Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] it can [adv] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The emphasis is on beef but its milk yield remains adequate and it can still be considered a dual-purpose type . |
| 2 | The setting might appear incongruous but it can also be seen as being particularly poignant . |
| 3 | Teaching must be alive and it can only be alive in the present moment — it is time-consuming to try to make stale bread palatable , and why bother when fresh bread is available ? |
| 4 | The release included statements that ‘ the discovery will be relatively easy to make into a usable technology for generating heat and power ’ ; and that ‘ this generation of heat continues over long periods and is so large that it can only be attributed to a nuclear process ’ . |
| 5 | This seems fairly remarkable and it can only be assumed they are being kept awake by ghost stories and surveys about what people do in bed . |
| 6 | The difference between the evangelicals and the others is so great that it can almost be said that growth in the diocese as a whole is restricted to evangelical parishes . |
| 7 | The receiver is so powerful that it can only be a matter of a minute or two at the outside before the signal is received . |
| 8 | For social scientists trained in empirical inquiry this means that the whole theory is invalid because it can never be invalidated by exposing it to analysis in the ‘ real ’ world . |
| 9 | Nevertheless , few governments believe that the social cost of monopoly is sufficiently small that it can safely be ignored . |
| 10 | When I told him that I would also like to buy a smaller Popova , he objected , ‘ No , I 'm keeping this because it 's small and it can always be hung anywhere , but these big ones … where can they go ? ’ |
| 11 | Haemorrhage is usually immediate but it can occasionally be a late complication . |
| 12 | This less generous treatment does not seem unreasonable because it can surely be expected that the sample should be examined . |
| 13 | Many people are worried that it can only be used for the disable person . |
| 14 | This can be instinctive and it can also be perfected and developed . |
| 15 | At this stage the fill colour is yellow but it can easily be changed . |
| 16 | To some extent the technology people are to blame for being too optimistic but they realised that if they spelled out the true uncertainty ( even if they knew it ) there would have been no investment at all , In the end the project is abandoned or has become so expensive that it can never be profitable . |
| 17 | The truth of the first of these dicta is easy to see : any change may make matters worse rather than better ; only in a system which is as bad as it can possibly be , can change be introduced which must be beneficial . |