Example sentences of "[ex0] can be [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | There can not be a sharp dividing line , as there can be between one year and the next ; the evolution of language is a gradual one , as witness the modern divergences between American , Australian and United Kingdom English , and the differences between the everyday languages of Cornwall and Northumberland . |
2 | So long as there is a need for collective decision-making and for policies which give direction to a whole community or society , and so long as or whenever unanimity can not be achieved , it is hard to see what alternative there can be to the minority being compelled to go along with the decision of the majority . |
3 | On the contrary : once again it is hard to see what democratic objection there can be to the principle of allowing the people themselves to decide on major issues of principle . |
4 | If the Legal Aid Board , as the only party adversely affected by the proposed order , has the opportunity to challenge it but decides not to do so , one may ask rhetorically what possible objection of substance there can be to the existing practice . |
5 | Apart from these it is meant to account for all the reasons there can be for accepting authorities . |
6 | Being human there can be for us no other benchmark with which to operate . |
7 | For many years to come , there will be greater dependence on a good interchange than there can be on the prospect of direct services between Scotland , the north of England and Wales , and the channel tunnel and beyond . |
8 | There can be in the mind enchanted flowers that blossom in the transcendent gardens : |
9 | James expressed the negative side when he described it as ‘ the theory which denies that there can be in a sensation any element of actual locality , any tone as it were which cries to us immediately and without further ado , ‘ I am here ’ or ‘ I am there ’ ’ . |
10 | The more complex and ambitious our technology , the more we realize the billion pound difference that there can be in a millimetre . |
11 | Whilst there can be no formal discontinuance by a plaintiff in the High Court without leave ( RSC Ord 21 , r 3 ) there can be in the county court . |