Example sentences of "[det] [noun pl] can be [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some groups can be more individualistic where the individual identifies less strongly , there are fewer icons , there 's less erm dogmatic er certainty about doctrine and so on , so more room for an individual variation and those groups will be relatively er looser and there would be less identification of the individual with the leader or the leading principals . |
| 2 | Their report is of little practical use and in some cases can be positively misleading , but the building societies and banks insist upon having it . |
| 3 | Some viruses can be so vicious that if you do not take care of yourself for a couple of days when you first fall ill you could spend three weeks or more under par . |
| 4 | Few buildings can be as symbolic of the Roman Empire as the mighty Colosseum in Rome , few sights as good a record of renaissance ingenuity as the cathedral in Florence . |
| 5 | Few things can be more guaranteed to create a negative response than the sight of husband and wife sparring in public . |
| 6 | Some variations can be very small , and yet important . |
| 7 | Some friends can be very demanding and will not do anything unless you do it as well , or want to do everything you do . |
| 8 | Others need the extra information to answer readers ' letters , whose numbers in some instances can be quite substantial . |
| 9 | Other places may contain only a few species , yet the biomass at least at some seasons can be very high ; and this is true of the Arctic and Antarctic oceans . |
| 10 | With video , for instance , some children can be genuinely confused by dramatisations , though others can use the visual clues to categorise black and white archive film as coming from " the past " . |
| 11 | In my experience ( and in that of many others ) the first few lessons can be quite confusing . |
| 12 | The organization of conferences , seminars and other such meetings can be most time-consuming and labour-intensive , and probably for this reason the clearinghouses are not quite as active in this area as one might expect , although each of the national clearinghouses regularly organize or sponsor at least one . |
| 13 | Sometimes , such defences can be almost impossible to break down on a person-to-person level . |
| 14 | The right hemisphere functions , therefore , tend to be expressed in terms of symbols and concepts rather than verbally , which explains why such concepts can be very difficult to express in words . |
| 15 | Yet the cited studies have shown that the macroeconomic effects of such rigidities can be quite substantial . |
| 16 | In a fast-moving field , such breaks can be very disruptive . |
| 17 | But such distinctions can be very misleading indeed . |
| 18 | He even underlines the similarity by noting that such traits can be either adaptive or detrimental — i.e. lead to illness — depending on whether or not they are modified by other , more positive , qualities . |
| 19 | These operations can be both complex and time consuming . |
| 20 | Sometimes , these pictures can be quite discouraging and it seems that there 's no way that we be anything like these men and women . |
| 21 | These illnesses can be very distressing and sometimes dangerous . |
| 22 | Life under canvas these days can be positively luxurious when you go with firms like Eurocamp . |
| 23 | History in these days can be as much a consolation as it can be of an inspiration , and I also believe too that sometimes in life it 's very important to emancipate yourself from the shackles of the past in order to make the kind of decisions which it 's necessary to make in present conditions . |
| 24 | These conditions can be very useful in setting up a user search profile , which is one reason that information retrieval systems often use a serial file for new accessions , which are matched against user profiles intended to inform users of the latest accessions in their subject field . |
| 25 | The make-up of these bodies can be particularly important when governments exert pressure over a particular programme , as happened to the BBC in the case of Real Lives ( an examination of the life of an IRA sympathiser in Belfast ) and to the IBA in the case of Death on the Rock ( a This Week programme about the SAS shooting of three IRA members in Gibraltar ) . |
| 26 | These horns can be so long and incurved that there is a danger of damage to the animal 's cheeks if they are not carefully trimmed at the tips . |
| 27 | These leaps can be over 3 metres high , and the accompanying kicks release scent from glands on their fetlocks into the air . |
| 28 | Consequently , the HRD practitioner 's role in helping managers meet these challenges can be extremely useful and challenging in its own way . |
| 29 | All these tips can be very useful in relieving some of the stress that we put on ourselves unwittingly . |
| 30 | Whether they be called Acknowledgements , Fore-words , Prefaces or Introductions , these preambles can be very instructive for both the reader who is ( still ) uncertain about the usefulness of a history book and also the reader who is already committed to reading sections of it . |