Example sentences of "can it [be] [vb pp] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nor can it be concluded that this state of affairs is anything other than unfair to residential workers and the institutions they serve in order to help young people . |
| 2 | Can it be demonstrated that what at first sight appears to be a paradigm case of indigenous , national forces dispossessing transnational corporations , is in fact a clear illustration of the emergence of the transnational capitalist class in Nigeria ? |
| 3 | Nor can it be denied that he has done nothing . |
| 4 | On the one hand , there is the precedential weight of a case cited ; in other words , can it be overruled and by whom ? |
| 5 | The disease model simply asks why child abuse occurs and how can it be prevented or reduced . |
| 6 | 5. can it be seen as sustainable in people 's lives and through the centuries . |
| 7 | Changed secretion of peptides , amongst many other such changes , may be necessary if memory formation is to occur , but it is neither sufficient nor , because it is a very general process , can it be regarded as specific to any particular memory . |
| 8 | Nor can it be contended that this harsh judgement on Socrates was in any way typical of Athenian democracy 's attitudes towards its critics or even its enemies . |
| 9 | But can it be said that such a duty lies on individuals and groups ? |
| 10 | On only three out of approximately 180 occasions , therefore , can it be said that the inspectors had been less than absolutely fair in the opinion of those who were criticised . |
| 11 | Still less can it be said that Jesus had a feminist interpretation of social realities . |
| 12 | Not since the nineteenth century can it be said that Parliament has made policy directly . |
| 13 | ‘ Until the consent given at marriage be revoked , how can it be said that the husband in exercising his marital right has assaulted his wife ? |
| 14 | If , as we have been suggesting , the nature of data has much to do with the theoretical presuppositions which underlie their production , how can it be said that theories are tested by means of exposure to data ? |
| 15 | While Shatov expounds and disputes ardently , and incidentally takes a lot of good- and God-focused material off the shoulders of the notebook Stavrogin ( ‘ ‘ Shatov must be tied up before you can argue with him , ' ’ Stepan Verkhovensky sometimes joked' ) , only to Kirillov can it be said and is it said , ‘ you have n't swallowed an idea , but an idea has swallowed you ’ — to which he responds delightedly with ‘ That 's good . |
| 16 | So intervention can not be justified when another more appropriate person is available and willing to act ; nor can it be justified when it is contrary to the known wishes of the assisted person , to the extent that he is capable of rationally forming such a wish . |
| 17 | Nor can it be assumed that all parts of the biosphere have the same 14 C concentration . |
| 18 | It is not necessarily the case that this will have happened , nor can it be assumed that the document in question belongs to a given domain at all ( it may be some sort of hybrid , or simply too ambiguous to fit neatly in one domain ) . |
| 19 | It is not necessarily the case that this will have happened , nor can it be assumed that the data in question fits neatly within a specific domain at all . |
| 20 | To this extent , of course , a synchronically divergent language state requires the same kind of treatment as a historically divergent state : in neither case can it be assumed that the norms of some ‘ standard ’ variety can be successfully projected on to it . |
| 21 | Nor can it be assumed that Eadwine found new allies among the eastern Angles in c . |
| 22 | Nor can it be assumed that professional courses always tackle the social aspects : How much do accountants or pharmacists consider the professional client relationship ? |
| 23 | Neither can it be assumed that a wife who is denied sexual autonomy will cease cohabitation . |
| 24 | Nor can it be assumed that all its invaders came directly from Scandinavia . |
| 25 | Similarly , if a person is able to accept supervision , how can it be argued that they are not able to consent to the medical arrangements given during it ? |
| 26 | If compulsion is not to be the order of the day where the business itself is transferred , can it be accepted when the transfer is of the company which owns the business ? |
| 27 | Feminists resist the idea that the masculine/feminine opposition is natural , because only if it is cultural can it be criticised and changed ; but in the meantime it would be foolish to underestimate the real effects of pervasive cultural beliefs . |
| 28 | The penalty for failure to do so was likely to be dire because not only individuals but nations were chastised for their sins , and can it be expected that He will suffer this great iniquity to go unpunished ? ’ |
| 29 | In no way can it be described as independent when the chairman of that inquiry is a former general who is responsible for some of the worst atrocities against the East Timorese . |
| 30 | This concern should focus first on understanding ‘ how it is possible ’ for corporate crime to be endemic in our ‘ law and order ’ society , and second , and hopefully flowing from this understanding , ‘ how can it be contained or regulated ? ’ |