Example sentences of "can [adv] be [adv] [verb] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | The cat ca n't be half shot and half not-shot , they claim , any more than one can be half pregnant . |
| 2 | Vitamin deficiency Vitamin deficiency can only be properly diagnosed and treated by a doctor , but there are certain fairly obvious signs which should be noted , bearing in mind that an old person who is obese can still be suffering from malnutrition and vitamin deficiency through eating the wrong kinds of food . |
| 3 | In Comr. of Stamp Duties v. Bone [ 1976 ] 2 All E.R.354 at 360 ( P.C. ) Lord Russell , speaking for five Lords of Appeal , said : ‘ A debt can only be truly released and extinguished by agreement for valuable consideration or under seal . |
| 4 | Health care can not be conveniently packaged and priced into such things as health problems of the ‘ elderly ’ or ‘ mentally ill ’ . |
| 5 | This class , whatever we call it , can not be properly understood and its historic role can not be adequately explained , outside the necessity that produces the eternal contradiction of capitalist accumulation on a mass scale . |
| 6 | The activity of psychoanalysis in the therapeutic setting can not be adequately grasped and stated in mechanistic , quantitative terms . |
| 7 | The mastery of these skills can not be neatly prescribed and tied to a particular method . |
| 8 | For example , we can prevent factories that are obviously discharging their waste into rivers , from doing so ; and there is virtually no kind of effluent nowadays that can not be safely treated and disposed of , if we are prepared to spend the money . |
| 9 | One characteristic difference between phonological and syntactic systems has far-reaching implications for the study of variation : although phonological systems change through time and so can not be absolutely closed and finite , they are more closed and finite in character than syntactic systems . |
| 10 | The reason for the discriminatory practices described throughout this book can not be fully understood and tackled without reference to the concept of ageism . |
| 11 | The prospective gains can not be fully harnessed and enjoyed if the losses are not first acknowledged and then mourned . |
| 12 | If we say , you see , that the function of the dream is to safeguard sleep , and to fulfil wishes , then it 's clear that in the real world not all wishes are fulfillable and it may well be that , that the latent thoughts , in some cases , is so alarming and so disturbing , that they can not be sufficiently disguised and will lead to a state of waking , and that waking proves of course that the dream has failed in its function of safeguarding sleep . |
| 13 | These cases can usually be rapidly identified and diagnosed using non-invasive techniques such as ultrasound or computed tomography , and since the prognosis of these patients is so poor , management shuld be directed towards symptomatic relief alone . |
| 14 | The extraordinary intactness of the present find means that gold objects of this type can now be correctly dated and identified . |
| 15 | All of this information can then be easily organised and related together to form your family tree . |
| 16 | The whole area can then be lightly sanded and the glass brought back with a metal polish . |
| 17 | Whether Modigliani and Jeanne lived in Nice or in nearby Cagnes-sur-Mer , or more probably both , can never be definitely proved and is of little consequence . |