Example sentences of "can be such " in BNC.

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1 It can be such a mild disease , and so like other childhood illnesses , you can never be absolutely sure you have had it .
2 In the office , he can be such a hard taskmaster that his closest aide , Gabriella Forte , describes his attitude before each new collection as a ‘ rape of the staff ’ .
3 In the Dialogues Berkeley shows awareness of the possible accusation of unfair dealing : he admits ‘ spiritual substance ; although [ we ] … have no idea of it ’ , while he denies that ‘ there can be such a thing as material substance , because [ we ] … have no notion or idea of it ’ .
4 Because urinating tends to wash out the urethra , and because the urethra can be such a rich source of diagnostic material , the doctors will always prefer a male patient to have held his urine , if possible , for three hours or more before attending for tests .
5 That 's really good support , because writing can be such a lonely profession .
6 If an athletics official can be such a thing , he is a legend in his own lifetime .
7 It can be such a mild disease , and so like other childhood illnesses , you can never be absolutely sure you have had it .
8 And for disabled people , too , cooking can be such an effort of organisation , that they are sometimes tempted not to do anything .
9 ‘ God sent all artists here because it can be such a drag to be on this planet , ’ said the star .
10 But it can be such a hard choice .
11 Just as two beliefs can be such that they can not both be true , so two attitudes can involve wishes that can not both be realized .
12 All these may be particularly vexed in the residential home or school for the disabled , where sexual needs can be such that only physical assistance in one way or another can meet them .
13 Two conditions must be met before there can be such an appeal :
14 It needs support from an explanation , in terms of the conditional theory , of how there can be such counter-examples .
15 The first , and most natural , reaction to this is to reject the suggestion that there can be such things as non-descriptive , simple referential symbols .
16 This is not to say , however , that in certain applications , the use of ‘ normal ’ in-rack sprinkler systems is not perfectly satisfactory where the arrangement of sprinklers can be such that a number of them can be brought in early against the fire , or where the nature of the goods stored is such that flames are unlikely to damage them within the first few moments of fire development .
17 Because their faith tells to rejoice , but circumstances of life can be such that rejoicing is the one thing that they can not do .
18 You can be such a bore , Lucien . ’
19 Word processing can be such a liberation from what most young people would call the drudgery of pen and paper that it is as bad to ban it as to ban calculators .
20 ‘ Diplomacy can be such a tangled web . ’
21 Thus it does appear that the search space can be such that an admissible algorithm will perform in an excessively breadth-first manner .
22 Men can be such bastards … ’
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