Example sentences of "can [adv] [verb] [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | But come away with Club 18–30 , share your precious two weeks with others who , like you , want to make friends and have a good time all the time , and you 'll find out why we can justifiably claim to be ‘ Fun Factor ’ Number 1 . |
| 2 | Although overdue , two elements of the bill can properly claim to be breaking new ground . |
| 3 | AS A LEAD-UP to the World Cup , I thought I would check to see who can rightly claim to be called favourites for the tournament . |
| 4 | And that means that even the AS/400 is potentially at risk , and can only continue to be a winner if IBM builds in a big discount to compensate for the fact that it is proprietary — yet instead of recognising this vulnerability , with its incredible but consistent short-termism , the company is squeezing AS/400 users until they squeal with its software pricing on the machine . |
| 5 | What has been said above about sampling can only hope to be the very lightest of scratches on the surface of what is a vast subject in itself . |
| 6 | This is not a wholly negative development , but in the new atmosphere it creates antiracist initiatives can only appear to be a patronizing and unacceptable form of special pleading . |
| 7 | It can only appeal to be welcomed to the Friend 's breast ( 110 ) , to seek ‘ pity ’ for its harmful deeds ( 111 ) . |
| 8 | Hence Sharon and partner Martin can only get to be with their pedigree chum for a few precious hours on Sunday mornings at kennels in Wickford . |
| 9 | However , issues like those listed above can only begin to be seriously addressed if more fundamental assumptions about primary practice are challenged at the same time . |
| 10 | It grows into a small-too-medium-sized tree which will tolerate fairly hard pruning , but can nevertheless persist in being rather unshapely . |
| 11 | To say that the patient can not demand to be stabbed because he can not suspend the operation of the criminal law and absolve the other of liability begs the question , depending as it does on a determination of what the criminal law is . |
| 12 | but we can not demand to be desired , for desire operates in complex , often unconscious ways . |
| 13 | Can not cope with being criticized , seems depressed |
| 14 | People expect risks they did not ask for and can not control to be much lower -by 10 or 100 times — than those which they run willingly . |
| 15 | Just as a leader can not exist without followers , so too strategic vision can not exist without being so recognized by followers . |
| 16 | Red , oedematous swelling ; burning and stinging pains ; face puffed and pitted ; swollen eyelids ; can not bear to be left alone ; very sensitive to touch or pressure ; sweat comes and goes . |
| 17 | Intense pains , neuralgic pains , can not bear to be touched , in agony ; worse ( < ) night and especially in the evening . |
| 18 | And Michael Palin can not bear to be scrutinised . |
| 19 | They have satisfied all physical desire , but still can not bear to be parted . |
| 20 | The Government can not pretend to be concerned with security at army barracks and then , without regard for the soldiers , put them on the streets of London as easy targets for the terrorists . ’ |
| 21 | The Government can not pretend to be concerned with security at army barracks and then , without regard for the soldiers , put them on the streets of London as easy targets for the terrorists . ’ |
| 22 | But Scotland , with an economic base now concentrated on light rather than heavy industry , and services and decision-making centres far away from Edinburgh and Glasgow , can not hope to be spared the effects of recession . |
| 23 | It can not hope to be complete , but with luck Bromberg will even now be working on a detailed history of the TFTR experiment . |
| 24 | The aim of this small investigation , which can not hope to be truly scientific , is to investigate the extent of the problem and to see if there are any obvious patterns . |
| 25 | None of these difficulties are likely to trouble us much in daily life , but they remain genuine difficulties none the less and raise issues of fundamental importance ; for if there can be no absolutely reliable and unequivocal criteria for deciding whether any given existent remains numerically , and not merely qualitatively , the same from one moment in time to the next , then we can not hope to be able to " define " the distinction between numerical and qualitative identity in terms of the criteria of particular-identification . |
| 26 | Over a twelve-month period a field-worker 's persistent inquisitiveness is bound to become something of an irritant , and van Maanen notes how field-workers can not expect to be liked by all respondents ( 1982 : 111 ) . |
| 27 | For I can not expect to be offered help , nobody else will care to take a turn at the heavy work of pushing . |
| 28 | Mr Crosby said : ‘ I also have 10 important League matches left and have said all along that if we do n't win these as well I can not expect to be given the job here . ’ |
| 29 | If a surveyor does his work badly it goes without saying that he can not expect to be paid for it , but usually the client will also wish to claim damages as financial compensation . |
| 30 | Teenagers who consistently fail to let parents know when they will be home , or where they are likely to be , can not expect to be allowed to stay out to all hours . |