Example sentences of "can more [adv] be [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the great house becomes the possession of a nation , it can more easily be accepted as ‘ a noble picture ’ , ‘ a history in stone ’ , preserving in art , if not in life , that radiant aspect of Chesney Wold as Esther first sees it , that remembered notion of human community which has gone for good . |
| 2 | This is why coaxial cable can more easily be used for a switched-star system , where the cable runs a short distance from switching station to TV set . |
| 3 | An alternative notation which may sometimes be more convenient is ( 5 ) , with square brackets marking the fact that this word-meaning is taken to match an entity : If , however , the mind does not feel that BOTTLES is sufficiently specific to identify the target of its attention , then the identification may be extended as in ( 6 ) , where we adopt a plain arrowhead as our representation of qualification : We assume that a qualified entity remains an entity ( see Appendix B ) , and this can more conveniently be represented by our alternative notation as in : It is quite important to stress the retention of the same subscript i in ( 7 ) . |
| 4 | In fact , Charles 's highly publicized conversion to vegetarianism can more properly be laid at the door of his former bodyguard , Paul Officer who frequently argued with him during long car journeys about the virtues of a non-meat diet . |
| 5 | I also believe that the manner of Senor di Meana 's intervention demonstrated to the full that the Government are right to stress the principle of subsidiarity which holds that the Commission should not become involved in matters that can more effectively be dealt with by member states . |
| 6 | At some stage , demand in a particular country grows to the point where it can more profitably be exploited by trade-replacing investments . |
| 7 | Laughing and laughin' or [ ga:d ] and [ go:d ] can more convincingly be shown to be used to say referentially the same thing than any pair of postulated synonymous syntactic constructions such as the liquor store was broken into versus they broke into the liquor store . |
| 8 | In contrast the authoritarian nature of Tanzanian politics can more usefully be measured by the number of political detainees which exceeded several hundred in the mid 1970s or in terms of the degree of pressure brought to bear on the rural population from 1974 to 1978 . |
| 9 | The journalists to whom I am referring can more solemnly be said to be practising a modern art of indirection , of the unintelligible and the interminable . |