Example sentences of "can [be] [adv] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The principle of cultural revolution offers an outline of ways in which there can be both effective association and new forms of negotiation beyond specific associations . |
| 2 | Plumbing can be physically hard work . |
| 3 | Yet this relation , marked by many forms of co-operation , interaction and two-way movement between the ‘ market ’ and ‘ subsidized ’ areas , is nevertheless always precarious , for there can be little real doubt that it is the dominant area , the market , which either determines , or emphasizes and de-emphasizes , prevailing types of production , and there are then the familiar asymmetries : ( i ) between the notion of a necessary ‘ high culture ’ — and the pressures of the market on its continued viability ; and ( ii ) between the notion of plural ( ‘ liberal ’ ) culture and the actual profit-governed market selection of what can be readily distributed or even , in some areas , offered at all . |
| 4 | At the time of publication the county courts in London have yet to adopt this rate , but it is submitted that there can be little real argument that the same rate should not be applied . |
| 5 | And this week the IMF made public what everyone has been saying in private : that there can be little foreign help on offer until the Soviet Union reforms its ‘ rotten ’ economy . |
| 6 | Keeping an eye on the weather … adventurer Rosemary Upton Life can be just plain sailing … ( with a bit of help , of course ) WHEN you get into your seventies for some For Rosemary Upton , who is just into her seventies , life could n't be more hectic or more adventurous ! |
| 7 | As for Silverweed , all I can say is , I 'll keep Silver and he can be just plain Weed . " |
| 8 | there is an element of abuse on the part of some debtors — it can be simply one way of not paying the debt |
| 9 | If the fruits of the single market are not going to be realised , then there can be precious little incentive to go along with political and economic union , even if we wanted to . |
| 10 | ‘ It makes you realise your life can be here one minute and gone the next , ’ Alison told her mum in a trans-Atlantic telephone call . |
| 11 | The result of this can be either excessive user resistance to any type of computer , or total acceptance of all output from the computer without questioning the premises of the program . |
| 12 | Adhesives can be either rubber solution glue or egg white , which was used by the Victorians , and I think it is still the best option as it does not mark the leaves and flowers — commercial glues do after a time . |
| 13 | It can be that magic moment in such dances as the Rose Adage in The Sleeping Beauty when Aurora triumphantly raises her hand from the fourth Prince 's grasp and holds the final attitude for several seconds revealing her complete command over the forces of gravity . |
| 14 | Their warty , slimy and sometimes scaly skins can be almost any colour . |
| 15 | A pattern can be almost any material , even plaster which has had a layer of sealer on it . |
| 16 | The ruff can be almost any shade of cream or red to black , and includes ear-tufts often of a different colour . |
| 17 | The range of woods is enormous , from dark mahoganies , through maples that can be almost bright orange , to a natural pine or bleached wood effect that can be very light indeed . |
| 18 | Running a teashop in a small town may seem fun but it can be agonisingly hard work , as can the village shop , the country pub and the small hotel . |
| 19 | The major drawback to this method is that it can be very time-consuming sorting through the piles when you start a new picture . |
| 20 | " There can be no doubt " according to one academic authority " that [ he ] displays a highly sophisticated grasp " of the working of the system " .3 On the contrary : there can be very great doubt whether voters in general , in Ireland or elsewhere , are competent to display " a highly sophisticated grasp " of anything at all . |
| 21 | It is worth describing it at such length so that readers who have not read Tolkien 's ‘ minor ’ works might develop some idea of Lewis 's importance as Tolkien 's ‘ onlie begetter ’ or ‘ miglior fabbro ’ , for there can be very little doubt that it was Lewis 's friendship and encouragement which led Tolkien to write the works which made his name with the public ; just as it was Tolkien 's friendship which released in Lewis wells of creativity which had remained ( though he was so naturally fluent ) mysteriously dry . |
| 22 | In some of the larger and older predator fish concentrations of methyl mercury can be very high need , and of course these are precisely the fish that are most sort after by the fishermen and by their customers . |
| 23 | Mirrors can be very attractive wall decorations in their own right , although there are others that seem to be lacking a certain something . |
| 24 | This may sound like standard Sunday Sport fare , but some people sincerely believe it , and more than you 'd think — the UFO business can be very big business indeed |
| 25 | By contrast , when innovation is discrete and there can be only one winner of an R&D race , own and rivals ' R&D substitute for each other , meaning that spillovers from firm i to firm j reduce i 's chances of winning the current R&D race without giving it any compensating advantages in the future . |
| 26 | But the predatory Suffolk firm is adamant there can be only one winner . |
| 27 | Surely there can be only one thing more tedious than slow equal notes calling for inequality , and that is unrelieved inégales producing the saccadé ( ‘ jerky ’ ) result that Thibault ( op. cit. ) warned against so long ago . |
| 28 | I feel there can be only one conclusion . |
| 29 | In the final analysis , there can be only one conclusion to be drawn , and that is that the Christian promise of happiness in the ‘ hereafter ’ was in reality an appeal to ‘ selfishness ’ , which is also the appeal of the teaching of one of the basic premises of this book , namely , that life is to be enjoyed here on earth . |
| 30 | PAMELA : Why , Mrs. Jewkes , there can be only one reason , which is that I am a sad fool ! |