Example sentences of "can [be] [adj] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both sell financial instruments , and can be ignorant about the markets . |
| 2 | This can be disadvantageous to the plaintiff if , for instance , the defendant 's report paints a gloomier picture than the plaintiff 's report . |
| 3 | In the latter case , one 's evidence is likely to be discounted by both sides simultaneously , which can be frustrating to the researcher to find himself to be ‘ the pig in the middle ’ . |
| 4 | The clubs can be custom-fitted to the individual , which is another persuasive selling point , and I liked the way they sat at address and the fact that they were easy to align . |
| 5 | It is important to identify the settlor because if he or his spouse has retained a benefit or interest under the settlement or can benefit under the settlement he can be taxable upon the trust income . |
| 6 | Nor does it take account of the fact that it can be consistent with the status of agency for an intermediary to be empowered to retain the proceeds of sale above a specified price . |
| 7 | This can be helpful to the inexperienced selector if the pictures are a true representation of the book . |
| 8 | This can be useful during the occasional compulsory attendance at official Indonesian functions , or when waiting in government offices for filming permits to be granted ; but there have been dinner parties , at which he was the guest of honour , when he was actually thought to have died at table . |
| 9 | The aquarium net can be used in small pools , and can be useful with the slippery Butterfish . |
| 10 | Helen Gardner was aware of the problem , observing that the pursuit of image patterns , or of the ideas in a poem , can be useful to the interpreter , but can not ‘ be more than auxiliary in leading us to the true ‘ meaning' ’ of the work , which is the meaning which enlarges our own imaginative life . ’ |
| 11 | This can be useful to the learner-reader , providing extra cues to the text , and to ‘ the learner-learner ’ — the person learning to gather and process ideas , or the person entering a new field of knowledge or experience . |
| 12 | We have great hope that your Majesty who always has at heart anything that can be useful for the peace of the world , will use her personal influence , as well as that of Prince Albert whose influence is so great in Germany , in order to achieve this end . |
| 13 | Letters are often a hoped-for source of descriptions of events or of personal feelings about certain things ; and one source of written information which , though not in letter form but not wholly dissimilar , can be useful for the researcher , is the description written by children or young people of events in which they have taken part , or about given social situations . |
| 14 | Although there are several reasons why passive sentences can be useful for the writer , then , it is worth noticing that if passives are overused they can produce writing that is unappealingly arid . |
| 15 | These can be useful for the company as the money that would have gone into the pension fund can be used to boost profitability ( particularly useful during a takeover bid ) , or for the financing of projects . |
| 16 | As the objectives for online orientation are so similar for both end-users and intermediaries , it is reasonable to assume that orientation programmes can be produced which can be useful in the teaching of both groups . |
| 17 | This can be useful in the management of persons drive to distraction by the relentless normality of all conventional tests in the face of severe abdominal symptoms . |
| 18 | This is perhaps the only way they feel they can be effective in the situation . |
| 19 | It will surely have occurred to the reader that a simple random sample , however ‘ correctly ’ taken , can be unrepresentative of the population from which it is drawn . |
| 20 | However , it can be possible for the documents to be signed after you have sent a payment by cheque provided that you arrange for us to hold the cheque and not pay it into the bank until we have received the signed Deed of Covenant . |
| 21 | Without the gun but armed with suitable words , symbols or grimaces , a pointing gesture can be intimidating to the recipient . |
| 22 | Ladies in Burberry raincoats can be intimidating in the nicest possible way . |
| 23 | While the Ibrox club can be thankful for the estimated £4m they will receive in total from participation in the European Champions League , |
| 24 | Secondary porosities can be due to the dissolution of detrital grains ( Fig. 5.16c , d ) , of cements and authigenic minerals ( Fig. 5.16e ) plus shrinkage of certain sediments ( particularly glauconitic sediments ) , and fracturing after cementation . |
| 25 | Pleasure and the addiction need not come together — either can be present without the other . |
| 26 | Although none of the autoantibodies have been proved to be of pathogenetic significance , it has been shown , both in Crohn 's disease and in ulcerative colitis , that IgG and complement can be present on the apical surface of enterocytes in vivo , possibly indicating a pathogenetic role for anti-epithelial/anti-brush border antibodies in inflammatory bowel disease . |
| 27 | Air can be present in the heel , forefoot of fell-length in the midsole . |
| 28 | Yet the proposals for the 12 major development opportunities still include large numbers of parking spaces , and one wonders how this can be compatible with the strategic aims . |
| 29 | Searching for papers can be annoying to the person being called and it wastes time and money . |
| 30 | Often , partners can be depressed by the disinterest that each shows towards the other , and this indicates that such marriages have lost the ability to meet the needs of the individual for companionship . |