Example sentences of "[conj] can be " in BNC.

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1 There are other ways of description , which may incidentally be employed by a critic , or can be useful to a reader as a check on the validity of a verbal description .
2 Site & soil Sweet peppers crop well in growing bags , planting 3 per bag , or can be grown singly in 9in pots of potting compost .
3 This word universal is never the name of anything existent in nature , nor of any idea or phantasm found in the mind [ my italics ] , but always the name of some word or name ; so that when a living creature , a stone , a spirit , or any other thing , is said to be universal , it is not to be understood that any man , stone etc. , ever was or can be universal , but only that the words , living creature , stone , etc. , are universal names , that is , names common to many things ; and the conceptions answering them in the mind are the images and phantasms of several living creatures or other things .
4 Stavrogin is a killer — or can be — but he does nothing : ‘ the light in his eyes seemed to go out . ’
5 Such poetry is invulnerable , existing in a self-sealed and selfjustifying realm called ‘ aesthetic ’ , from which no appeal is allowed , or can be made , to other realms like the ethical or the civic .
6 One feature of English verse that is scanted by this method , or can be acknowledged only incidentally , is one that every careful reader knows from his or her experience : tempo , the speeding up or slowing down of enunciation , and therefore of apprehension , as we read through a line or through several lines in sequence .
7 Sensitive and controversial topics often occur naturally in the conversation , or can be introduced in what appears a casual manner , because the social context encourages this .
8 You believe pop is or can be art , but that belief is sustained by only very rare instances .
9 Tertiary qualities are those arrangements which change , or can be changed by , the corpuscular arrangements of other things .
10 ‘ It being the same consciousness that makes a man be himself to himself , personal identity depends on that only , whether it be annexed only to one individual substance , or can be continued in a succession of several substances . ’
11 When ‘ man ’ , ‘ stone ’ , or ‘ living creature ’ is said to be ‘ universal ’ , we are not to understand that ‘ man , stone ’ , etc. ever was or can be universal , but only that these words , ‘ living creature ’ , ‘ stone ’ , etc. , are universal names , that is , names common to many things .
12 Someone weighing 9 st ( 57.2 kg ) can have a large proportion of flabby fat or can be trim and taut .
13 They can live in hot springs , or can be dredged from the deepest abyssal depths of the ocean ; the latter are grotesque gargoyles that seem to belong in the paintings of Heironymus Bosch .
14 Aggravations are minimised , or can be regulated .
15 The fluid sample care be used to tell the sex of the child , or can be grown in tissue culture to identify whether there is either a chromosomal abnormality , such as Down 's Syndrome , or a neural tube defect such as spina bifida or hydrocephalus .
16 The member of staff on playground duty can be taking a policing role or can be using the time to motivate and interest children .
17 If you 're buying a car stereo , try to get one which is either security coded or can be easily removed and taken with you when the car is parked .
18 In many instances , however , a related or competitive product of a similar type which is known to , or can be presumed to , exhibit satisfactory stability under market conditions , can often be included and can provide valuable help in the evaluation of the test data .
19 The horns are of middle length or can be quite long , and they vary in style according to the herd 's origins , but commonly those of the cow grow outwards , forwards and then upwards .
20 It is the fragmented state of these religions that is so tragic , for , whilst the need for a god would appear to he overwhelming , no convincing description of what ‘ god ’ is , or can be , is as yet available for all to accept .
21 The question as to what is , or can be considered to be , productive and unproductive labour , and productive and unproductive consumption , has been the subject of hot debate , going back to Adam Smith and beyond .
22 Rubber Girl stores easy in raft or can be blown up to add extra floatation .
23 It is hoped that , by 1993 , European symbols will be marked on consumer goods demonstrating if they are reusable or can be recycled .
24 Some of the ‘ trapped ’ learn that a trap is not so bad after all ; some traps can prove quite comfortable or can be modified to suit the individual .
25 Those who blame most and ask least — ‘ You never do anything for me ’ , ‘ You never take me out ’ — are usually very vulnerable , deprived people with little basic trust that others will or can be helpful .
26 They can be shop-bought in leather , in ring form , or can be home-made .
27 What is or can be as superlatively silly or ruinous to the nerves as that silly girl , snivelling and laughing by turns over a ‘ love story ’ ?
28 Flies can be captured in the summer months with a net attached to your car bumper or another area while you drive along or can be ‘ hatched ’ from anglers ' maggots .
29 Furthermore , this jack can deliver two different pickup signals or can be adapted to provide on/off switching when used with battery-powered circuits .
30 They will wash four to six place settings , can stand on the draining board or worksurface , or can be built in below using a kit supplied by the manufacturer .
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