Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] can [be] [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a local authority employee you can be authorised to appear on its behalf in the Magistrates ' Courts , giving you early experience in advocacy . |
| 2 | Pile length and density affect the carpet 's performance as well as its looks , and most carpets are classified to indicate the sort of wear they can be expected to tolerate . |
| 3 | The record in a profile can contain inputs spanning more than a hundred years , and under favourable circumstances it can be used to chart oscillations in recharge , from which one can infer climatic history . |
| 4 | In the aquarium it can be expected to grow to about 13cm . |
| 5 | It is found in the rivers of Colombia and Peru , and in the aquarium it can be expected to grow to about 130mm . |
| 6 | In a scouting role they can be used to pin down enemy troops by getting within 8″ of them and thus preventing march moves . |
| 7 | Mr Peter Archer , chairman of the housing committee of the Institution of Environmental Health Officers , said yesterday : ‘ At this rate it can be expected to take more than 65 years to deal with unfit properties identified by the 1986 English House Conditions Survey . ’ |
| 8 | The sex exclusive markers which do indeed occur in some languages are superficially striking , but on closer inspection they can be seen to result from a few regular and predictable rules acting on the same basic structures . |
| 9 | ( 1a ) Thus by reducing the temperature of matter in the gaseous state it can be made to pass through all three physical states . |
| 10 | Something similar might be said of the following : ( 192 ) Thus by reducing the temperature of matter in the gaseous state it can be made to pass through all three physical states . |
| 11 | Because they are unaffected by psychology and do n't take break tests they can be used to pin down a much more powerful enemy , diverting attention away from the core units . |
| 12 | This very simple type of graph is called a number line It can be used to count off answers to + and — operations . |
| 13 | In that way you can be seen to care as much for your people as the union does . |
| 14 | Treitel ( 8th ed. ) , p. 87 says of Ward v. Byham : ‘ One basis of the decision is that the mother had provided consideration by showing that she had made the child happy , etc. : in this way she can be said to have conferred a factual benefit on the father , even though she may not have suffered any detriment . ’ |
| 15 | When first purchased my specimen hardly ventured out of its hidey-hole , a flowerpot , but after a year it can be seen hopping out of its hideout at most times of the day — particularly at feeding times . |
| 16 | At this time they can be observed rummaging around in search of food . |
| 17 | In retrospect it can be seen to mark the beginning of the end of the Pahlavi dynasty , which the Shah 's father had founded just fifty years before . |
| 18 | At the same time it can be used to explain why in the absence of such effective restraints most governments have experienced positive inflation in the past 40 years . |