Sentence examples for can be are from inspiring English sources

Still, these applications of speech technology, useful though they can be, are a far cry from HAL — a conversational computer.

Fireplaces and wood stoves, as delightful and money-saving as they can be, are also common sources of house fires.

But he is all these others, she says, and the strictures limiting what he can be are not her strictures.

Our civilian courts, imperfect as they can be, are the envy of countries struggling to establish, or hold onto, the rule of law.

The days of the United States voluntarily surrendering to the enemy to show how progressive and enlightened we can be are at an end.

But the things covered in the news, as terrible as they can be, are more "mainstream" worries; things that everyone can worry about to some extent.

They can be be pretty nasty.

All you can be is a mess.

But what they can be is communicators".

But how effective Bryant can be is in question.

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