Example sentences of "can [adv] [adv] [be] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Still , they ca n't always be chanting and dancing . |
| 2 | This ca n't really be avoided but can be reduced by letting in as much ventilation as possible . |
| 3 | You ca n't seriously be suggesting that I … that I should become his mistress if he were to … to want me as such ? ’ |
| 4 | It is within the overall context of national development that regional development can most effectively be addressed and actioned . |
| 5 | Trailing wires can so easily be cut when trimming back hedges or mowing long grass . |
| 6 | A great deal of effort also needs to be devoted to enhancing the social standing of the cleaners because they can so easily be regarded as inferior by other staff irrespective of their skills . |
| 7 | The defence of consent can obviously not be pleaded as it can be and generally is for rape . |
| 8 | Neither the court nor a Chief Constable could compel an officer to do acts which can only lawfully be done if the officer himself with reasonable cause suspects that a breach of the peace has occurred or is imminently likely to occur . |
| 9 | And it seems to me that the use of these therefore at strategic level , many of them can only really be used if you 're prepared to make erm huge assumptions or huge leaps of the imagination . |
| 10 | This final criticism amounts to the challenge that Sartre 's history can only ever be theorized as totalization insofar as it has been conceptualized as a synchronic form . |
| 11 | Note that aggregate supply can not strictly be regarded as being the same as national income . |
| 12 | But it can not plausibly be said that it is wholly impracticable . |
| 13 | Thus to is used with the infinitive both for the lexical and grammatical meaning it brings into the context : its lexical meaning of an approach to the infinitive event from a position before is called for by the relative position in time of the extra-infinitival spatial support with respect to the position occupied by non-ordinalized person at the beginning of the infinitive 's event ; its grammatical meaning as an establisher of a relation where the inherent mechanism of incidence is inoperative is called for by the fact that the event can not otherwise be represented as incident to the extra-infinitival support since the latter is not already situated at the beginning of the event , i.e. is not within the confines of event time . |
| 14 | Whatever its actual effect , the English wanted at least to make sure that they would not be out of pocket over expansion in America , and the fear that they would lose money was expressed by the economist Charles Davenant when he wrote in 1698 : ‘ it can not reasonably be admitted that the mother country should impoverish herself to enrich the children nor that Britain should weaken herself to strengthen America . ’ |
| 15 | The conservative outlook entails a particular conception of God ( and of Christ ) , an understanding of which it can not simply be said that it is held in common by all Christians : something I think often not recognized by conservatives themselves . |
| 16 | This can not simply be dismissed as another New Right invocation of the Gulag , for Cixous is arguing something much more specific : that Marxism , insofar as it inherits the system of the Hegelian dialectic , is also implicated in the link between the structures of knowledge and the forms of oppression of the last two hundred years : a phenomenon that has become known as Eurocentrism . |
| 17 | It can not simply be assumed that a parent who is present at the injury of their child has condoned it . |
| 18 | He says he agrees with Mr Tebbit that many of the evil deeds of recent years which have seen child murders and terrorism of a particularly disgusting type , can not be answered by ‘ mere questions of policing , penal treatment or sentencing policy and can not either be justified or explained by talking of urban deprivation and unemployment . ’ |
| 19 | Such " mainstream " marriages , though frequent in the sample can not however be regarded as typical ; the variety at this unstable moment in the century was so great . |
| 20 | This rule can not effectively be pursued if strict mens rea principles are applied , however appropriate these may be to other areas of the criminal law . |
| 21 | However , that will not be possible if third party consents , etc. are required which can not previously be sought because of confidentiality . |
| 22 | Erm , but my Lord er I think the difficulty is that as far as my learned friend is concerned er he takes the view and it 's probably better for him to develop this your Lordship , that the matters can not properly be separated and he wishes your Lordship to deal with them in total so that er the whole picture can be seen at liability stage . |
| 23 | It is difficult to resist the observation that in view of the anaemic definition of the offence , affray can not properly be characterised as being committed by a number of people fighting in public , even if that is the most commonly charged form of it . |
| 24 | However , the Rome Convention can not properly be treated as determinative of the construction of article 5(1) . |
| 25 | Also there are elements in these sculptures which can not properly be understood if one has not first considered the contemporary revolution in painting . |
| 26 | On the other hand the very nature of the work may be such as to make it quite clear that the duties of the employee to his employer can not properly be performed if he engages in certain activities in his spare time . |
| 27 | Their relative goodness of fit can not properly be judged because the hypotheses do not cover the same input . |
| 28 | As to the second , there are two fractals in physics whose D is fairly well accounted for , namely the ‘ Brownian ’ drift of a small particle jostled by molecules in a fluid which is an erratic curve with D=2 , and the hierarchy of density fluctuations in a fluid at the critical point where it can not properly be considered as liquid or gas . |
| 29 | It is well known that heat can be used to kill malignant cells but this approach can not normally be used where the tumour cells are deeply seated in the body , as can be the case in bone tumours . |
| 30 | An important feature is that once bonuses are given , they can not later be withdrawn or put at risk due to some speculative investment . |