Example sentences of "can be any [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is only if the interests of the child render it appropriate that the courts of [ England ] rather than [ Australia ] shall determine its future that there can be any exception to an order for its return . |
| 2 | It is only if the interests of the child render it appropriate that the courts of country B rather than country A shall determine its future that there can be any exception to an order for its return . |
| 3 | To encourage developers to write more modular software that can take advantage of systems that support Threads — a Thread can be any part of an application or programme that is not dependent on the result or outcome of another ( that can be treated as a task in its own right ) — Posix has a committee working on a Threads application programming interface standard . |
| 4 | This gives great emphasis to the contention that it is only through the teaching of the children that there can be any progress towards a better world , and by which the complete breakdown of man 's fragile and very young civilisation can be avoided . |
| 5 | This case is the most recent in a long line of cases involving the question whether , if the paper owner has no present use for the land , there can be any possession " adverse " to his rights . |
| 6 | This can be any name and need not refer to the programs contained within it . |
| 7 | Presupposition can be any knowledge that enables us " to understand what is said properly and fully " ( p. 84 ) . |
| 8 | These can be any species but Cabomba or Myriophyllum seems to be preferred because of the small leaf structure . |
| 9 | I do not think that there can be any quarrel with those terms . |
| 10 | In vitro transcription studies showed strongest inhibition by actinomycin at XGCY , where X and Y can be any base except G and C respectively [ 22 ] . |
| 11 | A sample rate of at least 8kHz is needed and the microprocessor can be any 8-bit variety with simple software . |
| 12 | Parcels can be any size you like , mine are approximately 14 stitches × 14 rows . |
| 13 | A kilogram or two of surgical plaster or plaster-of-Paris depending on the size of the housing ( you can buy powdered plaster at a chemist 's shop ) ; a dish to act as a mould for casting the plaster block-the dish can be any size from 10 cm × 20 cm up to about 20 cm × 20 cm , but should have a flat bottom and sides that slope slightly outward ; a sheet of glass to cover the housing ; a sheet of black cardboard ; Plasticine ; small blocks of wood or small plastic boxes ( the round boxes used for typewriter ribbons are very suitable ) ; cotton-wool . |
| 14 | Your herb wheel can be any size , and as part of a lawn or a paved area . |
| 15 | But it can be any image that comes to me at second-hand , whether it be postcard , film still , TV or whatever . |
| 16 | The second new router , the Model 7250 , is designed as a low-cost high-performance feeder node for the other RX 7000 models , and is basically a three-port version of the Model 7500 : it holds one forwarding processor and up to three interface cards which — as with the rest of the family — can be any mix of Ethernet , Token Ring or wide area interfaces . |
| 17 | you can be any age from fifty onwards |
| 18 | unc can be any number we care to choose ; different values merely alter the scale of the inversion . |
| 19 | We shall index these markets or islands by the subscript , where z can be any number between 1 and the number of islands in the economy , N. We begin the model by writing down the supply of output in the th market as where is the quantity of output supplied in market in period t ; p ( ) t is the price of output in market in period t ; Formula ; is the expectation formed in market of the economy-wide average price of output in period t , p t , using all the information available in the th market at the beginning of period t ; and β and β : 1 are coefficients , where β 1 is positive . |
| 20 | For every occurence of the parent ( which must be ordered ) , there can be any number of occurrences ( including zero ) of the child ( which must also be ordered ) . |
| 21 | It is free-format text , and can be any number of lines long . |
| 22 | There can be any number ( >=0); of END statements anywhere in a program . |
| 23 | ‘ There can be any number of causes of chest pain , ’ Lindsey smiled reassuringly as she reached for the slender wrist . |
| 24 | In fact the bill can be sold , re-discounted , any number of times before maturity and there can be any number of holders during its life . |
| 25 | I do not think that there can be any combination that we did not try during my time in the parks , and the only thing that did not look positively awful were the short growing , pale , less intense blues of violas and lobelia under pink and red roses — other colours and growing heights were invariably a tasteless rag-bag . |
| 26 | This can be any string of printable characters and spaces up to 64 characters in length . |
| 27 | This can be any amount from £500 to £3,000 — the choice is yours and is based on what you think you will need . |
| 28 | The shares must have a fixed value , which can be any amount . |
| 29 | It must be stressed , in this connection , that the ‘ poetic ’ text in question is not necessarily a part of what is normally described as poetry , but can be any form of literature that possesses aesthetic or artistic properties . |
| 30 | ‘ Well … if you think I can be any use … ’ |