Example sentences of "[noun] can be [adv] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An old fashioned stone yard is ideal , but a good clean well built modern set of stables can be just as good . |
| 2 | ‘ blind kids can be just as spiteful as other kids . ’ |
| 3 | Having your hair cut in a professional salon can be even more traumatic than going to the dentist . |
| 4 | Activity in any single unit can farm part of many representations and the inactivity of a cell can be just as important for representing something as its activity . |
| 5 | The pleasure can be even more enhanced if you are prepared to forego some of the geometry accuracy of urban structures and allow your watercolour paper to pay a substantial role in the formation of your image . |
| 6 | The pleasure can be even more enhanced if you are prepared to forego some of the geometry accuracy of urban structures and allow your watercolour paper to pay a substantial role in the formation of your image . |
| 7 | Avoiding the crossing of a busy road , climbing a steep hill , or passing the shops can be much more important to parents than having to walk an extra few hundred yards . |
| 8 | Bank fishing can be just as productive as fishing from a boat , so even during the high winds that are your frequent companion on Orkney , anglers can always find a sheltered corner from which to attack . |
| 9 | In the short term , he explains , ‘ Confrontation can be even more painful , but it 's the only way , in the end , to treat the underlying reason for over-spending . |
| 10 | Consequently , disease outbreaks can be much more prevalent . |
| 11 | Acts of Parliament and committee recommendations do cause a shift of emphasis , but social and political pressures , academic research , and evolving classroom practice can be just as influential . |
| 12 | With such a small population averages tend to be meaningless but butterfats are generally about 4 per cent and milk yields can be almost as high as a Jersey 's . |
| 13 | The result is that the books can be just as amusing on second reading , which is just as well given the ambitious content . |
| 14 | Slanging matches rarely achieve anything positive , and other anger responses can be even more destructive . |
| 15 | Parents can be just as sensitive to school as their five-year-old child . |
| 16 | People accuse the whites of being prejudiced , but blacks can be just as bad . |
| 17 | On those rare days when the weather has run out of rain and the sun has driven away the clouds , the wrong packed lunch can be just as disastrous . |
| 18 | Unless this is quickly controlled , in a few seconds the glider can be far too high above the towplane . |
| 19 | Sometimes that girl can be so very childish and quite infuriating . |
| 20 | Those among the contented who own to a social conscience may not fully appreciate that the conditions suffered by the urban underclass can be marginally less unendurable than those they have escaped from ( whether in the American South , Puerto Rico or the shanty towns of the West Indies ) . |
| 21 | Voluntary work in the community can be just as useful as anything you may have done in a paid capacity . |
| 22 | ‘ The loss of a pet can be just as upsetting as the death of a member of the family because people become so attached to them , ’ she said . |
| 23 | The loss could well be considerably higher , particularly if you are male or heavily overweight ; but over-high expectations can be just as demoralizing as very slow weight loss , so we are taking a restrained attitude . |
| 24 | Steam cleaning can be just as effective outside as in . |
| 25 | There is a wealth of cheap software written especially for education , but standard application packages can be just as beneficial . |
| 26 | Depending upon the decision unit being assessed , alternatives can be either mutually exclusive to the strategy proposed or else a preferred level of activity compared with alternative levels of service provision . |
| 27 | If heavy bushes are out of place , graceful grasses can be just as efficient . |
| 28 | The idea is to show that environment-friendly modes of transport can be just as quick , if not quicker , than the private motor car . |
| 29 | But in a moment of anxiety , a kind smile can be just as lasting . |
| 30 | Although there has been a growing amount of evidence that rewarding good behaviour can be far more effective in maintaining pupil discipline than punishing bad behaviour , and despite official encouragement for rewarding , there has been found to be ‘ a continuing emphasis ’ on punishments . |