Example sentences of "can be [verb] [conj] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If this undertaking is subsequently challenged and found wanting , then the entire entry can be disqualified and any titles won , forfeited . |
| 2 | It can be seen that many issues on the administrative side affect the social services . |
| 3 | In addition , the scale factors A and B satisfying ( 6.13 ) and ( 6.14 ) must contain components of S , and from ( 10.3 ) it can be seen that these components are also non-linear in V . |
| 4 | However , compared with the 1989 figures it can be seen that these industries are not without their difficulties . |
| 5 | Mention has already been made of the significance of national trends in age structure , but it can be seen that these effects can be substantially reinforced at the regional and local level through migration . |
| 6 | It can be seen that these functions satisfy the required O'Brien-Synge boundary conditions . |
| 7 | You can be kidnapped and all sorts . |
| 8 | But with a mathematical model and sufficient computational power at their disposal , a number of scenarios can be tested and such problems avoided . |
| 9 | An examination of the type specimens together with those from the CYMOR suggest several differences which can be tested when more specimens are collected . |
| 10 | It can be presumed that all societies possess their own values , stories , rules , theories about the world . |
| 11 | It can be argued that such schemes should be embodied in statutes so as to put their administration and the principles of compensation on a firm legal footing . |
| 12 | It can be argued that such mothers may not develop protective IgG antibodies and may continue to carry the same strain of group B streptococcus . |
| 13 | It can be argued that such tests are gender biased , both in their questions , which do not draw on social , female-oriented spheres of knowledge , and in their multiple choice format , which , by demanding a single answer from a set of often mutually exclusive possibilities , does not allow for women 's interactive , socially responsive way of solving problems . |
| 14 | It can be argued that many projects fall into this category , perhaps usefully called development engineering . |
| 15 | Although we have introduced the concept of a power culture from the work of Handy , it can be argued that all organisations are really concerned with power . |
| 16 | It can be argued that these offences may be no less traumatic for the victim than ‘ conventional ’ rape , and therefore that any attempt to classify sexual offences by reference to their seriousness should place these forms of sexual assault in the highest category . |
| 17 | It can be argued that these associations serve as shelters and nurseries for mites , which , in turn , eat herbivorous arthropods and pathogens , a general theory put forward by Lundstrom over a century ago . |
| 18 | There may be some sense of cohesion in the North-East , Yorkshire , Lancashire , or the South-West , but even if this sentiment is totally lacking in the rest of England , it can be argued that these areas would be better administered by a series of regional ministries . |
| 19 | It can be argued that these tests are a reliable indicator of performance when tested under controlled conditions . |
| 20 | The entrances can be defined as those holes exhibiting quantities of scraped-out sand or soil around them , whereas a bolt or exit hole is simply that , a hole in the ground with no other clue to its whereabouts than that hole . |
| 21 | Foundations can be defined as those parts of the structure in direct contact with the ground which transfer the weight of the building and the loads exerted on it to the soil beneath . |
| 22 | If she is ambivalent , she can be reassured that some mothers breastfeed into the child 's third year of life with no adverse consequences . |
| 23 | Each of the lower feeders had their own cropping techniques , and a general assumption can be made that such techniques had themselves a co-evolutionary impact on plants . |
| 24 | Clearly he can be dismissed if both Houses present an Address to that effect . |
| 25 | This is a universal conception because it can be assumed that all societies and social groups possess , in some form or another , such common sense and practical knowledge . |
| 26 | Where similar finds are consistently found in layers dated to the same period of time , it can be assumed that these finds belong to that time period . |
| 27 | Through exposure to the rich variety of skills , attitudes , gifts , life- and workstyles found in ordinary people , children can be shown that all individuals are unique and that it is their differences ( rather than their similarities ) which are of value to society . |
| 28 | Even if it can be shown that many authorities will have elections at that time , we must not be naive again . |
| 29 | Thus the tendency is to concentrate an analysis of the concept of existence or that of truth around the use of predicates such as " exists ( exist ) " and " true " , and their cognates ; the idea being that if it can be shown that such predicates can be paraphrased out of the relevant contexts by employing a different type of idiom , then there is little that remains to be said about the concepts . |
| 30 | Such a politically neutral environmental agency might be able to convince both sides in a military conflict that some remedial action is needed urgently , especially if it can be shown that both factions will suffer adverse environmental effects in the short term and/or in the long term . |