Example sentences of "[noun sg] can [be] any " in BNC.

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1 A sample rate of at least 8kHz is needed and the microprocessor can be any 8-bit variety with simple software .
2 Your herb wheel can be any size , and as part of a lawn or a paved area .
3 A kilogram or two of surgical plaster or plaster-of-Paris depending on the size of the housing ( you can buy powdered plaster at a chemist 's shop ) ; a dish to act as a mould for casting the plaster block-the dish can be any size from 10 cm × 20 cm up to about 20 cm × 20 cm , but should have a flat bottom and sides that slope slightly outward ; a sheet of glass to cover the housing ; a sheet of black cardboard ; Plasticine ; small blocks of wood or small plastic boxes ( the round boxes used for typewriter ribbons are very suitable ) ; cotton-wool .
4 The client who receives the product can be any external source buying the software , or an in-house party .
5 The client who receives the product can be any external source buying the software , or an in-house party .
6 According to my dictionary , a tree can be any perennial plant having a self-supporting woody main stem .
7 Presupposition can be any knowledge that enables us " to understand what is said properly and fully " ( p. 84 ) .
8 So if you go back to the sort of where we gave it five or six headings yeah or three to six headings you should be aiming say well I 'll input a bit of information on that side of it and at the end of that little section I 'll build in some practice in participation and the participation can be any of those ones you 've put in there on that list you gave us early on er practical allocations
9 women are not sexy skinny women are not sexy , really skinny women we have to be like the Madonna type woman and I think that the , the , its about money and its about co , its about the consumer and about money and about making money from an image that somebody somewhere has seen as the normal perfect woman and the norm can be any thing it could be whatever you want it to be .
10 In this sense , a sentence can be any finite sequence of terminal symbols .
11 To encourage developers to write more modular software that can take advantage of systems that support Threads — a Thread can be any part of an application or programme that is not dependent on the result or outcome of another ( that can be treated as a task in its own right ) — Posix has a committee working on a Threads application programming interface standard .
12 For a verb such as ’ collide ’ , all that is specified by the case restrictions is that the object case can be any inanimate entity .
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