Example sentences of "it can [adv] be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With such a distinctive song it can scarcely be missed . |
| 2 | To no other , to no less divine a source can I trace the movement ’ , but as we have seen , other speakers , like Joseph Parker , were more perceptive while the 1897 National Council president admitted that ‘ perhaps it can scarcely be denied that in some of our earliest Nonconformist Councils … at first the inspiration was to a large extent political ’ . |
| 3 | It can scarcely be imagined that he would have opposed the Philadelphia Museum 's immensely well-conceived plan . |
| 4 | The Clermont elections , if that is the right word , provide a startling insight into the appointment of bishops in a civitas , which , if it can scarcely be called an insignificant see , was certainly not one in the forefront of royal policy . |
| 5 | It can scarcely be claimed , therefore , that the political systems of the world in the mid-twentieth century revealed a very widespread practice of democracy — though the principle was more widely asserted — even in the narrow constitutional sense of the right of all adult citizens to choose their political leaders by means of free elections . |
| 6 | It can scarcely be claimed that these questions have yet been answered in such a manner as to transform Marx 's very general model into a systematic and well-supported theory of historical development . |
| 7 | It can scarcely be claimed that this provides a much more authoritative or even revealing account of the composition of the Pactus than does the shorter prologue , but it is nevertheless worthy of some consideration . |
| 8 | It can probably be heard hundred of kilometres away and could reach individuals thousands of kilometres away if the fin whale makes use of a channel in the ocean . |
| 9 | Nonetheless , a substantial degree of agreement has been achieved , not only between different demographic groups , but also between the whole range of approaches , intuitive , statistical and personal preference ( Briggs and France , 1980 ) and it can generally be concluded that good landscapes will have substantial relative relief , a major water body , diverse land use , and some historical artifacts , but will lack modern industry and major transport facilities . |
| 10 | Bream are strictly shoal fish , and the size of a shoal depends upon many things , but it can generally be taken that the bigger the bream the smaller the shoal . |
| 11 | This debate will never be resolved unless it can firmly be established whether searching for early prostatic cancer on a community basis is worthwhile in clinical , resource , and social terms . |
| 12 | With any excavating job you can avoid creating a blot on the landscape for months after by slicing the turf off in strips , so that it can later be relaid . |
| 13 | It can either be looking at the animal as an observer , in which case you can talk about the animals and what they are doing . |
| 14 | It can either be fixed or it can be mobile , we 'll go on to that , I 've actually drawn you four pictures , not very good pictures |
| 15 | Therefore it can either be seen as Susan 's capital or as a current account balance due to Susan . |
| 16 | From a production point of view , it can either be obtained ready-made from a music ‘ library ’ , or be specially recorded — whether it is music composed for the commercial or an existing piece . |
| 17 | You will find that this can not be pulled out in error ( who has not picked a bit of wool out only to find that it was the marker ! ) and it can either be pulled up tight later as a permanent marker or pulled out and used again . |
| 18 | It can either be used as a ‘ black box ’ analyser with preprogrammed applications and automatic set-up for simple routine analysis , or as a sophisticated tool for application development . |
| 19 | It can either be marked on each item or shown on a ticket or notice referring to the item and in close proximity to it . |
| 20 | It can either be controlled directly via a mouse interface or control can be automated using macros to perform repetitive tasks , or more complex operations . |
| 21 | It can thus be argued that Russia and Prussia have in the eighteenth century a very important and interesting administrative history but little real political , still less constitutional , history . |
| 22 | It can thus be seen to stand as the architectural counterpart to the other key artistic expressions of the age , the panoramic canvases of John Martin , Edward John Poynter , and Lawrence Alma-Tadema , toweringly romantic and imaginative recreations of the temples , palaces , baths , and amphitheatres of the ancient world , and the novels of Walter Scott , Harrison Ainsworth , and Bulwer-Lytton which evoked a monumental and teeming past of medieval castles , Tudor mansions , and unbridled Gothic imagination . |
| 23 | Using this notation , the components of the Weyl tensor are given by the expressions ( 10.4 ) It can thus be seen that , although ( 10.2 ) is linear so that different solutions for V can be superposed , the associated gravitational waves can not be simply superposed . |
| 24 | It can thus be seen that this transformation with may be used to change the profile of the approaching waves . |
| 25 | It can thus be seen that both in this chapter and in the closely related one on adult education which follows , the Report addresses English professors and teaching staff not so much as professionals but as responsible public figures ; as socially concerned part-time and even voluntary preachers functioning to disseminate a national culture . |
| 26 | 2.48 It can thus be seen from their lordships ' views in Taylor v O'Connor [ 1971 ] AC 115 that there is no judicial unanimity when damages come to be assessed under the Fatal Accidents Act 1976 . |
| 27 | It can thus be assigned to one ( a' ) or other ( a " ) of the two possible symmetry species . |
| 28 | It can thus be said that the programmer , rather than the user , dictates the form of the final design . |
| 29 | It can alternatively be stored in an array where the number of array elements is the number of words in the lexicon . |
| 30 | ( 2 ) In the case of an application for the grant of a new licence , the applicant shall , along with his application , lodge with the clerk of the board a plan of the premises in respect of which the application is made ; and ( ii ) arrange for the display at the premises , in a place and at a height where it can conveniently be read by the public , of a notice in the prescribed form intimating his application and the type of licence for which he applies , for a period of at least 21 days before the first day of the meeting as aforesaid . |