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 | 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 . |
| 3 | It was the darkness of the blind ; a blackness that can almost be felt . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 ’ . |
| 8 | If one manages to find the simplest method at the first attempt that can mostly be attributed to good luck . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Decisions may make reference to expectations and values concerning kin relationships that can only be assumed . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ A national ambition that can only be realised at the European level . ’ |
| 13 | We need one more equation between our variables that can again be provided by Gauss 's law . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | One effective solution to this has been to identify elements of maintenance that can safely be put into the hands of the users . |
| 16 | It produces data that can easily be expressed in statistical form . |
| 17 | Theoretically , the recommendations in this and other chapters which describe adaptations that can usefully be made in order to give pupils with defective vision the most suitable environment and materials for work may seem complex . |
| 18 | He dwells in a high tower looking down on the metropolis and can often be seen flying high above it on his War Griffon Stormwing . |
| 19 | There seems to be a fairly common misconception that cichlids are all cichlids and can therefore be mixed . |
| 20 | Like all acts of faith , it is not capable of mathematical or logical demonstration and can therefore be disavowed by those who do not share it . |
| 21 | Effluent in rural areas is usually discharged visibly into watercourses and can often be traced without much difficulty to its source . |
| 22 | Some scholars are uneasy about this interpretation because the sign-groups give only approximations of words and can therefore be made into several different words : the sign-group ‘ po-lo ’ , for example , can be made to mean as many as eight different Greek words . |
| 23 | Although the technique is more time consuming , the mitotic cells obtained are of better quality and are useful for C- and G-banding ( Figure and can also be used for in situ hybridization ( Section 6 ) . |
| 24 | Debris and algae collect in the medium in the inner tray and can regularly be changed and disposed of . |
| 25 | On occasions , some of the rules can appear esoteric when viewed in isolation but can usually be explained by reference to one of the General Principles . |
| 26 | The next four instruments depend for their efficacy upon incorporation into contracts , though a codification of custom and usage could perhaps be relied on as the best evidence of custom and usage and as such be imported by implication into a contract , whilst the adoption of general contractual conditions is not the exclusive prerogative of private parties but can also be achieved by embodiment in bilateral or multilateral Conventions implemented by dispositive legislation in the various participating States . |
| 27 | Communication does not necessarily involve words but can often be non-verbal too . |
| 28 | Indeed , tourism has been one of the crucial components in the west 's construction of the east , and a passage from Thomas Cook 's brochure for tours of Egypt and Palestine in 1925 encapsulates the Orientalist attitude : ‘ Native life and manners as seen from the steamer are as quaint a study as can well be imagined . |
| 29 | It is a story that can never be told in full . |
| 30 | There is one other almost essential ingredient of the romantic suspense story that can hardly be avoided and yet which perhaps presents difficulties to anyone whose interest is more in the human relationships that are the core of this kind of book than in physical action and violence , things which seem to belong more properly to the thriller . |