Example sentences of "[pron] can be [verb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I can be put in jail , yeah . |
| 2 | In today 's world nobody can be isolated from change and uncertainty , and the challenge for us is to continue to provide excellent services in these uncertain times . |
| 3 | There is only one civil destruction which can be accepted with certainty , and that is the effect of the sacking of Camulodunum ( Hull , 1958 , 152 — 156 , 198 — 202 ; Dunnett , 1967 , 48 — 54 ; 1971 , 18–23 and probably 54–56 ) , London ( Marsden , 1974 ) and Verulamium ( Frere , 1972 , period I ) in AD 60 , and already useful collections of pottery have been recovered from two of these . |
| 4 | The lower value limit of goods which can be accepted for sale has been set fairly high — it is rumoured to be £10,000 for the Jewellery Department . |
| 5 | There are three sets of endorsement which can be applied to Home Insurance policies , ‘ H ’ prefix , ‘ N ’ prefix and ‘ P ’ prefix . |
| 6 | " Educational technology " in practice means one of three things : The equipment and software of the audio-visual and computing industry which can be applied in education . |
| 7 | It is available in easy to use mini granules which can be applied by hand or lawn spreader . |
| 8 | The Association will carefully monitor the take up of Vocational Qualifications by the industry and the country-wide acceptance of NVQs as nationally recognised qualifications : in the meantime it is apparent that there is a well defined need for flexible and modular provision of learning support and underpinning knowledge for those who are working towards competences , which can be assessed for award of Vocational Qualifications . |
| 9 | The leaderboard keeps track of the games played and scores which can be saved to disk at the end of each game . |
| 10 | However , there is an important difference between what might be called the doctrine of empiricism , and scientific theory , which must be empirical in the sense that statements can be deduced from theory which are about particular events and which can be checked by observation . |
| 11 | The robot specialises in problematic " blister " packs , which normally pose a nightmare for recyclers because the blisters are composed of a different material from their backing , which can be made of cardboard or a different kind of plastic . |
| 12 | These are the figures of disposable income which is arrived at after deduction of the various allowances which can be made against income to assess whether someone is financially eligible . |
| 13 | Instrumental factors , including the breadth of the exciting line and imperfections ( aberrations ) in the electron-velocity analyzer , which can be overcome in principle by improvements in the design , for example by inclusion of a monochromator . |
| 14 | Stephen Dedalus 's uncertainty about the relations which can be sustained between word and world shows , in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man , the epistemological concerns of modernism . |
| 15 | In a given market , the set of profits which can be sustained by minimax punishments could be very large indeed . |
| 16 | At present the system allows a large vocabulary of English words which can be represented in memory with practical size and processing requirements , and is searchable in real time . |
| 17 | Certainly there are commercially available recognition units which can be plugged into home computers but they are very unsophisticated . |
| 18 | Since α is solvent and temperature dependent a more characteristic dimension to measure for the polymer is which can be calculated from light scattering in a theta-solvent , or indirectly as next described . |
| 19 | Here , faced by uncompromising contours , the glen branches into two , Glen Pean and Glen Dessarry , either of which can be followed on foot to Loch Morar : a long and arduous trek . |
| 20 | When you to this your are making use of internal muscles which can be strengthened by exercise to give you greater control . |
| 21 | ‘ Above all else the organization is viewed as a functionally integrated system , the operations of which can be understood with reference to the organizational goals which it is concerned to achieve ’ ( Burrell and Morgan 1979 , p. 205 ) . |
| 22 | Combos such as these Hartkes reinforce this boundary-blurring , with speaker configurations which can be selected in accordance with the player 's own tastes in tone . |
| 23 | Fees include the medical referees ' form , and the use of the chapel and , usually , recorded music ( which can be selected in advance ) , or an organ . |
| 24 | There may still be some possibilities , however , perhaps by filling as much of the waking day as possible with exhausting and demanding activity to reduce the time which can be given to introspection . |
| 25 | Peter has a duodenal ulcer which can be treated with drug therapy . |
| 26 | There are some regional differences which can be discerned in settlement structure , although these need not have an ethnic or social basis . |
| 27 | Instead we want to focus on three different analytical conceptions of the state which can be discerned in elite theory accounts , and which partially cut across the divisions between classical elite theorists , the democratic elitists and radical elite theorists . |
| 28 | Ideas which can be developed into research projects can come to people at all times of the day or night and under all sorts of circumstances . |
| 29 | Rather a text of the play is my principal experience of it , in the case of the scholarly Arden edition complete with a daunting textual apparatus which can be examined at leisure . |
| 30 | 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 . |