Example sentences of "and can [adv] be [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Kingdom is not and can not be relegated to an appendix which follows the turning of the last page of world history . |
| 2 | Nevertheless , all these matters are only indicative , and can not be said to be conclusive . |
| 3 | First , the models are one-dimensional only and can not be applied to a real solid . |
| 4 | This task is , in my view , something for all of us , and can not be left to doctors or parents to determine , unless we decide formally to authorize them to do so by law . |
| 5 | As the Committee emphasised , however , the acoustic problems are of long standing and can not be attributed to television . |
| 6 | These differences exist from birth and can not be attributed to socially conditioned roles or the expectations of ‘ sexist ’ parents . |
| 7 | Its two halves are asymmetric and can not be folded to be superimposed without first turning one of them over . |
| 8 | The report is expensive and can not be sold to another buyer if you decide not to proceed . |
| 9 | To this end , an SPR may only be passed on 6 times and can not be passed to a user who has previously held it . |
| 10 | The field of economic policy is very wide and can not be reduced to budgetary policy . |
| 11 | Task analysis has not and can not be reduced to a set of standardised procedures which the aspiring analyst could acquire in a formal training course . |
| 12 | As a result , each artist was chosen for at least four reasons , but with a common denominator : we decided to present individuals operating from an independent position , whose work has a certain degree of complexity and can not be reduced to one or two key ideas . |
| 13 | ‘ ( 1 ) Solicitors shall ensure that every office where they or their firms practise is and can reasonably be seen to be properly supervised in accordance with the following minimum standards : |
| 14 | It will continue to grow on the patriot 's lapel and can even be transferred to a pot , ‘ providing very good value for money ’ , the promoters boast . |
| 15 | The ten most frequently occurring ( from a corpus frequency count ) are ordered and can either be presented to the user , or passed on to further stages of analysis , depending upon the implementation . |
| 16 | It can be said that works of this kind — and there are many other possible examples begin more evidently from the actual art and culture in question , and can thus be assigned to history or criticism . |
| 17 | They 'll give lots of pleasure indoors for a week or two , and can then be left to their own devices outdoors for the rest of the year ; getting dried out in summer is a positive help . |
| 18 | Bruges goes to bed early and can hardly be said to be throbbing with night-life . |
| 19 | In other cases , we have regulations that are ostensibly to do with health or technical standards and can therefore be applied to goods coming from the rest of the EEC as well . |
| 20 | Moreover , the system of land tenure , wherein the land belongs to the indigenous Fijians and can only be leased to Indo-Fijians ( the descendants of indentured cane workers who were drafted in from India in the early colonial period ) militates against conservation measures because it ensures the political dominance of the former ; and the encouragement of production ensures that such land is seen to be in use , an artefact to maintain internal stability . |
| 21 | As Robert Dingwall ( 1989 ) has argued , the definition of the problem has undergone considerable ‘ diagnostic inflation ’ and the growth of research' reflects the transformation of the original concerns to embrace virtually any problem which may have an adverse impact on a child and can possibly be attributed to some act of commission or omission by an adult' . |