Example sentences of "can [adv] [be] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In contrast , in visual art the emphasis is more on the individual performance , so there can obviously be more dialogue with the particular child about his or her intentions in relation to the actual work being produced . |
| 2 | On other occasions we detect language which can only be that of James , the third-person narrator . |
| 3 | The conclusion can only be this : that if a ‘ radical extension ’ of industrial democracy means the appointment of trade union representation to the boards of companies , then the case for it — always improbable in principle — has been shown by events to be insupportable . |
| 4 | Further on in the above entry he admits he can only be less than himself in company . |
| 5 | Always used to be half term , but Milvia it can only be half an hour ! |
| 6 | Its true supporters can only be those who agree with the inevitable Federalist outcome of such a policy . |
| 7 | Clearly , given the depths it has recently plumbed ( as shown in the Treasury survey above ) , there can not be much more downside even in the face of a tax-raising Budget . |
| 8 | The clues lie , probably , in an informality of style ; in signs — at least — that someone has thought about the environment of the office ; evidence of a lot of the agency 's work around the place ( if they have nothing to be proud of ; they can not be much use ) ; an approach which is clearly geared to the idea of selling . |
| 9 | The relation between stress and strain in rubbers and other polymers capable of high reversible extensions can not be that of Hooke 's law except at the start of the deformation where the strain approaches an infinitesimal value . |
| 10 | SR can not be all things to all women — it must be a reflection of the concerns of its editors , like any magazine and we must remember how harmful struggling for control of our ‘ tiny slice ’ of power can be and put our astonishing energy and feeling into creating a world in which we can expand and fill our rightful share of Smiths with our chosen , positive images of women — the men are n't going to do it for us . |
| 11 | No one person can be blamed for the tragedy just as Lear can not be all the victim nor all the instigator . |
| 12 | This nature presumably explains the truth that if a is a causal circumstance or cause of b , then b can not be such of a . |
| 13 | You can not be such a pessimist . |
| 14 | There can not be many who would say the same of Tyson . |
| 15 | There can not be many missing girls of her class . |
| 16 | There can not be many Catholics in Halifax who have not been to an event at St. Mary 's ! |
| 17 | There can not be many women who run their homes as efficiently and as mechanically as a factory , or to the kind of strict timetables that the domestic manuals printed a generation or two ago would have us follow . |
| 18 | Is , ‘ Surely there can not be many |
| 19 | There can not be many lyric-writers who have begun their careers in the theatre by dancing Scheherazade in a strip-club in Los Angeles , gone on to appear at La Scala , Milan and then to play the title-role in Mother Company . |
| 20 | There can not be many general booksellers who do not broaden their product range beyond books at certain times of the year . |
| 21 | Even given the expenditure that the Government have devoted to the public sector , there can not be many Ministers who find themselves in such a favourable position . |
| 22 | There can not be another omnipotent god , in the way that there can not be two monarchs or two presidents or two tallest men . |
| 23 | There can not be another 42 with so little use , this boat is in as new condition . |
| 24 | There may be restrictions on the type of instruction which can be executed in this way ; for example , in the IBM 370 range it can not be another execute . |
| 25 | This is impossible since turnover can only fall to zero , it can not be less than this amount . |
| 26 | Some or all of the authorized shares will be issued to shareholders ( and are called issued shares or called-up shares ) , with an issue price which can exceed the par value but can not be less than the par value . |
| 27 | Lastly , the value of the call option can not be less than the difference between the share price and the exercise price : . |
| 28 | Lastly , the value can not be less than the difference between the exercise price and the share price : |
| 29 | Secondly , though such a society may exhibit the tension , already described , between those who accept the rules and those who reject the rules except where fear of social pressure induces them to conform , it is plain that the latter can not be more than a minority , if so loosely organized a society of persons , approximately equal in physical strength , is to endure : for otherwise those who reject the rules would have too little social pressure to fear … |
| 30 | who thereupon took the road to heterodoxy in his disappointment : this can not be more than a fragment of the story . |