Example sentences of "can [adv] be [vb pp] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | One can think of a number of cases which are coming before the courts where there 's been a lot of publicity and I 'm sure that the legal teams involved in those cases will be studying this judgement er and will be considering whether or not those principles ca n't be applied to their cases . |
| 2 | The MOd of Defence says every effort will be nmade to find employment for it 's staff , but that the same commitment ca n't be made to civilians employed by the US.Many people in THE surrounding villages rely on the base for a living . |
| 3 | And the response ca n't be limited to big promises with little delivery . ’ |
| 4 | A person who has parked his car on a road and left it unattended ca n't be said to be the driver of this offence . |
| 5 | 140 civilians work at the base and those who ca n't be transferred to other defence jobs will be made redundant . |
| 6 | So somehow you , you , you , you 've got to get these ideas through th that you you 've recognized that it , it 's , it 's necessary to move on beyond the pol the moderate policies of the United Front but you ca n't be seen to be doing that . |
| 7 | So erm er erm by n by no means er could you call one point one percent of something that can vary by factors of three in , in , in , in Cornwall the natural radiation is three times what it is in , in Essex erm er but they seem to be quite er healthy nevertheless in Cornwall erm so point one percent is er varies by factors of three , obviously ca n't be considered to be erm er a major political er a major erm er environmental hazard . |
| 8 | But when you first started when you 're not quite sure what 's happening you ca n't be expected to be perfect the first time you have a go at something can you . |
| 9 | Erm yeah er mm yeah no I 'm quite intrigued myself about this , this idea that erm somehow it 's heterosexuals who trus who are trustworthy and that , you know , once you have a sexuality that 's different from heterosexuality then you ca n't be trusted with children and you , you know you , you ca n't be trusted to er you know I do n't know , run boys ' clubs , you ca n't be trusted in , in a , you know , it 's sort of , it 's almost like , like erm er it , it almost flies in the face of evidence that the vast majority of sexual abuse that goes on of one sort or another is , is heterosexual , it 's |
| 10 | If the District Leader and Landrat or the Mayor ca n't be torn to pieces any more , they go on to the State leadership and the Führer himself . |
| 11 | ‘ I honestly ca n't be bothered to bullshit , ’ he says . |
| 12 | ca n't be bothered to going out again boy . |
| 13 | I use these three then I 'll put my thingies in cos I ca n't be bothered to erm change . |
| 14 | We are led inexorably towards Kingsley and Redford squaring up for a mental duel between software equals , one barmily convinced that He Who Has The Database Rules The World and the other on the side of human compassion which ca n't be reduced to byte-size chunks . |
| 15 | Another example that can loosely be referred to as scavenging is bone collecting by harvester ants ( Shipman & Walker , 1980 ) . |
| 16 | There is wide agreement that the recent forest damage can predominantly be ascribed to atmospheric pollution even if there remains uncertainty concerning which pollutants are to blame at which locations and what the response mechanisms are for triggering damage , as well as over how the contributing natural stress factors should be weighted ( Hinrichsen , 1986 ) . |
| 17 | This led him to doubt whether authentic religious belief can properly be tied to and bound up with particular historical events . |
| 18 | It now remains to ask what to many is the most difficult question , whether , given that the services are available , albeit on a limited basis , they can properly be denied to certain patients.3 This raises not only the issue of fairness or justice , but also that of selective treatment and respect for life . |
| 19 | If I thought that the present case raised the question which has been held in suspense by more than one writer on constitutional law — namely , whether an assembly can properly be held to be unlawful merely because the holding of it is expected to give rise to a breach of the peace on the part of persons opposed to those who are holding the meeting — I should wish to hear much more argument before I expressed an opinion . |
| 20 | If I thought that the present case raised the question which has been held in suspense by more than one writer on constitutional law — namely , whether an assembly can properly be held to be unlawful merely because the holding of it is expected to give rise to a breach of the peace on the part of persons opposed to those who are holding the meeting — I should wish to hear much more argument before expressing an opinion . |
| 21 | If one manages to find the simplest method at the first attempt that can mostly be attributed to good luck . |
| 22 | Conduire ( literally , ‘ to guide along a path ’ : to give direction ) can presumably be compared to dirigieren ; but I doubt that battre la mesure can be likened to tactieren . |
| 23 | The Minister will know that , contrary to the Government 's views about linking business with the environment — we all agree that coal can successfully be converted to coke — for some reason the Coalite works in Bolsover seems to be polluting the whole environment . |
| 24 | But with the hindsight of Frey 's distinction ( also Regan 's ) between having an interest and something 's being in one 's interest , this route is denied Singer because water , sunlight , and even perhaps preservation , in tune with the tree 's needs , can rightly be said to be in its interests . |
| 25 | Much of your attention as a manager can sensibly be directed to learning how to simplify , organize and present data for descriptive purposes . |
| 26 | This would be true for at least two of the examples of ( 18 ) , to which we may add at random : ( 32 ) some delegates who were German frowned the starling which is inquisitive is female It is emphatically not the answer to say , " those which can not become postnominal attributives turn into prenominals instead " , for two reasons : first , as we have already seen , there is a major difference of function between prenominal position and predicative position as occupied by the adjective in the sort of relative clause proposed ; and , second , this still leaves us facing the question of why some relative clauses can apparently be reduced to postnominal adjectives and others can not ( indeed this question , previously passed by , has been in serious need of an answer from those who want to relate prenominal adjectives — or simply attributives in general — to predicative position ) . |
| 27 | Threads can run on uni-processor systems as well as multi-processors , but can obviously be employed to greater advantage on the latter . |
| 28 | The solution procedure for TRPs can obviously be applied to TPs but certain special features arise from the extra structure . |
| 29 | The logic of exploiting the perception gap between the real cost of benefits and their perceived value to the employee can obviously be applied to other benefits . |
| 30 | She may have been aged as young as 12 , the legal age of maturity for women ( her parents ' marriage can perhaps be dated to 829 ) and so about seven years younger than Charles . |