Example sentences of "can [adv] be [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dissolution of diagnostic minerals , together with alteration of others , can significantly modify original grain composition , particularly as the original grain can rarely be confidently identified ( e.g. Fig. 5.36b ) . |
| 2 | They can merely be well expressed thanks , comments in newsletters , public congratulations , even sometimes a small but symbolic gift . |
| 3 | The problem of aesthetic modernism can perhaps be best approached via the time-tested framework of the sociology of modernized . |
| 4 | Penality can also be found ‘ at every bloody level ’ , although it can perhaps be roughly divided into ( material ) penal practices and ( ideological ) penal rhetoric . |
| 5 | Profit diagrams can only be intelligibly drawn for strategies involving investments with the same expiry dates . |
| 6 | Indeed , this is particularly relevant to a run-time recognition application , since data can only be meaningfully processed in one direction anyway ( i.e. left-to-right ) . |
| 7 | So I think that there 's , I welcome , you know , the Social Chapter on that basis , but it does clearly say , and prescribe , er something that can only be universally applied , and if there are , there is need , there is need , er there is scope for that , with delegation through particular industries , particular circumstances . |
| 8 | Finally , it is as well to realise that the title of ‘ karate champion ’ can only be legitimately conferred by a national governing body recognised by the Martial Arts Commission . |
| 9 | The interview transcripts run to some 121 pages and can only be superficially summarized here . |
| 10 | If that were so , there would scarcely be a government in the last 100 years which could be regarded as legitimate , but it is those uses of power and law which seem to betray or which can only be reasonably explained by a contempt for or at least an impatience with the principles of limited government and a belief that the rightness of the policies to be executed excuse or justify the methods whereby they are executed . |
| 11 | However , this can only be successfully achieved along undogmatic lines and in a spirit of goodwill and co-operation between our leading national institutions . |
| 12 | Most of the ideas , techniques and strategies described in Part Two hold good for working with young children , but it is worth devoting time to a specific discussion of how one might adapt the work on still image and forum theatre for use with this age group , as they are sometimes thought to be strategies that can only be successfully used with older children . |
| 13 | Crucially , their Interim report submitted in March 1920 noted the intimate connection between housing , transport and the ultimate distribution of land uses of all kinds , including residential , commercial and industrial , so that the housing question ‘ can only be successfully attacked by the simultaneous consideration of all these aspects over a wide area ’ . |
| 14 | Moreover , the piece of data chosen for study can only be partially analysed . |
| 15 | The crucial issue which this sort of situation emphasises is the vital importance of perception between persons of different cultures , which can only be partially ameliorated by the procedure suggested by James Lee . |
| 16 | The same overproduction ethos , that of turning out in principle reproducible cultural goods based on unskilled labour , and to which meaning can only be implausibly attached , underscores his 1978 ‘ Oxidation ’ series , in which aleatory colour schemes are created through Warhol urinating on bronze- or copper-covered canvases . |
| 17 | We believe that results can only be properly evaluated if the problems connected with the study are made manifest rather than concealed . |
| 18 | But the significance of the political and religious events of the mid sixteenth century , and in particular Mary 's part in shaping them , can only be properly understood in the context of the traditional political and social patterns which had created the sixteenth-century Scottish kingdom . |
| 19 | Legal issues , like other technical problems , can only be properly understood within their broader social context , and this is especially so when our purpose is not only to understand the world , but to change it . ’ |
| 20 | Now , in a very real sense socialisation can only be properly understood as an aspect of all activity within human societies . |
| 21 | Each sphere is typically characterized by a representative institution , cohesive structures of practices , organized and patterned , which can only be properly understood in terms of their transnational effects . |
| 22 | Vitamin deficiency Vitamin deficiency can only be properly diagnosed and treated by a doctor , but there are certain fairly obvious signs which should be noted , bearing in mind that an old person who is obese can still be suffering from malnutrition and vitamin deficiency through eating the wrong kinds of food . |
| 23 | This can only be properly tested in a laboratory , but all dyes used today are both permanent and colour-fast . |
| 24 | Any model of skilled reading which incorporates this view can only be properly tested if the mechanism by which unfamiliar printed letter strings are translated into phonological form is described in adequate detail . |
| 25 | ‘ Popular music ’ ( or whatever ) can only be properly viewed within the context of the whole musical field , within which it is an active tendency ; and this field , together with its internal relationships , is never still — it is always in movement . |
| 26 | The text from the Canticle of Canticles 2:4 ordinavit in me caritatem ( he set in order charity in me ) distils imaginatively Hilton 's understanding that love can only be properly expressed through a disciplined orientation of the particular gifts and powers of the self to God . |
| 27 | The answer is , of course , that the position of a word boundary has some effect on the realisation of the phoneme ; this is one of the many cases in which the occurrence of different allophones can only be properly explained by making reference to units of grammar ( something which was for a long time disapproved of by many phonologists ) . |
| 28 | The back position can only be properly used in strong winds on a reach ; in lighter winds the board will just sit on its tail causing lots of drag . |
| 29 | The view that the ethical aspects of preventive trials can only be properly considered locally is unjustified . |
| 30 | It is that such questions can only be properly pursued in the company of the disciplinary studies . |