Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [noun] can [adv] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Long linear field banks or persistent field boundaries can often be suggested as something more than just divisions in the fields . |
| 2 | Total methane excretion can therefore be estimated at 300 ml/d . |
| 3 | The feldspars in volcanic lava flows can also be problematic . |
| 4 | The metric function M can also be obtained from ( 12.42 ) and ( 13.1 ) , giving . |
| 5 | An ageing labour force can not be expected to be a mobile one . |
| 6 | Public sector organizations can generally be distinguished as having hierarchical structures composed of responsibility centres : units , sections , departments and divisions . |
| 7 | Furthermore , as we will see , some actions in respect of public law wrongs can not be brought under Ord. 53 . |
| 8 | The argument that indirect taxes are to be preferred because they avoid the discrimination against risky investments of a direct tax system can also be rebutted . |
| 9 | In situations where public transport arrangements can not be adjusted to suit the needs of the staff , then it might be worth considering the provision of health authority transport , especially during the hours when public services are greatly reduced . |
| 10 | Live foods from fresh water sources can also be used although because most of these quickly die in salt water , care is needed to avoid any surplus that will foul the water when it dies . |
| 11 | Where your debtor has no assets in this country but plenty abroad , a High Court judgement can probably be enforced in the country where the goods are located . |
| 12 | A proper engineering drawing can not be thus fudged ; like Wolf , the draughtsman must fully comprehend what he is drawing . |
| 13 | Hierarchy is not necessarily involved but individuals of opposite sex or different age status can never be socially identical except by some cultural contrivance as when the King of England is a Queen ! |
| 14 | Appledorn said clear plastic film can also be covered with triangular grooves to make it into a mirror for use as ‘ light pipes ’ for more efficient road lighting , while other shapes create a reflector to make a road sign stand out when illuminated . |
| 15 | A good public relations executive can often be the first person to tell a client of a new fact about his competitor . |
| 16 | The motor control routine can then be exited , allowing the microprocessor to perform other tasks . |
| 17 | Estimates of this kind although more refined than the raw trade statistics can only be tentative . |
| 18 | When she 's not having a drink or tucking into a bag of crisps , the five month old badger cub can usually be found on the snooker table . |
| 19 | Rigid CPVC pipe can also be cut with a pipe cutter , and polybutylene and cross-linked polyethylene with a special secateur-type pipe cutter . |
| 20 | Rigid CPVC pipe can not be bent , though it is somewhat more flexible than copper . |
| 21 | What a strange void-like thing time can sometimes be . |
| 22 | On the positive side , perhaps a renewed interest in old school rap can only be a good thing . |
| 23 | Surprisingly she discovered that funding for both film-makers and festival organisers is proving as elusive in the larger metropolitan centres as it is here where the state of gay and lesbian film culture can safely be said to be embryonic at best . |
| 24 | The advantage over stratificational social class ( as in Labov , 1966 ) as a principal variable is the universality of the network concept : whereas stratificational social class theory can not be universally applicable to all historical states , to bilingual situations , or to language- ( that is , speaker- ) contact situations ( and all of these are relevant in historical description ) , all speakers at all times have had ties of some kind — weak or strong — with other speakers . |
| 25 | The publication of intimate details of private lives without the slightest public interest justification can not be the subject of legal action , unless they have stemmed from a breach of confidence or some other legal wrong . |
| 26 | The competitive advance of other countries and relative decline of British production areas can largely be charted in relation to Kondratieff 's ‘ long waves ’ . |
| 27 | Many have , and will , continue to argue that the private sector model can not be transferred to health care . |
| 28 | However , in some instances , private law rights can not be protected by an AJR . |
| 29 | The classic oligopoly models can then be thought of as one-shot , non-co-operative games to which the NE concept can be applied to find a solution . |
| 30 | The weak equivalence principle can now be restated as follows to exclude tidal effects : the results of local mechanical experiments in a state of free fall are independent of the motion . |