Example sentences of "can [be] [verb] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It means that at some point in a viewing activity the learner can be asked to focus on the visual channel only . |
| 2 | To identify people by name can be seen to detract from the objectivity of the report . |
| 3 | This relatively explicit form can be seen to modulate into the process of association of particular works with particular powerful names : the patron , in effect , as dedicatee . |
| 4 | Again the notebooks can be seen moving in the right direction with ‘ Svidrigailov : I 'm happy to go to America at once , but somehow nobody really wants to . ’ |
| 5 | Now they can be seen strolling around the city alongside their mahouts or drivers , or earning their living as tourist attractions , tethered to hotel lawns and bars . |
| 6 | In vertebrates , shortly after gastrulation , the brain can be seen forming at the anterior end of the embryo . |
| 7 | In fact there is a direct continuation inland for several miles of the algal mat that can be seen forming on the beach at the present day . |
| 8 | During the summer , when Sirius rises heliacally , only twelve of these divisions of the sky can be seen rising during the hours of darkness , and it was this that led to the twelve-hour division of the night . |
| 9 | Especially notable is the approach view from the road bridge , where the vast pile can be seen rising from the banks of the great river . |
| 10 | Of the twelve initiatives announced in the 1988 statement , eight can be seen to lie within the general sphere of development . |
| 11 | The family coat of arms can be seen carved at the main doorway of the house and in the Church . |
| 12 | The emblem of the Parlers , a runic square , can be seen carved in the base . |
| 13 | Even when hunched on the top step , no chink can be seen leaking around the doorframe , because it is perfectly insulated with foam plastic strip . |
| 14 | Twenty four hours after spawning , the eggs will hatch , and the minute fry can be seen wriggling on the bottom of the tank under the spawning mops . |
| 15 | These can be seen dotted about the vineyards , either lit manually by the vigneron when the temperature drops to freezing setting off noisy alarms in the middle of the night , or fed by an automatic system which fires the burners by thermostatic control . |
| 16 | The china souvenirs can be seen displayed in the background . |
| 17 | Nationalist aspirations can be seen reflected in the renaming of the Dublin terminals after Irish revolutionary heroes ( Connolly , Pearse , Heuston ) . |
| 18 | Some of these opinions can be seen reflected in the behaviour of skins , but the parallel should not be taken too far . |
| 19 | The nits , also brown in colour , can be seen attached to the pubic hair , and examination with a magnifying glass will distinguish those containing a developing larva , which takes a week before it leaves the egg , from those which have already been vacated . |
| 20 | The second half of this can be seen to coincide with the opinion of Chatterton which is expressed by Ackroyd 's Wilde : ‘ a strange , slight boy who was so prodigal of his genius that he attached the names of others to it . ’ |
| 21 | This can be seen to coincide with the characteristics of an ‘ ideal ’ old age outlined by Erikson ( 1965 ) ( see page 40–42 ) , concerned with identity and generativity . |
| 22 | Chemistry was regarded as a subject which was not fundamental ; the issues it examines are not fundamental to the universe in the way that the issues of physics are ; in this the views of the students can be seen to coincide with the views of Dr L , who said that ‘ all of chemistry is becoming explicable in terms of quantum theory ’ . |
| 23 | A figure can be seen silhouetted on the shaded section of the ridge , between the first and second pinnacles and right of an obvious cornice . |
| 24 | By the time we have adequate records , the craft guild can be seen emerging from the lodge of craftsmen working together on a project . |
| 25 | It is true that the present nature of the threat can be seen to come from the left . |
| 26 | This solution can be seen to reduce to the Khan-Penrose solution ( 3.9 ) when . |
| 27 | When a big shoal is feeding dozens of bream can be seen rolling at the same time , all facing the same way . |
| 28 | They can be seen running along the skyline before rounding the cairn and beginning the precipitous descent . |
| 29 | Now his lifesize copies of himself can be seen clambering over the school buildings . |
| 30 | Tepilit and his brother can be seen arguing with the others . |