Example sentences of "can [adv] [adv] [be] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is within the overall context of national development that regional development can most effectively be addressed and actioned . |
| 2 | Trailing wires can so easily be cut when trimming back hedges or mowing long grass . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The defence of consent can obviously not be pleaded as it can be and generally is for rape . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Mechanically induced post-depositional changes in sediments such as compaction , stylolitization and structural deformation can more easily be detected and evaluated with the aid of CL . |
| 9 | Older men who change from manual work to non-manual clerical work late in their careers can more reasonably be regarded as proletarian , but as Stewart et al . |
| 10 | The public concern and media coverage of cases of severe child abuse has produced a plethora of professional reviews suggesting ways victims can more rapidly be ascertained and recommendations for action when child abuse is suspected ( DHSS , 1974 ) . |
| 11 | Helping an elderly woman to adjust and to find a new identity is never easy , but it can nearly always be achieved if she is shown that she is still loved and needed , by her family and friends . |
| 12 | For the young , there must have existed an inherited inborn enjoyment of life , for it can fairly safely be assumed that the pleasure experienced by them when at play , so obvious to modern man , must have been observable all through evolution . |
| 13 | In either case , we need to recognize that the uniqueness of the person can really only be handled and sustained by God . |
| 14 | Such estates can now only be created as equitable interests by means of the machinery of a trust . |
| 15 | With the passage of time , I think that it can now safely be revealed that the deciding factor in the failure of the 1989 English/Scottish Institutional merger was the marked reluctance of the Queen Street pipes and drums to convert to Morris-men . |
| 16 | It is this tension that can then sometimes be seen as leading to central efforts to curb the independence of agencies whose initial freedom was provided by government . |
| 17 | The last is probably the most important since it has been observed time and again that , during constitutional treatment , old symptoms reminiscent of previous states of health tend to recur , until a state of health can sometimes eventually be achieved where the only illnesses experienced are those common to childhood , such as coughs , colds , sore throats and skin rashes . |
| 18 | However , there are now real problems and the solutions to them can no longer be delayed or fudged . |
| 19 | ( i ) As a result of the progress of medical science certain conditions are now so easily diagnosable and treatable , that , although they once carried a mortality , it can no longer be said that they do , unless that mortality is brought on as a result of some wholly unexpected and exceptional circumstance , for example gross negligence on the part of the doctor treating the patient . |
| 20 | In his Introduction to Modern Criticism and Theory ( 1988 ) , a collection of major critical essays of recent years , David Lodge writes : ‘ Literary criticism can no longer be taught and practised as if its methods , aims and institutional forms were innocent of theoretical assumptions and ideological implications . ’ |
| 21 | Although amber can no longer be regarded as among the more precious substances , it was certainly rated as precious in former times . |
| 22 | Invariably in well-established firms the work continues to flow from long tapped sources , but in the aggressive business climate facing the profession today it can no longer be assumed that this will continue . |
| 23 | Psychological models derived from the observation of groups consisting of students can no longer be taken as representing general truths . |
| 24 | The price level on other islands can no longer be taken as fixed at p but will be seen to have risen . |
| 25 | Once leaked , most kinds of information can no more be rebottled than pigs can fly . |
| 26 | Such Soviet and DRA claims that Afghanistan can meaningfully still be described as non-aligned have been ridiculed by Western statesmen . |
| 27 | If the doctrine of collective responsibility can never quite be forgotten or discarded , at least it weighs most lightly on the wearer in the bracing , not to say rarefied , intellectual atmosphere of the CPC . |
| 28 | For newcomers to Koi-keeping , the thrill of a first pond can very soon be tarnished if things go wrong and their Koi start to die . |
| 29 | Attempts to exchange materials , or to show your tapes at a conference , can very easily be thwarted if you are not aware of all the possible variations . |