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

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1 The point is that sometimes it ca n't be avoided — there are some issues which are so important that you have to take a stand and say to hell with how people react .
2 However , the coefficients of this model are unknown , and so it can not be used in the empirical investigation of the risk premium .
3 ’ — And so it can not be allowed to occur .
4 This broad sense should include the ironic , metaphoric and implicit communicative content of an utterance , and so it can not be restricted to the conventional content of what is said .
5 Chain , which was introduced in 1811 , could be stowed in a small damp locker and so it can almost be said that chain cleared the space needed below for engines and coal bunkers .
6 In view of the abrupt falling on in the numbers of husbandmen above £20 , plus the fact that this figure coincides roughly with the wealth of the average yeoman , farmers assessed at and above it can pragmatically be counted as yeomen .
7 The method has all the elements of a fictional adventure story , and yet it can not be dismissed so easily .
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 It does not assume any proof demonstrating its validity , and therefore it can not be knocked down for not offering it .
10 As has been said , technically , it need not be raised in disagreeing with Ormrod J. , but surely it can not be avoided .
11 But sometimes it can just be pleasurable .
12 They can be basted more easily directly along the front edge of the board with steel tacks , provided the tacks are covered with braid , but then it can not be removed .
13 For surely it can never be accepted by any normal thinking person that the bloody battles and massacres that have been necessary to establish even a tentative hold on any part of that unhappy , and anything but ‘ holy ’ , land can possibly represent a successful implementation of that promise .
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