Example sentences of "[that] it can be " in BNC.
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| 1 | To suppose that it can is an assumption long ago undermined by Hume , that one can infer from ‘ is ’ to ‘ ought ’ from purely descriptive premisses to a prescriptive conclusion . |
| 2 | WHY is it that hotel owners and operators put so much emphasis on recruiting professional ‘ hotel designers ’ to create the right hotel , but , when it comes to the inclusion of leisure facilities , then they appear to approach any designer , with the impression that it can be addressed from a design viewpoint just like any other area ? |
| 3 | Release information in limited quantities so that it can be absorbed and understood . |
| 4 | I mean by this not merely that it can be represented mathematically , but that , such is its concern with the quantitative aspects of reality that it consigns all the qualitative content in our conception of the world to the realm of conscious experience . |
| 5 | Its purely endogenous nature is well illustrated by the facts that it can be evoked by the absence of a stimulus such as a gap in a long sequence of evenly spaced tones and that the actual probability and significance of the stimulus is less important in determining whether or not the P300 will occur than the subject 's perception of its probability and significance . |
| 6 | I have gone into such detail about individual patients to try to convince you first , that it can be misleading to categorize patients too narrowly into groups , and second , that the dual-route model I described can accommodate a wide variety of data from different individual cases . |
| 7 | For example , one can say of a brain process that it occupies a particular point in space or that it can be displayed on an oscilloscope screen ; whereas neither of these things could be said of , for example , the subjective sensation of the colour blue or of the thought that I hate Monday mornings . |
| 8 | The great thing about drilling is that it can be fun , but remember not to spend too much time on one particular drill , since boredom can easily set in and have a disruptive influence . |
| 9 | I found it to be quiet , even when under pressure , and the hooked power pack means that it can be hung conveniently out of the way . |
| 10 | But can we be so confident that it can be stopped ? |
| 11 | The main attraction of that method is that it can be loaded in favour of constituencies , to give them a heavy incentive to recruit more members . |
| 12 | The advantage of this approach is that it can be scaled up to build computers of any size and speed . |
| 13 | Our current account deficit is now so large that it can be reduced by a mere £2bn or £3bn and still be huge . |
| 14 | Some officers familiar with the medium range Trigat project are sceptical that it can be modified to defeat the new armour . |
| 15 | SOME time ago , but not so far back that it can be dismissed as incidental , a belligerent centre-half , who needed very little encouragement in such nefarious matters , was instructed to discover how fast the visiting centre-forward could limp . |
| 16 | For the compulsion to be lawful , the right must be ‘ justiciable ’ ; that is , it must be definable , so that it can be uniformly and predictably applied , upon known principles . |
| 17 | To avoid unnecessary disputes , draw up a list of equipment and its owners so that it can be agreed by all the members of the band . |
| 18 | Within this apologetic ( ironic ? ) defence then , sexual difference is sustained by the very inversion which divine law forbids , and the fact that it can be so sustained is simultaneously a repudiation of the claim that sexual difference is itself dictated by divine or natural law . |
| 19 | As many have observed , the recognition that gender is so constructed implies that it can be altered . |
| 20 | That it can be great fun . ’ |
| 21 | Clinvest avoids firms in which other banks hold a stake : it wants to be on its own , so that it can be more influential . |
| 22 | We shall not deceive the people by saying the task of National Reconstruction is easy , or that it can be accomplished in a twelve month [ period ] . |
| 23 | He wrote to James Conant , President of Harvard , before they both attended the meeting : ‘ I am not sure the miserable thing will work nor that it can be gotten to the target except by ox-cart . |
| 24 | You might find , like her , that it can be difficult to divide up salt reduction into many small steps . |
| 25 | Acceptance , as used here , means that people begin to absorb the experience into their everyday life so that it can be coped with instead of dominating their every thought . |
| 26 | But I am aware that it can be a statement ; traditional dress can say something to other people , the same way big boots or punk dress can . |
| 27 | The top half of it slides down over the bottom half so that it can be lowered right down to table-top level when a debate is going on and a speaker is sitting down . |
| 28 | He is ever confused and his confusion makes him angry and I can not see that it can be helped though it is hard to endure . |
| 29 | The bout has been switched from May 2 , so that it can be shown on television . |
| 30 | Now if we look at the first of these in terms of structure we can see that it can be defined as a dramatic exercise , fulfilling the principal requisite of exercise as outlined in Chapter Three — a commitment to a short-term task . |