Example sentences of "it can [adv] be [vb pp] that " in BNC.

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1 To no other , to no less divine a source can I trace the movement ’ , but as we have seen , other speakers , like Joseph Parker , were more perceptive while the 1897 National Council president admitted that ‘ perhaps it can scarcely be denied that in some of our earliest Nonconformist Councils … at first the inspiration was to a large extent political ’ .
2 It can scarcely be imagined that he would have opposed the Philadelphia Museum 's immensely well-conceived plan .
3 It can scarcely be claimed that these questions have yet been answered in such a manner as to transform Marx 's very general model into a systematic and well-supported theory of historical development .
4 It can scarcely be claimed that this provides a much more authoritative or even revealing account of the composition of the Pactus than does the shorter prologue , but it is nevertheless worthy of some consideration .
5 Nonetheless , a substantial degree of agreement has been achieved , not only between different demographic groups , but also between the whole range of approaches , intuitive , statistical and personal preference ( Briggs and France , 1980 ) and it can generally be concluded that good landscapes will have substantial relative relief , a major water body , diverse land use , and some historical artifacts , but will lack modern industry and major transport facilities .
6 Bream are strictly shoal fish , and the size of a shoal depends upon many things , but it can generally be taken that the bigger the bream the smaller the shoal .
7 It can thus be argued that Russia and Prussia have in the eighteenth century a very important and interesting administrative history but little real political , still less constitutional , history .
8 Using this notation , the components of the Weyl tensor are given by the expressions ( 10.4 ) It can thus be seen that , although ( 10.2 ) is linear so that different solutions for V can be superposed , the associated gravitational waves can not be simply superposed .
9 It can thus be seen that this transformation with may be used to change the profile of the approaching waves .
10 It can thus be seen that both in this chapter and in the closely related one on adult education which follows , the Report addresses English professors and teaching staff not so much as professionals but as responsible public figures ; as socially concerned part-time and even voluntary preachers functioning to disseminate a national culture .
11 It can thus be said that the programmer , rather than the user , dictates the form of the final design .
12 It can again be seen that the credit manager can play a significant part in advising on the construction and overhaul of information systems to ensure that the essential feedback on project performance is forthcoming .
13 The two limitations were that recovery will not be available : ( 1 ) where it can properly be said that the payment was made to close the transaction , and ( 2 ) where the payer was mistaken as to the proper interpretation of the statute .
14 However , it can not be denied that incompetent side-slipping and sideslipping close to the ground can cause accidents .
15 It can not be denied that we need more resources to improve the quality of life of very frail older people .
16 Many of the shortcomings of the eastern type are similar to those of the western , but it can not be denied that it is the immensely complicated nature alone of the eastern Buddhism , Hinduism and their derivatives that is sufficient to make them equally useless as a basis of a religion of the character that mankind needs .
17 Tradition maintains that many of the Campbells warned Macdonalds in time for them to escape but it can not be denied that on that winter morning in Glencoe many of the Clan Campbell plumbed the depths of treachery and horror .
18 It can not be denied that air pollution needs to be addressed but we should n't be fooled into paying more of our hard-earned cash which will be used to pay for Mr Lamont 's bungles .
19 Professor James Torrance , I know , sees this as a weakness in Calvinism , and it can not be denied that , despite the Reformation , a great deal of this legalism passed over into Protestantism .
20 It can not be denied that there is a streak of ‘ wish-fulfilment ’ in The Lord of the Rings .
21 Whilst not wishing to create visions of the past as a ‘ Golden Age ’ ( it was certainly not ) , it can not be denied that the main social trends in family organization , particularly since the Industrial Revolution , have increasingly served to isolate ageing people .
22 It can not be denied that rock has always been the province of men , even if they have often aped the female .
23 Although there may be more or less rigorous ways of doing this it can not be denied that the central activity is the same .
24 Although many questions in parliament about aircraft accidents are put in a genuine spirit of inquiry , it can not be denied that others are merely tabled in an attempt to embarrass the minister or government of the day .
25 Notwithstanding the unbridled optimism of many such visions , it can not be denied that one source of the modern idea of progress was this millenarian theology of puritan reformers anxious to transform the world in readiness for Christ 's second
26 It can not be denied that it would be splendid to see Luckie Mucklebackit , Edie Ochiltree , Wizard of the Moor or any other member of the Class in action once more , but the purists might object to a D11/1 being portrayed as a D11/2 .
27 But it can not be denied that they had neglected their fixed charities .
28 Whether or not we accept their view , it can not be denied that groups are always an important part of any developed political system .
29 It can not be denied that in the face of recession , publishers have been exploring all possible avenues for book sales . ’
30 However , even though the work described here is certainly concerned with grammar ( and not , for example , based on sociological data or on lexical classification ) , it can not be denied that it is remote from much of modern writing on grammar .
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