Example sentences of "can certainly be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The vehicles required to meet the 1998 California deadline can certainly be made available and are likely to be a mix of both battery and hybrid vehicles . |
| 2 | An argument can certainly be made that , since it is the very characteristics of nuclear weapons which make their use illegal , any deployment of nuclear weapons which involves a threat of their use is an illegal threat of force . |
| 3 | Small spaces can certainly be made to work . |
| 4 | An argument can certainly be made that de Gaulle had been the victim of circumstance . |
| 5 | Most fish can certainly be kept healthy without live foods , but they do seem to enjoy them ! |
| 6 | This also found expression in the cosmological argument , which in structure resembles those from causality and design : all that exists is real , but only accidentally so ; for it might not have existed , may cease to exist , and can certainly be conceived of as non-existent . |
| 7 | But though this supposition may be fairly accurate , it can certainly be stated that a slavish adherence to principles of precise proportions can not in itself be an absolute guarantee of good musical form , which , as we have stressed again and again , depends on the satisfaction of psychological and emotional needs . |
| 8 | The first signs of its waning authority can certainly be perceived ( with hindsight ) in earlier novels , particularly Jane Austen 's ; but novelists before Dickens do not write as though they are aware that the failures they criticize are irreversible . |
| 9 | In terms of its power to drive biological research , the advent of the polymerase chain reaction can certainly be compared with the discovery of the techniques of molecular cloning some 20 years ago . |
| 10 | Analogically the sacrament can certainly be understood as ‘ sacrifice ’ in the sense that if it partakes of the reality it represents , the ‘ once-for-all ’ sacrifice of Calvary is applied to us as we celebrate the victory as well as the mystery of the cross . |
| 11 | On the other hand , the details within the shot can certainly be seen with enhanced clarity if played back frame-by-frame or in slow-motion . |
| 12 | Groups D and E can certainly be seen to have this function . |
| 13 | Visually handicapped pupils can certainly be trained to use their other senses very effectively in listening , tactile , and haptic skills . |
| 14 | It can certainly be argued that the twin-Messiah theme appears in the New Testament , albeit in drastically modified and probably garbled form . |
| 15 | A petition , when ready , will of course be lodged by the agent ; they are frequently printed , but can certainly be deposited in typescript or duplicated form . |
| 16 | Elizabeth replied that one said ‘ burn ’ because fire is the only means by which writing can certainly be destroyed . |
| 17 | The hand of that great radical political theorist , John Knox , can certainly be detected in this — literally , for it was he who penned the letters . |
| 18 | Of the classes visited , it can certainly be said that those in which the teaching and the interest of the students revealed vitality , enthusiasm and the promise of sustained interest in the subject far outnumbered those in which a short and superficial survey … seemed all that the tutor was prepared to offer or the class prepared to accept . |
| 19 | Results of surveys taken in recent years in AIB have indicated that staff morale is low — as it is in all banks — and this can certainly be said for those in Britain where members have had to endure in the past five years a two year period of unreal thinking , the additional pressures brought on by the recession , the pressures brought on by short staffing and on top of all that the lack of recognition in monetary terms for their efforts in ‘ keeping the ship afloat ’ . |
| 20 | Professor Hobsbawm 's argument for an " aristocracy of labour " among nineteenth-century skilled workers depends upon the kind of material and cultural conditions and status assumptions which can certainly be found in the cases of some eighteenth-century crafts , but fluctuations in fortune make the idea less firmly applicable . |
| 21 | In these respects , it can certainly be claimed that the polytechnics have by and large measured up to their original specification . |
| 22 | It can certainly be passed on by kissing , and there has recently been strong epidemiological evidence that CMV infection can be sexually transmitted . |
| 23 | The factory owner may possibly be caught under the same provision , and he can certainly be caught in respect of occupier 's liability for business premises under s 1(3) ( b ) . |
| 24 | In support of the proposition that the development of the nouveau roman corresponds to the transition from modernism to postmodernism , it can certainly be shown that the early productions of the nouveaux romanciers are susceptible to readings which to some extent meet the criteria of psychological realism so important in modernist aesthetics . |
| 25 | A standard method for searching any kind of database ( and a lexicon with various pieces of additional information can certainly be thought of as a database ) on a key other than the primary one ( the primary key for a lexicon is the word itself ) is by using inverted list structures ( Claybrook , 1983 ; Date , 1986 ) . |
| 26 | And most important of all , although past feelings — often encapsulated in vivid stories — can certainly be remembered , we all go on reinterpreting our lives in emotional terms at every stage . |
| 27 | If the order is to be disrupted it is because one of the younger sons shows remarkable promise but being a ‘ family ’ anxious to demonstrate tolerance , envy and jealousy are masked and can certainly be dissipated if it is suggested that the elder brothers had a hand in the development . |
| 28 | Further raids can certainly be expected . |
| 29 | The latter can certainly be encouraged by statements made by the head . |
| 30 | The already-widespread incidence of scabies in India can certainly be attributed to inadequate supplies of water and fuel . |