Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] can be [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So much can be learned by watching and copying . |
| 2 | So much can be conveyed by putting your arms around someone 's shoulders or giving them a kiss . |
| 3 | However , agencies are subject to inspection and statutory control by the Health Authority , and so generally can be relied upon for a high standard of service . |
| 4 | Part of the secret of any success we 've had so far can be found in the fact that nobody really expected to us . |
| 5 | All of the points we have discussed so far can be combined in one manoeuvre , the rolling stall turn ( Fig. 9.6 ) , originally known as the Belgian stall turn . |
| 6 | For instance , one of the signs that extremely and fast are united in a grammatical construction is the fact that the sequence extremely fast can be replaced by a single element , say , old , which has the same relationship to cars as does extremely fast ; furthermore , this substitution causes no grammatical change in the rest of the sentence . |
| 7 | Charts for intarsia and so on can be printed in colour if you have a colour printer , otherwise you can choose to print them either in shades of grey , or with the code numbers / letters that you allocated to the colours when you designed the pattern . |
| 8 | From further and more systematic study of elections in the Republic of Ireland much else can be learned about the operation of the STV — and nothing reassuring , as the following pages will show . |
| 9 | If too much is spent on buildings , not enough can be spent on personnel to care for people . |
| 10 | Sometimes there is no coherent pattern in a time series and not much can be done by way of analysis other than elementary smoothing . |
| 11 | The six killer diseases not only CAN be brought under control by the end of 1990 . |
| 12 | The pages that contain dates already past can be divided into sections , such as ‘ favourite recipes ' ; ‘ goals for weight' , ‘ food change , and exercise' ; ‘ lists of rewards ' ; ‘ weight charts ' . |
| 13 | The argument thus far can be fortified by a consideration of the nature of the ‘ ought ’ . |
| 14 | We can improve on our previous gloss for now , by offering " the pragmatically given span including CT " , where that span may be the instant associated with the production of the morpheme itself , as in the gestural use in ( 53 ) , or the perhaps interminable period indicated in ( 53 ) Pull the trigger now ! ( 54 ) I 'm now working on a PhD Now contrasts with then , and indeed then can be glossed as " not now " to allow for its use in both past and future . |
| 15 | At the same time , the reign of Childebert itself provides a clear point of access to the history of Merovingian law , which all too easily can be swamped in the problems of origins , chronology and manuscript transmission . |