Example sentences of "[noun sg] can [adv] [verb] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The church leaders said that no party which supports violence can seriously claim to be ‘ discharging its responsibilities in a positive and honourable way ’ in so far as the establishment of peace is concerned . |
| 2 | Foucault argues that just as there can be no general theory of history , but only particular answers to particular questions which make individual practices intelligible , so the intellectual can best hope to be specific rather than universal ( universal in the sense of proposing transcendent values , systems , totalities , narratives or teleologies ) . |
| 3 | She could n't defend herself without rousing him to greater ferocity ; she knew that in the moment of conflict , an enemy can never protest to be a friend and be believed ; she had seen the distrust Kit 's sudden switches of mood inspired . |
| 4 | The award of the British Standard BS 5750 ( part 1 ) means that the college can now claim to be a training centre of excellence . |
| 5 | The untouched in-tray can sometimes seem to be unbearably stressful . |
| 6 | In the case of a defendant who uses words , a person can hardly fail to be aware of what he is saying , although he may possibly not know that what he is displaying ( if it be a book ) contains offensive material of which others are aware but he is not . |
| 7 | The central event of the former 's pontificate can hardly fail to be seen as Humanae Vitae in 1968 , central because its publication marked a watershed separating the first years of enthusiasm , of an optimistic post-conciliar implementation in which Rome and leading Catholic theologians were still working more or less hand in hand ( as they had done in the latter years of the Council ) from the far more contestatory and unsure later period . |
| 8 | Although overdue , two elements of the bill can properly claim to be breaking new ground . |
| 9 | What has been said above about sampling can only hope to be the very lightest of scratches on the surface of what is a vast subject in itself . |
| 10 | There are basically four elements required before a system can even begin to be considered as a desktop publishing tool . |
| 11 | However , applicants to the Faculties of Music and Veterinary Medicine can normally expect to be called for interview , while this may also happen in the case of applicants for degrees in Divinity and Nursing Studies ( full details are given in the Faculty Sections ) . |