Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] can [adv] [be] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If that were so , there would scarcely be a government in the last 100 years which could be regarded as legitimate , but it is those uses of power and law which seem to betray or which can only be reasonably explained by a contempt for or at least an impatience with the principles of limited government and a belief that the rightness of the policies to be executed excuse or justify the methods whereby they are executed . |
| 2 | The seller will of course wish to restrict these conditions as far as possible and sometimes the conditions are restricted to events which fundamentally affect the business or value of the offeree and which can not be adequately compensated by an offer of financial or other compensation which the seller may be prepared to make . |
| 3 | This too is a doom which must be faced , to know that which only few can know , and which can not be further explained . ’ |
| 4 | What has to be decided is which non-meanings may be significantly regarded as existing " in their own right " , and which can not be so regarded ; what conditions must be fulfilled before a claim that a given topic does so exist can be accepted as meaningful ? |
| 5 | There is often a shared pattern of experiences , beliefs and attitudes which have all arisen within their particular generation and which can never be fully shared by younger people . |
| 6 | But there are a lot of cowboys out there , and you can not be too careful about whom you buy or rent your mobile system from . |
| 7 | Once you get the general idea that programs and data files can be made to interact , you can have fun with them and you can also be more productive ( which is the excuse to use if your boss finds you doing this ) . |
| 8 | I mean it can be aware you can be aware of somebody with cerebral palsy having cerebral palsy and you can also be totally unaware that they have it . |
| 9 | We need to be certain that the revelation stems from God ; and we can not be as certain of this as we are of our reason-based knowledge of the particular truth in question . |
| 10 | The figure of Simon Zelotes , who appears in the Gospel of Luke and in the Acts of the Apostles , we have already discussed in our previous work , and there can scarcely be further need to belabour the obvious . |
| 11 | One of these is the fact that the social networks of individuals are like language itself , open-ended and changing , and they can not be precisely delimited for this reason . |
| 12 | In fact , the limits within which voluntary resources can be effectively used are narrow ; and they can only be effectively used even within those limits if professional full-paid effort is put into making it happen . |
| 13 | It does not commend itself on the basis of observable experience in the everyday world , and it can not be easily and rationally justified . |
| 14 | The distance of the cluster is believed to be over 9000 light-years ; it contains several thousands of stars , and it can not be less than 30 light-years in diameter . |
| 15 | The evidence in this extract is conclusive , and it can therefore be definitively stated that Agatha Christie 's source for the character of Hercule Poirot was Speke , Parot . |
| 16 | That 's , that 's true , eh , I mean the alloy in the other ones have to be quite crafty when you get up to twenty two carat for example and eh , very eh , eh , large chunk of gold in it , and it can indeed be very soft , but then you see that 's an eighteen carat ring that I 've had for , worn , all the time for twenty four years |
| 17 | However many facts I know about another person I can treat him as pure means , but I can not be perceptually and emotionally aware from his viewpoint without letting his inclinations interact with mine and affect my ends . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Now of course you ca n't predict at the level of the individual school what the population is going to be , but you can nevertheless be very clear that the system as a whole is going to have many erm fewer pupils . |
| 20 | " But she can still be very important . |
| 21 | The lady Anne is duchess to the prince , she thought , but one can not be too careful . |
| 22 | The case study illustrates that the implications of demographic trends can be modified by unforeseen economic events but they can also be successfully addressed by policy planning . |
| 23 | The Hagerhai people of the Shreader mountains hunt pigs , but they can also be extremely intimate with them . |
| 24 | But they can not be alike , since one of them requires a sentient being for its existence while the other does not . |
| 25 | But they can not be too remote if a school — primary or secondary — is working to a curriculum blueprint which has been sought by successive governments and if we now accept that schools have only a limited choice in any broader expectations which society imposes upon them . |
| 26 | Only a few major groups survived into the Carboniferous , but they can still be locally abundant . |
| 27 | They still need to be part of a wider Europe , but they can now be more relaxed about it . |
| 28 | Cynics may suggest that we are required to admire Nelson Mandela because he is fashionably black , but it can not be that simple . |
| 29 | It is indeed still there , to be built on , in Ulysses in the further elaboration of Stephen , but it can not be fully achieved unless the wounds are acknowledged . |
| 30 | But it can also be very brisk and neat with a perfect close in 5th position as it is in many Bournonville ballets and Ashton 's Birthday Offering . |