Example sentences of "[conj] can [adv] be [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The number of sets can be altered , along with whether points can or ca n't be won on your opponents ' serve . |
| 2 | Almost by definition , crises are periods when the normally routinized operations of the bureaucracy are insufficient or can not be relied on , when decisions have to be quickly pushed up through the chain of command , and where unusually large and direct role in controlling policy implementation has to be taken by political leaders . |
| 3 | It has also set out some rules about which menu items can or can not be increased in price . |
| 4 | The court will set aside a decision if it is taken by someone who is not or can not be appointed as the expert . |
| 5 | This they consider ‘ a more accurate representation of the everyday notion of burden [ and ] a more sensible concept for deciding if the real cost of a certain project can or can not be postponed to future generations ’ . |
| 6 | If , also , market failures are relatively unimportant , or can adequately be offset by other policies , then on balance , privatization is likely to be desirable . |
| 7 | Buildings — and not just historic ones — represent energy , labour and materials , which either can not be replaced or can only be replaced at enormous cost . |
| 8 | Liquidity is the degree to which the company assets are in the form of cash or can readily be converted into cash . |
| 9 | Liquidity is the degree to which the company assets are in the form of cash or can readily be converted into cash . |
| 10 | Because it , in a job that ca n't be done in isolation , to complete this procedure or procedures , we may have been plural , needs er , consultation with er , certainly with Simon 's division in quite a substantial way . |
| 11 | We soon learn how to cope but still relieve the tension by shouting obscenities that ca n't be heard over the sounds of the engines . |
| 12 | Right so the first thing we , as a crime prevention officer , we , well I look at anyway , is surrounding areas of a house that ca n't be seen from the road . |
| 13 | Women and Beauty in April nineteen forty three wrote - there is a special kind of beauty preparation that ca n't be bought in a single shop in the world because you must make it yourself from spirit , heart and simple courage and you make it fresh each day . |
| 14 | But it 's definitely a unique sound , with that percussive effect that ca n't be recreated on an electric bass — and I know that because I 've been getting sampled a lot recently … |
| 15 | Tha that 's one thing that ca n't be taken into consideration . |
| 16 | The one punchcard accessory that ca n't be used with the electronic is the punchcard lace carriage . |
| 17 | And a large number of cellular users consider themselves trapped by ‘ unfair ’ contracts that ca n't be changed without penalty . |
| 18 | Minor interests are interests in land that ca n't be entered on a registered title , but which are not overriding interests such as have just been described , for they can be overridden by the registered proprietor in any disposition for value . |
| 19 | There 's nothing wrong with Pool that ca n't be cured with more processing power and more data . ’ |
| 20 | Events which demand a substantial outlay that ca n't be recovered in the event of cancellation , bad weather or some other cause need to be avoided . |
| 21 | It 's ironic that you should still make excuses for the fact that the band can play really well , yet there 's nothing here that ca n't be appreciated on the level of a blues number . |
| 22 | It 's ironic that you should still make excuses for the fact that the band can play really well , yet there 's nothing here that ca n't be appreciated on the level of a blues number . |
| 23 | Daring to teach the lessons that ca n't be found in textbooks , his eccentric methods promote spontaneity and idealism , but his students face stern opposition from school authorities when they choose to exercise their imaginations and resurrect ‘ The Dead Poets Society ’ . |
| 24 | We need one more equation between our variables that can again be provided by Gauss 's law . |
| 25 | If one manages to find the simplest method at the first attempt that can mostly be attributed to good luck . |
| 26 | It produces data that can easily be expressed in statistical form . |
| 27 | Perhaps by analogy with this he began to see that animal species too are in a state of dynamic equilibrium with one another and with the environment , an equilibrium that can easily be disturbed by geological changes or by the immigration of new species into the area . |
| 28 | Mung beans are very small green beans that can easily be sprouted at home for use as a salad vegetable . |
| 29 | On the other hand , noticeable deviation from typical target-language patterns of chunking information and signalling relations is likely to result in the sort of text that can easily be identified as a translation because it sounds ‘ foreign ’ . |
| 30 | What that means , among other things , is that feminists who engage in this kind of research must refuse easy answers , answers that can easily be accommodated within the system as it is now . |