Example sentences of "can [adv] be [adj] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cardboards and paper can obviously be useful for prolific artists or those travelling light ! |
| 2 | Cardboards and paper can obviously be useful for prolific artists or those travelling light ! |
| 3 | The comfort and security you are chasing can only be temporary with pusillanimous people like you prancing around . |
| 4 | Highly-viscous lavas are always concerned in Peleean eruptions ; as we saw earlier , a dome or plug of lava often builds up within the crater concerned , blocking the throat of the volcano , so that the pressures building up beneath can only be relieved by vigorous explosions , which may be directed either upwards or sideways , blasting out as nuees ardentes . |
| 5 | The loss of basic medical sciences can only be detrimental to clinical teaching and research and to the staff of university hospitals . |
| 6 | Everyone in an organisation is interdependent : authority alone is insufficient to obtain good performance , and can only be effective in certain situations and with certain people . |
| 7 | Now if you violate any of the assumptions ordinary squares , right , then the procedure will produce or may produce misleading results , we can only be confident in statistical terms about ordinary leased squares parameters , right , because we know and show in theory that they hold providing a number of assumptions are met , like you have serially uncorrelated errors , right , we do n't have m multi co-linearity amongst the regresses , right , we have constant variance throughout the sample now if any of those er assumptions are breached , violated then our , any statistical results that are generated from erm the technique that assumes that those assumptions have n't been breached erm are invalidated and we can get very misleading er parameter estimates , right , in the presence of auto correlation or multi-linearity erm . |
| 8 | Classical elasticity as developed in the nineteenth century assumed that the deformations caused on application of load were small ; in fact the linear relation between stress and strain , as defined above , can only be true for infinitesimal strains . |
| 9 | Lord Denning stated : A very young child can not be guilty of contributory negligence . |
| 10 | If a minister lacks ability , experience , knowledge or , perhaps , the time to become confident of his own judgement , then the departmental view tends to prevail , and this may be desirable , for a country can not be policyless on major issues . |
| 11 | But what we have to notice here is that it can not be right for mere historical description either : as there is no such thing as a uniform language or dialect ( and standardization implies uniformity ) , and as sound-changes do not proceed in straight lines , this can not possibly be an adequate conceptualization of English phonological history . |
| 12 | Since it can not be accountable to national Parliaments , it ought to be accountable to the European Parliament . |
| 13 | I can not be involved with constitutional matters of that kind . |
| 14 | Many of the important decisions affecting village life are now no longer taken locally , but by inaccessible and apparently impenetrable bureaucracies which , however well-intentioned , can not be sensitive to local problems and idiosyncrasies . |
| 15 | Strictly , land can not be appurtenant to other land . |
| 16 | It provides access to information , the currency of which is not in doubt , something which can not be true of printed guides . |
| 17 | For such enquiry is based on idealization , the extraction of what is seen as essential from observable data , and idealization obviously can not be free of ideological influence : it must be related to some pre-existing framework of belief . |
| 18 | Local authorities can not be independent of central government unless they have an adequate power to tax . |
| 19 | Now what can possibly be new in inorganic chemistry ? |
| 20 | A person who throws a missile at a football match can clearly be guilty of violent disorder ( provided always that there are three or more present using or threatening violence ) , since his conduct can be regarded as violence by virtue of the extended definition of ‘ violence ’ in the Act . |
| 21 | However , competition between males can also be intense in monogamous species ( Lack , 1954 ; Kleiman , 1977 ) and data are not yet available which would permit a meaningful comparison between the two groups of species . |
| 22 | Some people do not suffer such a reaction when taking such prescribed tablets as penicillin but , for those who do , it can often be relieved by regular eating of natural yoghourt for the duration of the course of treatment . |
| 23 | They can even be frightened by wild birds flying overhead , which they mistakenly think are predators . |
| 24 | An unwanted component can sometimes be present at long intervals , and this can be very troublesome . |
| 25 | This style of research is also referred to as ‘ field study ’ or even ‘ fieldwork ’ but , since this can sometimes be confused with survey-type research , which may also involve going out into ‘ the field ’ , this book will use the term ‘ ethnography ’ . |