Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] can [adv] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The political emphasis for these and other initiatives has been crucial to a Conservative government set on a course of action that can best be described by the phrase ‘ small is beautiful ’ . |
| 2 | There are certain classes of English word combinations that can not be explained using existing syntactic or semantic theories . |
| 3 | There are certain classes of English word combinations that can not be explained using existing syntactic or semantic theories . |
| 4 | This is not an experiment that can ever be done , although some people assume that certain remote and isolated faunas , such as those of Australia and Madagascar , can be treated as if they were ancient , as if a trip to Australia were like a trip backwards in a time machine . |
| 5 | It was the darkness of the blind ; a blackness that can almost be felt . |
| 6 | Once you own a detector , however , you can start to take an interest in invisible losses … losses that can only be found by detector owners . |
| 7 | It is the aim of any hotel to achieve the maximum room occupancy and one must remember that a ‘ sleeper ’ lost ( bed unoccupied ) is a financial loss that can not be regained . |
| 8 | The reality is often a disappointment that can not be discussed . |
| 9 | But there are new elements in the treatment of the heads that can not be so easily explained . |
| 10 | Provided the model relating population to these land-cover data is reasonably good , the resulting relationship can then be used to estimate populations for any set of imposed or natural areal units that can also be located on the image . |
| 11 | Orkney will ride Old Applejack , a 12year-old chestnut which is trained by Howard Johnson at Crook and is the sort of outsider that can never be discounted at Aintree . |
| 12 | The program implements a prescan of the data to determine parameters that can not be resolved by the direct leastsquares method of analysis . |
| 13 | And there are readers who have been deeply moved and impressed in the ways that we have described by books that can not be described as the best of anything . |
| 14 | The scanner can also be removed from its internal cradle to facilitate coverage of large drawings or books that can not be loaded via the 25-page feed hopper . |
| 15 | The system works by first analysing a page to identify column numbers and to mark out graphics and images that can not be processed . |
| 16 | The problem may not be so much that when we talk of God we say nothing , as that we say too much — we say things that seem to combine irreconcilable images that can never be focussed upon one ‘ being ’ . |
| 17 | If one manages to find the simplest method at the first attempt that can mostly be attributed to good luck . |
| 18 | As a result , Germany is now considering legislation to compel car makers to take back and recycle vehicles at the ends of their lives , and its car makers are busily designing cars that can rapidly be dismantled . |
| 19 | Decisions may make reference to expectations and values concerning kin relationships that can only be assumed . |
| 20 | But these cases do tend to be the exception rather than the rule , so it is sensible to consider , briefly , some of the negative aspects that can sometimes be a part of the ‘ caring ’ situation . |
| 21 | The ANLT lexicon aims to provide consistency ( i.e. syntactic information is only explicitly provided for words that can not be derived from extant morphemes within the lexicon ) . |
| 22 | There must , of course , be money-making enterprises as well to buy those necessities that can not be grown on the farm , but these will be looked upon as secondary calls on the agricultural operations in which farm surpluses are sold to supplement the cash income from non-farming sources . |
| 23 | ‘ A national ambition that can only be realised at the European level . ’ |
| 24 | We need one more equation between our variables that can again be provided by Gauss 's law . |
| 25 | Perhaps the most important aspect of this persona is the extent to which , in terms of intratextual characterization , it overlaps with the figure of the clerc/clers , a term that can best be translated as " student " in this context . |
| 26 | Further non-economic influences that can not be ignored are ethnic and religious differences . |
| 27 | Another nap hand at the expense of Andover took Iron 's league tally for the season to 82 , a figure that can not be bettered in any of the three divisions of the Beazer League . |
| 28 | One effective solution to this has been to identify elements of maintenance that can safely be put into the hands of the users . |
| 29 | It produces data that can easily be expressed in statistical form . |
| 30 | This is because at any level there are competing interpretations of the data that can not be disambiguated , for which the appropriate information is available at some other level . |