Example sentences of "[ex0] can [adv] [be] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We often speak in Africa about the conflict of cultures but there can also be a merging of cultures . |
| 2 | Photographers ' fees are , of course , quite high and there can also be a problem choosing photographers for events outside the area in which you normally operate . |
| 3 | The mathematical odds against you producing a new miracle are incalculable , and there can scarcely be a permutation that has n't been tried before , but it has happened , and no doubt will again , that an amateur somewhere in a small garden with limited resources will beat the pants off the professionals . |
| 4 | Consequently , there can again be a burgeoning of subdivisions . |
| 5 | It seems that this tax charge does not actually cancel out the potential tax charge referred to above but it is difficult to see how there can be double tax problems because there can only be a charge on monies remitted to the United Kingdom and this can not extend beyond the amounts actually available to be so remitted . |
| 6 | There can then be a race or , better , a ‘ follow my leader ’ type programme . |
| 7 | Even then there can still be a gap between the combined school and the high school . |
| 8 | As sometimes happens with pianists of exceptional technical ability there can often be a sense in their playing that they are trying hard not to run away with themselves in the easy passages . |
| 9 | There can never be a surfeit of the propagation of that fundamental message of grace . |
| 10 | Does this mean there can never be a land for the Palestinians , and that Jews and Arabs may not live together in peace ? |
| 11 | There can never be a time when there was a greater need for UK companies to find new markets . |
| 12 | Secondly , Manne suggests that there is a more fundamental reason why there can never be a rule against the profitable use of inside information in the stock market . |
| 13 | It 's hard to imagine anybody writing more artificially , but I hope you feel , as I do , there can hardly be a piece of poetry in which the distress of the poet and the feeling that he may be wasting his time comes through in a more anguished fashion . |