Example sentences of "can [be] an [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This can be an actual defensive stroke or merely padding up . |
| 2 | There can be an overall standard approach . |
| 3 | Did n't Yvonne say she can be an awkward old devil ? |
| 4 | And certainly there 's the fitness , activity side , that can be an important motivating thing . |
| 5 | The Institute does not require that potential students shall have achieved any special competence in a language other than English , but would underline that such knowledge can be an important additional aid to extra profitability . |
| 6 | The concept of honour , artificial as it can often seem , can be an abiding emotional force in fiction , but only when it is demonstrated fully and specifically through believable characters as well as believable action . |
| 7 | Furthermore these economic agents are not necessarily human subjects ; capital can be an anonymous economic agent , in the form of the managed enterprise . |
| 8 | My earlier use of ‘ translation ’ to cover both interpretation and compilation into a lower-level language is not intended to carry any suggestion that the lower levels , including the lowest level of all , the machine 's registers , can be an interesting formal semantics for the higher levels , let alone what the highest level ‘ is about ’ . |