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

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1 Family therapy will be of most use with young self-poisoners ( Richman 1979 ) , although occasionally it can be appropriate with adult attempters , especially if the attempt has brought to light disturbed family dynamics and other family members are willing to participate in treatment .
2 The distinction between real and apparent achievement , if only it can be concealed from the teacher , and suitably managed by a child , provides the opportunity for rewards to be received just as well for cheating as for genuine achievement .
3 There was nothing conscious or deliberate about my decision , if indeed it can be called a decision at all .
4 The idea of using recycled asphalt appealed to me , and it is available cheaply , because often it can be brought to the site directly from the roadworks .
5 It 's different if the wind 's offshore because then it can be deceptively close into the shore and further out bigger waves and if you get into trouble you 're lost out to sea .
6 If the understanding of " a way of being " as elliptical is resisted , as perhaps it can be , and the term " a way of being " taken to be serviceable as it is , there is another difficulty .
7 Even the simplest , most basic requirement we make of translation can not be met without difficulty : one can not always match the content of a message in language A by an expression with exactly the same content in language B , because what can be expressed and what must be expressed is a property of a specific language in much the same way as how it can be expressed .
8 In Chapters 2 and 3 we saw that the lexical resources of a language influence to a large extent what can be said in that language as well as how it can be said .
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