Example sentences of "can [be] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | It can be surprising the amount of pressure a little wet concrete puts on shuttering . |
| 32 | For example , it can be argued the expansion into amalgamated police units has enlarged the organization to a point where it is no longer accessible to the man in the street ; alternatively , it may be that the use of a centralized computer and complex technical aids has alienated the public even at the same time they are increasingly fed a diet of violent news snippets which reinforce a fear of crime and generate another ‘ folk devil ’ of criminal menace , which demands the impossible : a policeman on every corner . |
| 33 | Milton 's high style allowed Samson to be read in a manner which reassured the very groups it can be argued the poem attacks . |
| 34 | It can be argued the flames have been fanned in part by attitude displayed by Milne 's hooking rival , Brian Moore , who once summed up the England approach by saying : ‘ Nobody likes us and we do n't care . ’ |
| 35 | A fourth type of critic can be called the compiler , whose criticism is implied in choices for collections or exhibitions . |
| 36 | The second part of both ballets can be called the climax . |
| 37 | So let us consider what might be called the continuum of control in the interview situation ; the one end of the continuum where there is the minimal amount of control can be called the situation of the ‘ informal interview ’ and the other end , where there is maximum control , may be called the ‘ formal interview ’ . |
| 38 | When I first became involved in what I suppose can be called the politics of conservation , I was swift to argue that farmers are the essential inhabitants of the countryside , and not least of the most beautiful parts of the countryside . |
| 39 | A further factor tempering government enthusiasm for LDDC relates to what can be called the ‘ Prince Charles ’ Factor . |
| 40 | Similarly , the spars in a Delta can be called the ‘ spine ’ and the ‘ leading edges ’ . |
| 41 | The pure invention of these tales , the exercise of what at its best can be called the high imagination , allow the writer ( in Dryden 's phrase ) to take the clogs off his fancy , and to escape the world at will . |
| 42 | It can be called the logical problem , and briefly expressed it is this : in general , what are the premisses or grounds or bases for dependent conditionals ? |
| 43 | It does not concern all , either , of what can be called the mental . |
| 44 | The previous section has concentrated on cultural , and hence spatial , variations in what for shorthand can be called the ‘ world of work ’ , that part of life which is concerned with creating and sustaining the means of subsistence . |
| 45 | My view , which locates racism in the core of politics , contrasts sharply with what can be called the coat-of-paint theory of racism ( Gilroy , 1987 ) . |
| 46 | The ylang-ylang is a flower , but it 's a tropical flower and it 's this is called can be called the Oil of Tranquillity . |
| 47 | The first can be called the ‘ umbrella sense : ’ unreasonable is used here simply as a synonym for a host of more specific grounds of attack , such as taking account of irrelevant considerations , acting for improper purposes and acting malai fide , which , as Lord Greene M.R. himself said , tend to run into one another . |
| 48 | Purchasing involves important decisions about quality , price , quantity and delivery — the key elements of what can be called the ‘ purchasing mix ’ . |
| 49 | Temperatures increase with altitude above the tropopause , and from here to where the atmosphere becomes negligible it can be called the thermosphere . |
| 50 | The novelty of such a situation will be more apparent if we compare with it what can be called the classical situation of the ancient world between 600 and 300 B.C. It has become a commonplace , after Karl Jaspers ' Vom Ursprung und Ziel der Geschichte — the first original book on history to appear in post-war Germany in 1949 — to speak of the Achsenzeit , of the axial age , which included the China of Confucius and Lao-Tse , the India of Buddha , the Iran of Zoroaster , the Palestine of the Prophets and the Greece of the philosophers , the tragedians and the historians . |
| 51 | Did he ever come not merely to see as a possibility but actually to possess a conviction of what can be called the benign indifference of the universe ? |
| 52 | The member of staff on playground duty can be taking a policing role or can be using the time to motivate and interest children . |
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| 54 | recommendation is slightly watered down , connecting with the highways can be using the |
| 55 | While you are doing this , a co-instructor can be discussing the Smith family issues with the trainees . |
| 56 | A laborious internal review of the Long-Term Costing is undertaken to whittle down the gap , and to highlight vulnerable programmes so that the Secretary of State can be given the strongest possible brief to help him fight for a higher allocation of resources ; and conversely to enable him to fend off attacks by other high-spending ministers , who are intent on grabbing a larger share for themselves , often at the expense of Defence . |
| 57 | Where this is not so , individuals or groups can be given the task of reviewing a particular area . |
| 58 | These patients can be given the option of being seen by an ENP rather than a doctor if their complaint/injury falls within agreed parameters . |
| 59 | One child can be given the label of being the naughty one which lets the other children in the family off the hook . |
| 60 | Indeed it may be ( as in my case ) because one deeply cares that there should be good and equal relations between men and women that one is adamant that no one human being can be given the kind of status which Christians give to Christ . |