Example sentences of "they can [adv] be [verb] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | The relative importance of these items to those who wrote and kept them ca n't be assessed in terms of size or splendour . |
| 2 | Although capillary fittings can be ‘ dry assembled ’ and the position of pipes marked , they ca n't be adjusted in this way after installation . |
| 3 | They can also be seen in the popularity in France of the idea of attacks on British commerce as a means of forcing the traditional enemy to her knees , the belief that a guerre de course of this kind , avoiding large-scale engagements and making extensive use of privateers , would be more effective than a strategy which aimed at securing effective control of the seas . |
| 4 | They can also be rated in kilowatts and on mopeds cos the regulation allow sort of what mopeds sixteen year olds can ride and I think it 's sort of something like seventy kilowatts or ninety kilowatts , it might be ninety . |
| 5 | Thus while both DMTA and DETA can provide similar information about a sample , they can also be used in a complementary fashion , particularly when trying to identify the molecular mechanism of a particular process and in ascertaining whether or not the group is polar . |
| 6 | But they can also be interpreted in accordance with the overriding thematic interpretation of the Miller 's Tale suggested here . |
| 7 | ( They can also be removed in other ways as we 'll see in a moment ) . |
| 8 | They can also be utilised in programming work including network analysis and critical path . |
| 9 | Although every parent has the right in the fullness of time to decide whether he or she feels they can cope with their child , they can not be placed in a position of absolute power over its life if they have an extremely misleading impression of the form that that child 's life might take . |
| 10 | They can not be fixed in advance but are conditional on context because they relate not to sentences but to utterances . |
| 11 | Since they can not be planned in terms of the students ' likely destinations , they must have some other kind of rationale or logic . |
| 12 | The different aspects of the Christian faith can be distinguished for the sake of clarity but they can not be separated in the life of the Christian community as if any one of them could exist alone or have priority over the others |
| 13 | These features are just as important to efficient performance as are data about plant functions but they can not be incorporated in a man-machine allocation process . |
| 14 | These achievements can be demonstrated in the remoter areas , with all their current problems , in fact , because of their current problems , in a manner in which they can not be demonstrated in the great centres of industrial and political power . |
| 15 | If they can not be stopped in time , mankind will surely be doomed . |
| 16 | In the new Act the positive role of relatives and friends is also recognised , but it must be obvious to everyone that some children are just so difficult , often having been very badly abused , and with severe behaviour problems , that they can not be contained in a family and these children are placed in residential homes . |
| 17 | They can not be attacked in hand-to-hand combat either — the only way to destroy a Fanatic is to shoot him or to wait and let him collapse from exhaustion . |
| 18 | They can not be distilled in pure form . |
| 19 | The main limitations to the use of Pitot tubes are their size and the slowness of their response ; they can not be used in flows of very small length scale , nor to measure rapid velocity fluctuations . |
| 20 | This does not mean that they can not be found in the world ; a child may wonder what shape or arrangement a triangle is , and have it pointed out to him . |
| 21 | Howard has now become scrupulous about washing his socks in fairly hot soapy water ( they can not be washed in extremely hot water because he favours woollen socks , though cotton would be preferable ) and regularly airing his boots . |
| 22 | In turn , the problems and difficulties themselves are thought to be irremediable ( Hargreaves 1975 , Leach 1977 ) , in the sense that they can not be resolved in the usual school or classroom context . |
| 23 | Transforming the original numbers by taking logs ( or by one of the other transformations considered below ) is an essentially trivial operation : the order of the numbers is preserved , and they can easily be recast in their original form by taking antilogs . |
| 24 | They can thus be moved in any direction across the microscope stage . |
| 25 | Punning , coining and wordplay are not immediately accessible to many readers ; and as sustained devices , they can only be used in written texts , not in everyday speech . |
| 26 | They can then be placed in a bowl or aquarium with the water just over the surface of the compost . |
| 27 | The only place they can now be found in the entire country is in Upper Teesdale . |
| 28 | They can therefore be used in designing the treatment required to restore the individual to balance and hence to health . |
| 29 | If you look at who are meant to be ‘ Ethnic ’ , white women should realise that they can never be oppressed in the same way as can Black women . |
| 30 | Whether they can be relied upon ( they can always be cried in aid ) depends partly on how out of date the approved version is and partly on how near to approval the roll-forward version is . |