Example sentences of "[pron] can [adv] be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I can normally be contacted on either or , or at the following address : . |
| 2 | My belief that I am in pain may be justified , perhaps , but I can hardly be said to base it on reasons , conclusive or otherwise . |
| 3 | ‘ I can hardly be blamed if the production was cancelled . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I can hardly be expected to have a great deal of time for gardening , ’ she said , ‘ I am forced to pay out money for gardening help . ’ |
| 5 | I can hardly be expected to know that , can I ? |
| 6 | And I can hardly be expected to leave my three-year-old brother here in the care of a strange man . ’ |
| 7 | If you 've got some new material on him that you want to share with us , I 'm more than happy to arrange another lecture for you later in the term , but frankly , as you 've apparently given the same lecture on him for the past ten years , I can hardly be accused of interfering with academic freedom , can I ? ’ |
| 8 | If I go to a match in Europe , I come back to a stack of videos and I can hardly be bothered . |
| 9 | I can hardly be held accountable for the vagaries of a junior research assistant ! ’ |
| 10 | Sorry I can only be done , I said , mm , would I understand , and I said yes . |
| 11 | Now if ‘ I can only be known by description , and the only description which is true of it is ‘ that group of mental states , caused by the same living body ’ of which the envy and my judgement are members ' , it follows that anyone who does not describe ‘ I ’ in that way , will not know what ‘ I ’ means , and so will mean nothing when he says ‘ I was envious yesterday ’ . |
| 12 | well I do n't mind too much because I can erm , I can always be getting on with erm , the , the erm judgment on the , on the , the other issues , erm er |
| 13 | In this case I can always be blamed . ’ |
| 14 | Wherever , whatever I am , I can never be thrown away . |
| 15 | Most other weapons can not be considered to have characteristics that make their use illegal whatever the circumstances ; although some others perhaps do — for example , bacteriological weapons , which can equally be argued to be per se illegal . |
| 16 | What is , or is not , consistent with human dignity is obviously a value judgment , which can neither be confirmed nor refuted ; and , of course , one can think of other activities that could be construed as being inconsistent with human dignity , which are not criminalized . |
| 17 | This is located on a permanent-memory chip , which can neither be added to , or altered , by an operator , nor erased when the machine is switched off . |
| 18 | Many of the classes in the Order are concerned with various types of industry , not only ‘ light ’ , which can generally be carried out in a residential area without detriment to its amenities , and general industry , which can change to light but not vice versa , but also with a number of special categories , such as those subject to the Alkali Inspectorate . |
| 19 | Section 1(2) of the Patents Act 1977 contains those which can generally be classified as coming within the scope of copyright law or the law of confidence and , in that context , computer programs are of particular interest . |
| 20 | Such heroic ambition reminds one of the ambition which can frequently be seen in sons of mothers who have made their children too dependent on them but who are themselves ambitious and aggressive and unconsciously see their male children as their own frustrated masculinity — in the concrete terms in which the unconscious always thinks , as their penis . |
| 21 | The various participants in the workshop identified a wide range of constraints which can broadly be categorised under five main headings — political and administrative constraints , ethnocentrism and its effects , inadequate resources , and a need for a purpose-designed methodology : |
| 22 | Research and theory on the origins of schizophrenia have developed simultaneously in a number of very different directions which can broadly be categorised as genetic , organic and psychosocial . |
| 23 | A second instance of political change which can scarcely be regarded as minor is the rise and fall of the fascist regimes in Europe . |
| 24 | Communication between information technologists and behavioural specialists is a continuous struggle which can eventually be rewarding . |
| 25 | The hot steam melts away the sticky oils and greases , releasing the dirt and grime which can either be absorbed by the cotton towel provided or vacuumed up later . |
| 26 | They are issued for periods ranging from 3 months to 5 years at a rate of interest which can either be fixed or floating . |
| 27 | There are several obvious flowers , such as forget-me-nots , which can either be used as a spray or individually , and wild flowers are often useful as they tend to be small . |
| 28 | The skier carries a new model transceiver , the F1-plus , which can either be used for avalanche rescue , or switched to a lower frequency to receive the signal of the buried ski . |
| 29 | These leaders provided truly great contributions to the items of ‘ goodness ’ which can thus be enshrined , for not only did they themselves set the seal of ‘ good ’ , for all time , on numerous human actions , but they influenced millions of others to do likewise . |
| 30 | ( iii ) The negligible role played by the ewe in the annual cycling of N. battus which can thus be considered as a lamb-to-lamb disease . |