe . ’ |
| 11 | Tumin maintains that ‘ It is only when there is a genuinely equal access to recruitment and training for all potentially talented persons that differential rewards can conceivably be justified as functional . |
| 12 | Small-scale improvements can often be paid for out of savings , but if you are spending more substantial amounts , it might be better to borrow the money and keep your savings for regular maintenance work . |
| 13 | The metabolic concentrations can not be taken to be representative of analgesic ratios . |
| 14 | The extinction of left ear responses in the dichotic listening performance of split-brain subjects can thus be explained by the fact that material in the right hemisphere can not reach the speaking left hemisphere unless the anterior two thirds of the callosum ( Springer and Gazzaniga , 1975 ; Hécaen , Gosnave , Vedrenne and Szikla , 1978 ) and/or , in some patients , the anterior commissure , ( Risse , Le Doux , Springer , Wilson and Gazzaniga , 1978 ) is intact . |
| 15 | Nonetheless , income differences were not commensurate with some of these exceptional examples of personal wealth , and regional influences can not be ignored . |
| 16 | Thus , if what were yesterday hot political disputes can today be channelled into the ‘ legal process ’ , operating with new principles and procedures , and an apparent indifference to ‘ political ’ questions , then so much the better for those in power . |
| 17 | Tax gatherers and political economists usually subscribed to a rhetoric of taxing " luxuries " , but sufficient aggregate yields can hardly be secured from imposing only on the consuming habits of the well-to-do . |
| 18 | Many other writers working in Southeast Asia have drawn attention to the fact that particular ethno-linguistic groups can not be treated in isolation , but must be regarded as forming part of a larger social system . |
| 19 | This is excellent groupwork as there are so many different jobs to do and different talents can therefore be accommodated . |
| 20 | The long flats , like the rounds , offer versatility : much colour can be loaded on the brush and drawn out over the painting surface , or shorter dabs can easily be applied and manipulated without the brush hairs giving way . |
| 21 | However , some judgments can already be made . |
| 22 | Labour 's promissory notes can not be met by a scale of personal taxation which will become increasingly regressive . |
| 23 | Values in social policies can best be grasped through a consideration of models of welfare . |
| 24 | Yet modern cultural institutions can not be understood exclusively in terms of the corporate market and the persistence of some earlier market forms . |
| 25 | Numerous buildings are recognizable within this developed street system , though detailed plans can rarely be drawn . |
| 26 | Sometimes we seem to be losing touch with the fact that some activities can not be rushed . |
| 27 | Further , some activities can not be judged by assessing their value to wealth-creation , when in fact they are what people use their wealth on . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | He takes his stand on learning that a piece of basic equipment for patients with broken necks can not be afforded but money is found to make the board room more lavish . |
| 30 | This argument against a crude materialist interpretation of Marx is presented as an application of the claim that social phenomena can not be explained by appealing to a ‘ given ’ concept . |