Example sentences of "[pron] [pron] can be [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If you need me I can be contacted on the phone . |
| 2 | Even I itself can be factorised in a variety of ways ; as one example , if J is the square matrix which has units in its secondary diagonal and zeros elsewhere , which we shall call the reversing matrix , then |
| 3 | Generally , it is best to send out a strong opener , that is someone who can be relied upon to go all out for a victory . |
| 4 | This is well illustrated by the controversy in the case-law about the legitimacy of a company 's board of directors taking defensive action against a threatened take-over bid by issuing shares to someone who can be relied upon to support the incumbent management . |
| 5 | This negative bias entails however that in the speaker 's eyes there are no real reasons which can be conceived as occupying the before-position which a reason normally occupies with respect to the action it calls for ; and since there is consequently nothing which can be situated in time before this action , the meaning of to does not apply in this use . |
| 6 | ‘ Cricket must now be the only sport in which you can be punished for the same offence twice and , who knows , maybe three times if he appeals ! |
| 7 | This involves estimating such factors as new household formation ( which itself can be affected by housing supply and prices ) , the rate of slum clearance , the role of improvements and major repairs to existing houses , and the geographic shift of jobs , retirement migration , second homes , and improved housing standards . |
| 8 | Elaborations are characteristic of what might be called a pedagogical style , which itself can be explained in terms of the principle of relevance . |
| 9 | The structure of dialogue , moreover , disallows the taking up of any position beyond the interlocutors from which they can be integrated into a larger totality . |
| 10 | The empirical research carried out here is intended to test the feasibility of this approach , as well as providing some general indications of what the effects might be and of one way by which they can be represented on the final output map . |
| 11 | The facts of deixis should act as a constant reminder to theoretical linguists of the simple but immensely important fact that natural languages are primarily designed , so to speak , for use in face-to-face interaction , and thus there are limits to the extent to which they can be analysed without taking this into account ( Lyons , 1977a : 589ff ) . |
| 12 | It is pretty clear that Labour believes that it can not get a majority for those policies domestically and therefore wants to achieve a situation in which they can be imposed on us by a majority of continental countries . |
| 13 | For social reasons , both the degree of concentration of certain acknowledged problems and the extent to which they can be explained by internal processes of self-generation rather externally imposed processes may be grossly exaggerated . |
| 14 | This hits application performance , but the company has come up with the innovative idea of letting users run NLMs in protected mode until they are proved stable , after which they can be invited into the same memory segment as the core operating system to boost performance . |
| 15 | finally , the node information can be perturbed only once , which involves creating a node table into which the perturbed nodes are stored as they are read in , and from which they can be retrieved in later references to the same node . |
| 16 | Having suggested that the 1960s were characterised by a series of discrete panics around moral issues , there is neither an account — other than an essentially economistic one — of the aetiology of such panics , nor an explanation of the way(s) in which they can be considered to be discrete . |
| 17 | Part of the appeal is doubtless the ease with which it can be applied with great effect . |
| 18 | Thus the sense of ‘ good ’ which is fundamental for ethics is that in which it can be expanded to ‘ good in itself ’ . |
| 19 | The grammar of English is carried over into the signing and presumably evaluation of the adequacy of BSL is based on the ease with which it can be fitted to this English format . |
| 20 | The liquidity of an asset is the ease with which it can be converted into cash without loss . |
| 21 | Now that we have established the principles of inheritance , and the methods by which it can be studied in complex cases , let us see how well they apply to behaviour . |
| 22 | This is the recognition of faith , and there is no way in which it can be demonstrated to be valid by appeal to merely historical argument about Jesus . |
| 23 | A crucial question to consider about the Glorious Revolution , therefore , is the extent to which it can be seen as a victory for Whig principles . |
| 24 | Among its chief attributes are its pleasingly creamy colour , its smoothness and coolness to the touch , its fine grain and the comparative ease with which it can be wrought to a variety of precise shapes using such elementary techniques as sawing , rubbing , polishing and perforating . |
| 25 | The upward flow tank , usually conical or pyramidal in shape , with its widest part at the top , allows the water to flow up with diminishing speed , the solid matter falling to the base , from which it can be removed as a sludge by the hydrostatic head in the tank , scraping gear being unnecessary . |
| 26 | Anyone who has witnessed my hon. Friend and his especially outstanding and noticeable ties will see that Redditch has many lively things on which it can be commended to the nation . |
| 27 | It clearly needs to be a part of the school 's work on developing its curriculum to consider the place of project work within this curriculum , and to plan ways in which it can be utilised to maximum advantage , especially as a vehicle for the teaching of information skills . |
| 28 | There are two ways in which it can be provided for in later reorganizations of the file . |
| 29 | There can be no doubt that the stepping motor has attained its present prominent market position because of the simplicity with which it can be controlled in open-loop . |
| 30 | The syntactic structure also defines intermediate complexes , such as ‘ the cat ’ and ‘ on the mat ’ , which , when appropriately combined , yield the global meaning of the sentence , but which themselves can be decomposed into more elementary parts . |