Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] can be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm we we are I will be er as brief as I possibly can be on this one . |
| 2 | Some women find , for instance , they can renew old friendships which did n't fit in with their former lives ; interests that may have been put aside many years ago to accommodate someone else can be taken out of mothballs . |
| 3 | A fusion of these two methods is imperative for the good harmonic flow of serial music , which thereby can be turned towards a greater degree of atonalism or otherwise , at any moment , as the composer wishes . |
| 4 | And you get a new set of rights — rights which can be enforced in the Chancellor 's Court side by side with the Common Law rights , which alone can be enforced in the Common Law Courts , the former in effect , though not in theory , overriding the latter . |
| 5 | Besides , as pecuniary punishments may increase the number of robbers , by increasing the number of poor , and may deprive an innocent family of subsistence , the most proper punishment will be that kind of slavery , which alone can be called just ; that is , which makes society , for a time , absolute master of the person , and labour of the criminal , in order to oblige him to repair , by this dependence , the unjust despotism he usurped over the property of another , and his violation of the social compact . |
| 6 | That is a very complex matter indeed , not easily reduced to a clear-cut issue , but which nevertheless can be separated quite clearly from all other aspects of human behaviour . |
| 7 | At present , Xerox 's material regains its memory below 58K — a temperature , says Dr Ziolo , which probably can be raised by modifying its composition . |
| 8 | Parts of the wildscape and of the marginal fringe have been planted as forests which also can be used by tourists . |
| 9 | When a wind-blown spore — which now can be called pollen — lands on an egg-bearing cone , it germinates , not into a filmy thallus for which there is now no need , but into a long tube which burrows its way down into the female cone . |
| 10 | It may have had a different meaning in a different place ( e.g. " cot " means a child 's bed in British English , but also a bed for adults in Indian English ) , or at a different time ( e.g. " gentle " used to carry the meaning of " upper class " , as in " gentry " , but which now can be used as an approving description — something like " sensitive " — of anyone 's character ) . |
| 11 | Economists in particular do n't distinguish between the creation of wealth , which nowadays can be provided in large measure by machines , and the creation of employment , which in large measure requires other policies . |
| 12 | The use of endoscopic biopsy specimens in histopathological diagnosis and of imaging techniques in staging disease extent avoids the need for laparotomy and gastrectomy which consequently can be reserved for a minority of cases . |
| 13 | Marx 's and Engels 's first concern with anthropological material was therefore to show the variety that exists in the nature of social relations , and the historical peculiarity of a society where one group of people treat others only in respect of the labour they provide , labour which then can be bought and sold as though it was any other useful article . |
| 14 | In this volume , he argues against ‘ essentialism ’ , by which he means the application of a cross-culturally applicable definition based on some ‘ essence ’ of aggression which then can be ‘ employed to ‘ read off ’ the nature of acts ’ . |
| 15 | incorporates an approach which examines each dimension not only in terms of deficits , i.e. needs and risks , but also in terms of the strengths and resources which enhance quality of life and reduce risk , or which potentially can be mobilized to do so . |
| 16 | And nobody else can be a Napoleon either . |
| 17 | Again for sweaters , little crescent moons and stars scattered over the fabric makes a very pretty design , as does one big intarsia crescent moon which again can be classically simple or fun with a face on it . |
| 18 | And some of them actually cha make sure that you have to keep your house and contents insured through the society , which again can be more expensive . |
| 19 | My concern about this is that I do n't see how a view can be taken at a strategic level on something which ultimately can be only ascertained on a site specific basis . |
| 20 | somebody else can be |
| 21 | ‘ He 's Irish , ex-IRA if you ever can be ex-IRA , age thirty-five . |
| 22 | If you really want to get to grips with inland detecting , then I suggest you learn a little Portuguese and try to make yourself understood to any of the farmers who invariably can be seen selling oranges by the roadside . |
| 23 | If you have funds available that you would like to have working harder for you there can be few other more secure high potential opportunities than this . |
| 24 | now this particular question , this , it 's a very solemn and searching question , it belongs to a group of three questions found in the New Testament which have to do with a matter of salvation , the first one is , we wo n't look up the reference and that for time this morning , the first one is the question that the disciples put to Jesus , who then can be saved , that 's in Matthew , chapter nineteen , then there 's this one in Luke thirteen , are there few that be saved and then that very , very personal question that was put not to Jesus but to Paul by the Philippinean jailer in act sixteen , what must I do to be saved , three questions in the new testaments about salvation , who then can be saved , are there few that be saved , what must I do to be saved , you know as Christians you possibly found yourself , asking yourself the , the same question that these people put to Jesus , why are there so few Christians , look about our own town , think of your own neighbourhood , your own street , think of the place where you work how few there are who are followers of Jesus Christ , how few there are who have committed themselves to Jesus Christ to of receive him as their saviour , who 've have accepted him as saviour , how few there are when you compare it er to all the others who are rejecting him and er who are living their life regardless , how true it is that the great majority of people seem in , in this present day to have little time for God or for the things of God , they 've got time for all sorts of other things , but God and his claim on their life is crowded out , how many there are like that , how few there are who have submitted to Jesus Christ and have received him as their saviour or so it seems . |
| 25 | now this particular question , this , it 's a very solemn and searching question , it belongs to a group of three questions found in the New Testament which have to do with a matter of salvation , the first one is , we wo n't look up the reference and that for time this morning , the first one is the question that the disciples put to Jesus , who then can be saved , that 's in Matthew , chapter nineteen , then there 's this one in Luke thirteen , are there few that be saved and then that very , very personal question that was put not to Jesus but to Paul by the Philippinean jailer in act sixteen , what must I do to be saved , three questions in the new testaments about salvation , who then can be saved , are there few that be saved , what must I do to be saved , you know as Christians you possibly found yourself , asking yourself the , the same question that these people put to Jesus , why are there so few Christians , look about our own town , think of your own neighbourhood , your own street , think of the place where you work how few there are who are followers of Jesus Christ , how few there are who have committed themselves to Jesus Christ to of receive him as their saviour , who 've have accepted him as saviour , how few there are when you compare it er to all the others who are rejecting him and er who are living their life regardless , how true it is that the great majority of people seem in , in this present day to have little time for God or for the things of God , they 've got time for all sorts of other things , but God and his claim on their life is crowded out , how many there are like that , how few there are who have submitted to Jesus Christ and have received him as their saviour or so it seems . |
| 26 | To report on my own experience , I have found a surprising number of English people outside the academic world who have lived with the Sonnets , have taken them into their own experience , can quote with ease ‘ To me , fair friend , you never can be old ’ , or ‘ Shall I compare thee to a summer 's day ? ’ , or ‘ When , in disgrace with Fortune and men 's eyes ’ , or ‘ Let me not to the marriage of true minds/Admit impediment ’ . |
| 27 | This would be the relationship that we find in 104 ( ‘ To me , fair friend , you never can be old ’ ) or 106 ( ‘ When in the chronicle of wasted time ’ ) . |
| 28 | So when a large body of medical opinion is convinced of the positive benefits of any substance you too can be sure that the evidence must be pretty … well , convincing ! |
| 29 | Very soon the intended victim is ensnared and the ‘ you too can be part of it ’ line is swallowed whole . |
| 30 | ‘ She occasionally can be talked into doing something a little silly , but not often . ’ |