Example sentences of "can [verb] to be " in BNC.
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| 31 | If the ayes have it tomorrow , Dr Cole-King can expect to be a vicar by this time next year , once the measure 's been approved by Parliament . |
| 32 | There is now good authority that the plaintiff can decline to be interviewed by an employment consultant ( Larby Thorogood ( 1992 ) 136 SJ ( LB ) 275 ) . |
| 33 | The patient wants to keep still but the pains can be so severe that they must move so sometimes they can appear to be restless . |
| 34 | It can appear to be totally dominated by technology and moreover it is expensive . |
| 35 | If the parent bird can appear to be at some grave physical disadvantage , the killer will find the tempting proximity of the vulnerable adult irresistible and its concentration on the location of the nest-site can be broken . |
| 36 | In the early stages of maturity the fruit of a pure Chardonnay Champagne ( ie , a blanc de blancs ) can appear to be understated and cut by a certain ‘ steely ’ character , the deceiving taste of undeveloped and unharmonious extract . |
| 37 | Two groups of animals can appear to be distantly related because of their size and body shape , and begin to diverge and then become similar in form much later because both share the same way of life . |
| 38 | Within families the complexity and inter-relatedness of expectation and need can appear to be a perplexing and entirely confusing maze . |
| 39 | There are four related conceptual differences between epistemic and perspectival appearances : ( 1 ) Epistemic appearances are subjective , whereas perspectival appearances are objective ; ( 2 ) It makes no sense to say that X appears to be φ to Y but Y does not know it , whereas it does make sense to say that X presents such-and-such a perspectival appearance to the point of view Y occupies but Y does not know it ; ( 3 ) X can appear to be φ to Y only if Y possesses the concept φ : nothing similar can be said about perspectival appearances ; ( 4 ) Epistemic appearances are related to their objects by being true or false of them , whereas perspectival appearances are related to their objects mathematically . |
| 40 | As we pointed out then , although a stretch of discourse can appear to be largely concerned with a single individual , or one discourse subject , so that the discourse may be loosely reported as being ‘ about ’ that individual , this should not lead us to claim that all discourses are about single individuals or can be given convenient one-word titles . |
| 41 | Such an undertaking can appear to be a matter of stating the obvious — that speaker J , in his first contribution , for example , is answering the ‘ what ’ question in terms of an understood-to-be-known location and a time which is known from an interaction between knowledge of J's age ( context ) and knowledge that J was at least fourteen ( domain ) . |
| 42 | The result of this is that linguistic variation and change can appear to be unidimensional . |
| 43 | For example , within a particular phoneme class , social groups can appear to be differentiated by greater or lesser preference for one particular phonetic realization of a single sound-segment . |
| 44 | Er and that means that the president 's attention is both diverted from substantive concerns and it also means the president , there 's a limitation on the extent to which the president can appear to be partisan . |
| 45 | Amazing how someone can appear to be so confident and clear-headed on the outside , while — Moira is an excellent nurse , quite capable of hiding her real self when she needs to . |
| 46 | Wartime rules stated that only token payment plus expenses were to be paid , but clubs , like any other employers , can choose to be as generous or mean with expenses as with wages . |
| 47 | Bondholders who fancy a punt on the bourse can choose to be paid in shares in newly-privatised companies . |
| 48 | Olive trees can grow to be well over a thousand years old . ’ |
| 49 | Or you can dare to be alone with yourself . |
| 50 | Deer , wild boar , so we can claim to be connoisseurs . |
| 51 | Archaeologists have established that Jericho can claim to be one of the very oldest cities in the world , with a history going back all of ten thousand years . |
| 52 | If America and Eastern Europe have been the world leaders , the only countries in the world that can claim to be clean are those where the athletes are too poor to afford the drugs . |
| 53 | In recounting the anecdote , Ashwina can claim to be part of a shared network of understandings . |
| 54 | ( Too often a breed which can claim to be productive even on poor quality fodder is given just that and expected to thrive . ) |
| 55 | The Royal Company of Archers , based in Edinburgh , better known as the Monarch 's Bodyguard in Scotland , was not formed until 1676,193 years after the Kilwinning Society , but as they have had a continuous existence also , they can claim to be the oldest archery company in Scotland . |
| 56 | The process will , of course , be greatly expedited if the Tories form the next Government and the Prime Minister can claim to be his own man with his own mandate . |
| 57 | Walking is the only means of transport that can claim to be universal … yet the pedestrian is the most neglected of travellers … ironically , it is perhaps because walking is so commonplace that it is neglected — pedestrians are so universal as to be almost invisible . |
| 58 | Whereas we used to have what you might call an across-the-table relationship with our customers , now we can claim to be sitting on the same side of the table . ’ |
| 59 | CCLA runs three common investment funds , and can claim to be the leader of the pack . |
| 60 | But at least her psychosis gave students of English literature and social history a book which can claim to be the first extant long prose narrative in the English language , and the first autobiography by a psychotic personality . |