Example sentences of "that they can [adv] be [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So although considerable differences remain between the Petralona and Steinheim crania in features such as vault thickness and occipital form , it seems feasible that they can both be regarded as extension of the variation shown in the early Neanderthal population(s) sampled at Atapuerca . |
| 2 | And , politics well aside , what unites them is precisely their purity , the fact that they can both be reduced to a matter of pure taste . |
| 3 | PageMaker has a very clever habit of remembering all the changes that have been made to a document so that they can either be Undone or Reverted to . |
| 4 | But dumb animals are incapable of considering themselves in this light ; which is not to imply that human beings always do , only that they can normally be expected to if required . |
| 5 | Their efficiency and reliability have also increased , to the extent that they can now be regarded as a primary recharging source for a yacht 's batteries alongside the engine alternator or the petrol generator . |
| 6 | That they can now be reprinted is a confirmation of his final optimism when he wrote : ‘ They murder our love — and it lives . |
| 7 | Whether they actually were subversive becomes irrelevant to the extent that they can now be retrieved to offer a potential that has a contemporary , that is twentieth-century , political relevance . |
| 8 | The best speech synthesisers are capable of producing speech of such high quality that only an expert can distinguish it from a recording of a human being 's speech ; less sophisticated synthesisers are becoming so cheap that they can now be bought for attaching to ordinary micro-computers . |
| 9 | Sometimes these foals bought at sales and markets are so traumatized by their experience that they can never be handled . |
| 10 | And every evening , when Frith has done his day 's work and lies calm and easy in the red sky , El-ahrairah and his children and his children 's children come out of their holes and feed and play in his sight , for they are his friends and he has promised them that they can never be destroyed . " |
| 11 | If you look at who are meant to be ‘ Ethnic ’ , white women should realise that they can never be oppressed in the same way as can Black women . |
| 12 | The beauty of such methods is that they can never be proved wrong since , by ignoring what the people concerned themselves think , you have removed any empirical basis for testing the interpretations . |
| 13 | Politicians and fortune-tellers can avoid being accused of making mistakes by making their assertions so vague that they can always be construed as compatible with whatever may eventuate . |
| 14 | agents to have more information that they can sensibly be taken to have , |
| 15 | A final caution about using monographs about painters is that they can seldom be read alone . |
| 16 | Most fungi grow as long thin threads called hyphae — they are so slender that they can only be seen under a microscope , but a mass of intertwined hyphae is visible : this is what makes up toadstools and mushrooms . |
| 17 | They are so small that they can only be seen with a microscope . |
| 18 | Where the land meets the sea there are hundreds of beaches and coves , some so secluded that they can only be reached by boat . |
| 19 | And we need to use the reserves that we do have in the balance sheet , we need to spend them wisely in order to achieve our objectives , our objectives for change , and we must recognise that they can only be spent once . |
| 20 | Either the physical limits of the item are wide , so that the design and production of the mating parts become difficult and expensive , or they are narrow so that they can only be produced by expensive processes . |
| 21 | Either the physical limits of the item are wide , so that the design and production of the mating parts become difficult and expensive , or they are narrow so that they can only be produced by expensive processes . |
| 22 | But their limitation has been that they can only be used when all the well data is available — after it has been drilled . |
| 23 | The advantage of own brands for the retailer is that they can only be purchased from that particular company . |
| 24 | In many cases , however , multimedia applications have to convert analogue sources of information such as sound , photographic images and video , into their digital counterparts so that they can then be manipulated within that single information environment . |
| 25 | Interactions with oscillating quadrupoles , etc. are also possible , but are so much weaker than dipole interactions that they can usually be ignored . |
| 26 | He can regard his task as done when he has arrived at entities so simple that they can safely be handed over to physicists . |
| 27 | They are low , so low that they can hardly be called a threshold — more a ramp , with a sign over it begging ‘ Please , please walk up ’ . |
| 28 | Their delicate character and the fact that they accompanied a woman means that they can hardly be interpreted literally as weapons . |
| 29 | Some words are already almost music : Shakespeare 's words are already so musical that they can hardly be set to music . |
| 30 | Moses is expressly commanded to count the people upon entering the Sinai wilderness to ensure that they can subsequently be accounted for . |