Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] can [verb] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er and that means that the president 's attention is both diverted from substantive concerns and it also means the president , there 's a limitation on the extent to which the president can appear to be partisan . |
| 2 | There is now good authority that the plaintiff can decline to be interviewed by an employment consultant ( Larby Thorogood ( 1992 ) 136 SJ ( LB ) 275 ) . |
| 3 | It is difficult to understand how the Government can claim to be concerned about looking after the welfare of citizens when there has been a fourfold increase in the incidence of food poisoning in the past 10 years . |
| 4 | Once there is a clear , up-to-date understanding of clients , then a successful service strategy , effective service delivery and client oriented people within the firm can start to be developed . |
| 5 | Bondholders who fancy a punt on the bourse can choose to be paid in shares in newly-privatised companies . |
| 6 | The major one is that there is no way that the researcher can hope to be aware of , still less control , all the possible independent variables , and this casts doubt on any conclusions that may be drawn about causes . |
| 7 | When the various negatives are put together , a case can begin to be made that sport is a destructive influence on American public life . |
| 8 | No one who is either a parent or a teacher can fail to be aware of the vast differences between children of 7 , not because of what they have been taught , but because of their rate of development and their maturity . |
| 9 | As Cuba is painfully aware , the US is the only superpower left in the Caribbean basin , and no country can afford to be its enemy . |
| 10 | Such an undertaking can appear to be a matter of stating the obvious — that speaker J , in his first contribution , for example , is answering the ‘ what ’ question in terms of an understood-to-be-known location and a time which is known from an interaction between knowledge of J's age ( context ) and knowledge that J was at least fourteen ( domain ) . |