Example sentences of "can [be] [vb pp] [that] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 It can be seen that many issues on the administrative side affect the social services .
2 However , when these figures are broken down , it can be seen that certain groups , such as single women over 75 , are less likely to have an occupational pension , and , if they do , the average amount is less .
3 From this examination of some of the many patterns of family life which exist in Britain in the 1980s it can be seen that traditional views of the family are unsupported by research findings .
4 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 .
5 However , compared with the 1989 figures it can be seen that these industries are not without their difficulties .
6 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 .
7 It can be seen that these functions satisfy the required O'Brien-Synge boundary conditions .
8 It can be seen that vertical mergers are relatively rare .
9 They seem to have difficulty in transferring from the junior to the senior game and get disheartened and take up coaching although it can be seen that British players do not start getting their best results until their mid-twenties and beyond .
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 In the second place , it can be argued that similar changes have taken place in the relationships between parents and children .
16 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 .
17 On the other hand , it can be argued that real believers are incapable of distancing themselves sufficiently to carry out an objective study of their own ( or perhaps even of someone else 's ) religion .
18 It can be argued that mass communications have simply speeded up the whole process of change enormously , rather than imposed a massive and rigid uniformity .
19 There were several weak points in this critique and perhaps at the very least it can be argued that foreign films with social themes always appear to be more realistic merely because the subject-matter and personnel are new .
20 It can be argued that American children are not always very intelligent or easy to teach , with catastrophically short attention spans , but one can see the beginnings of a sad muddle even in England , with the publication of a homosexual prayer book giving instructions for a ‘ coming out ’ liturgy next door to prayers for those who already suffer from the American disease .
21 Secondly , even when attention is restricted to individual predictions , it can be argued that scientific theories , and hence universal statements , are inevitably involved in the estimation of the likelihood of a prediction being successful .
22 It can be argued that biological differences become biological inequalities when people define them as such .
23 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 .
24 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 .
25 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 .
26 It can be argued that these tests are a reliable indicator of performance when tested under controlled conditions .
27 With these qualifications in mind , it can be said that regional policies have moderated the relative but not the absolute differences in the unemployment rates of development and non-development areas , as Table 4.5 suggests .
28 Concluding this section , it can be said that manual workers not only suffer more from the costs and deprivations of the workplace than non-manual workers but they also receive lower compensation and rewards in terms of pay , fringe benefits and , in some instances , even of social security benefits .
29 If she is ambivalent , she can be reassured that some mothers breastfeed into the child 's third year of life with no adverse consequences .
30 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 .
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