Example sentences of "can [adv] [be] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The exact origins of the ferret can only be guesswork , but either descendants of the polecat line or variations on the resultant interbreeding between stoats and polecats may have given us the ferret we know today . |
| 2 | It can only be silf . |
| 3 | Whether personal acrimony stimulated Loder can only be surmise , but it is certainly likely that Bill Saxby , jocked off Craganour after the Two Thousand Guineas , would not be bending over backwards to support that horse 's cause in the enquiry in which , as rider of Louvois , he was called to give evidence . |
| 4 | They could even have proven to be the negative experience of small ethnic enclaves defending themselves in hostile environments , but even this viewpoint can only be speculation . |
| 5 | You should be well aware that evolution can only be viewed with hindsight , and whether our species ' rapacious predatory record will prove successful in the long term can only be speculation . |
| 6 | It can only be obtuseness or a refusal to believe that can still lead the Opposition to make that claim . |
| 7 | Education has become part of the political battleground , and its transformation into a non-racial system can only be part of a much broader transformation of society . |
| 8 | The provision as to three months ' notice has to be read with the limitation that there can only be dismissal for good cause . |
| 9 | There can only be description , he wrote , The Big Glass . |
| 10 | Most users believe that the drug is less harmful than the tobacco it is rolled with , but this can only be supposition given the lack of knowledge surrounding the drug 's long-term effects . |
| 11 | The list , however , is hardly impressive and , as in East Anglia , it looks as though Gloucester was acquiring the service of individuals rather than building up a coherent connection — although , in the absence of receivers ' accounts for the duke 's Welsh lordships , this can only be inference . |
| 12 | The list , however , is hardly impressive and , as in East Anglia , it looks as though Gloucester was acquiring the service of individuals rather than building up a coherent connection — although , in the absence of receivers ' accounts for the duke 's Welsh lordships , this can only be inference . |
| 13 | It can only be canvas . |
| 14 | can only be fabliau . |
| 15 | ‘ The result can only be health care services which have virtually no real accountability or contact with the local community , ’ he said . |
| 16 | Therefore Ann 's child , who did not see Donald Duck , can not be Donna , and must be Julie , who therefore ate the hot dog . |
| 17 | There can not be stability while 25 per cent . |
| 18 | He told Napo 's annual conference in Bridlington , Humberside : ‘ Electronic surveillance , house arrest tracking , restrictive and punitive community supervision can not be part of any real living community — they simply transfer the techniques of imprisonment into the world at large . ’ |
| 19 | In general , if c is in a causal circumstance cc , and & is the effect of cc " , then cc " can not be part of cc and neither can any part of cc " . |
| 20 | It is to my mind illegitimate to argue — this is a sale , the consideration for a sale is the price , price can only include money or something which can be readily converted into an ascertainable sum of money , therefore anything like wrappers which have no money value when delivered can not be part of the consideration . |
| 21 | ‘ The misbehaviour of boys and girls ’ , said its report on Youth Astray in 1946 , ‘ is mainly the outcome of conditions , social , economic , and to some extent hereditary , for which they themselves can not be blame . |
| 22 | This case makes clear that normally there can not be liability as a constructive trustee merely for ‘ knowing assistance ’ in a fraudulent design if there was no dishonesty or lack of probity on the part of the alleged trustee , and if knowledge would not have been inferred in the circumstances by an honest and reasonable person . |
| 23 | In Schopenhauerian terms , this means that music becomes will , or rather that music , which can not be will , makes its appearance as will . |
| 24 | So while homophobia may sometimes originate in and , as it circulates socially , reconnect with repressed desire , the latter can not be homophobia 's necessary condition since it often circulates without it , and in a socio-political form which is more rapid , more widespread , more economical , and possibly more destructive . |
| 25 | Brown can not be deputy leader for the straightforward reason that an all-Scottish ticket would put off the English . |
| 26 | ‘ But she can not be Queen . |
| 27 | But there can not be complacency in Downing Street or satisfaction in the country as long as the unemployment figures continue to rise so sharply . |
| 28 | However , regional secretaries , despite our many wonderful skills , can not be litigation experts and run the cases . |
| 29 | But suppose I am wrong in my basic presupposition that there can not be particularity . |
| 30 | It can not be coincidence that the folding of the septal walls occurs at the point where they meet the body shell of the animal ; this is a point of relative weakness , and all good joinery benefits from strengthening the joint . |