Example sentences of "[noun sg] 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 | Examples would be where the witness can be shown to be unreliable , biased or prejudiced . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | It requires the cooperation of every citizen , and no law which unreasonably infringes the freedoms of that citizen can be expected to be effective . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Is it not possible that French influence can be made to be felt once more ? |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Discussion of the benefits to the manufacturer of vertical separation and of imposing restraints on downstream firms reminds us that one way the whole issue can be thought of is as a principal-agent problem of delegation . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | If my lady can be said to be amusing . |
| 16 | For most pupils , however , assistance can be expected to be found from within the school 's own resources . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | If all these separate grams occur then the candidate string can be said to be allowable . |
| 20 | Under present law an article can be stolen without being taken away . |
| 21 | When a whisker grows from solution or from vapour there generally first appears a very fine filament or leader which in the electron microscope can be seen to be almost perfectly smooth . |
| 22 | Hunter ( 1980 ) sees parallels with other pressures for change : ‘ arguments for participation in the classroom can be seen to be linked with the growing agitation for community participation in politics , industrial democracy and the feminist and anti-racialist movements ’ ( pp. 231 — 2 ) . |
| 23 | Here , in ( ii ) , the utterance provides the clue : B has to go to Edinburgh ; thus if A and B are both far from Edinburgh ( and mutually know this ) , so that it will take the rest of the day to travel and do things there , then B is busy today ; sob is indirectly producing a reason why he or she ca n't easily come to see A , and in so doing can be understood to be refusing A's request . |
| 24 | Bukharin 's own theory of capitalist crisis can be said to be one of disproportionality . |
| 25 | The structure of this process can be considered to be made up of three main parts : |
| 26 | One problem for the non-native speaker of English is to decide when a group can be assumed to be familiar . |
| 27 | Notes : All members of this group can be expected to be aged 60 or more and approximately 66 per cent female . |
| 28 | It has been argued that special attention should be focused upon the resilience and potential for recovery of the soil profile in view of the inputs induced by man ( Trudgill , 1977 , chapter 8 ) , and the importance of the problem is underlined by Toy ( 1982 ) in a review of accelerated erosion when he concludes that such erosion can be considered to be the pre-eminent environmental problem in the United States by virtue of its widespread occurrence and cumulative cost . |
| 29 | Claims based on procedural unfairness will therefore succeed if the unfairness can be shown to be a serious breach of contract . |
| 30 | Once a logical contradiction is admitted to a system of propositions any other proposition and its negation can be proved to be true by virtue of the rules of formal logic . |