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 '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 . |
| 19 | However , this can only be successfully achieved along undogmatic lines and in a spirit of goodwill and co-operation between our leading national institutions . |
| 20 | 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 ’ . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Moreover , the piece of data chosen for study can only be partially analysed . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | We believe that results can only be properly evaluated if the problems connected with the study are made manifest rather than concealed . |
| 26 | The next heart-stopping moment can only be properly described in the jockey 's own words : |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Legal issues , like other technical problems , can only be properly understood within their broader social context , and this is especially so when our purpose is not only to understand the world , but to change it . ’ |