Example sentences of "can [adv] be [adv] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The problem of aesthetic modernism can perhaps be best approached via the time-tested framework of the sociology of modernized . |
| 2 | Penality can also be found ‘ at every bloody level ’ , although it can perhaps be roughly divided into ( material ) penal practices and ( ideological ) penal rhetoric . |
| 3 | Profit diagrams can only be intelligibly drawn for strategies involving investments with the same expiry dates . |
| 4 | Indeed , this is particularly relevant to a run-time recognition application , since data can only be meaningfully processed in one direction anyway ( i.e. left-to-right ) . |
| 5 | Finally , it is as well to realise that the title of ‘ karate champion ’ can only be legitimately conferred by a national governing body recognised by the Martial Arts Commission . |
| 6 | If that were so , there would scarcely be a government in the last 100 years which could be regarded as legitimate , but it is those uses of power and law which seem to betray or which can only be reasonably explained by a contempt for or at least an impatience with the principles of limited government and a belief that the rightness of the policies to be executed excuse or justify the methods whereby they are executed . |
| 7 | However , this can only be successfully achieved along undogmatic lines and in a spirit of goodwill and co-operation between our leading national institutions . |
| 8 | Most of the ideas , techniques and strategies described in Part Two hold good for working with young children , but it is worth devoting time to a specific discussion of how one might adapt the work on still image and forum theatre for use with this age group , as they are sometimes thought to be strategies that can only be successfully used with older children . |
| 9 | Crucially , their Interim report submitted in March 1920 noted the intimate connection between housing , transport and the ultimate distribution of land uses of all kinds , including residential , commercial and industrial , so that the housing question ‘ can only be successfully attacked by the simultaneous consideration of all these aspects over a wide area ’ . |
| 10 | The crucial issue which this sort of situation emphasises is the vital importance of perception between persons of different cultures , which can only be partially ameliorated by the procedure suggested by James Lee . |
| 11 | Now , in a very real sense socialisation can only be properly understood as an aspect of all activity within human societies . |
| 12 | But the significance of the political and religious events of the mid sixteenth century , and in particular Mary 's part in shaping them , can only be properly understood in the context of the traditional political and social patterns which had created the sixteenth-century Scottish kingdom . |
| 13 | Each sphere is typically characterized by a representative institution , cohesive structures of practices , organized and patterned , which can only be properly understood in terms of their transnational effects . |
| 14 | Legal issues , like other technical problems , can only be properly understood within their broader social context , and this is especially so when our purpose is not only to understand the world , but to change it . ’ |
| 15 | This can only be properly tested in a laboratory , but all dyes used today are both permanent and colour-fast . |
| 16 | ‘ Popular music ’ ( or whatever ) can only be properly viewed within the context of the whole musical field , within which it is an active tendency ; and this field , together with its internal relationships , is never still — it is always in movement . |
| 17 | The text from the Canticle of Canticles 2:4 ordinavit in me caritatem ( he set in order charity in me ) distils imaginatively Hilton 's understanding that love can only be properly expressed through a disciplined orientation of the particular gifts and powers of the self to God . |
| 18 | The answer is , of course , that the position of a word boundary has some effect on the realisation of the phoneme ; this is one of the many cases in which the occurrence of different allophones can only be properly explained by making reference to units of grammar ( something which was for a long time disapproved of by many phonologists ) . |
| 19 | The back position can only be properly used in strong winds on a reach ; in lighter winds the board will just sit on its tail causing lots of drag . |
| 20 | It is that such questions can only be properly pursued in the company of the disciplinary studies . |
| 21 | The next heart-stopping moment can only be properly described in the jockey 's own words : |
| 22 | Such understandings and self-conceptions can only be properly appreciated by combining those aspects of social theory which incorporate concepts of class , state , gender or ethnicity with the understandings offered by biology and psychology . |
| 23 | For the language needs of learners can only be effectively solved by a linguistic analysis of their source problems ( Carter , 1982:2 ) . |
| 24 | Curiously , it 's an executable file and not a device driver , so it can only be initially loaded in AUTOEXEC.BAT , which could permit a virus to go into memory before Virus Guard is loaded . |
| 25 | Women who have organized around their specific demands all support the political opposition arguing that their oppression as women can only be substantially altered with the overthrow of the present regime . |
| 26 | The ‘ structuralists ’ argue that the causes of such behaviours lie deep in the social organization of society , and particularly in its class divisions , and that they can only be radically modified by collective actions designed to curb the power of the purveyors of cigarettes and alcohol and to reduce social inequalities . |
| 27 | This is surprising when one remembers the importance frequently given to local housing need which can only be satisfactorily defined in relation to an understanding of social groups and information on incomes . |
| 28 | We propose that this daunting list of stages , each of which calls for different information skills , can only be satisfactorily incorporated in the school 's programme by a curriculum policy built around these skills . |
| 29 | But there are many other critical value-adding processes which can only be satisfactorily completed by those who know and understand the specific decision-making situation in which the construct will be used . |
| 30 | These double-polished thin sections ( DPTs ) can only be satisfactorily produced by machine ; they are the best sections for research work and critical petrographic studies . |