Example sentences of "[pron] can [be] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , I 'm not sure I can be much help . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Well … if you think I can be any use … ’ |
| 3 | And here today 's bandwagon rolling tip , Pershing po poised to fulfil his promise , that 's Paul Johnson in the Racing Post , John de Moreville in the Express Pershing to strike his target and now here is something of which nobody can be proud Gosforth Park South Africa . |
| 4 | In the meantime , businesses must understand the requirements of the legislation , implement suitable management controls to maintain the required standards , and review their insurance and their use of external support services — which can be cost-effective investments in the event of crisis . |
| 5 | All the rest of the Norwegian types are now considered extinct as separate breeds or are rare : 98 per cent of the country 's cattle are now of the Norwegian Red type , which can be solid red or red with some white . |
| 6 | Regular shrimpers use home-made nets , which can be two metres across , and are distinguished by a strip of wood that digs into the sand as you push . |
| 7 | Such developments , to which can be added improvements in the quality of steel used in the making of armour ; the ability , as a consequence , to abandon the use of the shield , thereby freeing the left arm ; and the development of special rests which permitted the use of a much heavier lance , meant that the cavalryman , far from being an outmoded liability on the field , remained an indispensable element of the army , one whose value was , as we have seen , enhanced by training and by association with men using other weapons . |
| 8 | The body responds to an alumina implant by surrounding it with a fibrous capsule which can be several micrometres thick . |
| 9 | At this stage obviously the observations which can be particular will related to existing regional and su sub-regional policies . |
| 10 | The shares must have a fixed value , which can be any amount . |
| 11 | Sched. 4 makes provision for applications for Sunday opening including the procedure to be followed , the persons or bodies who can be competent objectors , and the grounds on which such an application can be refused . |
| 12 | ‘ We do n't know how far he has to go , but you can be sure others will be back for the horses . |
| 13 | So , whether it 's a big job or a little job , you can be sure Baby Fresh will get to the bottom of it . |
| 14 | You can be sole trader , in a partnership or limited company , in the manufacturing , retailing or service industries . |
| 15 | you can be any age from fifty onwards |
| 16 | You can be brutal Koffka K O F F K A Okay ? |
| 17 | Indeed , the more selfless you can be this weekend , the better things will work out |
| 18 | So now we can be real friends . ’ |
| 19 | Then we can be three weeks in Paris . |
| 20 | Nevertheless , there can be serious problems carting in a wet autumn . |
| 21 | Furthermore , the prospect of promotion is one of the major driving forces behind managerial motivation and if the promotion process works badly , then there can be serious problems . |
| 22 | In particular , there can be serious outcomes on what are perceived as ‘ soft ’ subjects , like the arts , which are unexpected and frequently unintended by schools . |
| 23 | It also suggests that there can be substantial differences between temporary workers and regular workers in terms of their characteristics and attachment to the labour force . |
| 24 | Since the front of a slug travels downstream at about three times the speed of the rear ( Fig. 18.7 ) , there can be substantial variations in the fraction of the flow that is turbulent ( Fig. 18.8 ) and thus in the flow rate . |
| 25 | There can be substantial pressure on the builder 's surveyor in locating and engaging labour and in the measurement of bonus , or labour-only sub-contractors ' work , on a weekly basis . |
| 26 | Though technological change does tend to lead to more capital intensive than labour intensive development , there can be substantial employment created indirectly through backward and forward linkages . |
| 27 | He estimated that ‘ an extra year of elementary or secondary schooling really boosts future income less than 4% ; an extra year of college boosts it about 7% and a year of graduate school boosts it about 4% , There can be legitimate disagreement whether these figures indicate only a small effect of schooling on income . |
| 28 | To put this more concretely , there can be legitimate arguments about the nature , quality and function of a listener 's response to the actual sound and structure of , say , an Elvis Presley or Bing Crosby song ; what is not legitimate is to move this ‘ thrill ’ , however defined , bodily across the theoretical topography so that it sits wholly under the sign of commodity-fetishism . |
| 29 | Once we take account of this distinction , we recognize that there can be alternative CONCEPTUALIZATIONS of the same event ( illustrated in the Golding passage ) , as well as alternative syntactic expressions of the same sense ( as in Ohmann 's treatment of Faulkner ) . |
| 30 | Projects such as Scone Park have shown that there can be alternative provision and that you can meet the needs of children and young people and respond to those in their own community and develop the investment in that community . |