Example sentences of "can [adv] [be] [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is not a term without some disadvantages , since it can justifiably be argued that the term ‘ handicapped ’ may have some negative overtones . |
| 2 | The two limitations were that recovery will not be available : ( 1 ) where it can properly be said that the payment was made to close the transaction , and ( 2 ) where the payer was mistaken as to the proper interpretation of the statute . |
| 3 | It can perhaps be said that the bereavement care teams who usually now come to help at such times are the public recognition of this phenomenon . |
| 4 | However , it is not known whether the courts would accept this argument , because it can perhaps be said that the shares management acquire in Newco are acquired pursuant to ( though not causally connected to ) an opportunity offered to management ( namely to buy Target or its business ) by reason of their employment/directorships with the vendor or Target . |
| 5 | In this way it can perhaps be argued that the underlying rationale for the existence of the Eurocurrency market has been somewhat undermined , hence the classification by the BIS statistics to encompass the whole International Banking Market , of which the Euromarket is a part . |
| 6 | It can only be hoped that the newly aggressive financial players of the Thatcher era manage to avoid the same errors . |
| 7 | It is doubtful whether the unfortunates impounded in the Lazzaretto had time to concern themselves with the aesthetic niceties of the building , and it can only be hoped that the church offered them some spiritual comfort . |
| 8 | It can only be hoped that , should the book go to a second edition , the publishers will make time to consult properly and correct the errors . |
| 9 | Whilst these changes pose a formidable challenge to exporters , it can only be hoped that the response they evoke will be conducive to the well-being and prosperity of all . |
| 10 | How much of a threat this posed to those drapers who themselves furnished funerals is not recorded , but as none appear to have taken legal action , it can only be assumed that they too had dealings with these manufacturers whilst continuing to offer a funeral service to the general public . |
| 11 | Since this was also a period of great affluence , it can only be assumed that the wealthy customers who commissioned the Kamares cups — aristocrats and priestesses among them — could now afford cups of precious metal instead . |
| 12 | It can only be deduced that most young people learn about homosexuality from the negative and misinformed images in the mainstream media . |
| 13 | Even in the simplest case , the lump sum target , it can only be shown that the target can be used to improve welfare under the assumptions that E is neutral in its effect on production and that there are non-decreasing returns to scale . |
| 14 | It can only be surmised that the Marquis was feeling pretty flush after a good win when he made that entry into his accounts , or the caddie was a highly favoured young man indeed , for four shillings at that time would have been over the top on the percentages that a caddie can expect from his round nowadays . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | It can thus be seen that this transformation with may be used to change the profile of the approaching waves . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | It can thus be said that the programmer , rather than the user , dictates the form of the final design . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | But it can not be accepted that every time there is a tragedy in the Health Service , where there has been no professional neglect , that instantly there should be compensation . |
| 21 | It can not be over-emphasised that the future of many of these species of Sussex birds is closely tied to the management of these levels . |
| 22 | ‘ It can not be over-emphasised that statistics , if these are to have any meaning , should be gathered by those who know the churches well and who are concerned that the statistics reveal the truth . |
| 23 | It can not be over-emphasised that the official timetable volumes take in railways , mountain railways , lake and riverboat services as well as bus services . ) |
| 24 | However , it can not be denied that incompetent side-slipping and sideslipping close to the ground can cause accidents . |
| 25 | It can not be denied that we need more resources to improve the quality of life of very frail older people . |
| 26 | Many of the shortcomings of the eastern type are similar to those of the western , but it can not be denied that it is the immensely complicated nature alone of the eastern Buddhism , Hinduism and their derivatives that is sufficient to make them equally useless as a basis of a religion of the character that mankind needs . |
| 27 | Tradition maintains that many of the Campbells warned Macdonalds in time for them to escape but it can not be denied that on that winter morning in Glencoe many of the Clan Campbell plumbed the depths of treachery and horror . |
| 28 | It can not be denied that air pollution needs to be addressed but we should n't be fooled into paying more of our hard-earned cash which will be used to pay for Mr Lamont 's bungles . |
| 29 | Professor James Torrance , I know , sees this as a weakness in Calvinism , and it can not be denied that , despite the Reformation , a great deal of this legalism passed over into Protestantism . |
| 30 | It can not be denied that there is a streak of ‘ wish-fulfilment ’ in The Lord of the Rings . |