Example sentences of "can [adv] be [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 31 | 3 Whether the employer impressed on the employee the confidentiality of the information Thus , though an employer can not prevent the use or disclosure merely by telling the employee that certain information is confidential , the attitude of the employer towards the information provides evidence that may assist in determining whether or not the information can properly be regarded as a business secret . |
| 32 | An important corollary of the present discussion is that circuit components of centimetre dimensions can properly be regarded as discrete until the frequency gets as high as about 300MHz ( recall discussion of this topic near the beginning of section 4.3 ) . |
| 33 | This led him to doubt whether authentic religious belief can properly be tied to and bound up with particular historical events . |
| 34 | It now remains to ask what to many is the most difficult question , whether , given that the services are available , albeit on a limited basis , they can properly be denied to certain patients.3 This raises not only the issue of fairness or justice , but also that of selective treatment and respect for life . |
| 35 | Put another way , the area which can properly be called the ‘ tectonic Pacific ’ is one of relatively low altitude that is bounded by a ring of islands and mountains which have been — and are still being — formed by the geological processes that occur when one tectonic plate bumps into and grinds against another . |
| 36 | For though some historians doubt whether such a loose conglomeration of territories , each with different traditions and customs , cobbled together by " an unholy combination of princely greed and genealogical accident " and just as likely to fall apart again , can properly be called an empire , none doubts the accuracy of the term Angevin . |
| 37 | He thereby makes what happens , the smell , into what can properly be called a matter of real chance . |
| 38 | The resistance , to my mind , does not amount to what can properly be called an argument . |
| 39 | A typical example — if any can properly be called typical when patterns of voting differ so widely — is provided by the 1987 election in Longford-Westmeath . |
| 40 | What can properly be called art is still , in majority , an inherent and inseparable element of some other purpose . |
| 41 | But the assembling of separate tales to form some larger whole is a distinctive feature of medieval literature with a history of its own , apart from the history of what can properly be called compilationes . |
| 42 | Still more rare should be cases where a stay can properly be imposed in the absence of any fault on the part of the complainant or prosecution . |
| 43 | Still more rare should be cases where a stay can properly be imposed in the absence of any fault on the part of the complainant or prosecution . |
| 44 | Moreover , if it is right here that the tax was repaid as a matter of extra-statutory discretion , and interest from the date of Nolan J. 's order was paid on the same basis , it is not clear to me how a review of the discretionary refusal to pay interest which was not due in law can properly be examined by way of judicial review . |
| 45 | But it is only against such a background , I submit , that the issue of the technological imperative can properly be understood . |
| 46 | Secondary objectives of the project are to develop an appropriate framework within the linkages between financial markets and dynamic efficiency gains can properly be understood ; to assess empirically the role and effectiveness of the market for corporate control in promoting dynamic efficiency gains ; and to provide a stronger basis for policy in the areas of stock market regulation , competition policy , and support for innovation in relation to these long term efficiency considerations . |
| 47 | It is a judgment about moral limits and one which reasonable adults can properly be expected to make in a democratic community . |
| 48 | Examples can be found in the research literature on elderly people , where it is reported that those without children tend to form equivalent ties with whichever kin are available , typically a niece or nephew , although there is some doubt about whether such a person can properly be expected to provide such extensive or reliable support as a ‘ real ’ child ( Townsend , 1965 ; Allan , 1983 ; Wenger , 1984 ) . |
| 49 | On the contrary , to emphasise the personal and private nature of moral or immoral conduct is to emphasise the personal and private responsibility of the individual for his own actions , and this is a responsibility which a mature agent can properly be expected to carry for himself without the threat of punishment from the law . |
| 50 | As with the latency period , there is some difference of opinion as to whether adolescence can properly be considered as a specific life-state or whether it should be viewed as a largely cultural phenomenon of more " advanced " , or technological , civilisation . |
| 51 | For the above reasons and those contained in the speech of my noble and learned friend , Lord Templeman , which I have had the privilege of reading in draft , I would allow this appeal on the ground that the courts are entitled to substitute some different protection in place of the privilege against self-incrimination , providing that such protection can properly be considered as adequate protection . |
| 52 | If , however , the apparent consent is brought about by dishonesty , there is nothing in the words of section 1(1) , or by reason of any implication that can properly be read into those words , to make such apparent consent relevant as providing a defence . |
| 53 | In the words of Lord Greene in Davies v Collins [ 1945 ] 1 All ER 247 : Whether or not in any given contract performance can properly be carried out by the employment of a sub-contractor , must depend on the proper inference to be drawn from the contract itself , the subject matter of it and other material surrounding circumstances . |
| 54 | If I thought that the present case raised the question which has been held in suspense by more than one writer on constitutional law — namely , whether an assembly can properly be held to be unlawful merely because the holding of it is expected to give rise to a breach of the peace on the part of persons opposed to those who are holding the meeting — I should wish to hear much more argument before I expressed an opinion . |
| 55 | If one regards the benefit in this light I can not see that the cost incurred in , or in connection with , the provision of the benefit , can properly be held to include the cost incurred , in any event , in providing education to fee paying pupils at the school who were there as a right in return for the fees paid in respect of them . |
| 56 | If I thought that the present case raised the question which has been held in suspense by more than one writer on constitutional law — namely , whether an assembly can properly be held to be unlawful merely because the holding of it is expected to give rise to a breach of the peace on the part of persons opposed to those who are holding the meeting — I should wish to hear much more argument before expressing an opinion . |
| 57 | In my opinion no such implied agreement can properly be inferred . |
| 58 | ( This is no doubt in some way concerned with the employee 's honesty. ) 2 The nature of the information itself Information will only be protected if it can properly be classed as a business secret or as material which , while not properly described as a business secret is , in all the circumstances , of such a highly confidential nature as to require the same protection as a business secret eo nomine . |
| 59 | Despite plans for market integration in Latin America and between the United States , Mexico and Canada , it is only in relation to the European Community that integration can properly be discussed at present . |
| 60 | I have dealt at length with these tedious and superficially unimportant details because they are the only area of activity in Anselm 's years as archbishop in which a clear , persistent , and deeply felt course of action — such as can properly be described as a ‘ policy ’ — can be detected ; and if we are to understand his mind , we must understand the importance which he attached to this issue . |