Example sentences of "can [be] [verb] be [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The best that can be hoped is that the Senate and the House will agree on amendments to the law which will remove the gimmicks and inject more discipline into the process . |
| 2 | What can be seen is that the attempt to correlate black youth and crime is a latent but definite element in the law and order debate . |
| 3 | The most that can be done is that B may allow C to use his name to claim the money . |
| 4 | What can be confirmed is that both national and local women 's suffrage groups took an interest in the dispute . |
| 5 | The factor that decides whether a product can be prescribed is whether the product appears on the blacklist rather than whether it has a product licence . |
| 6 | In truth , all that can be said is that , in both the Free Presbyterian Church and in the UPV , there were a small number of people ( none of whom were figures of any stature in the Church ) who were prepared to abet others in the commission of crimes to further the aims which the vast majority of people in the Church and UPV wished to see promoted by less violent means . |
| 7 | What can be said is that those whose discomfort is related to intercourse are most likely to be cured of their symptoms either by a combination of improved lubrication and post-coital urination , or by treating any infection that underlies the symptoms . |
| 8 | ‘ The only thing that can be said is that somebody has just snuffed out a very special person who was going to achieve an incredible amount in life . |
| 9 | The most that can be said is that a good case can be made out for so doing ; law-abiding spectators would probably be sympathetic , depending upon the outcome . |
| 10 | The most that can be said is that they must have selectional restrictions which are satisfied by the selectee . |
| 11 | What can be said is that the Rules of 1988 do not reflect section 99 of the Act , which in conjunction with section 97 enables a person upon whom a copy of an intervention notice has been served by S.I.B . |
| 12 | The most that can be said is that the majority of individuals said to be non-right handed still show left hemisphere language representation ( Annett , Hudson , and Turner , 1974 ; Fleminger and Bunce , 1975 ; Clyma , 1975 ) . |
| 13 | The decor was inclusive in the rent and all that can be said was that the decor was expensive . |
| 14 | That being so , B can not be trying to deceive A. The only way in which the assumption that B is cooperating can be maintained is if we take B to mean something rather different from what he has actually said . |
| 15 | The proposed timetable for public platforms/launches as far as these can be scheduled is as follows : |
| 16 | The only way the ground for the deportation decision can be challenged is if the refugee returns to the country from which he fled and launches an appeal there . |
| 17 | Perhaps the most surprising discovery that can be made is that there were ‘ unopened station ’ . |
| 18 | Indeed , the pattern of research work in the humanities and social sciences is such that perhaps the only generalisation which can be made is that no article or book is written using only the resources of one library , still less the home library of a researcher 's institution . |
| 19 | What can be asserted is that the benefits are too marginal to warrant the attention the subject has aroused — and the undertaking too complex to be able to withstand the political controversy surrounding it in the West . |
| 20 | No perceptible direct line connects Edward 's law with Wyclif 's radicalism , but what can be asserted is that in this matter — as in so many others — Wyclif was not breaking new ground but appealing to ideas already long current in certain circles . |
| 21 | Of such undertakings all that can be predicated is that some breaches will and others will not , give rise to an event which will deprive the party not in default of substantially the whole benefit which it was intended that he should obtain from the contract ; and the legal consequences of a breach of such an undertaking , unless provided for expressly in the contract , depend upon the nature of the event to which the breach gives rise and do not follow automatically from a prior classification of the undertaking as a " condition " or a " warranty " . |
| 22 | The only basis on which costs can be awarded is that a party has acted ‘ frivolously , vexatiously or otherwise unreasonably ’ . |
| 23 | They often get left on the shelf , and the only way they can be sold is if the price is reduced . |
| 24 | The only truly valid generalization that can be drawn is that no truly valid generalization is possible |
| 25 | Whatever the answer to this may be , the general policy conclusion that can be drawn is that making access and use of medical services more equitable will reduce certain aspects of class inequalities in morbidity and mortality but will not do away with them or reduce them substantially . |
| 26 | Other issues on which morals can be drawn are whether dreams are forewarnings of events to come , and the image of woman as man 's confusion : the latter point , though , the Nun 's Priest himself refuses to present seriously : The burlesque treatment of matters of moral seriousness in the Nun 's Priest 's Tale reaches its climax in the middle of the tale , with a reference to one of the crucial dilemmas or mysteries for Christian philosophers : that of reconciling human free will with the necessary truth of God 's Providence . |