Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [pron] can be [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The significance lies in what can be done with it . |
| 2 | Where it is expected that circulars , advertisements and other public documents will be used as part of the takeover process it will be important that all statements contained in them can be substantiated with adequate fact . |
| 3 | Whereas the descriptions of the opening chapter are confined to what can be seen from within his shack , visual perspectives increase in variety and number when he ventures out of doors . |
| 4 | Many applications are required but once a good shine has been built up it can be maintained by oiling every six months or so . |
| 5 | As a consequence , ‘ it becomes apparent ’ , he says , ‘ that no proposition that makes assertions about the nature of a thing according to itself can be affirmed with confidence . ’ |
| 6 | At around the same time , the effects were being felt of a new system ( introduced by the government in 1995 ) of individual budgets for each prison — in effect cash limits on what can be spent on staff in each prison — which has also been blamed for giving rise to understaffing . |
| 7 | I think she is looking at what can be done in the school . |
| 8 | We saw earlier that majority decision-taking , even in the context of direct participatory democracy , poses the problem of how those who oppose the majority position and vote against it can be said to be governing themselves . |
| 9 | However , they have 2 great advantages over subroutines : you can refer to them by name and the variables used within them can be made private to the procedure or function . |
| 10 | Our concern is rather to break away from the stale confrontation of reason and spontaneity which has persisted since the Romantic Movement , to invite the man of reason to admit that he never has had any ends which did not spring from his own spontaneity , and the intuitive and impulsive that no insight that flashes from theirs can be acknowledged as objective truth until it survives the ruthless justice of reason . |
| 11 | And I think it 's very important that people can come and talk to you and some representative 's of the board because there is unrest Tom and I 'm not prepared to stick my neck out and say in what quarter this lies but it can be got over it can be ironed out because running a theatre is to do with team spirit and that team spirit get 's conveyed to the public . |
| 12 | If the UK Government is serious about stopping the greenhouse effect it should stop wasting time on long-term impracticalities such as nuclear power and look at what can be achieved now . |
| 13 | Up till now we have only considered the potential uses of the various desktop publishing products but it is important to look at what can be done with the things that they produce . |
| 14 | Many teachers argue that the more important things that they are concerned with , the ‘ something more ’ , are qualities that can not be measured by tests of competence ; if teaching is geared to what can be measured , objectives in other words , then these important qualities will be omitted and both the teaching and students will be the poorer . |
| 15 | However the proposed European directive has a number of further hurdles to be negotiated before it can be finalised and even when it is it 's unlikely to be implemented before nineteen ninety six . |
| 16 | Choice , however limited in scope , implies debate , and debate implies a degree of freedom , even if limits are set on what can be debated . |
| 17 | Collie then turns to what can be identified as the second area of instability within the new English : its claims to inculcate a sense of social responsibility . |
| 18 | It is only within the context of this ‘ world view ’ that particular features of the Victoria Centre and the attribution of meaning given to them can be understood . |
| 19 | Once Newco commences paying dividends , these should be funded by payments of dividends from Target outside the group income election , so that Target must account for ACT , but Newco will receive franked investment income , the tax credit attaching to which can be used to frank its own ACT liability when it pays dividends to its shareholders . |
| 20 | It can be shown that semantic network representations are formally equivalent to semantic feature representations , in as much as any information that can be represented in one can be represented in the other . |
| 21 | Despite the use of country risk analysis it must be conceded that competition for loan business has sometimes encouraged banks to ignore their own country or regional risk assessments and indulge in what can be described only as imprudent bank lending ( dealt with in Chapter 8 ) . |
| 22 | A further factor tempering government enthusiasm for LDDC relates to what can be called the ‘ Prince Charles ’ Factor . |
| 23 | Based on the principle of customer loyalty , their Price Promise guarantees to refund the difference if an item stocked by them can be purchased locally at a lower price . |
| 24 | As we saw in a previous chapter , all the planes or levels of the human being interact with one another , and defects arising in one can be experienced by the others and can cause upsets in them . |
| 25 | Of course , anything that can have a name put to it can be measured more or less usefully . |
| 26 | That is a strong incentive to ensure that what is being bought has been properly tested against what can be provided in the private sector . |
| 27 | The changes covered so far are really simple extensions to the basic Illustrator concept and , indeed , all the files created with them can be saved in Illustrator 1.1 format for use in the original program . |
| 28 | Salim 's flight to whatever is to become of him can be compared to the movement of these flowers , and to the Romeward journey in Virgil . |
| 29 | Although any eligible accounts held by you can be associated with a single card , one account must be nominated as the Primary Account to which all transactions relate unless you select a different account for a particular transaction , for example because there are insufficient funds in the Primary Account to meet the withdrawal . |