Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [noun] can [adv] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Curtains for arched windows can not be fitted onto a conventional track , nor can they be operational in the sense that they can be drawn . |
| 2 | Damp rising through solid floors can usually be cured by brushing on a double coat of liquid bitumen-based damp-proofing compound . |
| 3 | Opponents of the hunt say that killing seals for non-essential products can not be justified economically or ecologically . |
| 4 | The term Geochemistry has been used less consistently , and so comparisons between different periods can not be attempted . |
| 5 | According to Reagan himself , when he appeared on the factory floor In assessing Reagan 's qualifications for the presidency his experience before he ran for elective office can not be discounted . |
| 6 | Earlier sections of this chapter have indicated the existence of recent , major changes within manufacturing in the UK economy , in the geography of manufacturing and in uneven development more widely ( for uneven development can not be considered only in relation to manufacturing — and later chapters will add to this wider picture ) . |
| 7 | Whether or not any special rule survives for trespassing cattle is not likely to be of any importance now that damages for personal injuries can not be recovered under that head . |
| 8 | The fee basis for unsuccessful claims can often be extremely meagre as can profitability in general for a significant proportion of the work . |
| 9 | We have also found that the method described for bovine tissue can also be applied to human gall bladder epithelial cells and we are currently in the process of culturing and characterising these cells . |
| 10 | The extinction of left ear responses in the dichotic listening performance of split-brain subjects can thus be explained by the fact that material in the right hemisphere can not reach the speaking left hemisphere unless the anterior two thirds of the callosum ( Springer and Gazzaniga , 1975 ; Hécaen , Gosnave , Vedrenne and Szikla , 1978 ) and/or , in some patients , the anterior commissure , ( Risse , Le Doux , Springer , Wilson and Gazzaniga , 1978 ) is intact . |
| 11 | There is also Scandinavian blood , introduced by Norse settlers , and the typical mottled faces of Scandinavian cattle can still be seen in Normandy . |
| 12 | Fiona Reynolds , Director of the Council for the Protection of Rural England , warned that unless the government changed its economic priorities , " the effectiveness of economic instruments can only be marginal — like fiddling while Rome burns " . |
| 13 | He declared on television that " Poland 's painful but necessary programme of getting out of economic catastrophe can only be realized with the understanding of the majority of the nation " and that " the country had made its choice " . |
| 14 | A state of complete submissiveness can thus be established in all children before they reach the fifth or sixth year of life … |
| 15 | Other changes such as sample decomposition , crosslinking , and the existence of polymorphic forms can also be detected . |
| 16 | Problems of political obligation can only be overcome by participatory political associations which would allow citizens to create their own political obligations . |
| 17 | The development of housing for sale with the use of private funding can not be carried out by a registered housing association — Northern Counties Provident Housing Association — had to be set up . |
| 18 | He urged the court to accept the argument of the commission that the assessment of the need for and proportionality of specific legislation can not be left to the national courts . |
| 19 | The arguments in support of my belief can not be detailed here but the point of departure in common with Lord Simon in Morgan is that the distinction between crimes of basic and crimes of specific intent can only be appreciated against the backdrop of the probative-evidential dialogue which characterizes the criminal trial . |
| 20 | The reason for highlighting this instance of attempted change can now be made clear . |
| 21 | The fruits of European Union can not be measured solely in terms of GDP . |
| 22 | To that part of north-western Aquitaine can probably be assigned Count Rainald , and several other counts and vassi dominici who witnessed a document in April 838 as Louis 's faithful supporters . |
| 23 | The value of this annual increment of rich topsoil can hardly be exaggerated . |
| 24 | Their class origins , too , were rapidly fictionalised , but the notion of a sudden demotic invasion of polite letters can only be called extravagant . |
| 25 | RIGHT A variety of possible reconstruction can often be done using the same evidence . |
| 26 | Percentage yields of non-stoichiometric processes can often be increased by using an excess of one or more of the reactants . |
| 27 | The decline of agricultural employment can also be related to wider depopulation . |
| 28 | A second-order expansion of ( 13 ) around its mean gives Corresponding ‘ approximate ’ unconditional density of completed duration can thus be derived from ( 15 ) and hence the likelihood function for the problem , and the Lagrange Multiplier test of the null hypothesis . |
| 29 | Since Raymond Oliver 's assertion to the effect that your , dairyman always has one of the great vintages of French Gruyère can not be said to apply to any of my dairymen both the questions of authenticity and of relative skill with the fondue set are academic . |
| 30 | The criticisms of both marginality and the Turner thesis have suggested that the problems of spontaneous housing can not be fully understood without some reference to the wider society . |