Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] can [adv] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Is she also aware of the fact that the National Sounds Archive now housed in Exhibition Road in South Kensington , ought really to be next door to the Music Library and it has always been the ambition of the Library to put it there and that furthermore , and here I speak from great knowledge because I negotiated the arrangement , if that site at Exhibition Road for the National Sounds Archive Library is sold , that money can only be used under the term of that agreement to provide similar accommodation elsewhere . |
| 2 | Whatever claims for the English language he may wish to make from a supposedly technical , linguistic perspective , he can not assume that attributing ‘ objectivity ’ to it is unproblematic , or that the meaning attributed to it within that sub-culture can safely be carried over into cross-cultural correlations with the features of certain languages and grammars . |
| 3 | The matrix transform thus becomes : unc The spatial transformations can thus be included by raising the level of the coordinates to a value of N so that : unc The final model-to-view space transform thus results in three coordinate values . |
| 4 | The relative contribution of each component can not be clarified from this study . |
| 5 | This puts me in the position of having to either cancel the project — which would be a great discouragment to the volunteers , who might be reluctant to come forward again having been let down over this one — or risk going on without funding ( and then perhaps being told that funding can not be granted retrospectively ? ) . |
| 6 | If an application is declared admissible , and a friendly settlement can not be achieved , the subsequent decisions of the Court are binding on the United Kingdom . |
| 7 | Opponents of the hunt say that killing seals for non-essential products can not be justified economically or ecologically . |
| 8 | Not only is the professional designer faced with a wide variety of hygiene regulations , but in many cases fire officers disagree as to exactly how the fire risk which is inherent within any working kitchen can best be minimised . |
| 9 | Are we to conclude therefore that eminence can not be allowed as a yardstick of creativity ? |
| 10 | Other changes such as sample decomposition , crosslinking , and the existence of polymorphic forms can also be detected . |
| 11 | At that point , we believed that the Bill would be an irrelevance and unnecessary given that prisoners can already be charged with a wide range of criminal offences , including offences under the Public Order Act 1986 . |
| 12 | A revealing spectrum can still be found today among species of hydra — small , sedentary , tentacled animals , like freshwater sea anemones . |
| 13 | Although personally we believe this to be of only secondary importance , its probable role in motivating innovative acts can not be ignored . |
| 14 | The value of this annual increment of rich topsoil can hardly be exaggerated . |
| 15 | Since private shareholders can not be expected to subsidize the wider goals of society as a whole , public ownership may then be inevitable . |
| 16 | The type of information required at each level can now be assessed . |
| 17 | Few of London 's historic houses can still be seen as they were intended . |
| 18 | The supplier of a now unused component can still be established . |
| 19 | First , an oral contract can never be caught , since s 3 ( 1 ) specifies dealing on " written standard terms of business " . |
| 20 | All your recipes can be sorted into different categories such as starters , sweets , main etc. , each category can then be split further . |
| 21 | An interim payment can only be ordered against a person who is insured in respect of the plaintiff 's claim , a public authority , or a person whose means enable him to make the payment . |
| 22 | Moreover , when we consider the courses that Pound was led into by his conviction of the civic responsibility of the man of letters — his money pamphlets of the 1930s , his desperate visit home in 1938 to keep the USA out of war with Italy , particularly his wartime broadcasts over Rome radio — we have some right to conclude either that the artist has no civic responsibility at all , or else that that responsibility can safely be discharged only in his art and nowhere else . |
| 23 | As Gittins has put it , ‘ The commonsense notion that all families in the past were much more solidaristic and stable institutions can not be borne out — death saw to that ’ ( Gittins , 1985 , p. 9 ) . |
| 24 | Conversely , initiating translocation with phorbol myristate acetate protects , but that protection can still be blocked if an adenosine receptor antagonist is then administered ; repopulation of adenosine receptors during the second coronary occlusion is required to reactivate the translocated PKC . |
| 25 | That case can thus be seen to proceed on the same basis as the colore officii cases . |
| 26 | The other points to note on the Regulations are : ( i ) that advantage can not be taken of the section if a provision , ‘ however expressed , ’ of the company 's memorandum or articles requires copies of the full accounts to be sent to members or which prohibits the sending of summary financial statements ( ii ) that provisions , similar to those in relation to the full accounts , apply to approval by , and signature on behalf of , the directors of the summary , and ( iii ) that , up to the end of 1991 , most listed companies do not seem to have opted to adopt the innovation . |
| 27 | The development of housing for sale with the use of private funding can not be carried out by a registered housing association — Northern Counties Provident Housing Association — had to be set up . |
| 28 | But if criteria for inclusion and exclusion are not technical and professional but based on a philosophy about what human beings are , then parental expertise can not be different in kind from that of professional ( unnatural ? ) experts . |
| 29 | First , the European Parliament can never be as accountable to the electorate as the national parliaments . |
| 30 | Secondly , he rejects the very assumption of classical theory that economic phenomena can ultimately be explained as the result of universal needs . |