Example sentences of "[adv] it can [adv] [be] " in BNC.

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1 Perhaps it can best be described as a feeling of being ‘ earthed ’ .
2 To no other , to no less divine a source can I trace the movement ’ , but as we have seen , other speakers , like Joseph Parker , were more perceptive while the 1897 National Council president admitted that ‘ perhaps it can scarcely be denied that in some of our earliest Nonconformist Councils … at first the inspiration was to a large extent political ’ .
3 Obviously it can also be essential for you to know what flower or leaf you have pressed , although you will discover that on examining the finished material .
4 If the material is not felt to be long enough it can then be erased .
5 So it can never be used against me . ’
6 so it can actually be a stimulus ca n't it ?
7 So it can only be human failure I E that she was driving and just sort of lost her concentration for a few seconds and that was fatal
8 Chain , which was introduced in 1811 , could be stowed in a small damp locker and so it can almost be said that chain cleared the space needed below for engines and coal bunkers .
9 Thus it can hardly be argued that the LEA had not taken steps to facilitate improvements in the school .
10 In view of the abrupt falling on in the numbers of husbandmen above £20 , plus the fact that this figure coincides roughly with the wealth of the average yeoman , farmers assessed at and above it can pragmatically be counted as yeomen .
11 The real challenge is not whether or not the online catalogue can cater for first-time users but whether or not it can easily be used by any user for any type of query .
12 Moreover it can also be used to pinpoint any archaeological finds by giving accurate latitude and longitude positions .
13 Although this theory is expressed formally it can easily be given intuitive support .
14 Now it can still be objected that this is also true of adults and that I have still , therefore , failed to distinguish them from children .
15 So I hope you see , that this Aldershot method which several people have mentioned is is a very effective way of structuring what you do here it can also be used very simply in in a meeting just to be able to put your point across simply but effectively .
16 For surely it can never be accepted by any normal thinking person that the bloody battles and massacres that have been necessary to establish even a tentative hold on any part of that unhappy , and anything but ‘ holy ’ , land can possibly represent a successful implementation of that promise .
17 Here we once more encounter the recognition that at a conceptual level the idea of history can not be taken further : rather it can only be addressed through a tension in the writing itself .
18 So we shall aim to work through definitions towards a richer appreciation of what literary style is and how it can best be analysed .
19 However opinions vary as to what is meant by social support , and how it can best be measured , although the extent to which an individual feels that they have someone to confide in appears to be important .
20 Finance function Quality manager Dave Storey sets out the background to C&P 's pursuit of Cost of Quality and gives some guidance on how it can best be calculated .
21 But sometimes it can just be pleasurable .
22 If marriage exists to create some kind of secure relationship , from which flow mutual rights and expectations , and to provide a stable environment for raising children , if there be any , but is not predicated solely on the opportunity for intercourse , then it can legitimately be extended to cover the union of two persons , one of whom is an operated transsexual .
23 If you , fearing an attack by an octogenarian mugger , floor her with a swift knee to the stomach , then it can reasonably be said that you are , without doubt , paranoid .
24 And by doing so , The Accused rejects the assumptions of the other films , saying in effect that if this can not be said of this woman then it can never be said of any women in any situation .
25 If this car does n't shake the German establishment , then it can only be a matter of time .
26 But if the England manager deplored the lack of flair in the squad he took to Sweden then it can only be a matter of time before he turns to the Bart Man .
27 If we do not use these medications properly then it can only be a matter of time before they are withdrawn from availability and we lose a precious treatment for our fish .
28 Then it can only be Benedict .
29 If the statute provides a means of enforcement then it can only be enforced in this manner , unless the obligation is imposed for the benefit of a class and the plaintiff is a member of that class .
30 But to those for whom such patterns are becoming real , and for whom some rational explanation of the shift is required , then it can fairly be argued that the spreading ethic of Confucianism — exported in the last hundred years or so to every nation on and within the Pacific coastline by the tens of millions of overseas Chinese who have acted as its accidental evangelists — is crucial .
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