Example sentences of "[conj] can [adv] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If , also , market failures are relatively unimportant , or can adequately be offset by other policies , then on balance , privatization is likely to be desirable . |
| 2 | A later Murdoch novel , The Sea , the Sea ( 1978 ) , explores in the same unblinking fashion an aspect of human selfhood from another angle : its ageing hero , living cheerfully for himself and cooking dishes that hardly anyone else would want to eat , suddenly rediscovers a lost love , is deranged enough to kidnap her , fails to regain her love in captivity and is forced to accept , by the end , that his old self-sufficient life is all there is or can ever be . |
| 3 | Buildings — and not just historic ones — represent energy , labour and materials , which either can not be replaced or can only be replaced at enormous cost . |
| 4 | The point being that because the income is within Case V relief for the 35 per cent is only available or can only be available by way of concession as s687(1) states that it applies in lieu of ss348 or 349 which are Case III Schedule D payments . |
| 5 | Liquidity is the degree to which the company assets are in the form of cash or can readily be converted into cash . |
| 6 | Liquidity is the degree to which the company assets are in the form of cash or can readily be converted into cash . |
| 7 | She is saying that this good thing , this knowledge , can be used — to tell us , for example , that Amis is not a Tudor writer : but she is rather more moved to say at the same time that it ca n't or can hardly be used , devoted as she is to the thought of a separation between , in this case , Amis 's friendships and politics , his life — and his art . |
| 8 | We need one more equation between our variables that can again be provided by Gauss 's law . |
| 9 | A more recent re-statement is given in the judgment of Lord Morris of Borth-y-gest in Esso Petroleum Co Ltd v Harper 's Garage ( Stourport ) Ltd [ 1968 ] AC 269 : In general , the law recognises that there is freedom to enter into any contract that can lawfully be made . |
| 10 | If one manages to find the simplest method at the first attempt that can mostly be attributed to good luck . |
| 11 | Mung beans are very small green beans that can easily be sprouted at home for use as a salad vegetable . |
| 12 | Instead , wear several light layers of clothing that can easily be added or removed as you walk . |
| 13 | First , those items which make it difficult to recognise specific abilities in a child will be of less value than those which provide descriptions that can easily be applied . |
| 14 | a simple embedded mark-up that can easily be used by other tools . |
| 15 | What that means , among other things , is that feminists who engage in this kind of research must refuse easy answers , answers that can easily be accommodated within the system as it is now . |
| 16 | It is the kind of job that can easily be made to seem glamorous or tempt the power-mad . |
| 17 | It produces data that can easily be expressed in statistical form . |
| 18 | I always accept any little presents from clients , especially if it 's cash , or anything that can easily be changed into cash . |
| 19 | On the other hand , noticeable deviation from typical target-language patterns of chunking information and signalling relations is likely to result in the sort of text that can easily be identified as a translation because it sounds ‘ foreign ’ . |
| 20 | Perhaps by analogy with this he began to see that animal species too are in a state of dynamic equilibrium with one another and with the environment , an equilibrium that can easily be disturbed by geological changes or by the immigration of new species into the area . |
| 21 | One that can easily be forced is the detection of switched off illumination ( or merely low light ) and this works reliably . |
| 22 | We often receive letters about relatively minor matters that can easily be put right after discussion with patients . |
| 23 | Of these three , it is only the existence of the ‘ unit of desire ’ that can reasonably be challenged . |
| 24 | The APB went on to observe that ‘ … the degree of reliance that can reasonably be placed on financial statements will decrease as the length of time that has elapsed since their approval by the directors increases ’ . |
| 25 | The highest level of verbal information that can reasonably be expected from an automatic tagger is the transitivity of the verb . |
| 26 | Another example that can loosely be referred to as scavenging is bone collecting by harvester ants ( Shipman & Walker , 1980 ) . |
| 27 | For Ullman is concerned with types of perceptual process that can plausibly be attributed to many animal species . |
| 28 | Modern surveying equipment such as Electronic Distance Measurement devices greatly facilitate this , not least because of their ability to store survey readings on data loggers , small electronic devices that record a large number of readings in a form that can later be easily transferred to a personal computer ( fig. 9.8 ) . |
| 29 | It brings points to the notice of the authorities that can well be overlooked in the dayto-day running of the force ; points that can , when corrected , benefit a great many people . ’ |
| 30 | There is a vast untapped genetic and metabolic biodiversity in nature that can also be harnessed . |