Example sentences of "[noun] can [adv] be [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Porcelain can also be TL tested , but it is such a hard ceramic that a drill can not be used to take the sample because of the heat generated and the spurious luminescence signals produced . |
| 2 | The funds can either be roll-up , where all income is retained and reflected in the price of the fund , or distributor , where at least 85% of the income is paid out in dividends to the investors . |
| 3 | ‘ The result can only be health care services which have virtually no real accountability or contact with the local community , ’ he said . |
| 4 | The overall result can often be disillusionment for the householder and frustration for housing professionals . |
| 5 | Lost or deliberately discarded fishing nets pose the biggest threat , but seemingly more innocent items like plastic bags , plastic pellets , and polypropylene packing tape can also be killers of wildlife . |
| 6 | Limitations of this system at present are that subjects can only be studies in the supine position within the magnet , thus imposing constraints on both posture and movement . |
| 7 | Since constructing new states is simple , monotonic search can sometimes be time efficient too . |
| 8 | You should be well aware that evolution can only be viewed with hindsight , and whether our species ' rapacious predatory record will prove successful in the long term can only be speculation . |
| 9 | But holes with only one entrance can also be death-traps . |
| 10 | ‘ An act done before the giving of a promise to make a payment or to confer some other benefit can sometimes be consideration for the promise . |
| 11 | Is it strictly true to say that ‘ An act done before the giving of a promise to make a payment or to confer some benefit can sometimes be consideration for the promise ’ ? |
| 12 | Peace should be ours too , within the church family , and the origin can only be God . |
| 13 | Parents can often be experts at telling their children what is naughty behaviour but not necessarily at telling them what is good behaviour . |
| 14 | It is a romantic vision : Milan can never be Venice , but at such times it can also never be anything but Italian . |
| 15 | The UN has ruled this out ; the argument is that , as Serb areas in Bosnia and Croatia can never be part of Serbia , Kosovo is and must remain part of Serbia . |
| 16 | Linkers can either be hand or electrically operated . |
| 17 | It has given the Greeks a new foreign-policy possibility , to the north : one in which membership of the Community will be useful , but Greeks can still be Greeks . |
| 18 | Taking these two points into consideration leads us to the conclusion that meaningful chain dimensions can only be values averaged over the many conformations assumed . |
| 19 | The exact origins of the ferret can only be guesswork , but either descendants of the polecat line or variations on the resultant interbreeding between stoats and polecats may have given us the ferret we know today . |
| 20 | Increasingly , funding will reflect the quality of the research output so that the best centres can truly be world leaders . |
| 21 | Voters can also be taxpayers and recipients of various services . |
| 22 | Education has become part of the political battleground , and its transformation into a non-racial system can only be part of a much broader transformation of society . |
| 23 | First , notice that this type of doubt can easily be part of a ‘ compound ’ doubt . |
| 24 | Parents , never teach your children to love folklore , for folklore and high culture can never be friends . |
| 25 | They could even have proven to be the negative experience of small ethnic enclaves defending themselves in hostile environments , but even this viewpoint can only be speculation . |
| 26 | A reader of any given text can never be 100% sure of the writer 's original intentions ; they can only select the most likely interpretation of the marks on the paper , based on their outward appearance and the various sources of linguistic and general knowledge . |
| 27 | ‘ This is why food packaging products can only be 50% recycled . |
| 28 | Now I suppose for most of us because of the very fact were here this morning they have been few and far between such experiences , perhaps what is more common is that we may have spent time with someone who was dying , their last few hours , their last few minutes , and if they were not unconscious I wonder what sort of conversation would be going on between us and them , what sort of things would we , would we of been saying , what would we be asking us , well in this passage that we have been reading we have just such a conversation , two men who are on the verge of death , death can only be hours away for both of them , and here they have this conversation , it was in that sense it was one of the strangest interviews any body ever had with Jesus not only is the , the account here of er a death bed conversion , but the one who is saving is also in the process of dying . |
| 29 | Whether personal acrimony stimulated Loder can only be surmise , but it is certainly likely that Bill Saxby , jocked off Craganour after the Two Thousand Guineas , would not be bending over backwards to support that horse 's cause in the enquiry in which , as rider of Louvois , he was called to give evidence . |
| 30 | John Major 's declaration that the Princess of Wales can still be queen despite the failure of her marriage proved Diana 's ability to manoeuvre the Royal Family to suit herself . |