Example sentences of "can [adv] be [verb] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I thought that the present case raised the question which has been held in suspense by more than one writer on constitutional law — namely , whether an assembly can properly be held to be unlawful merely because the holding of it is expected to give rise to a breach of the peace on the part of persons opposed to those who are holding the meeting — I should wish to hear much more argument before I expressed an opinion . |
| 2 | If I thought that the present case raised the question which has been held in suspense by more than one writer on constitutional law — namely , whether an assembly can properly be held to be unlawful merely because the holding of it is expected to give rise to a breach of the peace on the part of persons opposed to those who are holding the meeting — I should wish to hear much more argument before expressing an opinion . |
| 3 | But with the hindsight of Frey 's distinction ( also Regan 's ) between having an interest and something 's being in one 's interest , this route is denied Singer because water , sunlight , and even perhaps preservation , in tune with the tree 's needs , can rightly be said to be in its interests . |
| 4 | In addition to the above criteria of articulation and recognition of breaches , a further necessary condition must be satisfied : actions can only be said to be rule-governed when some other alternative actions are possible . |
| 5 | The existence of the debt can only be said to be a ‘ burden ’ if the government is constrained in its use of lump-sum taxes . |
| 6 | The supporters of O M O V have put their arguments in what can only be said to be a ham-fisted and insulting way . |
| 7 | Any given rise in unemployment in the winter months , therefore , can only be shown to be significant if it can be demonstrated that the rise is over and above that which is normally expected at that time of year . |
| 8 | They can only be taken to be creating expectations of faithfulness . |
| 9 | The model predicts that vulnerability factors can only be expected to be revealed amongst women experiencing major difficulties or who have recently experienced a severe event . |
| 10 | In terms of the alternative function Z , the original solution may be described by a real function Z and the new solution satisfying ( 11.8 ) is then given by ( 12.46 ) This can thus be seen to be a transformation of the type ( 12.2 ) followed by an Ehlers transformation in a slightly more general form than ( 12.13 ) . |
| 11 | And what of the deletion of / ? / in Belfast English , which can easily be argued to be phonetically motivated ? |
| 12 | They can be rattled to produce a menacing warning sound , they can be thrust violently into the flesh of the attacker by backward lunges of the porcupine 's body , and they can easily be detached to be left embedded in the unfortunate predator 's anatomy . |
| 13 | No area of the law can ever be said to be easy but the legislation dealing with obscene and indecent publications seems to be unduly complicated . |
| 14 | New information is forced to the front as though it were given information , suggesting that a famous writer can always be assumed to be energetic and successful at school . |
| 15 | The metric tensor can always be chosen to be symmetric under interchange of its subscripts . |
| 16 | Bruges goes to bed early and can hardly be said to be throbbing with night-life . |
| 17 | Quite obviously the playwright has largely pre-empted negotiation of this kind ; also , a theatrical performance can hardly be said to be a social interaction in a normal sense as the actor 's concern is to describe to someone outside the interaction on stage — to the spectator . |
| 18 | The development of computer-based public access systems to the holdings of one or more libraries , together with advances in online bibliographic searching , have increasingly led to the use of CAI programmes for user training , yet use of CAI programmes can hardly be said to be widespread . |
| 19 | But any magazine that retains a nonagenarian film critic and a weekly cartoonist who has entered his eighth decade can hardly be said to be immature . |
| 20 | Conversely , a spirit of self-criticism and renewal can hardly be said to be absent from the religious sphere when one of the problems faced by institutionalized orthodoxies has been to contain the eruption of reform and sectarian revolt . |
| 21 | She moves ( for example ) between speaking of the crucifixion of Christ ( fact ) to the cosmic nature of Christ — which can hardly be said to be ‘ true ’ in the sense of an empirically known fact . |
| 22 | And a further principle was established — that of ‘ conflict of interest ’ , in which a manager who advises an artist to sign with his own recording and music publishing companies can hardly be said to be acting impartially , or necessarily in the best interests of his client . |
| 23 | Instead it turns out to be very much concerned with rhetoric , which can hardly be said to be new for this age or even essentially syntactic . |
| 24 | He said , trades council delegates can hardly be deemed to be representative of the broad interests of our movement . |
| 25 | Novelists can hardly be expected to be au fait with international law and religion . |
| 26 | The merits of a planning application lodged in August 1988 can hardly be expected to be judged on the basis of a yet to be prepared and approved Structure Plan Review and District-wide Local Plan , both of which will address a future Development Plan time period . |
| 27 | For example , second-hand goods can hardly be expected to be in perfect condition . |
| 28 | Of course , the extension dx will be accompanied by lateral contractions dy and dz , but although normally negative and equal , they can usually be assumed to be zero . |
| 29 | To this end the purchasing department can usually be expected to be responsible for the following : |
| 30 | In terms of the metric functions in ( 6.20 ) , this leads to the transformation that , if U , V , W and M are solutions of ( 6.22 ) , then another solution is given by ( 12.18 ) This can clearly be seen to be identical to ( 12.15 ) but with the sign of V interchanged . |