Example sentences of "[subord] [noun pl] can be [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , sexual differences in body size range from species , like worms of the genus Bonnellia , where females can be over 25 times the length of males ( Barnes , 1974 ) to species like the southern elephant seal , Mirounga leonina , where mature males average eight times the weight of females ( Bryden , 1969 ) . |
| 2 | Buxtehude has set out to show that if cyclists can be persuaded to be disciplined , if pedestrians can be more tolerant and if the police will be more supportive then mixing the modes is possible . |
| 3 | " Yes indeed , because dressmakers can be very excitable , you know . |
| 4 | I mean because motorways can be quite frightening to people who 've just passed their test . |
| 5 | Crucial to women 's desire for successful or careerist men is the desire for men to carry all the ambition and careerism of the family , because women can be extremely ambivalent about their own ambition and aggression at work . |
| 6 | Certainly the attitudinist can allow deductive reasoning full sway in ethics , since attitudes can be logically inconsistent one with another just as much as can beliefs . |
| 7 | Since BLOBs can be very large , current multimedia database wisdom suggests that each BLOB is best located on its own separate partition of a disc or on its own magnetic or optical disc . |
| 8 | Some may be docile , whereas others can be very aggressive and bossy towards all other horses , and a few may even mount mares that come into season . |