Example sentences of "can [adv] be [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dissolution of diagnostic minerals , together with alteration of others , can significantly modify original grain composition , particularly as the original grain can rarely be confidently identified ( e.g. Fig. 5.36b ) . |
| 2 | In addition to the fact that all this means that , even with field survey , the interpretation of erosion surfaces can rarely be absolutely conclusive , the correlation of surfaces from one area to another remains inconclusive on height alone . |
| 3 | They can merely be well expressed thanks , comments in newsletters , public congratulations , even sometimes a small but symbolic gift . |
| 4 | Artists ' writing on art can naturally be more practical or technical , even in defining their own aims . |
| 5 | Talking to children who are themselves dying can obviously be very difficult . |
| 6 | The underlying ideas are very complicated ; they can perhaps be most easily visualized in terms of Schrödinger 's cat . |
| 7 | The problem is less obvious but deep-rooted , and can perhaps be most clearly formulated in the following question : Given the turbulent and unstable historical context of post-1914 France , is it possible to produce novels which are technically and artistically successful , politically effective , and accurately reflect contemporary social reality ? |
| 8 | The problem of aesthetic modernism can perhaps be best approached via the time-tested framework of the sociology of modernized . |
| 9 | Penality can also be found ‘ at every bloody level ’ , although it can perhaps be roughly divided into ( material ) penal practices and ( ideological ) penal rhetoric . |
| 10 | The Policy Advisory Committee expressed the view that ‘ some indecent acts other than sexual intercourse , especially if repeated over any length of time , can perhaps be as harmful as sexual intercourse , and that they represent just as much an abuse of the familial relationship as acts of sexual intercourse . ’ |
| 11 | This concept can perhaps be more readily appreciated by looking at Fig. 1.1 which also clearly indicates that whilst the elements of Q are totally distinct from those of Q[x] , nonetheless Q[x] contains the subsystem Q which to all intents and purposes is the " same " as Q so that , if it proves convenient , Q may be identified with it . |
| 12 | Profit diagrams can only be intelligibly drawn for strategies involving investments with the same expiry dates . |
| 13 | Indeed , this is particularly relevant to a run-time recognition application , since data can only be meaningfully processed in one direction anyway ( i.e. left-to-right ) . |
| 14 | So I think that there 's , I welcome , you know , the Social Chapter on that basis , but it does clearly say , and prescribe , er something that can only be universally applied , and if there are , there is need , there is need , er there is scope for that , with delegation through particular industries , particular circumstances . |
| 15 | Finally , it is as well to realise that the title of ‘ karate champion ’ can only be legitimately conferred by a national governing body recognised by the Martial Arts Commission . |
| 16 | The interview transcripts run to some 121 pages and can only be superficially summarized here . |
| 17 | If that were so , there would scarcely be a government in the last 100 years which could be regarded as legitimate , but it is those uses of power and law which seem to betray or which can only be reasonably explained by a contempt for or at least an impatience with the principles of limited government and a belief that the rightness of the policies to be executed excuse or justify the methods whereby they are executed . |
| 18 | It can only be up to ourselves to either be seduced by this sly trickster and his façade of grandeur or to laugh in the face of his absurdity and bring forth the somewhat obscured benevolence of God , his son , and our first ancestral parents , to achieve some perspective to the poem as a whole . |
| 19 | It 's nice and cool inside the cellar , and not damp , though I guess it can only be just above the water table , and my father seems to know what he 's doing and is confident that the explosive has n't become unstable , but I think he 's nervous about it and has been ever since the Bomb Circle . |
| 20 | However , this can only be successfully achieved along undogmatic lines and in a spirit of goodwill and co-operation between our leading national institutions . |
| 21 | Crucially , their Interim report submitted in March 1920 noted the intimate connection between housing , transport and the ultimate distribution of land uses of all kinds , including residential , commercial and industrial , so that the housing question ‘ can only be successfully attacked by the simultaneous consideration of all these aspects over a wide area ’ . |
| 22 | Most of the ideas , techniques and strategies described in Part Two hold good for working with young children , but it is worth devoting time to a specific discussion of how one might adapt the work on still image and forum theatre for use with this age group , as they are sometimes thought to be strategies that can only be successfully used with older children . |
| 23 | The crucial issue which this sort of situation emphasises is the vital importance of perception between persons of different cultures , which can only be partially ameliorated by the procedure suggested by James Lee . |
| 24 | Moreover , the piece of data chosen for study can only be partially analysed . |
| 25 | The same overproduction ethos , that of turning out in principle reproducible cultural goods based on unskilled labour , and to which meaning can only be implausibly attached , underscores his 1978 ‘ Oxidation ’ series , in which aleatory colour schemes are created through Warhol urinating on bronze- or copper-covered canvases . |
| 26 | We believe that results can only be properly evaluated if the problems connected with the study are made manifest rather than concealed . |
| 27 | The next heart-stopping moment can only be properly described in the jockey 's own words : |
| 28 | But the significance of the political and religious events of the mid sixteenth century , and in particular Mary 's part in shaping them , can only be properly understood in the context of the traditional political and social patterns which had created the sixteenth-century Scottish kingdom . |
| 29 | The back position can only be properly used in strong winds on a reach ; in lighter winds the board will just sit on its tail causing lots of drag . |
| 30 | Vitamin deficiency Vitamin deficiency can only be properly diagnosed and treated by a doctor , but there are certain fairly obvious signs which should be noted , bearing in mind that an old person who is obese can still be suffering from malnutrition and vitamin deficiency through eating the wrong kinds of food . |