Example sentences of "is that the [adj] [noun] can " in BNC.
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| 1 | The problem is that the second question can not be answered until Washington comes up with a consensus on the first . |
| 2 | The overall conclusion to be drawn from this discussion is that the various lags can complicate the business of macroeconomic management , and may even make it counter-productive . |
| 3 | An implication of the preceding analysis is that the monetary authorities can only alter the level of output by engineering unanticipated variations in the money supply which , in turn , implies that they are continually altering their policy rule . |
| 4 | A minus point is that the oil-filter cap can only be reached with the covers off . |
| 5 | The difference between them is that the first regress can only be stopped by certain ( = infallible ) beliefs , while the second insists merely on the existence of beliefs which are non-inferentially justified . |
| 6 | The point here is that the first purchaser can safeguard himself by taking immediate delivery and not leaving the goods or documents of title with the seller . |
| 7 | A final point worth making in defence of the data is that the observational material can not be impugned to the same degree , because in the flow of action during an incident the exigencies of the situation usually take over , making it difficult for policemen and women to act in ways contrary to what the situation requires or their colleagues demand . |
| 8 | One of the arguments against decentralisation is that the peripheral units can become complacent and lazy and unwilling to take the risks that the financial resources of the centralised company make possible . |
| 9 | A remaining problem with substitutions for unknown characters is that the resulting candidates can not be ordered by likelihood of being correct , because the word could equally well be any of them . |
| 10 | I wonder just how it is that the Daily Sport can advertise and sell Love Hearts , while youths who get caught selling counterfeit Es get arrested and charged with deception or ‘ going equipped to cheat ’ ? |
| 11 | The critical assumption in this model is that the risk-free hedge can earn the risk-free rate of return . |
| 12 | [ … ] However the problem with regulation , as US experience testifies , is that the regulatory agency can become captured by the political interests of the industry it is regulating and fail to act as the guardian of consumers ' interests . |
| 13 | One of the attractions of a listing is that the listed company can raise fresh capital ( by rights issues , often underwritten ) or finance acquisitions ( by rights issues or by vendor placings ) using its paper . |
| 14 | The other side of the coin is that the same observations can be deduced from alternative theories . |
| 15 | Instead , the orthodox presumption is that the same concept can be measured in different ways using different indices . |
| 16 | The crucial difference in cricket is that the consulting process can only be conducted on the field |
| 17 | The main problem is that the stored sound can be lost when the thin layer of aluminium which coats a CD 's plastic surface is oxidised , losing its ability to reflect laser light . |
| 18 | The fact is that the hon. Gentleman can not support his assertions on the basis of the available evidence . |