Example sentences of "[art] [adj] can be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hearing dogs for the deaf can be invaluable to people with a profound hearing loss . |
| 2 | As we do ‘ give thanks with a grateful heart ’ we remember that the weak can be strong again and this can cause us to ‘ extol ’ God , which means to praise enthusiastically ( from the Latin tollo meaning ‘ praise ’ ) . |
| 3 | They 're making it so only the rich can be educated . |
| 4 | The metric can be taken in the form of the line element ( 6.20 ) with . |
| 5 | ‘ And in the meantime , I 'm delighted to show juniors in Britain that the British can be winners . |
| 6 | And so , by means of analogies and comparisons , the foreign can be understood in the context of the homely and the familiar . |
| 7 | In the case of the Southern North Sea Basin the Carboniferous can be considered as part of the basement layer . |
| 8 | Also implied in the drawing is the notion that even the adequate can be improved upon . |
| 9 | But Rediscovering Pompeii is still a powerful reminder that the old can be as shocking in its familiarity as the new in its novelty . |
| 10 | The presence of the old can be a beneficial discipline , if not an inspiration , to the new . |
| 11 | To an extent , the use which the old can be to younger people is determined years earlier and is to do with the sort of people which they always were and their relationships with others . |
| 12 | Further , if unc where u , v are units and unc are monic irreducible polynomials , then u = v and the gi and the hi can be paired off in such a manner that paired polynomials are equal . |
| 13 | ‘ That you ’ The identity of the accused can be proved by the evidence of the victim or an admission etc . |
| 14 | As appropriates involves assuming the rights of an owner the interview between the police officer in the case and the accused can be important . |
| 15 | Difficulties of the kinds provided for by those subsections will not arise , because the overlapping of the two offences under the Bill will have the result that the accused can be convicted of whichever offence is charged . |
| 16 | ( I am not entirely clear about the wording of the sentence which I have emphasised , but I think the sense is that the accused can be convicted of obtaining by deception , whether the offence has taken the form of larceny by a trick or obtaining by false pretences . ) |
| 17 | It is extraordinary how intolerant the ignorant can be . |
| 18 | Yet there are those in the medical profession who do not have to witness this undignified event and who continue to believe that the impossible can be achieved in every case . |
| 19 | Adorno 's refusal to read such class references into twentieth-century popular music is , of course , the result of his obsession with the category of the individual producer-subject ; as we have seen , for him the shocking , the new , the unassimilated can be mediated only by alienated individuality . |
| 20 | The following can be normal signs of growing up , but if combined with the above may mean there 's a problem : |
| 21 | A claim for group relief will be accepted outside the statutory two-year time limit where one of the following can be demonstrated : the Inland Revenue contributed materially to the failure to submit a timely claim ; for reasons beyond his or her control , a person vitally concerned in the making of a claim was not available at a crucial time ; for reasons beyond the claimant company 's or its agent 's control , the need for the claim could not have been perceived before the time limit expires , and the claim was made as soon as reasonably possible in all the circumstances . |
| 22 | A clause similar to the following can be included to achieve this : ( a ) The parties agree to procure that the amount(s) of any payment(s) ( net of corporation tax to the extent that this is not franked by the payment of advance corporation tax payable on the distribution to be made pursuant to this clause ( a ) ) received by the Company pursuant to any claim(s) made under the keyman insurance effected by the Company pursuant to clause … shall as soon as practicable following receipt of such amount(s) by the Company be distributed to the Investor by way of dividend net of any advance corporation tax payable . |
| 23 | The abnormal can be left , for news of it will inevitably rise like a suppurating boil . |
| 24 | The poison is seldom dangerous but anyone who has accidentally trodden on a sea-urchin while bathing knows how painful the swelling can be . |
| 25 | While the demands of the rich and the affluent can be met within the framework of current housing policies , the needs of the poor increasingly can not . |
| 26 | In Glasser 's book , and in Fraser 's , the activities of the poor can be seen as activities which had been performed , and written about , in the past : but these are books which intimate that the lists and specifications of a caring naturalism — features by which they have indeed been influenced — were never exhaustive : that the truth-tellers did not tell it , and that the omissions were systematic . |
| 27 | The difference between Regency attitudes and those of the mid-Victorians to the houses of the poor can be focused in George Eliot 's Middlemarch , first published in 1871–2 , but set in 1829–32 . |
| 28 | In a similar way , the mid-range can be filled out or the treble tweaked at the pull of the appropriate pot . |
| 29 | The object of bereavement work with the elderly can be more one of continuing supportive intervention and understanding the old person 's need to look back over the past years and relationships than of expecting them to ‘ work through ’ their grief to its resolution . |
| 30 | We have seen already how rhymes in this text can create telling juxtapositions : here we have the linkage of wis and pris , " wise " and " price " , i.e. wisdom means knowing the price of something or being able to buy it , or alternatively onwis and pris , i.e. the unwise can be bought . |