Example sentences of "can [adv] be [vb pp] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The organiser ca n't be traced to answer the criticisms . |
| 2 | ISDN also provides high quality , fast transmission which ca n't be achieved using an ordinary modem connection the usual way to date to exchange computer data on an ad hoc basis . |
| 3 | Employees ca n't be forced to join a Union against their will . |
| 4 | He ca n't be guaranteed to take the orthodox Anglican view , is what they mean . |
| 5 | ‘ If the sheep ca n't be trusted to keep the wolves from our doors , none of us is safe any more ! ’ |
| 6 | Microsoft has also demonstrated voice mail working on the system — if you ca n't be bothered to type a message in , just record it instead ! |
| 7 | She always says I ca n't be bothered to play the piano , I ca n't play that and I have to make some shitty little tune up |
| 8 | Do you play sometimes cos you ca n't be bothered doing the work cos you ca n't see any sense in it ? |
| 9 | The trench sides provide information about the stratigraphy , and can eventually be removed to give an unobstructed view of the plan . |
| 10 | If one regards the benefit in this light I can not see that the cost incurred in , or in connection with , the provision of the benefit , can properly be held to include the cost incurred , in any event , in providing education to fee paying pupils at the school who were there as a right in return for the fees paid in respect of them . |
| 11 | It lies flat in the road about half-way down the street , and can swiftly be raised to block the progress of an unauthorised vehicle . |
| 12 | This can obviously be extended to allow a range of different sizes of operation code field , so that we can provide more operation codes for less secondary information ( such as operand fields ) in a fixed instruction length . |
| 13 | Moreover , the ‘ curved path ’ , ‘ whirling mass ’ , ‘ cosmic wheel ’ or spiralling vortex described by the ancients as the integrating pattern of cosmic universal energy , can only be seen to have the endorsement of modern research and understanding . |
| 14 | Currently , to obtain the best possible quality , known as production level video ( PLV ) , DVI compression can only be achieved using a powerful mainframe configuration running Intel 's proprietary software . |
| 15 | Sometimes , if elderly relatives are living at a distance , it is not possible to be certain , in spite of advice from us , and help from neighbours with the shopping , that they are eating properly , but if they can only be persuaded to drink a pint of milk every day and eat some fresh citrus fruit , wholemeal bread , cheese or eggs , margarine or butter and a bowl of bran cereal , we shall know that they can not come to any serious harm from a dietary point of view , even though a much more varied diet would be more suitable . |
| 16 | In the ordinary course of a liquidation , for example , people can only be forced to attend the court where their evidence is needed to fill gaps in the company 's records . |
| 17 | They can only be used to compare a limited number of items and their impact is heightened when there are considerable differences between the items being compared . |
| 18 | Because the amount of VideoRAM can only be used to give a higher resolution OR more colours there is an inevitable trade-off . |
| 19 | ‘ I mean , a wah-wah pedal 's alright in context , but it can only be used to make a good son better . |
| 20 | ‘ I mean , a wah-wah pedal 's alright in context , but it can only be used to make a good son better . |
| 21 | Given this reality , a Common Foreign and Security policy can only be expected to reflect the lowest common denominator , the position which least offends . |
| 22 | Yet one must consider that such an undertaking without cost information can only be expected to give a limited explanation because the production yield depends considerably on the geometry of the articles . |
| 23 | And although , as we saw , initial anxieties about another war were largely overcome by easy and painless victories , the start of the war can nevertheless be seen to mark a caesura in the development of the ‘ Hitler myth ’ . |
| 24 | Ideas concerning human nature can thus be said to constitute a human universal . |
| 25 | These terminal nodes can thus be configured to perform the specific set of activities they are required to carry out , allowing the arrangement of geometry-generating workstations to handle and manipulate increasingly large graphical models . |
| 26 | This approach can thus be used to define the functional attributes of the geometric domains . |
| 27 | This morphogen concentration gradient can thus be used to determine the position of the cells . |
| 28 | The musical personality of Grimes , devised for Pears , can not be made to fit the character of the libretto . |
| 29 | However , there do appear to exist examples of gradual variation which can not be made to share a superordinate ; in such cases the absence of boundaries between senses is an embarrassment . |
| 30 | At present you can not be asked to pay the Defendant 's legal costs , even if you decide to abandon your claim . |