Example sentences of "can be [prep] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Network DDE is much the same except the connected applications can be on physically different computers on the network . |
| 2 | With ‘ Selections ’ the term of agreement can be for either two or three years . |
| 3 | Outings can be for just one or two residents to go somewhere they want to , or it may involve the whole staff and all the residents . |
| 4 | A woman can be at once lovely and loathsome , chaste and lecherous , Sacred Bride and Queen of Hell . |
| 5 | Yet it may be asked how a man can be at once free and forced to conform to wills which are not his own . |
| 6 | As Rousseau said , ‘ yet it may be asked how a man can be at once free and conform to wills which are not his own ’ . |
| 7 | Right , so normally we , you know , we want to be reasonably confident , right , so we want to have a reasonably small significance level we do n't want that significance level to be too small , otherwise the power of the test will diminish very rapidly so we normally use the ten or the five percent , five percent level and if you just look at the er the five percent column , right , overall realistic sample sizes , right , from a hundred and twenty down to , to about twenty , I , those T ratios were the critical value they are all about two and that 's why we say you can have a T ratio of about greater than two , then you can be at least ninety five percent confident about your inference . |
| 8 | It may be at the time that they hear the person is going to die ; it may be when they suddenly recognize that the person has become very ill ; it can be at almost any stage when the threat of loss comes into their mind . |
| 9 | However the advantage of part learning is that the feedback can be of much higher quality . |
| 10 | There are sufficient inhabitants in Stockport for a good Grammar School , but without a department for the teaching the modern languages the school can be of comparatively little use in a commercial population like that of Stockport . |
| 11 | Occasionally , however a border is absent , as at Silchester , in a room of building XIX ; in room 8 , Colliton Park , Dorchester ; and in a house " north of the Newport Road " , Caerwent.Alternatively , it can be of very large blocks , such as are found around a mosaic at Whittington Court , Glos . |
| 12 | Radio York , that 's where you 're tuned , the B B C station for North Yorkshire and er James Whale is here on the wireless with you bright and e I 'm amazed I can get up after being up so late on a Friday night , I 'm amazed I can be in here this early on a Friday , and somebody said well it is twelve o'clock . |
| 13 | Every hairpin and dynamic nuance is scrupulously observed but never selfconsciously so ; not pasted on as it can be in less dedicated , self-aware performances . |