Example sentences of "but [pers pn] can [adv] be [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My belief that I am in pain may be justified , perhaps , but I can hardly be said to base it on reasons , conclusive or otherwise . |
| 2 | But she can not be accused of lack of emotional intensity in the 15 songs of The Book of the Hanging Gardens . |
| 3 | In the modern world , we are reduced to an idealized figment of the communist imagination or we fall into secular despair , but we can not be exalted as a personal being , uniquely loved for our own sake . |
| 4 | But we can not be forced to subject our foreign policy to the will of other member states . |
| 5 | But they can just be wiped anyway . |
| 6 | Straight lines are easy to visualize geometrically , but they can also be expressed algebraically . |
| 7 | But they can also be seen as communicatively motivated , the realization of available resources to get a message across . |
| 8 | But they can also be used against predators . |
| 9 | Orcs and Savage Orcs are good fighting troops and can therefore be thought of as core units , but they can also be used as quality supporting troops if armed with missile weapons . |
| 10 | LEFT Reconstructions of sites , such as this crannog , can be tourist attractions , but they can also be used as experiments in showing how sites were constructed and how they appear when destroyed and excavated . |
| 11 | But they can also be used to play the game that is the simple blueprint detective story . |
| 12 | Social services set out to meet needs , and to solve problems , but they can also be used to bring about changes in the social and economic structure of society . |
| 13 | These parameters may be specified by the manufacturer , but they can also be measured by the user if necessary ( Kordik , 1975 ) . |
| 14 | But they can also be interpreted in accordance with the overriding thematic interpretation of the Miller 's Tale suggested here . |
| 15 | there is increased liberality in interpretation in several texts , but they can mostly be traced back to the increasing imperial intervention in trust cases from the time of Marcus Aurelius . |
| 16 | These features are just as important to efficient performance as are data about plant functions but they can not be incorporated in a man-machine allocation process . |
| 17 | But they can not be altered unless they are first apprehended . |
| 18 | Hubble and Just Do It are both fantastic in their own way , but they can not be compared . |
| 19 | The ‘ stepped pyramids ’ may be characteristic of the Cornish landscape , but they can not be said to sit naturally in it . |
| 20 | The different aspects of the Christian faith can be distinguished for the sake of clarity but they can not be separated in the life of the Christian community as if any one of them could exist alone or have priority over the others |
| 21 | They may define positions that have often been repeated , but they can not be given a timeless quality . |
| 22 | Later of course as up this early infantile attitude where you idolize your parents becomes replaced by a more rational and so on , but Freud 's finding was that this early attitude in childhood does n't get er abolished , it just gets repressed , it 's forced out of conscious because you true and of course things that are not true have to be removed consciousness , but they can not be erased , so they 're forced into the unconscious and they live in the unconscious and they feed myths like the Myth of the Birth of the Hero and all of us in our er erm in our er conscious see the hero as a , as a parental figure that reflects the family romance , the idea that once we were , we were a special child with very special parents . |
| 23 | Fire resistant paints may be clear like a varnish , or coloured like a paint , but they can not be overpainted . |
| 24 | The ‘ headlands ’ , where the horses or tractors turn at either end of the ridges , constitute too large a proportion of a smallholder 's roots field to be allowed to lie fallow , but they can not be cultivated and sown until the inter-row hoeing is completed . |
| 25 | Passes may be issued which will allow access by car , coach or ambulance tot he esplanade , but they CAN NOT BE ISSUED for performances on Saturdays under any circumstances . |
| 26 | ‘ We do not want to bypass the elected representatives , but they can not be allowed to hold up progress . |
| 27 | Certainly the use of light pens can ease the editing and manipulation of an image once it 's on the screen but they can not be used to copy a picture from a sheet of paper . |
| 28 | While there are a number of on-screen drawing programs which allow the creation and manipulation of an image but they can not be used to copy a picture from a sheet of paper . |
| 29 | The blue tits in any area may vary , but they can not be divided into two or more discrete groups ( except by sex , or by age ) , and the distinction between blue tits and great tits in any area is absolute ; intermediates do not exist because the two species do not interbreed . |
| 30 | The Epistles of St Paul and the Apocalyptic Book of Revelation contain many high and mystical expressions of belief about Christ but they can not be described as ‘ records ’ of the kind which would compel rational belief . |