Example sentences of "can [adv] [prep] [noun sg] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rapid industrial growth in the latter half of the nineteenth century promoted a political culture that can only with caution be described as radical . |
| 2 | ‘ We have two wills on file , ’ Timothy Hutton said , reaching the end of whatever internal debate he had been having , ‘ but the second , which was made in anticipation of her marriage to Mr Hawick , can not of course be submitted for Probate since that marriage did not take place . |
| 3 | The speaker 's failure to comment overtly on syntactic structure here can not of course be interpreted as reliable evidence that he habitually uses and understands the construction . |
| 4 | It can not of course be the case that syntactic variables do not pattern socially or stylistically ; some of them plainly do , as the work of , for example , Cheshire has shown . |
| 5 | And I think that the alternative of the new settlement is by far the best solution , provided it is mixed with some peripheral development , one ca n't go into a position where there is all peripheral development or all new settlement , it has to be in perfect balance , because some needs can not of course be met by the new settlement . |
| 6 | This can be achieved through consideration of the poles of although these poles can not of course be reached through variation of the real pulsatance ο . |
| 7 | The Family Shakespeare from which were omitted " those words and expressions which can not with propriety be read aloud in a family " . |
| 8 | In the face of Norwegian opposition , the Joint Committee was forced to conclude that the ‘ difficulties are so significant that they can not at present be solved by the participating countries ’ . |
| 9 | Whether this homology results in a functional similarity can not at present be decided but is rather improbable , since the homologous element in the snRNA gene is located immediately upstream of the transcription initiation point , an atypical position for a snRNA activator ( see 30 ) . |
| 10 | I can not at present be more specific about when I shall be able to deliver the items to you , but if it is important for you to have a specific time , could I ask you , please , to get in touch in a day or so . |
| 11 | Wood which concluded : ‘ The non-treaty Nez Perces can not in law be regarded as bound by the treaty of 1863 ; and in so far as it attempts to deprive them of a right to occupancy on any land its provisions are null and void . ’ |
| 12 | If an ex-pupil of an education authority bequeaths £10,000 on the condition that the money is invested and the interest earned is awarded as a prize to the best academic performance each year , the money can not in law be used to keep local taxes down . |
| 13 | He states : ‘ What Hale is saying is that for the purpose of the law of rape the consent given at the time of the marriage ceremony can not in law be revoked . ’ |
| 14 | Although this proposition is unlikely ever to be falsified , nevertheless one can not maintain that it can not in principle be false . |
| 15 | These codes are quite different from the models of poetics because they can not be reduced to a structure , and consequently the text itself can not in turn be reduced to a structural homology of a code . |
| 16 | But although organic molecules are the essential components of modern living things , they can not in isolation be considered living . |
| 17 | It can not in reality be a rational actor in the game-theory sense of having a fixed order of priorities in its policy goals . |
| 18 | When a stress is applied to a solid the response can not in reality be instantaneous and , in polymers , in particular , elastic " after-effects ' ( to use the phrase of Weber in 1835 ) are found . |
| 19 | The problem with ( 5.44 ) , of course , from the point of view of estimation , is that the coupon payment dates differ for different bonds and that there are more coupon payment dates than the number of bonds available , so that ( 5.44 ) as it stands can not in fact be estimated . |
| 20 | The inadequateness of the term , however , insofar as it offers a univocal description of an extremely heterogeneous section of the world , also means that a suitable alternative general category can not by definition be produced . |
| 21 | In contrast , exchange rate fluctuations can not by definition be a source of uncertainty in world trade under a fixed exchange rate system . |
| 22 | You can also of course be selective about both activities . |
| 23 | In 35 , each part of the sentence contains an occurrence , either direct , or indirect via anaphora , of the ambiguous adjective light , and can therefore in theory be interpreted in two ways : |
| 24 | It must always involve an excess beyond the totality without which the totality could never be totalized , which must mean that it can never in fact be closed . |