Example sentences of "can [adv] [be] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It should be remembered that a company can only be the firm 's appointed representative if the firm accepts responsibility for the whole of the investment business it carries on on the firm 's behalf . |
| 2 | It can only be the plans for the house alterations , ’ she guessed . |
| 3 | These figures can only be the tip of the iceberg when we see the low rates of eligibility for maternity benefits and full time participation in the paid labour market for mothers with young children ( S. McRae , Maternity Rights in Britain , 1991 PSI ) . |
| 4 | Greenpeace say that this can only be the tip of the iceberg , as far more arrives clandestinely . |
| 5 | and outside where those students sit , I thought the young people were when you read some of that in paper the cigarette ends and crisp packets , well that can only be the students , I mean people go through but they 're not |
| 6 | This might be a glitch in the translation , but when Casaubon observes , ‘ Life is n't simple , the way it is in detective stories ’ , the gobsmacking banality can only be the author 's . |
| 7 | Given the pluralistic nature of society , they can only be the product of hysteria and demagogic manipulation . |
| 8 | The demise of capitalism can only be the consequence of a political struggle and it is the course of this struggle between classes , in the conditions created by the development of the capitalist mode of production , which we now have to examine . |
| 9 | During the lexicographic stage this can only be the result of the creation of a new entry . |
| 10 | It states that , apart from stochastic disturbances emanating from u , , deviations of output from its full employment , natural value can only be the result of errors in predicting the price level . |
| 11 | Formulas of this kind can only be the starting point in a process which always demands a sophisticated approach . |
| 12 | This can only be the web of Textrix denticulata , a small and prettily marked relative of the large house spider , which makes sheet webs in houses and outhouses . |
| 13 | it considers such an education to be the greatest safeguard against the dangerous growth of State power , to be indispensable for the preservation of an effective democracy and to be the one , moreover , which can only be the province of a voluntary independent movement ; |
| 14 | Many of the pieces can not be the beginning because they suggest that something has already happened . |
| 15 | 1 Which pieces are these ? 2 What clues in each one make you believe that they can not be the beginning ? |
| 16 | That , he seemed to insist , can not be the locust of our individuation . |
| 17 | It can not be the subject of this book , which has to be about what happened in Europe . |
| 18 | It is unlikely , however , that a traveller will bring luggage to the inn , and since the traveller 's car and goods contained therein can not be the subject of a lien , cases where the lien is exercised over the property of a traveller are rare . |
| 19 | Not merely is the Criminal Division of the Court of Appeal hardly the most suitable tribunal to determine complex questions of civil law — the pressures on the court 's time aside — but the very fact that this is the Criminal Division carries with it the consequence that whatever we decide can not be the subject of appeal : see section 33 of the Criminal Appeal Act 1968 . |
| 20 | The reaction of Ukraine to the Russian parliamentary decision came in a Foreign Ministry statement , reported on May 25 , which said that " the status of the Crimea is an internal Ukrainian matter which can not be the subject of negotiations with another state " . |
| 21 | The statement said that the " status and fate of the Crimea as a component part of Ukraine can not be the subject of any interstate negotiations " . |
| 22 | But a little reflexion on such cases shows clearly that , whatever might be the element restricted by the adjective , it can not be the subject of the clause . |
| 23 | The publication of intimate details of private lives without the slightest public interest justification can not be the subject of legal action , unless they have stemmed from a breach of confidence or some other legal wrong . |
| 24 | However , the Yates decision should not be regarded as authority for the proposition that a collection of individually non-confidential items of information can not be the subject of confidentiality where the confidentiality lies in the fact that they are collected together . |
| 25 | We are not aware of these lines and angles of theoretical geometrical optics ; they can not be the intermediary by which we perceive distance . |
| 26 | It follows therefore that if the sole member is also a director , he or she can not be the secretary . |
| 27 | If one can not be the favourite oneself , at all events nobody else shall be the favourite . |
| 28 | It was conceded that where the attitude of respect is based on false assumptions and on nothing else , and where it does not cohere with the person 's other attitudes and beliefs , it can not be the foundation of authority . |
| 29 | Clearly this can not be the case . |
| 30 | This can not be the case since the men are fully in control and direct the lives of the people of Tigray . |