Example sentences of "[art] [adj] can [adv] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now the political can not be imposed . |
| 2 | The wasteful and destructive life-styles of the rich can not be maintained at the cost of the lives and livelihood of the poor , and of nature . |
| 3 | Here is a most revealing instance of the way a difference within the same , teleologically construed , can make a great deal of difference : in effect a difference of degree can be as real as a difference of kind but in a different way : the lesser is inferior and thereby inimical in a way the antithetical can not be , and the same becomes more ditferent than difference itself . |
| 4 | They say that the French can not be trusted to maintain safety at a plant which , though on French soil , is surrounded by Belgium . |
| 5 | Separate holidays for the young and the old can now be purchased . |
| 6 | For the Piaroa the social can only be created through the skills and the personal autonomy of individuals . |
| 7 | As I am 61 , does this mean the over-60s can not be retrained ? |
| 8 | The Hindus have discovered that the Absolute can only be realized or thought of , or stated through the relative . |
| 9 | The second can also be answered affirmatively but with a proviso . |
| 10 | Darwin 's reluctance to publish in the 1840s can easily be understood in terms of the still active controversy over Lamarckism and Chambers ' Vestiges . |
| 11 | They concluded that the mother 's diet ‘ may influence the likelihood of infantile colic in breast-fed children , but that the source of the colic can not be attributed to a single dietary component [ ie milk ] . |
| 12 | The MDC can not be held responsible for some problems . |
| 13 | The 1970's can not be concluded without a reference to some of the societies who have enjoyed a special relationship with Henley and which started in this decade . |
| 14 | The collapse of trust in government that occurred in the 1970s can not be attributed entirely to Watergate ; the trend was established before 1973 . |
| 15 | For example , the width of the five grades is not consistent , and grade 3 not only accounts for about half the land , but also covers a much wider range of possibilities than , say , grade 1 ( Gilg , 1975a ) , and even the subsequent sub-division of grade 3 in the 1970s can not be applied objectively ( Worthington , 1982 ) . |
| 16 | So while homophobia may sometimes originate in and , as it circulates socially , reconnect with repressed desire , the latter can not be homophobia 's necessary condition since it often circulates without it , and in a socio-political form which is more rapid , more widespread , more economical , and possibly more destructive . |
| 17 | At this biological level the evidence is unequivocal ; there are drives both to preserve self and to sacrifice self for others , and the latter can not be derived from the former . |
| 18 | But Foucault 's own subsequent work shows that it could not really be a question of choice on these terms , for the simple reason that , as he himself is at pains to point out in The Order of Things , history is itself a discursive practice : while the latter can not be simply equated with the textual , it can not be crudely opposed to it either . |
| 19 | Secondly , though such a society may exhibit the tension , already described , between those who accept the rules and those who reject the rules except where fear of social pressure induces them to conform , it is plain that the latter can not be more than a minority , if so loosely organized a society of persons , approximately equal in physical strength , is to endure : for otherwise those who reject the rules would have too little social pressure to fear … |
| 20 | Often , of course , these were different forms of the same general relations , though the latter can not be reduced to the former , in all or even a majority of cases . |
| 21 | The latter can not be adequately transmitted in seminars alone : the course will also offer direct school experience and the opportunity to work alongside British teacher-trainees . |
| 22 | This explains why the latter can not be used when there is no reference at all to something in the present which makes the infinitive 's event an impending occurrence as is the case in : ( 17 ) My babe-in-arms will be 59 on my 89th birthday . |
| 23 | In reviewing the central site , consideration has been given primarily to the needs of History and of English in so far as the needs of the latter can not be satisfied on the St Cross site . |
| 24 | The latter can probably be broken down again into : |
| 25 | While such views are common doctrine in grammars as far as finite forms are concerned , it will be proposed here that a support or person is also present in the infinitival form of the verb , even though the latter can neither be predicated grammatically of a subject nor take any personal endings . |
| 26 | The latter can usually be distinguished by the more generous hospitality — cheese and wine parties are very often the province of a nursing recruitment agency , or other private sector employer . |
| 27 | The latter can usually be identified by the target to the court by reason of circulars and other communications being returned undelivered and dividend warrants remaining uncashed . |
| 28 | The latter can now be calculated from the Boltzmann equation . |
| 29 | But the latter can only be so quickly dismissed if the intentions of individual actors are the principal locus of explanation . |
| 30 | The latter can certainly be encouraged by statements made by the head . |