Example sentences of "it can [be] [vb pp] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , it can be argued the expansion into amalgamated police units has enlarged the organization to a point where it is no longer accessible to the man in the street ; alternatively , it may be that the use of a centralized computer and complex technical aids has alienated the public even at the same time they are increasingly fed a diet of violent news snippets which reinforce a fear of crime and generate another ‘ folk devil ’ of criminal menace , which demands the impossible : a policeman on every corner . |
| 2 | Milton 's high style allowed Samson to be read in a manner which reassured the very groups it can be argued the poem attacks . |
| 3 | It can be argued the flames have been fanned in part by attitude displayed by Milne 's hooking rival , Brian Moore , who once summed up the England approach by saying : ‘ Nobody likes us and we do n't care . ’ |
| 4 | There was nothing conscious or deliberate about my decision , if indeed it can be called a decision at all . |
| 5 | The Battle of the Marne — if it can be called a battle — began at about 14.30 on the afternoon of 5 September , when the advance guard of Maunoury 's Sixth Army encountered a corps on Kluck 's flank , north of Meaux . |
| 6 | If it can be called a childhood , that is : from the nursery where he learned to be ‘ Chairman Mao 's Good Little Boy ’ onwards , his early life was racked by one political movement after another . |
| 7 | Waiting is the most wearisome of all activities — if , indeed , it can be called an activity . |
| 8 | It can be called the logical problem , and briefly expressed it is this : in general , what are the premisses or grounds or bases for dependent conditionals ? |
| 9 | Temperatures increase with altitude above the tropopause , and from here to where the atmosphere becomes negligible it can be called the thermosphere . |
| 10 | Obviously , the regiment must include a standard bearer before it can be given a magic standard . |
| 11 | Human behaviour enters social reality in so far as it can be given a meaning . |
| 12 | On the contrary , it can be given a sharp , stressful edge by writing in such a way that the usual triadic structure is partly or totally demolished . |
| 13 | It was now clear that this was because an atom in its ground state has nowhere else to go , unless it can be given the rather large amount of energy necessary to lift it to an excited state with n greater than I. |
| 14 | In theory , it can be served a ’ section 114 ’ report , which prevents it taking on any new , uncontracted expenditure . |
| 15 | ‘ I think it can be made a kind of elective institution . |
| 16 | M oral philosophers are accustomed to start from the individual pursuing his own ends ; at once the question arises ‘ Why should I prefer anyone else 's to my own ? ’ , and until it can be answered the advantage lies with the egoist . |
| 17 | Again , it can be separated a little from the mainstream area with a low wall of cupboards and shelves , or , providing the main area is big enough , a high wall of shelves . |
| 18 | At the outset , it can be asserted the Young Conservatives we studied in no way constituted an ideological group like the Young Socialists . |
| 19 | City streets have also provided Matthew Carr with material , though now he has abandoned his old habit of pulling people in off the pavement , ‘ as it can be taken the wrong way ’ . |
| 20 | On paper , the Woodville empire is impressive , but it is doubtful whether it can be considered an independent power base . |
| 21 | On paper , the Woodville empire is impressive , but it is doubtful whether it can be considered an independent power base . |
| 22 | Dangerous driving is usually reserved for intentional dangerous driving or where it can be proved the defendant was driving in such a way as to fall within the new definition of ‘ driving dangerously ’ in section 2A ( 1 ) to ( 4 ) of the Road Traffic Act 1988 . |