Example sentences of "can [adv] be [verb] to be " in BNC.

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31 If the explanation given is correct , however ( and no other suggests itself ) then there is no reason to prevent the prosecutor who has elected in favour of the substantive offence from seeking to amend so as to substitute the conspiracy count instead : a straight exchange of counts based on the same facts can not be said to be over-burdensome .
32 That can not be said to be a full description of reason within the disciplines , for they can not be sustained without values and judgement .
33 Some change is certainly necessary , but by itself can not be said to be sufficient or specific .
34 If the purpose of the law is to protect women from acts of sexual intercourse to which they have not in fact consented , whether by reason of force actually applied , physical or other threat , or fear induced by the accused or by others , then the relevant question would appear to be : Did this particular woman , in these particular circumstances , submit to this particular man ; or did she in fact freely consent to have intercourse with him ? … if the law deems the woman to have consented to the act despite ample evidence of threats which rendered her submissive but non-consenting , then the law can not be said to be serving its true function of protecting individuals from the imposition of non-consensual sexual intercourse . ’
35 The decision in Rask is , of course , considerable help in support of the contention that the claim would otherwise have succeeded , but can not be said to be conclusive on the point , since it is for the national court to evaluate all the circumstances when assessing whether there was in any particular case a transfer of a business .
36 A man can not be said to be truly willing unless he is in a position to choose freely , and freedom of choice predicates , not only full knowledge of the circumstances on which the exercise of choice is conditioned , so that he may be able to choose wisely , but the absence from his mind of any feeling of constraint so that nothing shall interfere with the freedom of his will ( Scott LJ in Bowater v Rowley Regis Corporation [ 1944 ] KB 476 ) .
37 Nevertheless , all these matters are only indicative , and can not be said to be conclusive .
38 Alternatively , the pursuer 's advisers may appreciate that being unable to produce better vouching , the claim can not be proven to be worth more than the Tender which is , consequently , accepted .
39 The point is that it can not be presumed to be , without careful enquiry into the whole range of factors that bear upon educational decisions .
40 Hence those who take a floating charge from a company which can not be proved to be solvent , and which does not survive for a further year , can not thereby obtain protection in respect to their existing debts , but only to the extent that they provide the company with new value and thus increase the assets available for other creditors .
41 And the human species can not be considered to be eternal either , as we know it did not always exist in its present form , nor can we expect it to have an infinite existence .
42 Q7 " A firm can not be considered to be genuinely marketing-orientated unless it has a thorough understanding of its markets , its customers and their problems . "
43 Learning to draw Islamic patterns at Eid , or Rangoli patterns at Diwali can not be considered to be mathematics unless the mathematical ideas embedded in the patterns are fully explored — considering rotation , reflection and translation can turn this investigation into one where the place of mathematics in different cultures is clear rather than leaving one feeling that examples of important geometric ideas are somehow ‘ outside ’ the real world of mathematics .
44 A As you have had such success in breeding your fish , and raising the fry to a reasonable size , you can not be judged to be doing anything wrong .
45 That can not be judged to be fair or equitable . ’
46 While it certainly can not be claimed to be a panacea for all ills , and no system of therapeutics has yet turned out to be that , it is an approach which I would not like to be without .
47 So , while regression can not be claimed to be the be-all and end-all of therapeutic treatment , it is certainly an important stage .
48 which can not be shown to be justifiable irrespective of the person to whom it is applied .
49 which can not be shown to be justifiable irrespective of the colour , race , nationality or ethnic origins of the person to whom it is applied .
50 The problems of life-histories and oral history are fairly self-evident : they can not be shown to be representative or valid .
51 If shareholders can not be shown to be morally entitled to the corporate property then they have no antecedent moral right to exercise or allocate the power that flows from it , and accordingly the property rights justification of corporate power must fail , and with it , the project of explaining companies as private shareholder domains .
52 There are claimed benefits in academic progress and in social and emotional maturity , but the solution to the basic problem of the language and learning environments can not be taken to be solved in the mainstreaming option .
53 The metabolic concentrations can not be taken to be representative of analgesic ratios .
54 This is because the apparent uptake at one hour can not be taken to be the true uptake in view of the high level at time 0 , which must represent adherence to the cell wall ( Fig 4 ) .
55 This may well have been the intention , but in fact the implications are clear : demolition rates are too low , compulsory purchase of homes for redevelopment is inevitable in the future ; owner-occupiers can not be trusted to be the final arbiters of whether their homes arc unfit' ; and some existing environments may be so drab as to be not worth preserving' .
56 Nevertheless , although generalizations arrived at by legitimate inductions can not be guaranteed to be perfectly true , they are probably true .
57 given that those that are employed today can not be guaranteed to be em to be employed tomorrow and that the three thousand in essence comprises of a constantly changing group of people , I do n't see how anyone can argue that future employment provision is geared towards anybody .
58 ‘ The manufacturing of electrical and electronic components in the year 1964 … can not be adjudged to be a special use nor can the bringing and storing on the premises of metal foil be a special use in itself … .
59 It is also the case that people 's sex can not be held to be an effect of their job or their work record ; sex must be assumed to be causally prior to both of these variables .
60 Yet this is a ability rather than a benefit , and on these grounds the trust can not be held to be valid .
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