Example sentences of "[pron] can [adv] [be] [vb pp] or " in BNC.
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| 31 | Yet governments ought to resist the temptation to dismiss peace movements as representing only a minority opinion , for it is in the nature of a wider but vaguer anxiety about the issue that it can hardly be organized or form the basis of a coherent campaign . |
| 32 | For a powerful kick you have to move your centre of gravity forwards , and this inevitably forces you to drop the spent kicking foot close to the opponent , where it can then be hooked or swept . |
| 33 | Accompanying this progressive distancing , there is a distancing from graspable reality , an increasing emphasis on what can not be known or explained : " resembling mysterious incomprehensible crazy of aspect as if abandoned no sign … " . |
| 34 | What can not be deduced or predicted is precisely how the specifications will be met , nor which materials will be employed . |