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 | ‘ Oh , I 'm quite sure I can , but whether you can is another matter . |
| 13 | ‘ We do n't know how far he has to go , but you can be sure others will be back for the horses . |
| 14 | So , whether it 's a big job or a little job , you can be sure Baby Fresh will get to the bottom of it . |
| 15 | You can be sole trader , in a partnership or limited company , in the manufacturing , retailing or service industries . |
| 16 | you can be any age from fifty onwards |
| 17 | You can be brutal Koffka K O F F K A Okay ? |
| 18 | Indeed , the more selfless you can be this weekend , the better things will work out |
| 19 | So now we can be real friends . ’ |
| 20 | Then we can be three weeks in Paris . |
| 21 | Nevertheless , there can be serious problems carting in a wet autumn . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 ) . |