Example sentences of "[adj] can be [vb pp] [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | This can be understood to be a truce . |
| 2 | ( 10.45 ) By a comparison with ( 10.37 ) and ( 10.19 ) , this can be seen to be a generalization both of the above Ferrari Ibañez solution and also of the Szekeres class of solutions described in Chapter 9 . |
| 3 | ( vi ) The solution of Tsoubelis and Wang ( 1989 ) given by ( 10.44 ) has ( 11.33 ) This can be seen to be a generalization of ( 11.29 ) and ( 11.32 ) , and its properties can immediately be deduced . |
| 4 | This can be seen to be in accordance with the Yerkes-Dodson law if it is assumed that more difficult tasks are those which require greater attentional capacity ( c.f. Kahneman , 1973 ) . |
| 5 | Finally , we know that ( A believes that ) B has been to A's present location before because of the word again : this can be claimed to be a pragmatic rather than a semantic implication just because , unlike semantic implications , those associated with again are not normally negated by the negation of the main verb . |
| 6 | Algebraically , this can be shown to be equivalent to , If the energy required to propagate the crack by producing the two new fracture surfaces were really confined to C , the free surface energy ( which is seldom much above I J/m 2 ) , then simple arithmetic will show that , at any realistic stress level , the critical crack length would be very short indeed , perhaps around a micron . |
| 7 | All molecular vibrations therefore have some zero-point energy , and this can be shown to be equal to one half of a quantum , so that the total vibrational energy of a molecule with only one normal vibration is where ν is the vibrational quantum number , a positive integer or zero . |
| 8 | Knowing these devices for narrowing down contextual possibilities does not imply that one can judge how best to act upon such knowledge , how much can be left to be inferred from context , how much needs to be made grammatically explicit . |
| 9 | Advantage should be taken of external courses where these can be shown to be relevant and cost effective . |
| 10 | While the current situation in chip fabrication capability appears to be parity , the next frontier for the industry will be the portable devices known as Personal Digital Assistants ; since miniaturisation is a skill of Japanese manufacturers , these can be expected to be made in Japan , and all the strategic alliances made to date reflect this . |
| 11 | But it still leaves us with the crucial problem that Sartre had to solve , namely how to link human consciousness with the processes of history so that the former can be said to be the agent of the latter . |
| 12 | The underlying quarrel in marriage is frequently about how often each can be allowed to be the baby . |
| 13 | This for Lévi-Strauss is tied up with the business of ‘ science ’ , which aims to discover truths that are universal and that can be seen to be a product of their method . |
| 14 | ‘ At one extreme , one might say : ‘ Here is a person who escaped from custody in Belfast ; therefore , whatever flows from that can be taken to be entirely his own fault . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ It must proclaim , too , that responsibilities are as important as rights ; that there are no excuses for crime ; and that even those who have turned out to be bad can be helped to be good . ’ |
| 16 | Someone in possession with the consent of them both can be said to be in possession ‘ with consent of the owner . ’ |
| 17 | Both can be seen to be intermediate in form between their humbler , undeveloped counterparts , and those sites characterized by a more complex irregular network of streets behind the frontages . |