Example sentences of "[noun sg] can [adv] [be] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such a motion is exempted business , so that the House in question can not be denied the opportunity to pass upon the matter simply by government manipulation of time , but in relation to the vast majority of instruments , opposition is pointless and rarely mounted . |
| 2 | For example , it has been pointed out that one person can not be asked the same question twice , the second time he is not the same person because he has already been asked the question once . |
| 3 | To say ‘ the Word was made flesh ’ , then , refers not to a simple identity of God and Jesus but to a relationship in which God lovingly identifies himself in and with a real human person , 80 that that person can truly be called the Word , the self-communication and self-objectification of God in human terms … . |
| 4 | This concept can then be designated the first ‘ unit ’ of that God . |
| 5 | Realism can fairly be called the dominant theory in the history of International Relations . |
| 6 | Similarly the poetry of Rumi is about mystical love ; and in this poem can easily be felt the fervour and intoxication of divine love : |
| 7 | If an individual item can not be matched the wording of this clause should be brought to the attention of the policyholder . |
| 8 | Where a surgeon has been brought in ‘ at the last minute ’ to prepare a Medical Report then his opinion and Report can always be made the subject of valid criticism in the event of being compared with the Report and opinion of a surgeon who has consistently treated and/or prepared Reports on a claimant over a lengthy period of time . |
| 9 | The problem can also be stated the other way . |
| 10 | Hidden in the house buying jungle can also be found the Public Auction . |
| 11 | The sentence can only be assigned the right truth conditions , or alternatively be given the correct semantic representation , if the pragmatic significance of and in this sentential context ( namely the " and then " interpretation ) is taken into account before doing the semantics . |
| 12 | Of course the parallel between ontogeny and phylogeny can not be carried the whole way through — prehistoric human beings did not look like newborn babies — but there are various reasons why we might expect the early stages of embryonic development to have some relation to the early stages of our evolution . |