Example sentences of "can [adv] be [vb pp] [to-vb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And , it would not work because the arrangement 2x + y does not provide a means of bringing accountability to bear on the performance of management : for it is highly improbable that a group of people which is primarily a derivative from two opposed and irreconcilable interests can effectively be called to account by either ; and the addition of a third group accountable to no one further confounds the confusion . |
| 2 | On the contrary , to emphasise the personal and private nature of moral or immoral conduct is to emphasise the personal and private responsibility of the individual for his own actions , and this is a responsibility which a mature agent can properly be expected to carry for himself without the threat of punishment from the law . |
| 3 | It is a judgment about moral limits and one which reasonable adults can properly be expected to make in a democratic community . |
| 4 | That case can thus be seen to proceed on the same basis as the colore officii cases . |
| 5 | It can thus be seen to stand as the architectural counterpart to the other key artistic expressions of the age , the panoramic canvases of John Martin , Edward John Poynter , and Lawrence Alma-Tadema , toweringly romantic and imaginative recreations of the temples , palaces , baths , and amphitheatres of the ancient world , and the novels of Walter Scott , Harrison Ainsworth , and Bulwer-Lytton which evoked a monumental and teeming past of medieval castles , Tudor mansions , and unbridled Gothic imagination . |
| 6 | Even as recently as 1982 , Robbe-Grillet would explain his transgressive narrative techniques by relying on the Sartrean concept of contingency ( see Oppenheim 1986 ) : the disruptive narrative syntax conveys the fragmentation of man in the world , the absence of meaning in his novels can thus be said to correspond to the gratuitousness of existence . |
| 7 | Such procedures of space definition can thus be employed to search for or specify general or specific relationships between associating spaces . |
| 8 | The magnitude of the overt CR will depend on the interaction of these two forms of learning and can thus be expected to diminish as the contribution of the latter increases . |
| 9 | An intersection can thus be established to exist between the cylinder of the pin and the surface of the block within the bounds of the intersection domain . |
| 10 | The worry is that the jury can not be made to abide by directions of this kind , and so it is alleged that , if no evidential weight attaches to the refusal to answer , it would be better to exclude it altogether than to run the risk . |
| 11 | A bees ' nest has only a single entrance , so air can not be made to flow through it as it does through a prairie dog 's tunnel . |
| 12 | When a tenant 's right to occupy comes to an end , the tenant can not be made to leave against his or her will , except by a court order . |
| 13 | In the United States the Supreme Court ruled some twenty years ago that " the weight of a citizen 's vote can not be made to depend on where he lives " . |
| 14 | ( b ) A bye-law made under this paragraph clearly can not be made to apply to hotel or restricted hotel licences . |
| 15 | Real concrete problems , such as the fact that Germany is the biggest trading nation in Europe , 50% more populous than France or Britain , that she holds half of the Soviet Union 's debt and has lent more money in government-guaranteed credit to Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union , can not be made to disappear with words . |
| 16 | Health policy did not escape this intellectual challenge , but policy prescription can not be assumed to lead to policy change . |
| 17 | Because of this , a poetic utterance has no functional ties with the real context in which it is produced and can not be assumed to refer to any aspect of its producer 's existence . |
| 18 | It is not surprising that the women who had epidural analgesia had significantly longer labours , a greater requirement for oxytocin , and a higher rate of instrumental delivery as such factors increase the need for epidural analgesia and therefore can not be assumed to result from it . |
| 19 | Answer ( b ) is an example of ellipsis because does can not be said to substitute for sing in the above question . |
| 20 | Since Raymond Oliver 's assertion to the effect that your , dairyman always has one of the great vintages of French Gruyère can not be said to apply to any of my dairymen both the questions of authenticity and of relative skill with the fondue set are academic . |
| 21 | As long as expenditure can not be said to apply in support of specific candidates , national party campaigns do not fall foul of the election finance restrictions . |
| 22 | As Canguilhem says , ‘ the efficacy of the psychologist … lacks a firm foundation as long as it can not be proved to derive from the application of a science ( 1980 : 37 ) . |
| 23 | And the Crown can not be compelled to proceed under Case 4 or 5 if it prefers to proceed under Case 1 . |
| 24 | No councillor can insist on serving on any particular committee , but equally he can not be compelled to serve on a committee against his wish . |
| 25 | Item 4 of the same Schedule specifies the ‘ place where the property is situated ’ for an appeal where there is a dispute over a valuation , but this statement is only intended to apply to property within the UK — the authorities can not be compelled to travel to Portugal to hear the appeal ! |
| 26 | Madness can not be considered to exist outside the historical conditions of its production — and could never therefore be ‘ restored … to its original language ’ as Foucault hopes . |
| 27 | Reasons that should have determined the authority 's directive but failed to do so can not be thought to belong to the justification of the directive . |
| 28 | The vendor can not be forced to negotiate with the purchaser . |
| 29 | Benefit can not be claimed to assist with paying the remaining 20% . |
| 30 | And we shall not claim as experience of the Spirit what can not be shown to flow from Jesus . |