Example sentences of "can be [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ When he 's nice he can be that way , ’ Mona looked up gravely from her school work . |
| 2 | ‘ The ground of any action based on negligence is the concurrence of breach of duty and damage , and I can not see how there can be that concurrence unless the duty still exists and is breached when the damage occurs . |
| 3 | The ground of any action based on negligence is the concurrence of breach of duty and damage , and I can not see how there can be that concurrence unless the duty still exists and is breached when the damage occurs . |
| 4 | you know , that could be a sort of central way of getting that back could n't it if if it can be that sort of you know comments about being more confident , being able to get on with it . |
| 5 | The result can be that line endings may not match or letter and word spacing are different . |
| 6 | It needs support from an explanation , in terms of the conditional theory , of how there can be such counter-examples . |
| 7 | The first , and most natural , reaction to this is to reject the suggestion that there can be such things as non-descriptive , simple referential symbols . |
| 8 | Men can be such bastards … ’ |
| 9 | As we saw earlier , a central godhead whose manifold characteristics can be all things to all men is more powerful than a more parochial and less versatile spirit . |
| 10 | Okay erm the input need not be a number , it can be all sorts of funny things . |
| 11 | You know , they , they , they can be a bit hard , they can be a bit bitter , they can drink a bit too much , they can be a bit promiscuous , they can be all sorts of rather iffy things but I do n't think Lyndsey will . |
| 12 | Well , certainly we believe that there can be all sorts of erm techniques that can be very useful , like communications skills and assertiveness , but our understanding is also that it is not only about the skills that people have it 's also about the understanding behind those skills . |
| 13 | A home aquarium of British Freshwater species sounds like a good idea , but there can be many problems . |
| 14 | There can be many reasons for our anger : |
| 15 | When there is failure to establish this good relationship there can be many reasons for it , which the wife , who loves them both , and is the best person to act as intermediary , should try to understand . |
| 16 | Of course the ‘ suburb ’ can be many things . |
| 17 | Moreover , there can be many bats and small-to medium-sized mammals ( arboreal ) from the smallest marsupials to the smaller monkeys , in contrast to the larger mammals confined to the forest floor where food is always scarce , and therefore there are fewer species of them . |
| 18 | It is obvious that there can be many branches that have to be studied , but if we assign probabilities of success or failure , not only can event-trees define possible accident sequences that can release radioactivity into the environment , but they also enable us to calculate the probability for each sequence , and the associated risk . |
| 19 | Imaginative and valuable benefit schemes — there can be many fringe benefits sometimes unavailable in private practice , e.g. pension schemes , company car , medical insurance , life cover , bonus schemes and in the financial sector , low rate loans and mortgage schemes . |
| 20 | Waiting lists for marriage guidance can be many months long so the client comes to the CAB instead ; independent debt counsellors are rare outside the CAB ; unemployment causes stress that is not within the remit of the Job Centre , so the client comes to the CAB ; few of these problems have easy or immediate solutions . |
| 21 | The first level of the DUD relates to jobs and the second level to orders for parts , because for each occurrence of the job data , there can be many occurrences of order data . |
| 22 | Well , I 'm not sure I can be much help . ’ |
| 23 | However , the future has to be built on a clear understanding of the new power relationships ; there can be little progress or security if foundation stones are laid on the shifting sands of discontent which campaign against or refuse to acknowledge the times in which the education service is being delivered . |
| 24 | Environmental protection and wealth creation are in tension but not necessarily in conflict , and indeed there can be little hope of improving the quality of the environment without the resources to do so . |
| 25 | However , while they remain in the hands of farmers , and while agricultural workers are completely dependent on their employers not only for their jobs but also for housing and education , there can be little hope of real improvement or of community involvement . |
| 26 | As long as the occasion of buying one 's first car is regarded as one of life 's momentous landmarks there can be little hope . |
| 27 | If the commercial benefits to Visa of retaining the data do not outweigh the costs of their retention then there can be little hope that such data will be accessible to historians in the future . |
| 28 | There can be little hope for Newcastle 's future until some form of stability is achieved . |
| 29 | There can be little doubt that such examples represent the tip of an iceberg . |
| 30 | However , there can be little doubt that significant numbers of protestant loyalists see themselves as a distinct , almost ethnic group . |