Example sentences of "can [be] [adv] misleading " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is customary to divide the Council into a ‘ conservative ’ minority and a ‘ progressive ’ majority , but such a description can be profoundly misleading . |
| 2 | Their report is of little practical use and in some cases can be positively misleading , but the building societies and banks insist upon having it . |
| 3 | However , care should be exercised in the use of dictionaries of surnames , because none is quite infallible and some entries , in even the best of them , can be positively misleading , as the detailed example which forms the last section of this chapter demonstrates . |
| 4 | The orthography of the written output should not vary , of course , and a reliance upon the phonological codes of words can be positively misleading . |
| 5 | The word ‘ clinically ’ here can be dangerously misleading , for the decision being made has a major ethical component . |
| 6 | An analogy such as I have just drawn in this three act drama of salvation can be dangerously misleading . |
| 7 | But such distinctions can be very misleading indeed . |
| 8 | Remember that ‘ flavourings ’ count as additives , even though they have no E-numbers , and that ‘ No Artificial Additives ’ can be very misleading — some ‘ natural ’ additives are potentially harmful ( see p 306 ) . |
| 9 | The appearance from the surface can be very misleading . |
| 10 | But this is only part of the story and can be very misleading . |
| 11 | This can be very misleading , either because the study was inherently faulty — in design , performance or analysis — or because , though a valid study , the results were not suitable for generalization . |
| 12 | So that 's very , very important because it can be very misleading and you could be fooled into thinking that there 's nothing wrong with the baby , then there 'll also be swelling of the hands , feet and the eyelids might swell up , the medical word for that is oedema which you may well see in books , which means swelling occasionally the overlying skin is |
| 13 | It became clear during this work that there is some uncertainty and confusion about identity among many Laz themselves , and that representatives of these people elsewhere in Turkey can be very misleading . |
| 14 | ‘ In those narrow alley-ways sounds carry strangely and can be very misleading , especially at night . ’ |
| 15 | And certainly precision — unless carried to the ultimate degree , as in Madame Saint-Ange 's Livre de Cuisine or Julia Child 's Mastering the Art of French Cooking — can be more misleading than vagueness . |
| 16 | ‘ Outers ’ can be so misleading ! |
| 17 | When used by certain political interests on both sides of the Atlantic to reproduce the myth of migrant mobility it can be extremely misleading . |
| 18 | Blanket comparisons between white , Afro-Caribbean and Asian pupils of the kind prevalent in most investigations can be highly misleading . |
| 19 | Only about 40 per cent of the electorate vote in local elections ( the turnout in the 1985 English shire county elections , for example , was 41 per cent ) but such a figure can be highly misleading . |