Example sentences of "can [adv] be [vb pp] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A typical example — if any can properly be called typical when patterns of voting differ so widely — is provided by the 1987 election in Longford-Westmeath . |
| 2 | The relation between the effects of habituation and those implied by the Pearce — Hall model can perhaps be made clear if we adopt the elaboration offered by Liddell ( 1950 ) of Pavlov 's notion of the orienting reflex . |
| 3 | The beauty and achievements of Bohemian art can perhaps be called Czech only with an effort , but there is no doubt of the attachment of a people to the heritage that they can rightly claim . |
| 4 | ( 2 ) Where a document of title to goods has been lawfully transferred to any person as buyer or owner of the goods , and that person transfers the document to a person who takes it in good faith and for valuable consideration , then — ; ( a ) if the last-mentioned transfer was by way of sale the unpaid seller 's right of lien or retention or stoppage in transit is defeated ; and ( b ) if the last-mentioned transfer was made by way of pledge or other disposition for value , the unpaid seller 's right of lien or retention or stoppage in transit can only be exercised subject to the rights of the transferee . ’ |
| 5 | These possibilities exist because some of the meanings which human beings find in experience depend on symbols and can only be given symbolic expression . |
| 6 | And on the other side , subordinate groups have no other recourse than armed revolt if they are deprived of other means of exercising political rights ; or they may find themselves in a situation where their formal rights can only be made effective in practice by the use or threat of violence . |
| 7 | Their class origins , too , were rapidly fictionalised , but the notion of a sudden demotic invasion of polite letters can only be called extravagant . |
| 8 | If we examine the RNAs in a long succession of test-tubes , we see what can only be called evolutionary change . |
| 9 | One member followed me around all day abusing me verbally with what can only be called dirty talk . |
| 10 | Scotch Whisky … the world 's leading natural drink … can only be called Scotch if it is distilled and matured in Scotland … a natural drink … distilled in a land of great natural beauty … it takes nothing from nature which nature will not readily replace . |
| 11 | ‘ This theoretically realistic and humorous novel is not unlike The Waste Land , the showpiece of Modernism and Impersonality ’ — which gives the impression that the realistic and humorous can only be deemed compatible with impersonality if they can also be deemed theoretical , and that the novel may not be very funny . |
| 12 | Shallow metaphors and deep metaphors require inferencing to access the metaphoric domains , and can thus be termed invisible metaphors ( an example would be I love the sun , taken to be an utterance of Romeo referring to Juliet ) . |
| 13 | Hector Odhar , they 're calling you now , I 'm told , for that you can scarcely be called swift , nor my father brown , with his wisps of hair like dandruff ! |
| 14 | ‘ I do n't expect he liked it , darling , but you are on holiday , and though it was very naughty of that boy to risk ringing you from a ward , you can scarcely be held responsible . ’ |
| 15 | Although capacitance C 2 must be varied to reach balance , its value need not be known unless it is also required to determine the loss resistance R S Because C is proportional to R 2 , the bridge can easily be made direct reading in capacitance through suitable marking of the resistance scale of R 2 . |
| 16 | Horse and mare in 16a and b do not represent a genuine but contextually restricted form of synonymy : their semantic distinctness remains , and can easily be made manifest . |
| 17 | All of this does not , however , mean that if the goods prove defective the private seller can easily be made liable for breach of the terms of sections 13–15 of the Sale of Goods Act . |
| 18 | Thus policy based on statistical forecasts can easily be rendered counterproductive . |
| 19 | Although this theory is expressed formally it can easily be given intuitive support . |
| 20 | Refreshment services can normally be made available close to your meeting . |
| 21 | Butterflyfish can normally be considered good members of an aquarium community , as they are not usually attacked by other fish . |
| 22 | Since cultures are unlikely to be maintained for more than 4 or 5 days they can generally be kept free of bacterial contamination by conducting all manipulations in sterile media with flame-pulled glass mouth pipettes under dissecting microscopes in a dust-free area , for example surrounded by Perspex dust covers . |
| 23 | Whether lexically unrelated idioms can ever be considered exact translation equivalents , however , is debatable . ) |
| 24 | A woman can still be considered dangerous and exciting by wearing vibrant red clothes ; we are all familiar with the term ‘ scarlet woman ’ . |
| 25 | Phonological choices form a distinct level of style in oral literature , and in written literature the implicit sound pattern can always be made explicit in reading aloud . |
| 26 | Although Wordsworth 's own children , together with Basil Montagu and Hartley Coleridge , can hardly be called unqualified successes in their later life , this does not undermine Wordsworth 's ideas , which anticipate the freedom of modern infant teaching . |
| 27 | The next sentence begins ‘ Yet reason tells me … ’ and ends ‘ … then the difficulty of believing that a perfect and complex eye could be formed by natural selection , though insuperable by our imagination , can hardly be considered real . ’ |
| 28 | One dramatic concomitant is rising fertility among unmarried teenage girls , though changes in women 's education standards and work status can hardly be held accountable for such a sharp upswing in teenage fertility as the past decade has witnessed . |
| 29 | I can hardly be held accountable for the vagaries of a junior research assistant ! ’ |
| 30 | The number of institutions in London which can reasonably be considered private banks seems to have doubled in the fifty years between 1725 and 1775 to reach fifty-two . |