Example sentences of "can [adv] [be] [verb] for " in BNC.

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1 When you think how CCW and the WTB have collaborated to agree a set of Principles for Tourism in National Parks , we should try to remain hopeful that a similar joint approach can eventually be agreed for golf courses .
2 Your review of two books on crime ( April 3rd ) makes the brazen statement that Italy ‘ can perhaps be forgiven for producing so many American gangsters . ’
3 The dismal nature of English teaching for O and A level in the past can perhaps be accounted for largely by the numbers of pupils entered for the examinations who were not in fact suited to study literature ( though they might have benefited from an advanced study of their own language ) .
4 Three motives can perhaps be identified for the creation of special agencies in Britain , although there are of course dangers in taking ostensible motives as real ones , to create an effective separate and accountable ‘ management system ’ to reduce political ‘ interference ’ and to provide for the direct representation of special interests .
5 There is a three-month time limit , which can only be extended for good reasons .
6 With the verbal arts I think it can only be done for the moment by writing about nature .
7 This investment can only be justified for systems where transactions have a huge value to that business .
8 It follows that , except in a case where either the common law or statute allows instant dismissal ( e.g. , for gross misconduct ) , a lecturer can only be dismissed for good cause after being given three months ' notice ( though the lecturer can terminate the agreement on three months ' notice without any reason being assigned ) .
9 Shaikh Saad urged Kuwaitis to overcome their political differences and promised , in what was widely believed to be a reference to the restoration of the 1962 constitution , that " the people of Kuwait can only be rewarded for their trust and loyalty by further trust " .
10 And at whatever time of the year you visit Edinburgh , there are the art galleries and museums — though the priceless and vulnerable collection of Turner water-colours can only be seen for a short period in winter .
11 The minimum and maximum periods for verification can only be determined for a particular installation .
12 HRP can only be given for complete tax years ( 6 April to 5 April ) , so if you simply gave up work for a few weeks in order to help out , you would be unlikely to qualify .
13 Access can only be denied for a maximum period of thirty-six hours .
14 That situation can only be tolerated for a while and following the Bank 's offer of 3% last June a series of consultation meetings with members overwhelmingly rejected the offer .
15 This is because the egg can only be fertilised for a short period of time following its release .
16 These include the different rates of production for speech , and writing , the degree of standardisation in writing as opposed to speech and the absence in writing of intonational features that can only be compensated for by sentence patterns which provide to a degree the emphases more readily available in speech .
17 It seems that human attention can only be sustained for a very limited time by any subject , even the prospects of its own destruction .
18 ‘ This represents a constant haemorrhage of money from the business which can only be sustained for so long , ’ he said .
19 Harden estimates that under current conditions productivity can only be maintained for between 10 and 75 years .
20 Some mistakes were due to genuine misunderstanding or fatigue ; others I am afraid can only be accounted for by criminal stupidity or irresponsibility .
21 Given that all cells with unstable chromosomal damage die on cell division , the increase can only be accounted for by reversion of CD45R0-positive lymphocytes to CD45RA-positive phenotype .
22 Preteceille and Terrail ( 1985 ) provide a recent elaboration of this position , taking into account the various approaches emerging from cultural anthropology , but they retain the classic Marxist conception that modern ‘ needs ’ can only be accounted for in terms of the search by capital for greater profits , and that consumption is always subservient to production interests ( e.g. 1985 : 37–81 ) .
23 The strange fact that the 1693 playbook leaves out the whole of the first 1692 scene ( the scene with the Duke , Egeus and the Lovers ) can only be accounted for , I believe , as a printing-house convenience , since it makes room for the inclusion at the end of Act I of the new episode of the Drunken Poets .
24 They can only be removed for misbehaviour upon an address by both Houses of Parliament .
25 The major stumbling block to the last of these is that solicitors can only be remunerated for advice under the green form scheme .
26 The company of some elderly relatives can only be enjoyed for a limited period at the end of a busy day , and long evenings — every evening — spent together can be a strain on all concerned in different ways .
27 Having been abseiled onto while soloing , had my runners pulled on by top-ropers and queued while large parties top-roped routes too hard for them , the BMC can only be congratulated for finally taking the matter in hand with an award for single pitch supervisors .
28 Because flat-rate unemployment benefit can only be drawn for a maximum of a year , a large number of today 's unemployed find themselves having to draw means-tested assistance .
29 There is a vigorous defence of Coleman by Mayer : ‘ The energies of Coleman 's mind were more exclusively devoted to anything bearing upon the horse : and no wonder , for the College , constructed as it was and is , can only be adapted for the reception of that animal .
30 Many people are worried that it can only be used for the disable person .
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