Example sentences of "[noun sg] 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 | 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 . |
| 8 | Follow-up action can even be taken on a client 's behalf after a telephone consultation . |
| 9 | An action can therefore be brought against the testamentary heir for the excess over 100 aurei . |
| 10 | First , a rational plan of action can only be arrived at after the patient 's problems have been identified . |
| 11 | Social action can never be separated from practical constraints or from social control . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | No advantage for one side can ever be regarded as absolutely conclusive . ’ |
| 14 | Conversely , a spirit of self-criticism and renewal can hardly be said to be absent from the religious sphere when one of the problems faced by institutionalized orthodoxies has been to contain the eruption of reform and sectarian revolt . |
| 15 | Establishing free movement of capital and labour can also be shown to lead to net welfare gains . |
| 16 | This as it stands is not an adequate explanation unless the result of the differentiation is that less skilled labour can now be used for machine operating . |
| 17 | The occupational mobility of labour can often be overcome by a period of retraining , but this takes time and may be costly for the unemployed worker . |
| 18 | Thus the total number of transactions T in the economy can be taken to be fixed if full employment is the norm , or alternatively the assumption that the quantity of money has no permanent effect on the real sector of the economy implies that T is independent of M. Consequently there should be a definite relationship between the quantity of money and the price level if the velocity of circulation can also be shown to be independent of M. |
| 19 | This extra card can only be used by that shaman — the card can not be used by other shamans . |
| 20 | The cable connecting the harddisk activity LED to the input/output card can now be attached . |
| 21 | Porcelain can also be TL tested , but it is such a hard ceramic that a drill can not be used to take the sample because of the heat generated and the spurious luminescence signals produced . |
| 22 | The bit offset in the byte and the byte offset are returned and the full offset can then be calculated by |
| 23 | The Nestle Co. 's intention can hardly be in doubt . |
| 24 | The choice of subsection can also be important where odours arise from a works registered under The Alkali , etc. , Works Regulation Act 1906 as amended . |
| 25 | A further point was taken by Mr. Scrivener that the decisions referred to in the subsection can only be made by the Secretary of State personally and that he may not delegate or transfer the power to make the decision to a minister of state , as happened in the case of Mr. Pegg . |
| 26 | An analogy can here be made between the market and the Rule of Law . |
| 27 | The spring can then be pushed or pulled to where you want to bend the pipe and then pulled out afterwards . |
| 28 | In other words , a dog who continually barks and shows fear can never be regarded as a dog with high self-confidence . |
| 29 | The psychologists have plenty to say about this , about how the repressed emotion can then be projected on to a partner , or cause a kind of dual way of life to develop , where a woman may be sweet and lovely on the surface but grasping and rapacious beneath . |
| 30 | The degree of emotional pressure on the defendant can almost be taken for granted in these cases . |