Example sentences of "can be [verb] [pron] [modal v] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You will appreciate that before Contracts can be exchanged I must have the insurance company 's acceptance of your life proposals showing that your ages have been admitted and when you visit the Bank on Friday no doubt you will impress upon them that you are under pressure to exchange Contracts for your purchase and ask them to expedite the issue of the life acceptance as soon as possible . |
| 2 | However , since the court held that a requirement that the crew reside on shore in the member state in question was not related to the aim of the quota system , no reason can be seen which might induce the court to take the view that residence and domicile requirements imposed on all owners and operators of fishing vessels and on 75 per cent . |
| 3 | Another said , ‘ The way I look at it , it 's too late now ; there 's nothing can be done which can put the clock back ; let's see what we can do to help the victim ’ ( FN 6/11/87 , p. 35 ) . |
| 4 | Should a higher form of awareness decide to tip the balance here or there ( perhaps by embryo implantation ) or put it on ice ( as in frozen embryos ) so that knowledge can be gained which will enable future embryos to prosper healthily , then it will not be acting contrary to what Nature itself does by trial and error and evolution . |
| 5 | The argument is clearly fallacious : just as rules of logical deduction can be stated which will apply to an indefinitely large set of propositions , so it is quite possible that the principles that underlie the interaction between utterances and assumptions ( however particular they may be ) can be simply and rigorously stated . |
| 6 | From the experience of material relations an abstraction to ideas can be made which will constitute knowledge of the world . |
| 7 | If primary care in Brazil can be improved it could help to narrow the health divide between rich and poor . |
| 8 | If the nature of such a vibration can be established it may throw some light on the nature of the electronic band . |
| 9 | This can be overcome by creating and printing out several files in sequence and a command can be input which will instruct the program to continue pagination over several files . |
| 10 | If managers say that they gain their vision and their pragmatic skill informally and from diverse sources , if they see their own development as something which took many years and came from a wide range of contexts , it is unlikely that a short-term substitute can be found which will fit into either the narrow limits of brief in-service training courses , year-long secondments or part-time study in higher education . |
| 11 | For each type of error , an algorithm can be found which will attempt to find the intended word . |
| 12 | Their only hope now is that a buyer can be found who can afford vast sum , it will take to bring the building back to it 's former glory . |
| 13 | ‘ If you think of anything that can be added you can give them further study . ’ |
| 14 | Answer guide : The answer should point out that a cost can be incurred which will result in both an asset , i.e. something that has a future benefit , or an expense , i.e. something where the benefit has been used up . |
| 15 | Alternatively , an ordinary forward facing child car seat can be used which must conform to either BS 3254 or ECE 44 . |
| 16 | But before they can be used they must go through a market process through the shops . |
| 17 | But if they can be measured they may help us relate fertility decisions to the values , meanings , or signs which people use to make sense of the world and which motivate or justify their actions . |