Example sentences of "[be] can be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The evidence that has led people to think that it may be can be illustrated by an example . |
| 2 | The far world not the The unspiritual world that that we can You see the pride in the eye , that with that that that that can be can be another women or it can it can be cosmetics , it can be a dress to women or it could be another man . |
| 3 | can be can be |
| 4 | It is revealing that , in a very similar way , to be can be present or omitted in an actual non-finite clause where it signals the passive of a verb phrase although its presence is generally preferred : ( 48 ) Cromwell ordered the Abbot of Reading ( to be ) tried and executed immediately The same insertion is sometimes superficially possible for predicate qualifiers ; but in reality this indicates a main verb which is semantically compatible with the relation of either construction ; an example would be like ( or want ) which makes it possible for us to set ( 49 ) beside ( 8 ) : ( 49 ) Alastair likes his beef tea to be strong However , with most preceding verb phrases , such a change to the predicate qualifier construction will produce a result which is ungrammatical and may even present difficulties of interpretation : ( 50 ) ( a ) the children have kept the fish-tank clean : how have the children kept the fish-tank ? ( b ) the children have kept the fish-tank to be clean |
| 5 | Erm particularly your question Mr chairman about er the principle against which such a criteria can be can be judged . |
| 6 | The problem of thinking we are attaching the same meaning to a word or action when we may not be can be appreciated humorously . |
| 7 | I , I , I think Chairman that on the , the case to which you refer as , as I recollect it was very much on the specific wording of the er restriction which erm was found to fail , because it applied to a number of houses and not to a specific property and er clearly care will have to be given by the districts that happens in imposing conditions to make sure that it will erm appertain to each individual property within a development so that the occupancy condition can be can be informed . |
| 8 | Dostoevsky 's letter to Katkov asserting that crimes like Raskolnikov 's can be found in the newspapers also discusses motive . |
| 9 | If , as Hugh Kenner believes , Pound never ceased to love Dorothy even while he loved Olga , this is surely part of what he loved in her , an aspect of what she meant to him ; and so Pound 's feelings for and about England were , right to the end , not much less tormented than any English reader 's can be . |
| 10 | Of course VP 's can be found by projective geometry without calculations . |
| 11 | Given the plan of a house , its VP 's can be found simply by drawing parallels to its walls from E to the PP . |
| 12 | Claims such as Professor Brenner 's can be political dynamite . |
| 13 | Rather I will draw out my criticisms of what I am calling ‘ theoretical reformism ’ to the point where the need for more radical approaches like Spender 's can be appreciated more clearly . |
| 14 | The crucial difference with the likelihood ratio test is that the models that provide the 's and 's can be highly non-linear . |
| 15 | She 's can be |
| 16 | A fair guide to how wonderful The Palace is can be found on the reverse of a ticket , which is a coupon for 75 cents off a Jack In The Box quarter pound New Old Fashioned Patty Melt . |
| 17 | just how dark each region is can be measured in an automatic scanner which passes a tiny beam of light through it and records how much is transmitted . |
| 18 | ‘ So , ’ said Juliet , ‘ if Tunney or Richie Quick or whoever he is can be fooled by a designing woman in each of his adventures , I do n't see why you should n't get the dividend on his blind spot . ’ |
| 19 | An idea of how good this is can be estimated by choosing a laser power of 100 W at 500 nm , ε = 0.3 , gravitational waves of frequency I kHz and of a few milliseconds ; the estimate is This implies an optical path length of 150 km , e.g. 150 passes over arms I km long . |
| 20 | The last function in Figure 1.1 is financial control and , is can be seen , it makes contact with all the others . |
| 21 | Er another idea is is which I think is can be useful here , particularly in comes to focusing problems and difficulties at work is the idea of a behavioural analysis , okay ? |
| 22 | Now , the relationship between how much labour there is , how much it 's actually going to cost with labour and plant to do something , and what the bill rate is can be anything . |
| 23 | I can not do not think I am can be mistaken in my belief that our meeting was also important interesting to you , and that however much you may value your seclusion |
| 24 | Lower than a thousand units er there 's no immediate affect and one 's tempted to think that erm the er er it 's , that radiation 's therefore safe below that level and that 's not strictly true because there is the possibility of a long term affect it can actually cause cancer in the long term but with very low er ra- er levels of risk cos you can see down at the levels where people actually get radiation doses er like erm members of the public or erm from the actual background of people who work in nuclear power stations , you 're talking about very low levels but the levels , those sort of levels I mean one in three hundred thousand , one in three million , that sort of thing you ca n't actually measure in real er populations because there er any effects that there are can be swamped by other ways of getting er of getting cancer . |
| 25 | ‘ Our plea is for a hell of a lot more epidemiological research to find out the causes , so that whatever problems there are can be addressed . ’ |