Example sentences of "[conj] can [adv] be [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Almost by definition , crises are periods when the normally routinized operations of the bureaucracy are insufficient or can not be relied on , when decisions have to be quickly pushed up through the chain of command , and where unusually large and direct role in controlling policy implementation has to be taken by political leaders . |
| 2 | It has also set out some rules about which menu items can or can not be increased in price . |
| 3 | The court will set aside a decision if it is taken by someone who is not or can not be appointed as the expert . |
| 4 | This they consider ‘ a more accurate representation of the everyday notion of burden [ and ] a more sensible concept for deciding if the real cost of a certain project can or can not be postponed to future generations ’ . |
| 5 | If , also , market failures are relatively unimportant , or can adequately be offset by other policies , then on balance , privatization is likely to be desirable . |
| 6 | Buildings — and not just historic ones — represent energy , labour and materials , which either can not be replaced or can only be replaced at enormous cost . |
| 7 | Liquidity is the degree to which the company assets are in the form of cash or can readily be converted into cash . |
| 8 | Liquidity is the degree to which the company assets are in the form of cash or can readily be converted into cash . |
| 9 | We need one more equation between our variables that can again be provided by Gauss 's law . |
| 10 | If one manages to find the simplest method at the first attempt that can mostly be attributed to good luck . |
| 11 | It produces data that can easily be expressed in statistical form . |
| 12 | Perhaps by analogy with this he began to see that animal species too are in a state of dynamic equilibrium with one another and with the environment , an equilibrium that can easily be disturbed by geological changes or by the immigration of new species into the area . |
| 13 | Mung beans are very small green beans that can easily be sprouted at home for use as a salad vegetable . |
| 14 | On the other hand , noticeable deviation from typical target-language patterns of chunking information and signalling relations is likely to result in the sort of text that can easily be identified as a translation because it sounds ‘ foreign ’ . |
| 15 | What that means , among other things , is that feminists who engage in this kind of research must refuse easy answers , answers that can easily be accommodated within the system as it is now . |
| 16 | I always accept any little presents from clients , especially if it 's cash , or anything that can easily be changed into cash . |
| 17 | a simple embedded mark-up that can easily be used by other tools . |
| 18 | The APB went on to observe that ‘ … the degree of reliance that can reasonably be placed on financial statements will decrease as the length of time that has elapsed since their approval by the directors increases ’ . |
| 19 | The highest level of verbal information that can reasonably be expected from an automatic tagger is the transitivity of the verb . |
| 20 | Another example that can loosely be referred to as scavenging is bone collecting by harvester ants ( Shipman & Walker , 1980 ) . |
| 21 | For Ullman is concerned with types of perceptual process that can plausibly be attributed to many animal species . |
| 22 | It brings points to the notice of the authorities that can well be overlooked in the dayto-day running of the force ; points that can , when corrected , benefit a great many people . ’ |
| 23 | Provided the model relating population to these land-cover data is reasonably good , the resulting relationship can then be used to estimate populations for any set of imposed or natural areal units that can also be located on the image . |
| 24 | At the garden centre you can obtain bags of granite chippings that can also be used as decor for the aquarium base , although it is no use where high turnover undergravel filtration is in use as it soon blocks and becomes covered in a blanket of waste matter . |
| 25 | The PB800 is ideal for the athlete who wants a spike that can also be used on the country . |
| 26 | From Deleuze and Guattari , Lecercle picks up the idea of the potential violence of the institution of language which , as they point out , is not so much a neutral entity that can best be analysed by looking at " normal " ( i.e. declarative ) sentences as a series of other people 's slogans organised into a system of power-relations . |
| 27 | Perhaps the most important aspect of this persona is the extent to which , in terms of intratextual characterization , it overlaps with the figure of the clerc/clers , a term that can best be translated as " student " in this context . |
| 28 | The political emphasis for these and other initiatives has been crucial to a Conservative government set on a course of action that can best be described by the phrase ‘ small is beautiful ’ . |
| 29 | This explains why women place a high priority on the right words , soft music , anything that can generally be attributed to romance . |
| 30 | ‘ ( a ) no evidence shall be admissible in any proceedings before a judicial authority exercising its jurisdiction or functions in Great Britain to prove that any such person has committed … any offence which was the subject of a spent conviction ; and ’ ( b ) a person shall not , in any such proceedings , be asked , and , if asked , shall not be required to answer , any question relating to his past that can not be answered without acknowledging or referring to a spent conviction or spent convictions or any circumstances thereto ; … ’ |