Example sentences of "[adj] it can be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hence , p has all the values of a probability and in the situation where all investors are risk averse it can be shown that it is equal to the probability with which we started . |
| 2 | This is an exaggeration , but you should remember that the older the history book ( especially over 20 years ) the less reliable it can be considered to be , because ( i ) new evidence is always being unearthed ( ii ) all historians tend to write from within the perspective of their own times ( " every generation writes its own history " ) ( iii ) most professional historians update their own interpretations according to personal preference and in the face of scholarly criticism . |
| 3 | When the sound timber is clean and readily accessible it can be treated with insecticide . |
| 4 | Over the last thirty years advertising , that most powerful publicity weapon , has discovered how lucrative it can be to add a " new dimension " to the service it offers to clients . |
| 5 | However , with a little diligence and help of the single end of a transfer tool , they can sometimes by unravelled in the work and since the end is fine it can be darned in at the back . |
| 6 | I 'm confident that the scheme wo n't cost anything like as much as the estimate , but I 'm , I 'm sure it 's right that it 's been , having having done some background work to see how many people might claim it I 'm confident that that we 've erred on the safe side here by a substantial amount , and that 's why I 'm sure it can be met from the overall budget . |
| 7 | Oh , just one little notice I do have that erm several of us are going on Thursday to the , on the trip to Docklands by the erm erm Rotary Club of Sawbridgeworth erm I 'm told that there are still one or two odd seats if anybody wants to come at the last minute er , he does n't anticipate he 's going to erm fill them so even if , late Wednesday night you suddenly find you are available , by all means , contact and I 'm sure it can be arranged . |
| 8 | I think the , the university are always welcome to , always welcome people who , who 're interested , and if anyone wants to have a sort of , look round , I 'm sure it can be arranged . |
| 9 | All right , so the piccy of Miss W on the high-score page is a little bit ‘ revealing ’ but I 'm sure it can be changed . |
| 10 | of course , er provide a copy of that to erm doctor before it is lodged and , I 'm sure it can be agreed |
| 11 | At Amsterdam Travel Service , we know how difficult it can be to discover who is playing where and when and how tricky it can be to find out how to buy those all important tickets . |
| 12 | Provided the speed is good it can be released halfway through the turn , relying on the board 's momentum to carry it through . |
| 13 | If the decision is illegal it can be quashed ; otherwise the court can not ( with one exception ) intervene , even if it thinks the decision to be wrong in some respect . |
| 14 | If the result is unsatisfactory it can be used as a motivating factor to persuade them to try and make an improvement . |
| 15 | We have seen how useful it can be to define human pain as that state which disappears if the human is treated for pain . |
| 16 | This arrangement is so flexible it can be used for anything from tennis to Holiday on Ice to huge international congresses and exhibitions . |
| 17 | Network SouthEast 's marketing director , David Walker , said : ‘ Anyone who has ever tried to use the 1,500-page British Rail timetable will know just how complicated it can be to plan a rail trip . ’ |
| 18 | When it is loose it can be removed and so can the spring underneath it . |
| 19 | We all know only too well how disheartening it can be to try hard but achieve nothing . |
| 20 | It may be full of happiness for those who are fortunate to have the right conditions at play in their lives , but there is no doubt how stretching it can be to live in close proximity to your relations . |
| 21 | Other restraints must also be removed , they say , so that when a suitable kidney is available it can be removed and transferred to the needy patient without delay . |
| 22 | Again the cockerel , its cry a reminder to me — like the little cake that Proust dipped in his tea — that time is a complex thing , stronger than any tide , yet so fragile it can be traversed instantaneously on a familiar sound or smell . |
| 23 | In general it can be said that he sought to maximise France 's role , and her freedom of choice in any given situation . |
| 24 | But in general it can be said that authority and direction within cultural production either derived directly from the integral social organization within which such duties were assigned , or , as in the case of classical Greek drama , were assigned within a civic organization and became , in effect , a process of tender and hire . |
| 25 | Temperatures increase with altitude above the tropopause , and from here to where the atmosphere becomes negligible it can be called the thermosphere . |
| 26 | The pistol shot is so loud it can be heard well over half a mile away . |
| 27 | A new brochure from John Guest shows how pleasant it can be to carry out plumbing work using JG Speedfit Fittings . |
| 28 | From the vantage point of so-called post-liberation , we know only too well the political blindnesses of sexual desire , and how disastrous it can be to make sexuality the prime mover of a political vision . |
| 29 | West mercia police are taking this car onto the streets to show how easy it can be for thieves , but also how difficult it can be made for them . |
| 30 | This rather long discussion of the phonemic status of and shows how difficult it can be to reach a conclusion in phonemic analysis . |