Example sentences of "[adv] can [adv] [be] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So erm er erm by n by no means er could you call one point one percent of something that can vary by factors of three in , in , in , in Cornwall the natural radiation is three times what it is in , in Essex erm er but they seem to be quite er healthy nevertheless in Cornwall erm so point one percent is er varies by factors of three , obviously ca n't be considered to be erm er a major political er a major erm er environmental hazard . |
| 2 | The drummer 's th the very stupid one , and the bassist basically ca n't be bothered at all , you know . |
| 3 | Mr Eynon retired from the force two months ago and so ca n't be disciplined . |
| 4 | The Archbishop of Canterbury , William Sancroft , composed a lengthy statement of " Reasons against Subscription " , in which he condemned the Indulgence for " endeavouring to abrogate Lawes for their [ the Dissenters ' ] sake " , laws which , he added , " perhaps can not be repealed " . |
| 5 | It obviously can not be justified . |
| 6 | However subjective the ‘ standard of living adequate for health and wellbeing ’ , it obviously can not be achieved if population is outstripping subsistence . |
| 7 | In a sentence such as ( 30 ) , the event saw obviously can not be conceived as existing before the beginning of the crossing : ( 30 ) I saw him cross the street . |
| 8 | The initial hypothesis suggested above about baptism being more a social than a religious ceremony is so general and broad that it obviously can not be tested without being broken down into its constituent parts . |
| 9 | As Karl Barth expresses it , woman is to man as B is to A ; why should woman mind ? 17 The idea that western religion has itself been a cause of attitudes which have deeply harmed women obviously can not be given entrance by them . |
| 10 | Only last week , the last time I sat in court er there was an instance of one individual who had had twelve cautions in a period of eight months er he was still a youth so his name obviously can not be divulged , erm and it 's not only the cautions , I wonder how many warnings he 'd received as well . |
| 11 | Such people obviously can not be approached to fill in a questionnaire ! |
| 12 | This obviously can not be counted as a social welfare gain ( or loss ) . |
| 13 | Much of this material can not be found anywhere else outside the USSR , and , is according to some recent Soviet visitors , much can not be found even there . |
| 14 | Much can always be learned from the policy options that are reflected . ’ |
| 15 | These issues are dealt with in the subsections that follow , though some of them naturally can only be dealt with fully in later chapters concerned with the details of industrial relations on the railways . |
| 16 | The existence of other cases where this connection apparently can not be made , as pointed out by Jespersen , indicates however that this sense can not be taken as descriptive of the full potential for meaning which to has in contemporary English . |
| 17 | It is not simply a contractual relationship which can be ended at will , for what God has joined together can not be ended lightly . |
| 18 | Your special time for catching up together can not be shared with exuberant teenagers , the unexpected caller or a visiting relative . |
| 19 | Within T IS , too , the work which was done to bring Caterdata and the Psion together can now be sold on to other Caterdata customers , and a section explaining how Psion works has been added to the Caterdata manual . |
| 20 | Births registered by the mother only can not be assigned to a social class , but the Longitudinal Study showed that 73 per cent of teenage illegitimate births in 1970–4 occurred to women where the ‘ chief economic supporter ’ ( usually father ) was a manual worker ; 13 per cent in social class V ( Werner 1989 ) . |
| 21 | This position claims that the existence of God not only can not be proved but can not make sense . |
| 22 | It is likened to a heaven full of stars , yet better than such because his wounds are efficacious by day as well as by night , and not only can not be obscured by clouds but positively drive away clouds of sin ; a net full of holes in which the meditator prays to be drawn to the bank of death ; a dovecote full of holes of refuge and a honeycomb full of cells of sweet honey ; a book written in red ink — matter for the meditator 's attention at " matyns , pryme , houris , euesong & complin " ; a meadow full of healing and delightful flowers and herbs ( 96 – 7 ) . |
| 23 | The problem with applying this practice to local government , for example , is that the monies which are paid in can not be used indiscriminately . |
| 24 | Difficulty in hooking in can sometimes be attributed to harness lines that are too short . |
| 25 | The courses mentioned below can also be combined within the MA(General) and MA ( General Honours ) . |
| 26 | The standard gauge lace carriage does n't have to be tuned to the machine , so can easily be bought at any time . |
| 27 | Not only that , but they have fixed wheels , so can not be freewheeled along . |
| 28 | AGR fuel is clad in stainless steel , which corrodes and so can not be kept for long periods under water . |
| 29 | Keynesians have remained very sceptical of this mechanism , arguing that neither the increase in the real money supply nor the real balance effect will have a significant effect on aggregate demand- and so can not be relied upon to reduce unemployment . |
| 30 | Lighting circuit fuses are rated at 5amp ( yellow ) , 30amp ( red ) and 45amp ( green ) ; all are different sizes , with he exception of the 15 and 20amp fuses , so can not be fitted into the wrong fuseholder . |