Example sentences of "its [noun] can [adv] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Paddy End Vein was the first to be cut in these levels and its course can easily be seen in the cliff or scar to the west of Levers Water where ancient mining has left a conspicuous cleft known as Simon 's Nick . |
| 2 | However safe the processes of childbirth become , an aim that we would all agree upon , I think , its course can never be determined with absolute certainty . |
| 3 | Sligo deserves them all and more , as for friendliness and conversation its sons can not be beaten . |
| 4 | perhaps the Truth of History can not be proved ; its direction can not be discerned . |
| 5 | Thus it is prior to the system of government , not part of it , and its rules can not be derived from that system . |
| 6 | It has a very pleasant , extremely distinctive aroma which experienced vignerons in the Aube claim can be detected in a cuvée , despite the fact that its presence can only be , at the very most , a few percent of the overall blend . |
| 7 | The device itself is very complex , and its complexity can not be explained only by invoking communicative function ( see Newmeyer 1983 ) . |
| 8 | But the blame for its weakness can not be laid directly at the feet either of the takeover or of debt . |
| 9 | A particular lexical unit , of course , expresses its semantic identity through such relations , but its essence can not be exhaustively characterised in terms of any determinate set of such relations . |
| 10 | The fact that the " adornment " theory was entertained for so long deserves some explanation and its appropriateness can not be altogether dismissed in the case of " artificial " styles cultivated by such Renaissance mannerists as Sidney and Lyly . |
| 11 | However , although heterogeneous catalysis is still more an empirical art than an exact science , its usefulness can not be overstated . |
| 12 | This is not to diminish the importance of controlled empirical study and the value of its findings , but to suggest that the extent of its usefulness can only be established by continuing enquiry and experimentation in the classroom . |
| 13 | This is now the nearest railway to Bishop 's Castle and Clun , but its future can not be assumed . |
| 14 | Its origins can only be guessed at . |
| 15 | To keep the family together must be the first aim , and the separation of the child from its parents can only be justified when there is no possibility of securing adequate care for that child in his own home . |
| 16 | An ambivalence to assessment in Catholic schools rightly stems from the view that religious education in its entirety can not be submitted to formal and sharply focussed testing because of its very nature and its concern with personal faith and commitment . |
| 17 | Its influence can also be seen at work within the North where sub-regional studies have shown that many medium-sized places and more rural areas fared relatively well between 1971 and 1981 despite the general appearance of economic malaise conveyed by the regional-level statistics ( Breheny , Hall and Hart , 1987 ; Champion , Green , Owen , Ellin and Coombes , 1987 ; Townsend , 1986 ) . |
| 18 | An important assessment of the state of the subject is provided by the Leeds Festschrift ( Harden 1956a ) which can be seen to develop many of the traditional themes ; the study of the Jutes of Kent , by C.F.C. Hawkes , stimulated by the latest typologies and chronologies of grave-goods on the Continent ( Werner 1935 ; Kuhn 1940 ) was one of the last studies employing the traditional methodology , although its influence can still be found in more recent work ( Hawkes and Pollard 1981 ) . |
| 19 | While that movement has nowhere been wholly completed and has gone less far in some countries than in others , there is no western nation where its effects can not be seen . |
| 20 | IN FACT , Pop Judgement Day hit Manchester years ago , but its effects can still be felt here today . |
| 21 | Although Garvey and Caramazza describe implicit causality as a property of verbs , it is , as we have already implied , best regarded as an aspect of world knowledge and , as such , its effects can readily be accommodated within the mental models framework , particularly if one assumes with Ladusaw & Dowty ( 1988 ) that generalizations about roles associated with verbs lie in the domain of world knowledge rather than linguistic theory . |
| 22 | This does not matter too much , because gravity is such a weak force that its effects can usually be neglected when we are dealing with elementary particles or atoms . |
| 23 | The cells in one region of the embryo can be marked with a dye , or one can inject , with a very fine hollow tube , a fluorescent dye into a single cell so that a specific cell and all its offspring can then be followed through development . |
| 24 | The plan was so concise and symmetrical that its lines can still be traced today , especially if you look down on Aarau from a height . |
| 25 | But it is equally clear that its nature can not be accounted for by demonstrating its rules by a random use of any lexical items that come to mind . |
| 26 | This type of survey was first developed seriously in the United States , and its importance can similarly be traced to economic and social factors peculiar to that country at a particular stage in its history . |
| 27 | The purpose of preparing a transcript is to present , in print , as complete a record of the taped material as is required for the particular assessment : ‘ It provides the foundation of ; 11 subsequent analyses and , as such , its importance can not be over estimated ’ ( Crystal 1984 ) . |
| 28 | But the natural resources of the country are so large , and its prominence in Africa is so great ( it is the most populous on the continent ) , that its importance can not be minimised . |
| 29 | The point is repeatedly made in this book , that mankind 's control over its affairs can not be maintained by statute-laws alone . |
| 30 | Indeed , for the Formalists , ‘ literary language ’ … and its development can not be understood as a planned development of tradition , but rather as colossal displacements of traditions ’ ( Tynyanov 1978c : p. 144 , my italics ) . |