Example sentences of "a [noun sg] it can be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Running an airline is an expensive business at the best of times , during a recession it can be a way of using up money really quite quickly , now Virgin 's particular problem was that they began this recession with relatively little in the way of capital and reserves , only about thirty six million in nineteen ninety one . |
| 2 | From a boat it can be squeezed enough to get a grip on it , and when it hits the water it sinks in a big brown cloud . |
| 3 | In so far as a timetable can be thought of as functioning like a rule it can be thought of as an instrument of order . |
| 4 | Er , it can be a sport it can be some sort of activity , it could be going to evening classes , learning something . |
| 5 | As a consequence it can be difficult to make unpopular recommendations stick : either the credentials of the investigator or the weight of the data can easily be challenged by those with a will to do so . |
| 6 | But life with Thomas is n't just a merry-go-round it can be swings and roundabouts . |
| 7 | Linked to a micro-computer it can be accessed very fast and used interactively . |
| 8 | ( " on inspection with a microscope it can be seen that each nucleus consists of two identical filaments " ) |
| 9 | If this action can be maintained against a newspaper it can be maintained against every private citizen who ventures to criticise the ministers who are temporarily conducting the affairs of his government . |
| 10 | Butterflyfish and angelfish fall into this category , but because natural pairs are often split when collectors catch only one of a duo it can be difficult to buy a true mated pair . |
| 11 | In a sense it can be thought of as a direction of time that is at right angles to real time . |
| 12 | If a sample is rolled into the shape of a sphere it can be bounced like a rubber ball , i.e. the rapid application and removal of a stress causes the material to behave like an elastic body . |
| 13 | If so , you 'll know what a bind it can be to remove the mushroom cover and clear the blockage . |
| 14 | So if you need it in a hurry it can be a problem . |
| 15 | Others follow , the most interesting for a novice explorer being Long Kin East Cave which can be entered safely by either of two entrances , a wet and a dry , and with the help of a torch it can be penetrated by easy walking along a roomy stream passage for 200 yards . |
| 16 | Mistakes can be rectified by re-drawing the letter and should the PDA have particular trouble with a letter it can be re-trained with four new samples of the character . |
| 17 | When first purchased my specimen hardly ventured out of its hidey-hole , a flowerpot , but after a year it can be seen hopping out of its hideout at most times of the day — particularly at feeding times . |
| 18 | Blake and Mouton argue that although the team approach is an ideal it can be worked towards by a process of diagnosis and training . |
| 19 | While it is usually difficult to hide the evidence that an accident has occurred , with an incident it can be only too easy in a large proportion of the cases to pretend that nothing very extraordinary has happened . |
| 20 | If an individual it can be inter alia an intellectual , an artist , a scientist , a sociologist . |