Example sentences of "can be [verb] that [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Without going into any further detail it can be concluded that prey composition must be used cautiously in any attempt to identify predators by their prey assemblages . |
| 2 | Some stars can be seen that way if the conditions happen to be appropriate , but children will not get very far as astronomers unless their own resources are supplemented by those accumulated by the tradition of astronomy built up over the centuries . |
| 3 | From these three major sources it can be seen that rape and sexual assault are very rarely the subject of investigative journalism outside of some judicial context . |
| 4 | Furthermore , it can be seen that feature lists would be duplicated for words such as ’ dance ’ , ’ ball ’ , ’ party ’ , etc. , which is grossly inefficient , and would result in very complex feature lists for each word in the lexicon . |
| 5 | It can be seen that audit firms with five or more audits hold 90% of the market , with a further 5% of the market taken by audit firms with a single listed client . |
| 6 | Use of suitably placed video-monitors greatly improves display potential , and when the cost of this equipment is compared with the cost of staff hours for teaching , it can be seen that provision of suitable display equipment is a relatively cheap way of increasing the cost-effectiveness of an online teaching programme . |
| 7 | It can be seen that consensus of this sort is very different from compromise or voting . |
| 8 | Increasingly in some areas it can be seen that settlement sites occupied in the Roman period continued through post-Roman times to form the basic framework of medieval and modern villages and hamlets . |
| 9 | From Table 6.1 , it can be seen that interest payments on bonds and loans are an allowable deduction from earnings before tax but that dividends on both preferred shares and ordinary shares are not . |
| 10 | From this very brief review of second language learning , it can be seen that BSL acquirers have a great deal in common with those struggling with any spoken language . |
| 11 | It would seem that the originators of atonality believed that their music was really completely non-tonal , but by now it can be seen that atonality is really an obscuring of tonalities in varying degrees . |
| 12 | From this it can be seen that recruitment will be most effective if everyone is involved and understands the problem . |
| 13 | From Table 9.6(a) it can be seen that bank financing has always played a major part in financing British industrial and commercial companies . |
| 14 | It can be seen that fault/failure diagnosis is a small part ( on average only 8% ) of the problem-solving process . |
| 15 | It can be argued that audit committees are unlikely to be a remedy for the particular problem of auditor/shareholders relationships since , as members of the board , the audit committee members logically form a channel of communication with the board rather than with shareholders . |
| 16 | Because ‘ energy and matter are fundamental both to physics and chemistry ’ , it can be argued that physics and chemistry are not completely different subjects , but part of one body of knowledge . |
| 17 | The unreliability of reported mergers has been argued for most strongly by Labov and his colleagues ( Labov , Yaeger and Steiner , 1972 ; Labov , 1975 etc. ) , and for inner-city Belfast it can be argued that meat is not really merged with mate , despite the fact that people believe that it is a merger . |
| 18 | The introduction of life peerages was partly designed to broaden the base of membership but it can be argued that life peers have not made as large a contribution to the work of the House as had been hoped . |
| 19 | Alison Kelly sees at least four distinct senses in which it can be argued that science is masculine . |
| 20 | It can be argued that town planning has its origins in the early cities of , say , Egypt or Mexico , or in the architecture of Renaissance Europe . |
| 21 | For this reason , the method has attracted heavy criticism from a number of statisticians and methodologists ; however , it can be argued that quota sampling is informed by sociological principles at least . |
| 22 | So it can be argued that adoption is in fact a less successful aspect of child care policy than it appears . |
| 23 | It can be argued that forestry production in Europe must be increased considerably in the coming decades . |
| 24 | It can be argued that tendering will give the best result from the vendor 's point of view , as each purchaser is likely to submit his best offer and therefore in the absence of knowledge of the level of other tenders , may pay a figure far in excess of the nearest competitor . |
| 25 | But it can be argued that marketing has a significant role within any social work agency . |
| 26 | It can be argued that community care still remains essentially sexist in that it assumes a large labour force of low-paid women to staff the formal sector . |
| 27 | But it seems to me that the wife might thereafter have offered to return and might have ceased to be in desertion , and that clause 2 would at that stage and in that event have been in operation : therefore it does not seem to me that it can be said that clause 2 was not of value to the husband . |
| 28 | In this respect it showed concern for the welfare of all men , and consequently it can be said that satyāgraha whenever it is implemented involves sarvodaya . |
| 29 | But if it can be proven that overfishing of sand-eel is the principal cause of the problem , we can only hope that remedial action can be taken before it is too late for our important sea-bird colonies to recover . |
| 30 | Since no comment is made on the author being recently dead , it can be assumed that publication had been arranged while Leapor was still alive . |