Example sentences of "but can [adv] be [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The decision in Rask is , of course , considerable help in support of the contention that the claim would otherwise have succeeded , but can not be said to be conclusive on the point , since it is for the national court to evaluate all the circumstances when assessing whether there was in any particular case a transfer of a business . |
| 2 | Notable among these is the fact that the mismatch of range is even greater than in the case of the prenominal adjectives ; it is true that one can usually expand a postnominal adjective to a relative clause containing be , though we should certainly note cases like : ( 31 ) he is dreaming of the whisky which will be galore with her arms which were akimbo she stared at Victor food which is aplenty is on sale in the end tent however , there is not the slightest difficulty about producing numerous examples where the relative clause with be is fully satisfactory but can not be reduced to a grammatical postnominal adjective . |
| 3 | In many ways , their crazy actions are analogous to the hysteria of young girl pop fans , who on first sight seem to be totally out of control , but can clearly be shown to be engaging in an intentional , conscious and structured activity . |
| 4 | The reference to the Irish not only brings to mind Swegen Forkbeard 's putative activities in the Irish Sea and Adam of Bremen 's story of his stay with a rex Scothorum ( ? king of the Irish ) , but can also be linked to the possibility that the Iehmarc who submitted in 1031 was Echmarcach Ragnallson , who replaced Sihtric Silkbeard as king of Dublin in 1036 . |
| 5 | Threads can run on uni-processor systems as well as multi-processors , but can obviously be employed to greater advantage on the latter . |
| 6 | In a similar way , the argument goes , God reveals Himself in particular events ( that may themselves be the actions of His agents , like Jesus of Nazareth or Mohammed ) but can never be reduced to them . |
| 7 | It has less memory than the MP version , but can still be upgraded to MP capability . |
| 8 | A medical textbook has a different emphasis and purpose but can usefully be referred to when more detailed information about a specific condition is desired . |