Example sentences of "can [pron] be [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You think , how can somebody be on the earth , I mean |
| 2 | ‘ Can you be at the stage door in an hour ? ’ |
| 3 | Can you be near the ticket office at the Hauptbahnhof one hour from now ? ’ |
| 4 | And what can there be about the arrangement of a few slices of sausage and a dozen black olives on a dish brought by the waitress in the seaside café to keep you occupied while your fish is cooking that makes you feel that this is the first time you have seen and tasted a black olive and a piece of sausage ? |
| 5 | What possible harm can there be to the Post Office from more competition ? |
| 6 | Given that one of the requirements of the order will be the patient agreeing to accept treatment , what possible reason can there be for the order to exist ? |
| 7 | Or what can it be in the context of large-scale modern societies ? |