Example sentences of "[pers pn] can [adv] [be] [verb] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I can not be refuted if I claim that my visual sense-field contains a yellow sense-content , but I can be refuted if I go on to claim that there exists a yellow object that is responsible for my sense-content . |
| 2 | Similarly , I can not be refuted if I claim to experience a religious emotion . |
| 3 | ‘ I can hardly be blamed if the production was cancelled . ’ |
| 4 | establish the principle that when your office door is open you are willing to accept ‘ drop in callers ’ but when it is shut you can not be disturbed except for a real emergency |
| 5 | You can only be hurt if you do — and you will surely hurt her . |
| 6 | But they can also be seen as communicatively motivated , the realization of available resources to get a message across . |
| 7 | They can also be repaired if punctured using PVC cement and/or patches . |
| 8 | Although there are many types of dementia they can generally be defined as involving progressive and irreversible brain failure . |
| 9 | Paying all pre-payments into a trust account from which they can not be withdrawn until the package has been provided . |
| 10 | So , whilst the perils of specialist slots are very real , they can not be relinquished before the mainstream becomes fully representative . |
| 11 | But they can not be altered unless they are first apprehended . |
| 12 | A problem with this idea is of course that most dreams are not remembered , so that even if solutions to problems are achieved during dreams they can not be regarded as adaptive , unless we are to believe that these solutions are somehow incorporated unconsciously . |
| 13 | For if such complexes ' are to play the role of particulars , they can not be regarded as being logically on a par with single qualities . |
| 14 | In the absence of this information , it is sound practice to make a secondary arrangement of key words ; they can not be left as they are above , for they make sense only as their interrelation is explicitly shown . |
| 15 | They can not be sexed when small , but it would be better to obtain an unrelated female to avoid inbreeding . |
| 16 | But it , as I have suggested , the structures of identity formation at work here are fundamental to our existing cultural forms , they can not be considered as stemming only from the psychoanalytic tradition . |
| 17 | The position is that when we admit anyone to nursing home care , they can only be admitted if there is a joint assessment partly by a social worker from this department , partly by either the nurse or G P , or consultant , and the , the key element needless to say in that , in terms of need , is very much the health authority input . |
| 18 | But their limitation has been that they can only be used when all the well data is available — after it has been drilled . |
| 19 | They can therefore be visualized as potential cellular automata capable of imprinting their pattern on the surrounding body fluids . |
| 20 | Theories can be conclusively falsified in the light of suitable evidence , whereas they can never be established as true or even probably true whatever the evidence . |
| 21 | They are effective , yes , but like gassing they can almost be eliminated if we use our sporting methods with greater skill . |
| 22 | In the case of the terminally ill , their use is ordinarily uncalled-for , since they can readily be categorized as heroic , or extraordinary , therapy , imposing a further burden of discomfort on the patient with no foreseeable benefit in terms of increased comfort in the future . |
| 23 | Politicians and fortune-tellers can avoid being accused of making mistakes by making their assertions so vague that they can always be construed as compatible with whatever may eventuate . |
| 24 | But even though sponges can produce such miraculous complexities as this , they can hardly be counted as properly integrated multicellular animals . |
| 25 | This debate will never be resolved unless it can firmly be established whether searching for early prostatic cancer on a community basis is worthwhile in clinical , resource , and social terms . |
| 26 | Therefore it can either be seen as Susan 's capital or as a current account balance due to Susan . |
| 27 | In assessing whether there is likely to be prejudice and if so whether it can properly be described as serious , the following matters should be borne in mind : first , the power of the judge at common law and under the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 to regulate the admissibility of evidence ; secondly , the trial process itself , which should ensure that all relevant factual issues arising from delay will be placed before the jury as part of the evidence for their consideration , together with the powers of the judge to give appropriate directions to the jury before they consider their verdict . |
| 28 | In assessing whether there is likely to be prejudice and if so whether it can properly be described as serious , the following matters should be borne in mind : first , the power of the judge at common law and under the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 to regulate the admissibility of evidence ; secondly , the trial process itself , which should ensure that all relevant factual issues arising from delay will be placed before the jury as part of the evidence for their consideration , together with the powers of the judge to give appropriate directions to the jury before they consider their verdict . |
| 29 | It may , of course , be reintroduced into the House of Lord ; and passed again in a later session , but it can not be enacted until the House of Commons passes it . |
| 30 | Whilst , therefore , the criterion of the owner 's nationality is consistent with a fairly widespread international practice , it can not be regarded as forming part of customary international law . |