Example sentences of "can [adv] [verb] [pers pn] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | From the available information , we can not tell how many of the 1160 deaths in 1986 belong to the 1946 cohort so we can only estimate it to be 1160÷2 = 580 and assume that another 580 of the 1946 cohort will die in 1987 . |
| 2 | Although the machine intelligences we create will be based on our own form of intelligence and an extension of it , we can nevertheless expect them to be alien in many ways . |
| 3 | ‘ You can hardly expect her to be . ’ |
| 4 | An obvious instance would be the contrast between the suggestion that although we understand the proposition that God exists , we could have no evidence that it is true , and the suggestion that the proposition is incomprehensible to us , and hence a fortiori we can neither know it to be true nor be justified in believing it . |
| 5 | You can either work it to be doubled over to the wrong side or make a matching strip of plain knitting as a facing . |