Example sentences of "can [adv] be [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pure logic is only a small part of the thinking we habitually do , and can only be so because it is only appropriate for certain limited activities . |
| 2 | However many facts I know about another person I can treat him as pure means , but I can not be perceptually and emotionally aware from his viewpoint without letting his inclinations interact with mine and affect my ends . |
| 3 | The date governing the first instalment can not be sooner than 14 days after the issue of the bill . |
| 4 | The unfulfilled potential for new roles can not be completely and unreservedly surrendered to the psychiatrist . |
| 5 | Once proceedings have been commenced a child can not be medically or psychiatrically examined or otherwise assessed for the purpose of preparing expert evidence without the leave of the court ( FPCR , r18(1) ; FPR , r4.18(1) ) . |
| 6 | In these circumstances it is essential that a direction is sought as the child can not be medically or psychiatrically examined or otherwise assessed for the purpose of providing expert evidence without the leave of the court ( FPCR , r18(1) ; FPR , r4.18(1) ) . |
| 7 | Today , despite assurances given by the Under-Secretary of State for Social Security in Committee , crucial regulations on disability have been botched together with the uprating measures so that they can not be effectively and properly considered by Parliament . |
| 8 | Understanding involves an area more extensive than that of which one can be conscious ; one can not be outside and inside at the same time … |
| 9 | In so far as the plaintiffs are seeking to recover from the third defendant money which he has obtained for his own benefit or for the benefit of companies which are , in effect , his alter ego , I can see that the third party would have an overwhelming argument that it can not be just and equitable to require him to contribute to whatever the third defendant is ordered to pay to the plaintiffs . |
| 10 | Marie McKnight , who prepared their submission , can not be here and has delegated OLIVER KEARNEY to present it for her . |
| 11 | It does not commend itself on the basis of observable experience in the everyday world , and it can not be easily and rationally justified . |
| 12 | Indirect costs ( also known as overhead costs ) are those costs that can not be easily and conveniently identified with a particular product . |
| 13 | If during the period of habituation the touch of the glass rod is coupled with some other stimulus — say a bright light — the original response at once returns in full , so it can not be merely because of exhaustion that it disappeared in the first place . |
| 14 | Reporters can not be everywhere and so press releases can help to ensure that newsworthy events receive the publicity they deserve . |
| 15 | Clients can not be everywhere and , indeed , you may be more articulate than the client . |
| 16 | The distance of the cluster is believed to be over 9000 light-years ; it contains several thousands of stars , and it can not be less than 30 light-years in diameter . |
| 17 | This can never be inferior to a logarithmic search ( as n can not be less than one ) and is usually far superior . |
| 18 | It can not be so if the managers are drawn from a different pool , which can happen if emoluments in the private sector drift too far away from those in the public sector . |
| 19 | Evidently , experiences can not be appropriately or adequately described in terms of the categories that are applicable to public objects or events . |
| 20 | Copernicus had shown that the apparent movements of the planets as observed from the earth can not be satisfactorily or coherently explained on the assumption that the earth itself lies immobile at the centre of the universe . |
| 21 | Surely it can not be long before the Football League discovers what is festering in the Multivite Vegeburger/Singletons Valve Replacement League sewer . |
| 22 | ‘ She can not be more than twelve years old . ’ |
| 23 | Since there is only one cycle created when I to J is added there will be no cycles left after the edge p to q is dropped and so there can not be more than one path from i to l for any i . |
| 24 | At first sight this question might seem to be a nonsense : since , as we have seen , a reasonable definition of the Universe is ‘ everything that has , does and will exist ’ , surely there can not be more than one of them ? |
| 25 | The tax-free lump sum , if you choose to take it , can not be more than one and a half times salary . |
| 26 | Even today , however , the older idea still prevails on a vote by a show of hands , when the common law rule is that each member has one vote irrespective of the number of shares held ; a rule which , although it can be altered by the constitution , is normally maintained , if only because the number of a human being 's hands can not be more than two . |
| 27 | But the difference can not be more than seven days , since although the next financial year begins from the end of the last , it has to end within seven days of the next accounting reference period . |
| 28 | One can therefore say that the observations of the gamma ray background do not provide any positive evidence for primordial black holes , but they do tell us that on average there can not be more than 300 in every cubic light-year in the universe . |
| 29 | One girl can not be more than twelve . |
| 30 | Though he can not be more than five or six , he wears a man 's anorak , badly zipped and uneven , a heap of purple fabric tilted to one side and a small freckled shoulder bare on the other . |