Example sentences of "[pron] it can be " in BNC.
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| 1 | If an elderly parent is giving up her home to move into yours it can be a very traumatic experience for her , even though you are ‘ family ’ and she wants to be with you . |
| 2 | This stance is partly a reaction against what Krauss saw as a dominant position in American criticism , by which ‘ the art of the last hundred and thirty years , the art of modernism , is not being well served by writing that promotes the myths through which it can be consistently misread ’ . |
| 3 | There is no biographical key with which it can be unlocked — and I have not been trying to turn one in this essay of mine , which does not believe it , for that matter , to be locked . |
| 4 | For , though the particular thing or phenomenon in whose cause we are interested is presented in experience as a unified whole , it may in fact have ‘ parts ’ into which it can be rationally analysed . |
| 5 | Ask about ways in which it can be made better . |
| 6 | It expresses an attitude to the law as an aspect of that society ( which it can be only if the law is felt to express social conventions and outlook ) . |
| 7 | Is there any way in which it can be resumed , more privately and at more leisure ? |
| 8 | Part of the appeal is doubtless the ease with which it can be applied with great effect . |
| 9 | It is neatly shaped to lodge in close-packed vegetation , from which it can be in close contact with the fast-flowing oxygenated water it requires . |
| 10 | Let us look a little more closely at how that success has been achieved and examine the standards by which it can be judged . |
| 11 | There is a quite separate consideration relating to species composition of prey assemblages , and this is the extent to which it can be considered diagnostic of the habitats from which the assemblage has been derived . |
| 12 | When considering the question of the character of the coordinate singularity at , Chandrasekhar and Xanthopoulos ( 1986 b ) have given a transformation by which it can be removed . |
| 13 | Contrast the following case , in which it is Mela , an Augustan jurist of uncertain leanings , who is opposed to the validity of the disposition , arguing that if the amount is unstated then the amount is zero , while Nerva , a first-century Proculian , is in favour of it ; Ulpian follows him in suggesting that the amount the testator usually gave is payable , failing which it can be determined according to status . |
| 14 | ( We should be glad to have suggestions about ways in which it can be improved . ) |
| 15 | Moreover , if we accept , as it is often proclaimed , that user education is a continuous educational process , desirable for everyone at different stages of their lives , then this goal must surely be sought and certainly co-operation and co-ordination are the agencies by which it can be effected . |
| 16 | Thus the hypothesis provides a meaning to primitive ‘ goodness ’ and also suggests the period during which it can be said to have originated . |
| 17 | Its 80-kilometre , elliptical layout is designed to carry water for six million Londoners to strategically placed pump shafts , from which it can be drawn off into the local network . |
| 18 | ‘ A European ’ , Temple wrote , ‘ can not exert a personal influence on the characters of more than one hundred to two hundred natives ’ ; but if he concentrated on ‘ guiding and controlling the native leaders ’ , then his influence would be ‘ magnified by a natural process a thousand fold ’ and the result would be that : ‘ The power thus exerted is infinitely greater in scope than any power or influence which it can be hoped that he will exert under the … system of Direct Rule . ’ |
| 19 | This is the only way in which it can be forced to feed on its own surplus fat . |
| 20 | The extent of such informal activity will vary greatly in different areas and the extent to which it can be stimulated is unclear . |
| 21 | This may have a bearing on the ease with which it can be trained . |
| 22 | But , ultimately , I know there is an inherent danger in the ready-made , and that is the ease with which it can be produced . |
| 23 | The attraction of doing a sketch like this is the speed at which it can be achieved . |
| 24 | This is the recognition of faith , and there is no way in which it can be demonstrated to be valid by appeal to merely historical argument about Jesus . |
| 25 | The grammar of English is carried over into the signing and presumably evaluation of the adequacy of BSL is based on the ease with which it can be fitted to this English format . |
| 26 | Alison Kelly sees at least four distinct senses in which it can be argued that science is masculine . |
| 27 | An ever increasing flow of economic data has been matched only by the multifarious ways in which it can be interpreted and applied in relation to economic policy . |
| 28 | Thus the sense of ‘ good ’ which is fundamental for ethics is that in which it can be expanded to ‘ good in itself ’ . |
| 29 | If first used before 1 September 1978 it must also be equipped with pedals by which it can be propelled . |
| 30 | It clearly needs to be a part of the school 's work on developing its curriculum to consider the place of project work within this curriculum , and to plan ways in which it can be utilised to maximum advantage , especially as a vehicle for the teaching of information skills . |