Example sentences of "can be ignored " in BNC.

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1 Accordingly , they can be ignored by monetary authorities seeking to control the overall price level .
2 Nobody is starry-eyed about a world condominium with Moscow , but nobody except some of the administration 's conservative critics ( who have had a field day trashing the Gorbachev plan for the Gulf ) thinks the Russians can be ignored .
3 The sign or the symbol , however , can be ignored and treated as an end in itself .
4 A stimulus that is reliably followed by a given consequence ( whether this be a US or no event at all ) can be ignored .
5 Fine cracks internally visible but not seen externally can be ignored if they are less than 1mm in width and can be filled during redecoration .
6 Second , if it does not , it can be ignored .
7 For the sake of completeness , if a relative refuses further treatment on behalf of a patient , this can be ignored , for the reasons advanced above .
8 Perhaps in this case the injunction can be ignored since the pattern is so widespread and so instinctively attractive .
9 In the absence of more tangible evidence , the argument regarding possible harmful effects on children can be ignored .
10 No pet can be ignored .
11 And though you might not intend to sell him again at the moment , circumstances can change : a horse with a stable vice is always harder to sell than one without , unless he is so fantastically talented that his behaviour can be ignored .
12 Degeneracy can cause cycling even in TRPs but the possibility of this happening in practice is remote and can be ignored .
13 Thus the sign can be ignored or disputed .
14 Certain forms of discomfort , certain forms of boredom , can be ignored or at least tolerated by means of diversion .
15 As I see it , she is , in a sense , full , and so her own emptiness can be ignored or pacified .
16 Work so far has demonstrated that reactions with the rock are fast relative to the rate of groundwater movement , so that the movement of chemical components in the system is best simulated by assuming equilibrium : the rate of chemical reactions can be ignored .
17 Those that are due to demands ' being refused and bad temper can be ignored but others are best managed by helping the child cope with frustrating experiences .
18 This is not to suggest that the age variable can be ignored .
19 A good rule of thumb is that a model may be considered a potential hit if at least half its base area lies under the template , while models whose bases are only touched or grazed can be ignored .
20 They are not so insignificant that they can be ignored ; but nor are they so important that they can be allowed to kill the only prospect for peace that does not involve a fight to a standstill .
21 But its overall role as a credible world community of faith and love , a body that can be ignored by no one , a living tradition that combines humanity and the most sophisticated rational understanding with divinity and mystical insight , will simply dwindle away in the twenty-first century , leaving the Church as a narrowing fellowship upon the margins of history .
22 This does not mean that the context in which the general rules operate can be ignored , and sometimes it will be crucial .
23 As with the skip technique , we can allow instructions other than tests and comparisons to set the condition code , with the added advantage over skipping that the setting of the condition code can be ignored where necessary .
24 However , crude as the exercise is , some of its products are so gross that its crudity can be ignored .
25 I am not ignoring that it may be said that this in one sense is proving idem per idem , but none the less I do not think the fact can be ignored .
26 For files of more than a few hundred records , ½N can be ignored .
27 What we do instead is to look for partial theories that will describe situations in which certain interactions can be ignored or approximated in a simple manner .
28 Behind Hurd 's selection of a specific group of Arab states is the assumption that the Arab world as a whole can be ignored , since only part of it has any role to play in security in future .
29 For practical purposes these errors can be ignored , provided that the performance instruments are checked .
30 Finally , important solution forms are to be found in the Red Sea , a region of such aridity that the possibility of fresh water playing a part at the present time can be ignored .
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