Example sentences of "can [be] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ When he 's nice he can be that way , ’ Mona looked up gravely from her school work . |
| 2 | Your attitude can be that of a winner or a loser . |
| 3 | ‘ The ground of any action based on negligence is the concurrence of breach of duty and damage , and I can not see how there can be that concurrence unless the duty still exists and is breached when the damage occurs . |
| 4 | The ground of any action based on negligence is the concurrence of breach of duty and damage , and I can not see how there can be that concurrence unless the duty still exists and is breached when the damage occurs . |
| 5 | The result can be that line endings may not match or letter and word spacing are different . |
| 6 | you know , that could be a sort of central way of getting that back could n't it if if it can be that sort of you know comments about being more confident , being able to get on with it . |
| 7 | If quality is to be controlled in a tight and limited way , the price can be that of narrowness and aridity . |
| 8 | It can be such a mild disease , and so like other childhood illnesses , you can never be absolutely sure you have had it . |
| 9 | In the office , he can be such a hard taskmaster that his closest aide , Gabriella Forte , describes his attitude before each new collection as a ‘ rape of the staff ’ . |
| 10 | In the Dialogues Berkeley shows awareness of the possible accusation of unfair dealing : he admits ‘ spiritual substance ; although [ we ] … have no idea of it ’ , while he denies that ‘ there can be such a thing as material substance , because [ we ] … have no notion or idea of it ’ . |
| 11 | Because urinating tends to wash out the urethra , and because the urethra can be such a rich source of diagnostic material , the doctors will always prefer a male patient to have held his urine , if possible , for three hours or more before attending for tests . |
| 12 | That 's really good support , because writing can be such a lonely profession . |
| 13 | If an athletics official can be such a thing , he is a legend in his own lifetime . |
| 14 | It can be such a mild disease , and so like other childhood illnesses , you can never be absolutely sure you have had it . |
| 15 | And for disabled people , too , cooking can be such an effort of organisation , that they are sometimes tempted not to do anything . |
| 16 | ‘ God sent all artists here because it can be such a drag to be on this planet , ’ said the star . |
| 17 | But it can be such a hard choice . |
| 18 | Just as two beliefs can be such that they can not both be true , so two attitudes can involve wishes that can not both be realized . |
| 19 | All these may be particularly vexed in the residential home or school for the disabled , where sexual needs can be such that only physical assistance in one way or another can meet them . |
| 20 | Two conditions must be met before there can be such an appeal : |
| 21 | It needs support from an explanation , in terms of the conditional theory , of how there can be such counter-examples . |
| 22 | The first , and most natural , reaction to this is to reject the suggestion that there can be such things as non-descriptive , simple referential symbols . |
| 23 | This is not to say , however , that in certain applications , the use of ‘ normal ’ in-rack sprinkler systems is not perfectly satisfactory where the arrangement of sprinklers can be such that a number of them can be brought in early against the fire , or where the nature of the goods stored is such that flames are unlikely to damage them within the first few moments of fire development . |
| 24 | Because their faith tells to rejoice , but circumstances of life can be such that rejoicing is the one thing that they can not do . |
| 25 | You can be such a bore , Lucien . ’ |
| 26 | Word processing can be such a liberation from what most young people would call the drudgery of pen and paper that it is as bad to ban it as to ban calculators . |
| 27 | ‘ Diplomacy can be such a tangled web . ’ |
| 28 | Thus it does appear that the search space can be such that an admissible algorithm will perform in an excessively breadth-first manner . |
| 29 | Men can be such bastards … ’ |
| 30 | As far as one can assess the merit of Levin 's text in relation to its subject , it seems somewhat implausible that Debord can be all the things for which he is proclaimed . |