Example sentences of "[noun] can be [vb pp] [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | This causes no problem , as the defendant can be said to be at fault whenever he commits a tort . |
| 2 | Such organizations can be said to be poorly designed . |
| 3 | Examples would be where the witness can be shown to be unreliable , biased or prejudiced . |
| 4 | The police car can be said to be represented as a " welcome sight " , and there is therefore a reference to the time before its appearance which is not present in the sentence with the subordinate clause . |
| 5 | Even from the point of view of ‘ saver ’ , let alone ‘ worker ’ , conservative/speculative management of funds can be shown to be damaging : savers ' interests lie in ensuring that when they retire , or reach a specified age , the pensions , endowments or annuities they receive will support a reasonable standard of living . |
| 6 | The induction in the core is magnified by the high permeability , except in the saturation regions where the result can be seen to be a trapezoidal induction waveform ( Fig. 3 ) . |
| 7 | It requires the cooperation of every citizen , and no law which unreasonably infringes the freedoms of that citizen can be expected to be effective . |
| 8 | Yet , as Mary Ainsworth ( 1969 ) points out in relation to the concept of attachment between mother and child ( monkeys included ) , a mental or physiological condition can be said to be present even when it is not visible in behaviour . |
| 9 | Whereas for Horvath and Sankoff ( as noted above ) the linguistic variables are ‘ well defined ’ , this is not so in a dialect-divergent community : in such a community few of the linguistic variables can be said to be defined at all . |
| 10 | The criterion of distortion is that statements are made about the society which by social-scientific methods can be shown to be positively in error , whereas selectivity [ i.e. primary selectivity ] is involved where the statements are , at the proper level , ‘ true ’ , but do not constitute a balanced account of the available truth . |
| 11 | It went to the extent of stating , ‘ … the TUC could not at any stage commit itself in advance to approve or acquiesce in the methods to be adopted to reach full employment simply because those methods can be shown to be well fitted and even necessary to the achievement of that objective … |
| 12 | ( Whether old people living in residential homes can be said to be living in the community is a separate issue , some aspects of which are considered in Chapter 7 . ) |
| 13 | This is a remarkable development and leads to a sharp distinction according to whether the alleged improper trading practice can be shown to be within the purview of the Treaty as affecting ‘ trade between member states . ’ |
| 14 | Kenner 's fantasy is being discussed in terms of the view — with which Kenner can be expected to be very familiar — that the goals of a biographically-minded criticism are in some measure fantastic . |
| 15 | By virtue of being hand-made , all oriental rugs can be said to be unique — a weaver , no matter how hard he or she tries to follow a particular design , will invariably make small mistakes or innovations which will impart some individual flavour to the work — but it is rare to encounter a rug in which the weaver has consciously striven to express his own creative ideas at the expense of a traditional design . |
| 16 | It is otherwise where the employee can be considered to be part of the " brains " of the company , ie sufficiently senior for his acts to be regarded as those of the company . |
| 17 | The range can be seen to be surprisingly restricted , however , with the emphasis on basic services ( especially metalworking ) at most sites ; more specialized activities are less well represented . |
| 18 | Is it not possible that French influence can be made to be felt once more ? |
| 19 | The debate on the BBC 's future , prior to the renewal of its charter in 1996 , is another area where his influence can be expected to be felt . |
| 20 | Some people were outstanding and became the deified men and women of the great religions , and their lives can be shown to be relevant to the conception of the Created God . |
| 21 | It could well and easily be replaced by a doctrine which has it that the surgeon 's act carries liability only if good faith and due care and skill can be shown to be lacking . |
| 22 | The sites and forms of these have constantly been changing , so that often what appears as a nucleated village around a green can be shown to be the last , and a relatively late , development in the landscape . |
| 23 | The barbs can be seen to be separate branches lined with polyps . |
| 24 | We can therefore approximate the IRR for Project A as follows : By similar analysis the IRR for Project B can be calculated to be 20.5 per cent . |
| 25 | If my lady can be said to be amusing . |
| 26 | For most pupils , however , assistance can be expected to be found from within the school 's own resources . |
| 27 | Burrough ( 1986 ) suggests that the area of the map covered by lines can be assumed to be an area of uncertainty . |
| 28 | In areas of permeable rocks with sub-parallel valleys the terrace fragments on the spurs have breaks of slope both at the back and the front , and , in favourable circumstances , terraces at quite close height intervals can be shown to be distinct from each other . |
| 29 | Since the new forms of treatment set up have not reduced the demand for state hospital admissions and the alternatives so far devised have not guaranteed more cost-effective services , the move into the community can be seen to be reaching a critical stage of development . |
| 30 | A major contribution of Weinreich , Labov and Herzog ( 1968 ) and the quantitative paradigm has been to demonstrate that heterogeneity in the speech community can be shown to be have patterns in it . |