Example sentences of "[pron] can [adv] be [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This article , then , is motivated by a dissatisfaction or a discomfort with most of what passes for television theory : the doubts about the existence of anything which can usefully be called television theory are real . |
| 2 | In the very strongest language , which can rightly be called anger , Jesus expresses his seven woes against religious leaders who put religiosity before worship of the true and living God ( cf. Matt. 23 ) . |
| 3 | Although application forms can be very thorough and very revealing there are some questions which can only be asked face to face , and in an interview where a good rapport has been established . |
| 4 | They can also be divided crossways into three regions , a well-defined head ( cephalon ) at the front , usually equipped with a pair of eyes , a thorax with a variable number of articulated segments , and at the back end a tail ( or pygidium ) formed by the fusion of several segments . |
| 5 | they can only be doing damage to th to the election chances I mean |
| 6 | Although craft activity in some form was carried on almost everywhere , whether it can properly be termed industry depends very much on the objective and scale of the undertaking . |
| 7 | It can also be called velours paper or velvet paper . |
| 8 | The contents of the discussion were not revealed but it can safely be assumed Border made it clear he felt Marsh , dropped along with Mark Waugh , should have been spared , not least because of his loyal service . |
| 9 | What can properly be called art is still , in majority , an inherent and inseparable element of some other purpose . |
| 10 | But the assembling of separate tales to form some larger whole is a distinctive feature of medieval literature with a history of its own , apart from the history of what can properly be called compilationes . |
| 11 | It is clear that these larger groups or phyla have arisen because of what can only be called co-evolution : the changes to take place in their body types have been more or less continuously in tune with evolutionary changes in their habitat or environment . |