Example sentences of "can [be] [vb pp] [subord] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This can be represented as shown in Figure 2.2 by Mason ( 1975 p. 2 ) . |
| 2 | This mixed model can be represented as shown in Figure 2.3 . |
| 3 | This can be represented as shown in Figure 2.4 . |
| 4 | There is , therefore , before any understanding of historic agents and movements , a certain aporia in all social ensembles : from afar they may appear whole , but close to , they can be seen as riddled with holes . |
| 5 | If individuals in the society ( except for those at the very top and the very bottom of the social ladder ) are socially mobile in each direction to some extent , then the " continuum " can be seen as consisting of a collection of individuals whose linguistic competences in intermediate varieties ( or " lects " ) overlap to form an unbroken chain linking the archetypal Creole ( or " basilect " ) with the Standard ( or " acrolect " ) . |
| 6 | The gourd-breasts and the leather-thonged sorcerer 's switch can be seen as referring to indigenous culture , as can the snakes ' heads with which the yokes of her skirt appear to terminate . |
| 7 | Her title , Opening-up , can be seen as referring to teachers becoming more responsive and accessible to their pupils ( but also hence more personally vulnerable ) . |
| 8 | This can be seen as referring to the relationship between ‘ inputs ’ and ‘ outputs ’ when comparing the achievements of different groups of students and different institutions . |
| 9 | Nevertheless it insists that legal practice as a whole can be seen as organized around important legal conventions and this claim requires showing that the behaviour of judges generally , even those who are not conventionalists , converges sufficiently to allow us to find convention in that convergence . |
| 10 | This impression of the object of have being represented as completely submissive to the will of the person referred to by the subject explains moreover the use of the bare infinitive with this verb : this exercise of control by the causer over the causee can be seen as persisting throughout the realization of the infinitive event . |
| 11 | To a decreasing extent , the same principle can be seen as applying to other blood relations . |
| 12 | Both Rasta and Skin can be seen as bids for some kind of dignity , for what the late Pete Meadon , original mod and one-time manager of The Who once called ‘ clean living under difficult circumstances ’ : grace under pressure . |
| 13 | In this way the various inter-relationships between all the many factors which make up an individual 's life can be seen as contributing to that individual 's health , or ill-health . |
| 14 | To summarise , the seemingly disordered nature of football hooliganism can be seen as conforming to a distinct and orderly system of roles , rules and shared meanings . |
| 15 | The network can be seen as divided into four layers : the first shows the syntactic parse tree for the sentence ; the second , the actual input words ; the third , a cluster of meanings for individual words ( with mutually inhibitory links ) ; and the fourth , a contextual interpretation of the input ( with activatory and inhibitory links between lexical categories and meanings ) . |
| 16 | Horatian metres both dictate and accommodate Horatian syntax ; in every poem there are striking effects of word order which , on the one hand , may be said to have been contrived , or willed by the poet , but on the other can be seen as arising from metrical necessity . |
| 17 | Each visible switch can be treated as input for one application , and output for the next . |
| 18 | That is , Eurodollars can be created as opposed to ‘ domestic ’ dollars . |
| 19 | On its own this principle provides information only about relative output , but it can be extended when used in conjunction with the estimation of the size of a coinage based on counting its dies ( see p. 45 ) . |
| 20 | Some way of ordering the list of allowable strings ( or phrases ) was needed , so that the most likely can be displayed as output from the recognition and post-processing system , with the other candidates available to be displayed if necessary . |
| 21 | Storms up to 170 nautical miles away can also been monitored in a special ‘ weather window ’ that can be displayed as required in a corner of the screen . |
| 22 | Raw data such as plant locations , weather data and population distribution can be displayed as overlays on a basic land-use map . |
| 23 | The labour input can be defined as consisting of all the human attributes which are used in producing goods and services and , as such , it differs from the inputs of the other factors of production in one major respect . |
| 24 | Voluntary unemployment can be defined as consisting of all those persons who are not in paid employment and are receiving some form of social security benefit , but are not actually seeking jobs at the prevailing rate of real wages . |
| 25 | Linear plots are obtained with a positive slope from which the entropy parameter ψ 1 can be calculated as shown in figure 8.6 . |
| 26 | Other businesses can be touted as triumphs by other investment banks . |
| 27 | It can therefore be argued that the virtuous conduct of which mankind is capable can be regarded as varying from individual to individual by quantity only . |
| 28 | That rate of : wage inflation which can be attributed solely to union militancy can be regarded as resulting from the power struggle between unions and employers for a bigger share of the national ‘ cake ’ and between the unions themselves for higher places in the wages ‘ league table ’ . |
| 29 | Where the transferor became entitled to his interest on a death in connection with which the settled property bore estate duty , then for the purposes of the latter allowance the four-year period can be regarded as beginning with that death . |
| 30 | ( iv ) Differently , it seems difficult to accept that consciousness is tolerably conceived when it is so conceived that it follows that anything that can be regarded as passing through certain sequences of causal or logical states is conscious . |