Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] can [adv] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this new state , the rule for unstack can not be applied at all , but the rule for stack has six instances : x is any one of the three blocks ; y is any block other than x . |
| 2 | Special clubs for widows can sometimes be a great help , but not to everyone . |
| 3 | The Scottish Office , after five years of lobbying by the timber trade , and prompted by European Community farm surpluses , has agreed that marginal farmland previously kept for agriculture can now be used for forestry . |
| 4 | Ideas for investigations can normally be generated and developed from almost any mathematical activity . |
| 5 | The similarity between signs can thus be accounted for by historical links , borrowing of signs through contact between signers , or cultural universal propensities to label concepts in particular ways . |
| 6 | Public consultation about policies can therefore be something of a sham where major options and potential developments are either not shared with the public by the corporation or not conceptualized by the public . |
| 7 | Proof-pulling for instance can perhaps be regarded as a mixed process , requiring both strength and skill . |
| 8 | The plaintiffs ' next contention has been described as the proprietary argument to the effect that Mr. and Mrs. Tully are constructive trustees for the plaintiffs of the moneys claimed in the action , that a court of equity will not hesitate to protect and preserve a trust fund in interlocutory proceedings on the principle that , if the trust fund disappears , it will turn out that equity has been invoked to no purpose and that a claim for privilege can not be successfully raised against an order which permits a plaintiff to search for and to seize his own property , including property which is in the possession of the defendant . |
| 9 | With k remaining constant , the equality between the supply of and the demand for money can only be restored if P or Y increase . |
| 10 | Pollution abatement costs for industry can indeed be immense . |
| 11 | Moreover , the piece of data chosen for study can only be partially analysed . |
| 12 | We recognise that the urgent need for homes can only be met by mobilising both private investment and public spending . |
| 13 | IN the West Indies the appropriately coloured rainbow flag for friendship can sometimes be used to replace the plethora of different ensigns ( there are more ensigns than steel bands among the islands ) , but mostly it has become merely an additional flag . |
| 14 | THERE WERE fears last night that the first substantial cracks had opened in the facade of the European Community 's ‘ Project 1992 ’ after finance ministers appeared to concede that the deadline for creating a truly seamless marketplace for traders can not be met . |
| 15 | New tasks for perception can only be carried out in the same way ‘ under the guidance of tactile appropriation ’ ( ibid : 242 ) . |
| 16 | A petition for divorce can not be presented until one year has elapsed since the marriage was formalised , whatever the circumstances may be . |
| 17 | Brian Leith 's The Descent of Darwin : A Handbook of Doubts About Darwin can hardly be recommended in the same terms . |
| 18 | So the case for rectification can not be brought under paragraph ( h ) . |
| 19 | Treatment for Thrush can only be obtained on prescription from your doctor or clinic . |
| 20 | As a general rule , everyone who can sue for libel can also be sued for libel , if responsible for a defamatory publication . |
| 21 | Hypotheses which are worth testing can only be developed in areas about which a good deal is known , i.e. where a great deal of empirical field data has already been collected . |
| 22 | Similarly , a fair exchange of values can only be realized by either a broad doctrine of unconscionability or a reversal of the rule that a court will not assess the adequacy of consideration . |
| 23 | Because the amount of VideoRAM can only be used to give a higher resolution OR more colours there is an inevitable trade-off . |
| 24 | Such Marxists are arguing that whatever people may believe subjectively about their own freedom to make choices which will shape their society , the true locus of change can only be understood in terms of the objective laws of motion and requirements of the capitalist mode of production . |
| 25 | This deep-rooted process of change can now be brought to bear on the ‘ official ’ health system as the signing of the peace agreements between the government and the FMLN has ushered in a period of more open political struggle and has created new political spaces . |
| 26 | In this context , two agreed conclusions of the 1985 meeting of experts can usefully be quoted : |
| 27 | This second type of exclamation can not be analysed in exactly the same terms as the first type , however , since the infinitive refers to an event which has already occurred and not to one whose occurrence is an object of someone 's longing or desire . |
| 28 | ‘ Whilst there may be sanctuary men and sanctuary women — ’ he pointed out , producing as it were his trump card , ‘ — since children can commit no crime for which asylum would be needed , the privilege of sanctuary can not be extended to them . |
| 29 | Intact physical structures which enable one to see , hear , taste , smell and touch , and those which permit speech and body language are basic to independence , although some degree of impairment can often be compensated for or coped with . |
| 30 | There are those critics of the polytechnics who regard this as a most unfortunate development and would go so far as to castigate them for betraying their primary purpose , which they see as providing for the communities in which they are located , something which of necessity can only be done primarily through part-time provision . |