Example sentences of "[noun] can [adv] be " in BNC.

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1 The dominant religion can also be mediated through law .
2 The appeal of liturgical monastic religion can also be seen from the fact that when Ethelwold in the 960s expelled the married clergy from the church of Winchester in favour of celibate monks , three of the former clergy , Eadsige , Wulfige , and Wilstan , returned as celibates to the new communal life .
3 ‘ My dear , sweet love , once you have seen , the whole idea of religion can only be tawdry , pathetic and … wrong .
4 Religion can only be understood ‘ on the pattern of individual neurotic symptoms ’ .
5 Variations of load and friction torques with speed can also be taken into account .
6 Speed can therefore be changed from 1,100rpm for drilling to 400 for driving .
7 Perhaps the record companies should give us more live recordings , when such noise-free and moving performances can nowadays be taped successfully , and where at least there is continuity of expression , so often lost in piecemeal studio productions .
8 It doubles up branch and conditional registers and integer and floating point units and a version of the PowerPC , derived from the design , is expected to execute up to four instructions per cycle , although whether those kinds of superscalar performances can often be achieved in practice will depend on how well the compilers are optimised for the new internal architecture .
9 The parson 's words can surely be read as an indictment of women 's education which , though it improved through the period , generally failed to realize the intellectual potential of women .
10 The meanings of words can also be represented as textual definitions within an ordinary dictionary , so a third question may therefore be :
11 The definitions and expansions of various words can then be compared with this list to check for membership .
12 The unusual juxtaposition of these two words can only be a subconscious association in the author 's mind with the well-known carol , The Twelve Days of Christmas whose repetitive chorus ends , ‘ And a partridge in a pear-tree . ’
13 While the freezing silences , heated exchanges and bitter words can only be imagined , the traumatic effect on the children is only too evident .
14 Those words can still be read in the Bodleian Library , a priceless association with one of Scotland 's greatest women .
15 If liability is not in dispute , the action can simply be stood out by agreement or an application made to the judge of the lists , or to the judge on circuit , for a standing-out order , or possibly an application made to claim provisional damages ; but if liability is still in dispute the action must be tried and ought to be heard as soon as possible , irrespective of the uncertainties on quantum .
16 Follow-up action can even be taken on a client 's behalf after a telephone consultation .
17 An action can therefore be brought against the testamentary heir for the excess over 100 aurei .
18 First , a rational plan of action can only be arrived at after the patient 's problems have been identified .
19 Social action can never be separated from practical constraints or from social control .
20 Diving trips can also be arranged .
21 The separate recordings can then be viewed after the event and decisions about how to edit taken at that point .
22 These same characteristics can often be found — with far less excuse — in well-seasoned travellers who have had the privilege of sampling far and wide .
23 A positive interaction with these characteristics can only be to the benefit of artists and their followers alike .
24 These characteristics can only be true of one Deity .
25 The role of environment and inherited characteristics can then be separately assessed by studying how often both twins with each type of background suffer from psychiatric disorder .
26 A discharge from the urethra can sometimes be demonstrated during the medical examination , but , since the urethral opening in the female is hidden between the folds of the labia , such a discharge will not be apparent to the woman herself ; even if she examines herself , the natural moistness of this part of the body will tend to mask any contribution from the urethra .
27 PostScript images can also be read in but these will be boxed to provide a regular shape for the run-round .
28 There 's a by-product , in that the images can also be incorporated into documents , including , strangely enough ( he said tongue-in-cheek ) , BoP , not least because the two programs are from the same stable .
29 Images can also be exported to popular wordprocessing and desktop publishing applications like Ventura Publisher or WordPerfect 5.0 .
30 Images can also be exported to popular wordprocessing and desktop publishing applications like Ventura Publisher or WordPerfect 5.0 .
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