Example sentences of "can [adv] be [verb] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | All that can sensibly be said is that , given everything capitalism had gone through over the previous few years , a collapse of confidence was to be expected at some point . |
| 2 | What can not be denied is that they emerge from much experience in the author , and much original thought , that they are moreover integrated in a fiction which has a power independent of them . |
| 3 | What can not be tolerated is the monster that pretends to modernity . |
| 4 | Screening for disorders in which the clinical course can not be altered is generally avoided : a programme of newborn screening for disorders like Duchenne muscular dystrophy could therefore create an ethical nightmare . |
| 5 | Further non-economic influences that can not be ignored are ethnic and religious differences . |
| 6 | What can not be ignored is that the players are the ones who provide the entertainment , sometimes at considerable personal cost . |
| 7 | The only thing that can not be managed is the economic manufacture of newsprint . |
| 8 | The only satisfactory way to deal with a word which can not be found is to negotiate it with the user ; such a word can be ignored ( i.e. , removed from the search ) or replaced , or the search can be abandoned on the ground that the word is correct and essential to the success of the search . |
| 9 | What can not be known are the thoughts or expectations in someone else 's mind . |
| 10 | What can not be claimed is that education is always the cause and economic growth the effect . |
| 11 | Within this scheme of thought , anything which can not be controlled is labelled dangerous and marginal , particularly when society is working to preserve its unity and to develop more sophisticated systems of self-definition , as was the case for the Jewish community in Palestine following the exile . |
| 12 | What can not be doubted is that Unionists , who had drawn level with the Liberals in 1910 , had made up more ground on them since . |
| 13 | Situations where the cable or tow rope can not be released are now very rare . |
| 14 | One that can easily be forced is the detection of switched off illumination ( or merely low light ) and this works reliably . |
| 15 | Investment is financed out of saving and the last way in which the level of savings can possibly be increased is by the imposition of extra taxes on it . |
| 16 | This includes Schenk , despite her stated belief in the essentially ironic character of wisdom literature ; a belief which seems to imply that the best lesson one can ever be taught is to be cynical ( which might , sadly , be true ) . |
| 17 | But what can still be debated is whether such phenomena are related to the neuropsychological damage often attributed to lead . |
| 18 | As it is , all that can really be said is that the collective wisdom , such as it is , of the agency business favours bursts in most circumstances . |
| 19 | That they can now be reprinted is a confirmation of his final optimism when he wrote : ‘ They murder our love — and it lives . |
| 20 | But Lord Justice Watkins said : ‘ The only place where the decision can now be reversed is in Parliament ’ . |
| 21 | One of the areas where risk can well be minimized is avoiding the temptation of a total step out from your existing field of business . |
| 22 | Fish are very demanding for the draughtsman because one can not put them into an attractive or anthropomorphic pose ; what can sometimes be done is to show the scenery where the fish was caught . |
| 23 | His idea of the freedom East Europeans can safely be allowed is far more generous than Brezhnev s , let alone Stalin 's . |
| 24 | Like Habermas 's ‘ ideal speech situation ’ , the fact that scientific practice can never be realized is not the point . |