Example sentences of "[noun sg] 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 result can only be health care services which have virtually no real accountability or contact with the local community , ’ he said . |
| 3 | The overall result can often be disillusionment for the householder and frustration for housing professionals . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Since constructing new states is simple , monotonic search can sometimes be time efficient too . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | But holes with only one entrance can also be death-traps . |
| 8 | ‘ 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 . |
| 9 | 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 ’ ? |
| 10 | Peace should be ours too , within the church family , and the origin can only be God . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | First , notice that this type of doubt can easily be part of a ‘ compound ’ doubt . |
| 14 | Parents , never teach your children to love folklore , for folklore and high culture can never be friends . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | In the other groups the figure with the thunderbolt can only be Zeus though he rarely lacks a beard . |