Example sentences of "[adv] can [pron] be [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , it is a move fraught with problems as our writers explain How long can it be taken as read ? |
| 2 | Not only can it be introduced by contaminated water changes but it is also self-generated as part of the biological filtration cycle . |
| 3 | So can she be said to have died as a result of the accident ? ’ |
| 4 | No longer can they be considered country bumpkins , there to make up numbers among the pacemakers until the springtime surge for honours begins . |
| 5 | No longer can it be described as the sick man of the industry ’ |
| 6 | The more the issue is thus narrowed , the more exactly can it be handled : but also the less closely does it correspond to real life . |
| 7 | How far can they be regarded as independent of one another ? |
| 8 | What about the people who wrote or told us life stories : how far can they be taken as typical ? |
| 9 | How far can it be predicted , prevented and treated ? |
| 10 | Now can we be assured that Biffa are in fact going to do that same service , not turn up and say , you 're not allowed this , nothing to do with us . |
| 11 | Now can it be said to be clear by the law of Scotland that the locus here is beyond what the legislature may assert right to affect by legislation against all whomsoever for the purpose of regulating methods of fishing ? |
| 12 | Please can something be done to remove it . |
| 13 | Well , that lid on there can it be used though ? |
| 14 | On what then can they be based ? |
| 15 | Only then can it be deemed unnecessary and removed . |
| 16 | Some enquiries are relatively simple — what facilities are available , and how can they be accessed ; what are our hours ; what regulations exist ; what functions/exhibitions are currently on , or are planned . |
| 17 | How can they be achieved ? |
| 18 | Why is there such a plethora of exotic phenomena at the centre , and how can they be explained ? |
| 19 | How can they be explained ? |
| 20 | What are the priority training areas and how can they be met ? |
| 21 | How can they be utilised in ‘ secular ’ and multi- faith societies ? |
| 22 | And how can they be included ? |
| 23 | If it is in order for Dubček to grant federal autonomy to the Slovaks or Carpatho-Ukranians then what of the Soviet Ukraine ? ( the Politburo 's worry in 1968 ) ; if genuine trades unions are to be countenanced in Poland , how can they be proscribed in the Baltic republics and Belorussia ? ( the Politburo 's worry in 1980 ) . |
| 24 | How is the mediating role of teachers to be defined and how can they be guided to adopt it ? |
| 25 | Some cases might be summed up as ‘ What have they been doing wrong and how can they be put right ? ’ |
| 26 | ‘ How can they be taken ? ’ |
| 27 | And with your names leading the Party , how can we be taken as warmongers and murderers ? ’ |
| 28 | How can he be expected to run the country when half his time is spent waiting for people who never turn up ? |
| 29 | While if a user is really looking for a system to support management decisions , how can he be expected to know in advance all the decisions which he will have to take ? |
| 30 | Likewise in the case of Lewis 's Eve : if she is ransomed by Ransom 's struggle with the Un-Man in the underworld , a sort of Harrowing of Hell sequence , how can she be said to have resisted the temptation on her own ; and if she has not really resisted through her own strength — if she is to be rewarded with immortality and felicity for something she has not done herself — where is the justice in the punishment , on another planet , of Eve and her descendants , for something which again was not wholly her responsibility ? |