Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [pron] can [adv] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once the discretion arises it is for the court to conduct the necessary balancing exercise between what would otherwise be required by the Convention and the interests of the children , but only where it can clearly be shown that the interests of the children require it should the court refuse to order their return . |
| 2 | In the Poetry Review for February , 1912 , a critic , who is himself a poet , and whom I always read with great interest , speaks of the struggle ‘ to find out what has been done , once and for all , better than it can ever be done again , and to find out what remains for us to do ’ … . |
| 3 | PageMaker has a very clever habit of remembering all the changes that have been made to a document so that they can either be Undone or Reverted to . |
| 4 | In many cases , however , multimedia applications have to convert analogue sources of information such as sound , photographic images and video , into their digital counterparts so that they can then be manipulated within that single information environment . |
| 5 | Either the physical limits of the item are wide , so that the design and production of the mating parts become difficult and expensive , or they are narrow so that they can only be produced by expensive processes . |
| 6 | Either the physical limits of the item are wide , so that the design and production of the mating parts become difficult and expensive , or they are narrow so that they can only be produced by expensive processes . |
| 7 | For the first time ever film has become something real for me , and that 's why I go to see it , I want to get right inside it , so that I can really be alive . ’ |
| 8 | With any excavating job you can avoid creating a blot on the landscape for months after by slicing the turf off in strips , so that it can later be relaid . |
| 9 | The tape containing the raw material collected will be deposited at the ESRC Data Archive at the University of Essex and will be designed so that it can easily be analysed in conjunction with Census Small Areas Statistics . |
| 10 | How does new learned information become ‘ represented ’ in the brain in the form of new patterns of connections between cells so that it can subsequently be retrieved and modify future behaviour ? |
| 11 | The way to get into the editor 's heart is to lay it out so that it can actually be read . |
| 12 | The matrix is designed to be flexible and adaptable so that it can readily be adjusted to respond to needs identified by users . |
| 13 | There was , of course , a diversity of tenures — so much so that it can never be assumed that the customs of any two manors were identical , or even similar , unless perhaps they formed part of the same feudal honour , for example the barony of Lewes in Sussex , which had evolved a set of common customs . |
| 14 | But dumb animals are incapable of considering themselves in this light ; which is not to imply that human beings always do , only that they can normally be expected to if required . |
| 15 | Conditions ( 1 ) and ( 2 ) alone clearly are not enough and there can only be a limited number of ways of thinking of conditions which give the same results as ( 3 ) and ( 4 ) . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Thus although they can easily be sold , they are not very liquid . |
| 19 | Most iniquitous of all are the notorious ‘ closed ’ shops where everything is sold cheaply but which can only be used by the privileged state bureaucrats . |
| 20 | Broad definitions of money also include various items such as deposit accounts in banks that can not be spent directly but which can nevertheless be readily converted into cash . |
| 21 | It also means that if difference in its sense of non-identity sets up the possibility of history , then difference in its sense of delay means also that it can never be finally concluded , for such deferral will always inhibit closure . |
| 22 | This is partly because we think they should be more widely recognized but also because they can also be wonderfully informative and entertaining . |
| 23 | The pathetic story has been told , as far as it can now be known , in Mrs Spurling 's book , but an element of mystery remains . |
| 24 | The indexes , in Latin and English , are followed by seven practical lists , similar to those in the catalogues of many leading nurserymen today and they can still be consulted to advantage . |
| 25 | His methods are still used today and it can reasonably be claimed that the influence of the eighteenth-century cattle breeders has been a major one worldwide . |
| 26 | The dinosaurs can have Scafell until they die out , then if anyone can still be bothered to walk ( ! ) up there , I 'm sure a line or two of bolts would n't go amiss . |
| 27 | I know too that you can never be with me here and for that reason I have taken a decision . |