Example sentences of "it can certainly be [vb pp] that " in BNC.

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1 It can certainly be argued that the twin-Messiah theme appears in the New Testament , albeit in drastically modified and probably garbled form .
2 Of the classes visited , it can certainly be said that those in which the teaching and the interest of the students revealed vitality , enthusiasm and the promise of sustained interest in the subject far outnumbered those in which a short and superficial survey … seemed all that the tutor was prepared to offer or the class prepared to accept .
3 But though this supposition may be fairly accurate , it can certainly be stated that a slavish adherence to principles of precise proportions can not in itself be an absolute guarantee of good musical form , which , as we have stressed again and again , depends on the satisfaction of psychological and emotional needs .
4 In support of the proposition that the development of the nouveau roman corresponds to the transition from modernism to postmodernism , it can certainly be shown that the early productions of the nouveaux romanciers are susceptible to readings which to some extent meet the criteria of psychological realism so important in modernist aesthetics .
5 In these respects , it can certainly be claimed that the polytechnics have by and large measured up to their original specification .
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