Example sentences of "can [adv] be [verb] that [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It can only be deduced that most young people learn about homosexuality from the negative and misinformed images in the mainstream media . |
| 2 | It can thus be seen that this transformation with may be used to change the profile of the approaching waves . |
| 3 | It can scarcely be claimed that these questions have yet been answered in such a manner as to transform Marx 's very general model into a systematic and well-supported theory of historical development . |
| 4 | It can scarcely be claimed that this provides a much more authoritative or even revealing account of the composition of the Pactus than does the shorter prologue , but it is nevertheless worthy of some consideration . |
| 5 | Using sensitive earthquake-detecting instruments ( seismographs or seismometers ) , it is possible to pin down quite precisely the sites where the shock waves originate in this region , and it can easily be shown that these sites are confined to a narrow belt which dips steeply down under the continental margin at about 60 degrees , and which hits the surface just where the ocean is deepest , in the Chile-Peru Trench . |
| 6 | Nonetheless , a substantial degree of agreement has been achieved , not only between different demographic groups , but also between the whole range of approaches , intuitive , statistical and personal preference ( Briggs and France , 1980 ) and it can generally be concluded that good landscapes will have substantial relative relief , a major water body , diverse land use , and some historical artifacts , but will lack modern industry and major transport facilities . |
| 7 | However , as is indicated elsewhere in this chapter and in Chapter 6 , it can still be argued that private ownership of the means of production is the basis of economic power and wealth , and that the labour market is still the prime determinant of wage levels . |
| 8 | Now it can still be objected that this is also true of adults and that I have still , therefore , failed to distinguish them from children . |
| 9 | When it came to removing southern pauper children in large numbers to northern or Midland factories , it can hardly be denied that this , albeit short-lived , stage of the evolution of the factory labour force not only systematised but bruta-lised child labour . |
| 10 | The last remark could be made of financial problems also , yet , even in these hard times , it can hardly be said that insoluble money problems beset over half the population of Britain . |
| 11 | Okay er , according to Darwin , and here I quote , in infants long before birth , says Darwin , the skins on the soles of the feet is thicker than on any other part of the body , and it can hardly be doubted that this is due to the inherited effects of pressure during a long series of generations . |
| 12 | It can clearly be seen that this entry indicates most strongly the financial sense of ’ access ’ ( e.g. ’ mortgage ’ , ’ sum ’ , ’ high ’ , ’ instant ’ , ’ interest ’ , ’ money ’ , etc . ) . |
| 13 | And in the coming months it can reasonably be anticipated that many of those currently looking for employment will be successful . |
| 14 | It can also be concluded that these Killing-Cauchy horizons are unstable against small but generic perturbations of the initial data and that , in a very precise sense , ‘ generic ’ initial data always produce all-embracing space-like curvature singularities . |
| 15 | It can also be argued that other candidates for possible exclusion are those who are unfit for work for one reason or another . |
| 16 | It can also be argued that all pension and retirement benefits schemes should be fully subject to sex discrimination law . |
| 17 | It can also be shown that smooth-fronted electromagnetic waves would generate smooth-fronted or step gravitational waves that would persist through the interaction region . |
| 18 | It can also be shown that this family of solutions has the same singularity structure as the class of Szekeres solutions as described in Section 9.3 and to which it reduces when . |
| 19 | Moreover , while ‘ ideology ’ retains , from the weight of linguistic usage , the sense of organized beliefs ( whether formal and conscious or pervasive and dissolved ) , it can often be supposed that such systems are the true origin of all cultural ( and indeed other social ) production . |
| 20 | It can now be seen that these pieces of equipment constitute a basic gym around which routines for both beginners and advanced trainers can be structured . |
| 21 | A recent scientific review states that : ‘ On the basis of a large body of research , it can now be stated that passive smoking causes lung cancer in non-smokers and serious respiratory illness in babies … |
| 22 | After integrating ( 11.21 ) , it can then be shown that another solution is given by ( 12.15 ) |
| 23 | As any of the information in the Figure 1 may have a bearing on a section in question , it can readily be seen that advanced hyper-text features are needed if all the relevant subject matter is to be available and easily reached in the electronic medium . |
| 24 | It can indeed be argued that this has always been so , in pre-market as in market conditions . |
| 25 | … it can sometimes be overlooked that reasonable damages should always be assessed in respect of that initial period of shock and suffering . |
| 26 | It can therefore be argued that biological differences become biological inequalities only to the extent that they are defined as such . |
| 27 | It can therefore be seen that these inducements are not quite as attractive as they seem at first sight . |
| 28 | Of the classes visited , it can certainly be said that those in which the teaching and the interest of the students revealed vitality , enthusiasm and the promise of sustained interest in the subject far outnumbered those in which a short and superficial survey … seemed all that the tutor was prepared to offer or the class prepared to accept . |