Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] can [adv] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Is she also aware of the fact that the National Sounds Archive now housed in Exhibition Road in South Kensington , ought really to be next door to the Music Library and it has always been the ambition of the Library to put it there and that furthermore , and here I speak from great knowledge because I negotiated the arrangement , if that site at Exhibition Road for the National Sounds Archive Library is sold , that money can only be used under the term of that agreement to provide similar accommodation elsewhere . |
| 2 | Whatever claims for the English language he may wish to make from a supposedly technical , linguistic perspective , he can not assume that attributing ‘ objectivity ’ to it is unproblematic , or that the meaning attributed to it within that sub-culture can safely be carried over into cross-cultural correlations with the features of certain languages and grammars . |
| 3 | Not only is the professional designer faced with a wide variety of hygiene regulations , but in many cases fire officers disagree as to exactly how the fire risk which is inherent within any working kitchen can best be minimised . |
| 4 | A revealing spectrum can still be found today among species of hydra — small , sedentary , tentacled animals , like freshwater sea anemones . |
| 5 | The value of this annual increment of rich topsoil can hardly be exaggerated . |
| 6 | The type of information required at each level can now be assessed . |
| 7 | The supplier of a now unused component can still be established . |
| 8 | First , an oral contract can never be caught , since s 3 ( 1 ) specifies dealing on " written standard terms of business " . |
| 9 | All your recipes can be sorted into different categories such as starters , sweets , main etc. , each category can then be split further . |
| 10 | An interim payment can only be ordered against a person who is insured in respect of the plaintiff 's claim , a public authority , or a person whose means enable him to make the payment . |
| 11 | Moreover , when we consider the courses that Pound was led into by his conviction of the civic responsibility of the man of letters — his money pamphlets of the 1930s , his desperate visit home in 1938 to keep the USA out of war with Italy , particularly his wartime broadcasts over Rome radio — we have some right to conclude either that the artist has no civic responsibility at all , or else that that responsibility can safely be discharged only in his art and nowhere else . |
| 12 | Conversely , initiating translocation with phorbol myristate acetate protects , but that protection can still be blocked if an adenosine receptor antagonist is then administered ; repopulation of adenosine receptors during the second coronary occlusion is required to reactivate the translocated PKC . |
| 13 | That case can thus be seen to proceed on the same basis as the colore officii cases . |
| 14 | First , the European Parliament can never be as accountable to the electorate as the national parliaments . |
| 15 | The reason for highlighting this instance of attempted change can now be made clear . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Even ‘ in a perverse way ’ there is no sense in which loyalist violence can ever be ‘ helpful ’ , in letting Catholics know the fear Protestants have felt and perhaps increasing pressure for a political settlement . |
| 18 | The band of gel containing each protein can either be cut out with a razorblade and the radioactivity in it counted , or the whole gel can be placed against X-ray film and an autoradiogram made , just as with the 2-DG experiment . |
| 19 | Protection from the prevailing wind can often be provided by rock outcrops or carefully planted shrubs in the background . |
| 20 | ‘ The independence of the monetary institution can only be conceived within interdependence with a strong economic government . ’ |
| 21 | This change can clearly be related to the country 's net increase of average real income and the emergence of a clear majority of households which owned a car and owned their house ( Table 3.4 ) . |
| 22 | This change can best be described in terms of a shift away from the Interest Principle , as defined by Leech , towards the Irony Principle . |
| 23 | This change can only be a result of conscious policy . |
| 24 | However , the right of use , disposal or ownership of especially valuable items of cultural heritage can only be changed by Supreme Soviet resolutions . |
| 25 | Formulas of this kind can only be the starting point in a process which always demands a sophisticated approach . |
| 26 | As things stand , a dilemma of this kind can only be resolved through the use of cumbersome legal machinery which is not appropriate to the situation . |
| 27 | This case can perhaps be explained on policy grounds as the plaintiff was a rescuer and the courts do not wish to deter rescue . |
| 28 | The importance of this level can hardly be exaggerated today . |
| 29 | This level can only be attained by about 5–10 per cent of the population . |
| 30 | This part can then be positioned within another space by defining its six degrees of freedom for its rigid body motion ( three of translation and three of rotation ) . |