Example sentences of "[adv] it can [adv] [be] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Obviously it can also be essential for you to know what flower or leaf you have pressed , although you will discover that on examining the finished material .
2 So it can only be human failure I E that she was driving and just sort of lost her concentration for a few seconds and that was fatal
3 Surely it can not be right for a foreign company , faced with recession and a lack of profitability at home , in Sweden , to cut its overseas operations and , in doing so , close down the United Kingdom 's strategic bus manufacturing plant .
4 Surely it can not be possible , she was thinking , to love anyone as intensely as I love this man .
5 But sometimes it can just be pleasurable .
6 If every generation has the right to decide for itself how it should be governed , then it can not be legitimate for one generation to will away that right on behalf of its successors .
7 If they have not seen it for themselves then it can not be true .
8 On this claim rests his whole theory of mental language , and yet it can not be true for , if it were , there would be no serious portability of software , as between , say , machines of radically different architectures .
9 Yet it can sometimes be influential although , more often than not , it is the personal advocacy which brings about the conversion .
10 Investigation is an area where it can often be difficult for the tutor to gauge the level of assistance which can be given without denying the student the opportunity to satisfy all the performance criteria .
11 Certainly it can not be easy , choosing between slave 's wages and a handsome salary . ’
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