Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] [pron] can be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our gloss acrylic coating can be burnished to a mirror-like gloss surpassing that which can be obtained with polyurethane varnishes . |
| 2 | So when you fit them , make sure they can be reached easily . |
| 3 | Always make sure you can be seen easily at night . |
| 4 | Make sure you can be seen and wear a personal buoyancy aid until you feel confident with a harness — a strength-saving device allowing the sailor to be attached to the sail and use body weight more efficiently . |
| 5 | The calibre and standard of applications has been extremely high , in fact many students are already successful musicians in their own right , and I feel certain we can be assured of an exciting competition on the 22nd June . ’ |
| 6 | Furthermore , although the first poll-tax was sufficiently successful as a fiscal measure for it to be repeated in 1379 and 1381 , the hostility shown to it in the Great Revolt of the latter year led to its abandonment as a form of taxation ; not until the sixteenth century do further governmental records become available which can be employed to estimate the size of the national population with even a modicum of confidence . |
| 7 | While the top five destinations have remained unaltered it can be seen that the United States is attracting a steadily declining share of Scottish products . |
| 8 | If the tenants can get this it can be used to provide additional care . |
| 9 | Thus crime would be prevented by modifying those who can be modified , segregating those who can not be so modified , correcting in advance of crime those who are proved to be most likely to commit crime , and attacking and eliminating the social situations which are most conducive to crime ( ibid. , p. 608 ) . |
| 10 | Temperatures increase with altitude above the tropopause , and from here to where the atmosphere becomes negligible it can be called the thermosphere . |
| 11 | Thus , 534–6 ( Subsonic vibrations ) provides -6 which can be applied with 534.63 ( Measurement of frequency ) to give 534.63–6 ( Measurement of the frequency of subsonic vibrations ) . |