Example sentences of "it can [verb] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | It can appear to be totally dominated by technology and moreover it is expensive . |
| 2 | Where any form in Schedule 4 to the rules is substantially the same as a form used under the corresponding old law and rules , it can continue to be used with the necessary modifications until the Lord Chancellor directs otherwise ( r 12.7(3) ) . |
| 3 | It is one thing to realize that our faith will always be weaker than we would like it to be , but it is quite another to insist that our faith must be weaker than it can afford to be . |
| 4 | Rulers who argue that a country has to be well-off before it can afford to be politically decent to its people are generally providing themselves with an excuse for continuing in their bad old ways . |
| 5 | And I think it can afford to be now , because I do n't , I do n't agree with you . |
| 6 | It can afford to be a bit later but I do n't se , I do n't see that the |
| 7 | Certainly , although having a resident population of just over a thousand , it can claim to be the capital of a very extensive area of the north , there being no larger town within forty miles . |
| 8 | Does The Faerie Queene insist that it is to be read in such a manner that its role as a history ( which as both epic and romance it can claim to be symbolically ) must be seen as intrinsically different from the account of the English in Ireland which Spenser outlines in A View ? |
| 9 | It 's different but erm if you really get an Orkney talker just talking to one another and er drawing out the words sometimes and so on it can get to be the same lilt as Welsh . |
| 10 | Well I hope this article clearly shows how to one fishkeeper a species can seem so easy he/she can not stop them breeding , while for another it can seem to be the most difficult fish in the world . |