Example sentences of "can [adv] [be] [verb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having got to this stage , with all the equipment wired carefully into the cable tidy , the tank can slowly be filled with water . |
| 2 | When you think how CCW and the WTB have collaborated to agree a set of Principles for Tourism in National Parks , we should try to remain hopeful that a similar joint approach can eventually be agreed for golf courses . |
| 3 | Moreover , if it is right here that the tax was repaid as a matter of extra-statutory discretion , and interest from the date of Nolan J. 's order was paid on the same basis , it is not clear to me how a review of the discretionary refusal to pay interest which was not due in law can properly be examined by way of judicial review . |
| 4 | Despite plans for market integration in Latin America and between the United States , Mexico and Canada , it is only in relation to the European Community that integration can properly be discussed at present . |
| 5 | The Minister will know that , contrary to the Government 's views about linking business with the environment — we all agree that coal can successfully be converted to coke — for some reason the Coalite works in Bolsover seems to be polluting the whole environment . |
| 6 | As we have seen , for some Foucault can apparently be dismissed with ease as merely the philosopher of discontinuity , a description which is hardly adequate ; for others , criticism takes the form that he simply relativizes history , but this is really no better , for history is itself a mode of demonstrating the relativity , temporariness , and temporality of phenomena . |
| 7 | Although it would be possible to pursue the question of history in terms of such analyses of the forms of historicity , such an enquiry would take us on a very different path from that prompted by our original question , namely if poststructuralism can apparently be faulted by reference to a history which it neglects , where in Marxism can this history be found ? |
| 8 | This case can perhaps be explained on policy grounds as the plaintiff was a rescuer and the courts do not wish to deter rescue . |
| 9 | It continued : " Reconciliation can only be built on truth . " |
| 10 | However , the end result of the degree of competition in a market can only be observed in profitability . |
| 11 | Now the major difference between these two categories is that with operational systems it is relatively easy for the user to define his requirements , in detail , in advance , for a specialist to program into the computer , whereas decision support systems , by their very nature , can only be defined in advance in global terms . |
| 12 | In other words , crime is a relative concept ; it can only be defined in relation to particular criminal laws which are effective at particular times and in particular societies . |
| 13 | ‘ The independence of the monetary institution can only be conceived within interdependence with a strong economic government . ’ |
| 14 | We need to bring it about , and it can only be done through teamwork . |
| 15 | It can only be done with conviction , with the sort of approach we used in 1969 with Ostpolitik . |
| 16 | In the assessment of cleanliness this can only be done by inspection to be carried out after cleaning has been completed . |
| 17 | This can only be done by heat or work . |
| 18 | The user can not enter a module with such a record as the latest version ; this can only be done by LIFESPAN . |
| 19 | These must then be short-listed ; the detailed appraisal can only be done in practice on a limited number of options . |
| 20 | Questions such as these can only be studied with information which includes details of employers ' policies alongside details of employees ' perceptions , attitudes and experience at work . |
| 21 | Accounting can only be studied in depth at Edinburgh as part of a joint honours degree : MA honours in Economics and Accounting ; BCom honours in Business Studies and Accounting ; or LLB honours ( Law and Accounting ) . |
| 22 | Damages , as we will see , can only be sought in respect of wrongs recognized in private law ; declarations and injunctions can also be sought in respect of public law wrongs , that is wrongs as defined by the rules establishing the grounds of judicial review such as breach of natural justice . |
| 23 | This can only be evaluated with respect to the distribution of scores obtained by the standardisation sample ( see Figure 8.2 ) . |
| 24 | This means that the relation of ideas and practical problems can only be understood as part of the process of history . |
| 25 | Interpretation must always be a matter of matching up what is new to what is familiar : ideas can only be understood in reference to established categories of thought . |
| 26 | Violent behaviour , in the most general sense , can only be understood in association with other behaviour within the same society . |
| 27 | Social theories thus argue that freedom requires an understanding of the self and our self-understanding or identity can only be understood in relation to the practices of our society . |
| 28 | Scale and measure can only be understood in context . |
| 29 | As Graff argues , literacy can only be understood in context : ‘ it can be established neither arbitrarily nor uniformly for all members of the population ’ ( 1979 , p. 292 ) . |
| 30 | As fearful , angry , brave , quarrelsome , competitive , kind , generous , cooperative etc. do not exist in the world as measurable qualities , but humans as social beings may develop all , or none , to varying extents , so social behaviour like war can only be explained with reference to complex social factors , not to some assumed universal inner state . |