Example sentences of "and [adj] can [adv] [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think , Bill , really you far be it for me to try and teach you your job , but you ought to have perhaps gone back a little bit and wondered why we were all in this position , because you have us in year after year talking about budgets that are made and budgets which improve services , and and we need to be absolutely clear that this budget does not improve services at all , that this budget does very severe damage to services , that the budget that has gone through the Council identifies nearly eight million pounds taken off service provision erm and that can not be done under the Conservatives by making erm a budget with the Liberal Democrats have proved that it ca n't be done , in spite of their previous comments , without pain to services . |
| 2 | He added : ‘ A lot of products from Scottish manufacturing companies are going into international markets and that can not be ignored . |
| 3 | ‘ Had we let this one pass without action it would have set a precedent for others to follow and that can not be allowed to happen . ’ |
| 4 | There 's a common interest of course of avoiding war for most people anyway , but there 's also a common interest we know related to environmental issues and that can not be dealt with by each country , each country may have unique environmental problems but environmental problems straddle erm boundaries of countries as we saw from the Chernobyl problem of some years ago . |
| 5 | By the end of his life , his position was somewhat more relativist , and that can fairly be seen as the result of the consistent working-through of his earlier principles . |
| 6 | Other recordings in this repertoire by these particular artists on the Hungaroton label have garnered much praise , and that can only be echoed in this case too . |
| 7 | The equity partners will usually want to give their junior colleagues and associates the opportunity to prove their ultimate worth to the firm and that can only be done by giving them direct experience of management . |
| 8 | As Mr Gladstone has pointed out , in the last few years progress has been far more rapid because improved education has created in all classes of the community an increased desire and appetite for literature which did not formerly exist , and that can only be supplied by means of such public libraries in which we are now met . |
| 9 | Normally , Sodium Hydroxide — Caustic Soda ( N a OH ) — solution is used as a developing agent , and this can easily be made up at home . |
| 10 | Similarly , a wooden bar with a box on either end will serve as a barbell and this can easily be weighted by filling the boxes with soil or sand . |
| 11 | Many cuisines that are based on grains and pulses make extensive use of a wide range of spices to flavour their foods and this can clearly be seen in Indian and Far Eastern cookery . |
| 12 | Ward teaching commitments must be honoured , and this can not be done if the clinical teacher is asked at short notice to participate in classroom teaching . |
| 13 | To take the example given earlier , it is necessary to show that the statement about the toothache can indeed be paraphrased into a statement about the corresponding neuro-physiological event ( and hence that the occurrence of the latter event is a logically adequate criterion for ascribing the experience in the given instance ) , and this can not be done without making use of the premisses which such a proof might be expected to underpin . |
| 14 | A single electron or positron can not identify a W - of W + with certainty ; there is always a neutrino emitted with the electron in the decay and this can not be detected . |
| 15 | This can not be done by the person alone , because help is needed in overcoming the amnesias and the emotional repressions , and this can not be achieved by introspection . |
| 16 | Other people need to be excited by new approaches and this can not be achieved by a dull and formal memorandum . |
| 17 | Strategic vision and consistency of policies by firms , by their financial investors , and by government , are crucial , and this can not be achieved without a coherent sustained industrial strategy . |
| 18 | What is happening — and this can not be prevented — is that the bound Fiend within the weather-vane is being freed , and at the end of 3 Turns the weather-vane will shatter and it will be released . |
| 19 | MG Kent TN4 8XP THE difficulty faced by many younger pensioners is that the husband 's income derives mainly from occupational pensions and this can not be transferred to the wife . |
| 20 | Modern warfare and the modern economy , for example , require increasingly higher levels of technology and this can not be avoided if any state wishes to participate , or if threatened , survive in the contemporary world . |
| 21 | It appeals to reason , but in order to reason we have got to take something for granted as a starting point and this can not be proved . |
| 22 | Like children and families , social workers also need support and this can not be guaranteed by Act of Parliament alone . |
| 23 | We should not , however , expect a question for the initial verb alone since this is only possible in English for verbs which describe something as being , in some as yet ill-defined sense , " done " to their objects : ( 69 ) what did Rafferty do to the cistern ? and this can not be claimed for the verbs preceding clausal adjectives any more than for a verb which precedes an explicit subordinate clause . |
| 24 | This racist behaviour is rational , because such strategies of social closure are logically consistent with the aims of protecting white privilege , and this can best be done through organized forms of discrimination , rather than at the level of individual expressions of prejudice . |
| 25 | The state has a duty to protect its citizens from external enemies , and this can best be achieved by maximizing its power vis-a-vis other states . |
| 26 | Clearly these are still working groups , usually of type ( ii ) , with a manifesto , a periodical and exhibitions , but there has also been a change of some kind in their social relations , and this can best be understood by the second kind of analysis , of the proposed and actual relations with all those beyond the group . |
| 27 | The most radical act of 1689 was the break in the succession , and this can unquestionably be seen as a victory for the Whigs . |
| 28 | Broad agreement has to be reached , too , on how she will be able to fit in happily with your particular routine of family life , and this can only be decided after very frank discussion of her needs and yours . |
| 29 | A full and accurate assessment of land potential involves detailed enquiries into soil and climate and experience of the behaviour of the crops and livestock it carries , and this can only be achieved over a period of years . |
| 30 | So , according to Davis and Moore , stratification and inequality are both positively functional and inevitable in human societies , because societies have to fill a number of ‘ key ’ positions with the ‘ right ’ people , and this can only be achieved by allocating unequal rewards to these positions . |