Example sentences of "[subord] [det] [noun pl] can [adv] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is of limited use in personal injury work where these items can not be recovered separately on a taxation . |
| 2 | Although such mixtures can not be separated by fractional distillation , they can be separated by other means . |
| 3 | This has been a relatively frequent event in Iceland and it can lead to the rapid melting of large volumes of ice and the release of enormous quantities of water , creating a cataclysmic flood known as a jokulhlaup ( although such floods can also be produced by other means ( see Section 11.4.1 ) ) . |
| 4 | Although these biases can not be refuted , in reality the staff completing the schedules tended to be those dealing with residents on a day to day basis , rather than home owners and managers , who might have been more concerned with the implications the results may have had for their establishment . |
| 5 | At this level knowledge is classified not into hundreds of disciplines but thousands of specialisms , and although many specialisms can easily be located within a discipline , there are many others which are difficult to locate and are interdisciplinary or even transdisciplinary ( OECD 1972 ; Squires et al . |
| 6 | If such claims can not be " explained away " ; if they do not reduce to ascriptions of certain attributes to certain entities ; if furthermore they can not be paraphrased simply in terms of knowledge , or translated into claims about the syntactical properties of certain expressions , the question is , how exactly should they be interpreted ? |
| 7 | If such schemes can successfully be developed they may provide future services better suited to the needs of the elderly at lower costs than the continued use of social and health services on current levels . |
| 8 | Of course , the apparent paradox vanishes once we realize that in advanced industrial economies superego controls on behaviour may not be optional if public order , production and economic surpluses are to be defended , and that if these controls can not be procured internally they will be externalized in the organs of the police state . |
| 9 | If these criteria can not be met then either the functions are in the wrong order or some are missing . |
| 10 | If it is the defining error or empiricism to assume that only statements meant to be checked up on deserve serious attention , it is the defining error or the new French criticism ( Foucault , Piaget , Barthes , Derrida and others ) to assume that because some statements can not be verified , no statements can , and hence that all statements rail to refer , leaving us with discourse — language without anchorage in time , psyche or history . |
| 11 | I shall raise four main issues , leaving aside the financial strictures and the policy itself , because such matters can not be dealt with simply in an Adjournment debate . |
| 12 | A very short separate " Declaration of Trust " ( because such matters can not be referred to in the entries on the Register ) to the effect that the parties hold the property and the proceeds thereof in trust for themselves as tenants in common in whatever proportions may have been agreed between them . |
| 13 | Since these dimensions can not be read off intellectually from the concept of doorway , the artificer , by decision , determines the general and abstract instruction in its particular and concrete application . |
| 14 | Previous chapters have dealt with various aspects of leadership , tasks and environment , and whilst these factors can not be ignored , this chapter focuses attention on the other factors such as group norms , group cohesiveness and roles within groups . |
| 15 | Though such rumours can not be proved , they are so endemic that they suggest something of the sort has been occurring . |