Example sentences of "can of [noun] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( The films can of course be bought individually elsewhere , at around £11 each . ) |
| 2 | There can of course be a facade of gentleness that is not genuine . |
| 3 | It is an irony that underlying this kind of dispersal policy , which can of course be criticised , is a reliance on the old skills that the private librarians would have had at their finger tips . |
| 4 | Anything that you design in the ORIGINAL shaping section can of course be saved on to disk for future use . |
| 5 | There can of course be no comfort for Mr and Mrs Young as they come to terms with their tragedy . |
| 6 | Once such a formulation is proposed then it can of course be applied to other phenomena ( other than those originally used ) and these are explained as additional instances of the abstractions that have been established . |
| 7 | Foreign currency sensitivity can of course be unaffected by geographical exposure ; it can be down to commodity prices . |
| 8 | It can of course be no more than speculation to consider whether this total concern with instalment size makes people less likely to keep up conscientiously with the payments than they would be if they had a clear idea of their total commitment . |
| 9 | It can of course be drawn in the Fair Isle option as is shown here . |
| 10 | A chain code can of course be fewer than five codes because certain letters are formed by strokes of fewer than five directions . |
| 11 | As Lévi-Strauss himself acknowledges , all social phenomena can of course be said to possess or exhibit ‘ structure ’ ( i.e. some degree of orderliness and patterning ) , just as , with almost equal plausibility , they can be claimed to have some functional significance . |
| 12 | Wishes can of course be fulfilled or remain unfulfilled and things may or may not be as people with certain attitudes would like , but it would be thoroughly misleading to speak of truth or falsehood here . |
| 13 | Even when it is near the zenith , as it can of course be from the southern hemisphere , it still twinkles quite noticeably . |
| 14 | Such experimental evidence can of course be extremely valuable , but there may be occasions when it needs to be augmented by observations of children in more natural surroundings . |
| 15 | The dish can of course be reheated without coming to any harm . |
| 16 | But the elements can of course be variables . |
| 17 | The deflation can of course be repeated . |
| 18 | ( They can of course be conclusively falsified . ) |
| 19 | The point we wish to make here should be an obvious one and can of course be made with respect to many of the other items which we have not italicised in the cited texts . |
| 20 | The same can of course be said of a great novel , for if houses are like stories , stories are also like houses . |
| 21 | Change can of course be regarded as a source of threat . |
| 22 | In the short term , such equity based investments can of course be volatile , however , over the medium to long term they have consistently provided excellent returns compared with deposit-based savings . |
| 23 | Any list of utterances can of course be drilled separately . |
| 24 | The terms of the contract between the auctioneer and the vendor can of course be varied by contrary agreement ( i. e. usually by the printed auction conditions ) . |
| 25 | Cultures can of course be changed but it usually takes longer than the organisation is prepared to wait . |
| 26 | Such a claim can of course be brought in the same action by which the recognition of the automatic hiring and the awarding of the relevant salary is sought . |
| 27 | Being digital , the DVI video data can of course be processed after decompression and before being displayed . |
| 28 | Colours can of course be mixed together for an infinite variety of results . |
| 29 | The details of the cakes can of course be adapted to suit your own inclinations , ability and time available . |
| 30 | Erm the lectures given in the Department of Politics can of course be described in many ways and academic monologue is probably one of the most neutral erm of them . |