Example sentences of "it can be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once a decision has been made , then quite honestly the sooner it can been done the better . ’ |
| 2 | To suppose that it can is an assumption long ago undermined by Hume , that one can infer from ‘ is ’ to ‘ ought ’ from purely descriptive premisses to a prescriptive conclusion . |
| 3 | It can be fun as well . |
| 4 | However , it can be possible for the documents to be signed after you have sent a payment by cheque provided that you arrange for us to hold the cheque and not pay it into the bank until we have received the signed Deed of Covenant . |
| 5 | Since Gift Aids applies to a single gifts it can be a very useful means of making a charitable gift towards the end of the tax year when your taxable income for the year can be estimated with some degree of precision . |
| 6 | The content of each lesson is agreed beforehand in consultation with teachers so it can be tailored to the priorities and individual needs of the school or class . |
| 7 | Everything exchanged in the secret correspondence has to be tiny so it can be hidden in the palm of the hand : pills , passport sized pictures of the family . |
| 8 | Some writing which is called art criticism will be helpful , some will not ; other writing will also be valuable , although whether it can be described as art criticism may be disputable . |
| 9 | A different sort of response to art is to use it as a means of learning more about the society in which it was produced ; this may be felt by a theoretician to be more important than to know the artist 's intentions , which , it can be argued , are determined by society . |
| 10 | This stance is partly a reaction against what Krauss saw as a dominant position in American criticism , by which ‘ the art of the last hundred and thirty years , the art of modernism , is not being well served by writing that promotes the myths through which it can be consistently misread ’ . |
| 11 | I can not see the necessity of the shadow cast by a half-opened drawer in the kitchen table. , It is encouraging to find Fry underlining a point about critical writing — that with a description of a work of art it can be useful to be given an explicit account of how the critic responds . |
| 12 | It can be identified with p'ing yuan , when one is able to see ‘ from the near parts to the furthest parts ’ . |
| 13 | This is an aspect of description , while it can be suggested that other religious , political or social concerns are more properly matters of interpretation . |
| 14 | Well , it can be said that he does not allow his mercilessness to go undetected on this occasion . |
| 15 | It can be said in his favour that the Michael X set seemed very like a fraud and a circus , and that these people had no deep connection with the politics of Trinidad . |
| 16 | It can be said of these strong-minded and independently gifted accomplices that their work shows a dimension of reciprocity and replication , of the production unit , which stands at an appreciable remove from parody and plagiarism , and from the mimicry of other people 's voices which is comprehended in the term ‘ ventriloquism ’ , which Amis goes in for in private , among friends , and which is also a pleasure of the novels he writes . |
| 17 | There is no biographical key with which it can be unlocked — and I have not been trying to turn one in this essay of mine , which does not believe it , for that matter , to be locked . |
| 18 | Nevertheless it is an utterance of the Amis who has made himself known on other occasions , and it can be none the worse for being read by those who are able and disposed to pay intelligent attention to this range of information — which is not to imply that the information may not be disastrously misunderstood . |
| 19 | But if this is so , it can be seen to make possible biographical connections of a usable kind . |
| 20 | Whether or not it can be seen as Kelman 's self-portrait , it is the portrait of an artist . |
| 21 | University acting can be very good and technically aware , or it can be immensely self-indulgent and over-academic , full of theory and sparse on craft . |
| 22 | It can be well worth the additional expense of some private tuition for the audition and gaining one to one advice on your material . |
| 23 | And it can be particularly useful to have some background in this area , as a first job may often be that of an ‘ acting ASM ’ — particularly if you join a small touring group or a Theatre in Education company . |
| 24 | The new actor is generally operating in top gear and if this momentum is stopped it can be very damaging to the morale and can result in an actor 's technical skills going rusty — something to be avoided at all costs . |
| 25 | To simplify a rather complex historical phenomenon , it can be said that the present political division between Fianna Fail and Fine Gael originates in positions taken by opponents in that war . |
| 26 | It can be made , he wrote , but it can not be thought . |
| 27 | Depending on its strength and the time required for it to reach maturity , a beer must stand for 12 to 48 hours before it can be drunk . |
| 28 | WHY is it that hotel owners and operators put so much emphasis on recruiting professional ‘ hotel designers ’ to create the right hotel , but , when it comes to the inclusion of leisure facilities , then they appear to approach any designer , with the impression that it can be addressed from a design viewpoint just like any other area ? |
| 29 | So , for example , if wine is being checked , it can be counted by the case or by the bottle . |
| 30 | Pay about £45 a case for a wine from the Classico hillsides and it can be a revelation . |