Example sentences of "can be [adv] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only magazines as risky as Mediterraneans can take us into the sort of culture where the same writer can be both Keats and Dylan . |
| 2 | Falstaff as ‘ a masculine decayed cornucopious form of the love goddess ’ is amusing as a paradox , though how the boar can be both Mars and Persephone I do not quite see . |
| 3 | In the first case , either interpretation is fully acceptable — it can be either Farjeon or his style of undressing which has the quality of being clumsy ; and quite possibly the existence and use of such sentences provide the interpretative syntactic basis for the type which follows it , which therefore represents in a sense a second order of syntactic patterning . |
| 4 | Sounds are treated as events , and can be either MIDI files , WAVE files or CD tracks . |
| 5 | So the child , can be born to Miss Jones , have a father called Smith , and the child can be either Smith or Jones . |
| 6 | On arcade you can be either Guy you can be Guy and Codie and leave out Hagarth but most people go for Hagarth |