Example sentences of "can be the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They can kill , and injecting drugs with a shared needle or syringe can be the fastest way to get HIV — even if you only do it once . |
| 2 | Sculptures in cities are a part of cultural history , and can be the symbols by which the cities are known or remembered . |
| 3 | But the less elaborate you can be the better . |
| 4 | Trying to do the normal thing can be the cause of accidents with cable breaks and winch failures on smaller gliding sites . |
| 5 | They can be the quiet , but unthinking types who are simply unaware of their lack of knowledge . |
| 6 | This base can be the rear seat rail , or another rail fitted above the seat , but if so , no more than 2in above the seat or it would also need to be curved to avoid discomfort . |
| 7 | It can be the outcome of a confrontation or conflict , e.g. Giselle and Romeo and Juliet . |
| 8 | The decision to end the life of a trusted and devoted animal friend can be the most difficult an owner has to make . |
| 9 | ‘ What on earth can be the matter with me ? ’ he cried again like a man utterly lost . |
| 10 | This is not a matter of poor teaching , for such students can be the despair of conscientious teachers . |
| 11 | At last doing something worthwhile can be the same as having fun ! |
| 12 | The process is more gradual than can be the case on a major . |
| 13 | often it involves a long chase in which the relationships between the record company personnel , the artist and the manager can be the deciding factor . |
| 14 | More importantly , independents can be the right place for artists who want to keep a degree of creative control . |
| 15 | They can be the source of a uniquely evil smell . |
| 16 | This systems then bring all this together graphically on to a computer screen — which can be the hotel 's back-office system to avoid duplication . |
| 17 | The fascination of these closed communities and hemmed-in lives , that recur in my work , is that they breed a certain ignorance , can be the breeding ground for very extreme , absurd emotional releases . ’ |
| 18 | At low levels of contamination , organochlorines such as PCBs may lower an animal 's resistance to infection , and can be the cause of mass deaths . |
| 19 | He can be the scourge of the corrupt old guard . |
| 20 | That hierarchy need not be cosily ensconced at headquarters : it can be the sort of decentralised management network beloved of management gurus such as Mr Tom Peters . |
| 21 | They can be the medium of memory and imagination ; they can figure in thinking , and in the understanding of language . |
| 22 | It is in the life and fragrance of that person , Jesus of Nazareth , that we have a pattern of care and love for all things which can be the basis for a discipleship that takes in a holistic approach to life . |
| 23 | This tragedy , which acquired a certain celebrity because of the sculptor 's art , illustrates a problem that must necessarily perplex religious people : in a religion teaching moral purpose , reward and punishment , what can be the meaning of early death in a pious family ? |
| 24 | Enlightenment , if such can be the word , came on the evening following Jahsaxa 's conversation with Tammuz Malamute . |
| 25 | It can be the sheer sensuous pleasure in the feel of what you are wearing : how it drapes , the coolness or heat of the material , the weight of the necklace , the crashing of the bracelets . |
| 26 | Or it can be the pleasure of saying things to other people through how you look : about individuality , politics , creativity , aggression , sense of humour , daring . |
| 27 | Some people might say advertising reflects society , but I think it can be the other way round . |
| 28 | It can be the mind 's abstraction for an edge , a crack , a fissure or a chain of dimensionless points , linking their extremities . |
| 29 | A line can be the contour , the silhouette , of a series of magnitudes such that the mind may run over them , as Descartes required , until they are entirely memorable . |
| 30 | Reflection can be the stuff of cricket writing ; it is that sort of game . |