Example sentences of "it can [adv] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it can scarcely be in doubt that these books have in them home truths , and an ironic obliquity or duplicity , which richly relate to the world of Jaruzelski 's predecessors , and indeed to the experience of other countries where literature and opinion have been repressed . |
| 2 | To no other , to no less divine a source can I trace the movement ’ , but as we have seen , other speakers , like Joseph Parker , were more perceptive while the 1897 National Council president admitted that ‘ perhaps it can scarcely be denied that in some of our earliest Nonconformist Councils … at first the inspiration was to a large extent political ’ . |
| 3 | But besides being improbable in itself , it can scarcely be true , for Eadmer had mentioned that they had been produced in the royal court after Anselm 's death in 1109 . |
| 4 | It can scarcely be imagined that he would have opposed the Philadelphia Museum 's immensely well-conceived plan . |
| 5 | Assuming that regulation has the potential to promote social benefits , either it is effective , but in the wrong directions , or it is ineffective ; it can scarcely be both . |
| 6 | With such a distinctive song it can scarcely be missed . |
| 7 | It can scarcely be claimed , therefore , that the political systems of the world in the mid-twentieth century revealed a very widespread practice of democracy — though the principle was more widely asserted — even in the narrow constitutional sense of the right of all adult citizens to choose their political leaders by means of free elections . |
| 8 | It can scarcely be claimed that these questions have yet been answered in such a manner as to transform Marx 's very general model into a systematic and well-supported theory of historical development . |
| 9 | The Clermont elections , if that is the right word , provide a startling insight into the appointment of bishops in a civitas , which , if it can scarcely be called an insignificant see , was certainly not one in the forefront of royal policy . |
| 10 | It can scarcely be claimed that this provides a much more authoritative or even revealing account of the composition of the Pactus than does the shorter prologue , but it is nevertheless worthy of some consideration . |
| 11 | It can probably be heard hundred of kilometres away and could reach individuals thousands of kilometres away if the fin whale makes use of a channel in the ocean . |
| 12 | That 's where it can probably be next week or week after , I do n't know . |
| 13 | Bream are strictly shoal fish , and the size of a shoal depends upon many things , but it can generally be taken that the bigger the bream the smaller the shoal . |
| 14 | Nonetheless , a substantial degree of agreement has been achieved , not only between different demographic groups , but also between the whole range of approaches , intuitive , statistical and personal preference ( Briggs and France , 1980 ) and it can generally be concluded that good landscapes will have substantial relative relief , a major water body , diverse land use , and some historical artifacts , but will lack modern industry and major transport facilities . |
| 15 | This debate will never be resolved unless it can firmly be established whether searching for early prostatic cancer on a community basis is worthwhile in clinical , resource , and social terms . |
| 16 | With any excavating job you can avoid creating a blot on the landscape for months after by slicing the turf off in strips , so that it can later be relaid . |
| 17 | It can either be used as a ‘ black box ’ analyser with preprogrammed applications and automatic set-up for simple routine analysis , or as a sophisticated tool for application development . |
| 18 | It can either be controlled directly via a mouse interface or control can be automated using macros to perform repetitive tasks , or more complex operations . |
| 19 | ‘ Aquarius , Taurus , Leo and Scorpio figure very strongly in the Royal Family 's charts and very strongly in Diana 's , so when you get a powerful connection like that with marriage partners it can either be the most sensationally passionate ‘ I ca n't leave you alone for a minute ’ or it 's ice . |
| 20 | You will find that this can not be pulled out in error ( who has not picked a bit of wool out only to find that it was the marker ! ) and it can either be pulled up tight later as a permanent marker or pulled out and used again . |
| 21 | It can either be fixed or it can be mobile , we 'll go on to that , I 've actually drawn you four pictures , not very good pictures |
| 22 | It can either be looking at the animal as an observer , in which case you can talk about the animals and what they are doing . |
| 23 | From a production point of view , it can either be obtained ready-made from a music ‘ library ’ , or be specially recorded — whether it is music composed for the commercial or an existing piece . |
| 24 | It can either be marked on each item or shown on a ticket or notice referring to the item and in close proximity to it . |
| 25 | Therefore it can either be seen as Susan 's capital or as a current account balance due to Susan . |
| 26 | Right , word full stop word Erm right , press return a few times then choose centering button and table , insert table , and now we 're going to have a table whe where I thought we could have a number and it can either be times or divide by something and then the answer , so we want how many columns ? |
| 27 | It can thus be seen to stand as the architectural counterpart to the other key artistic expressions of the age , the panoramic canvases of John Martin , Edward John Poynter , and Lawrence Alma-Tadema , toweringly romantic and imaginative recreations of the temples , palaces , baths , and amphitheatres of the ancient world , and the novels of Walter Scott , Harrison Ainsworth , and Bulwer-Lytton which evoked a monumental and teeming past of medieval castles , Tudor mansions , and unbridled Gothic imagination . |
| 28 | Using this notation , the components of the Weyl tensor are given by the expressions ( 10.4 ) It can thus be seen that , although ( 10.2 ) is linear so that different solutions for V can be superposed , the associated gravitational waves can not be simply superposed . |
| 29 | It can thus be seen that this transformation with may be used to change the profile of the approaching waves . |
| 30 | It can thus be seen that both in this chapter and in the closely related one on adult education which follows , the Report addresses English professors and teaching staff not so much as professionals but as responsible public figures ; as socially concerned part-time and even voluntary preachers functioning to disseminate a national culture . |