Example sentences of "[coord] [adj] [noun] can be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Transitions or changes which have a notably high or low probability can be identified , as reasons for their prominence sought . |
| 2 | For those who wish to buy their cars , Motability offers a finance scheme under which both new or used cars can be purchased in exchange for part of the mobility allowance . |
| 3 | One hole can often look much like the next , and a newly dug or outlying sett can be mistaken for a fox 's earth . |
| 4 | Naturally curly or permed hair can be scraped back into a formal look or left casual for the evenings |
| 5 | Small cracks , nail holes or sunken screws can be filled with woodstopping or plastic wood . |
| 6 | For legal reasons neither the girl 's identity nor that of her mother or foster parents can be revealed . |
| 7 | Now those unused tomes of practical or technical information can be donated to a worthy cause , offering others the opportunity to gain from our over-filled bookshelves . |
| 8 | However , many occupations which afford little prestige or economic reward can be seen as vital to society . |
| 9 | For pure-water storage , particularly if hot ( as is water from heat exchangers ) , plastics with glass-fibre reinforcement or plastics-lined steel can be used . |
| 10 | School groups can be accommodated in a lecture room where project work or pre-arranged activities can be provided in conjunction with the displays . |
| 11 | In the conduct of fiscal policy the government has to receive Parliamentary approval before proposed changes in taxation or public expenditure can be made effective , and obviously the planning of a Budget and its acceptance by Parliament is a time-consuming process . |
| 12 | A person who is in a street or public place can be solicited by a prostitute who is on a balcony or at a window ( Smith v Hughes [ 1960 ] 2 All ER 859 ) . |
| 13 | In his travel across the plains , Celati has created a space which may he filled with meanings , but where no single or definitive meaning can be imposed . |
| 14 | Each tread can be a single paving stone deep , or different products can be used together : check what tread depth you need , and combine materials accordingly |
| 15 | Every group can be tackling the same problem , or different groups can be working on different improvisations . |
| 16 | Lily Gair Wilkinson , writing in the Socialist , the SLL paper , in June 1910 , had apostrophized the male printers of Edinburgh : What economic or social argument can be put forward to justify the claim that the trade is yours ? |
| 17 | Before a marketing strategy , fee quote or detailed proposal can be considered , a preliminary assessment of the entity to be disposed of should be carried out . |
| 18 | Before an acquisition strategy , fee quote or detailed proposal can be considered , a preliminary assessment of the client 's acquisition plans must be carried out . |
| 19 | Same day or future payments can be initiated in sterling or currency to named recipients in the UK and abroad , via a business 's own office terminal . |
| 20 | However , this does not mean that every past tense in an English text can be translated into Japanese with a -ta form or that every present or future tense can be translated using a -ru form . |
| 21 | It is important to remember that a standing structure such as a church can be read in the same way as an archaeological section : features cutting into or overlying others can be used to construct relative dating relationships . |
| 22 | Repetition of the same or similar ground can be stopped by a gentle reminder , followed by asking why it is that a particular story or incident is so important . |
| 23 | To say that effects are events which in a fundamental or standard sense can be explained is to say this : there is a possibility of our finding a proposition which fully answers the question of why they occurred . |
| 24 | The studies reached a common conclusion that some physical failures or individual errors can be foreseen , and that improved organisation and management should compensate for such errors . |
| 25 | A total phobic score can be computed , or individual subscales can be computed , agoraphobia ( Questions 4 , 5 , 7 , 11 , and 14 ) , blood and injury phobias ( questions 1 , 3 , 9 , 12 , and 15 ) , and social phobia ( questions 2 , 6 , 8 , 10 , and 13 ) . |
| 26 | A more serious problem with Deffenbacher 's approach in terms of the ability to generalize the results to other settings is that his distinction between studies which did and did not successfully manipulate violence level or personal threat can be argued to be post hoc . |
| 27 | The gentleman who was impressed by Leapor 's poems has given her an occasion to debunk any notion that intellectual or personal worth can be judged from physical appearance . |
| 28 | A specialist or comprehensive assessment can be arranged without having to have an initial assessment first . |
| 29 | Pragmatic or contextual knowledge can be seen as a type of meta-knowledge , having effects throughout the other levels . |
| 30 | An electric hand or rotary beater can be used to whisk the icing mixture . |