Example sentences of "can be [vb pp] [adv] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The most diligent student of the region 's past will find it extremely difficult to fix upon any period in earlier times in which the condition of the people can be seen as more attractive than the point reached by the early 1960s . |
| 2 | These reforms can be seen as more paternalistic , to protect people from accidentally becoming bound by contract . |
| 3 | The distinction made so far between primary and secondary sources can be rendered even more useful if we adopt a further division of documents between what John Madge , after Gottschalk , called ‘ records ’ and ‘ reports ’ . |
| 4 | If zero values for and can be imposed on theoretical grounds then the conditions necessary for the non-rational expectations observationally equivalent model can be ruled out as implausible . |
| 5 | It can be called up fro vast databases , altered … what if … ? |
| 6 | The dynamics of competition are such that firms ' capacities to invest in next-generation skills and capabilities can be regarded as more important than industry-level economics in determining the international division of labour for specific projects . |
| 7 | Speakers ' utterances can be made semantically more informative if the investigator is able to constrain their production in various ways — for instance , by elicitation in tightly controlled situational contexts . |
| 8 | They can be made even more attractive by the addition of frills or a scalloped heading . |
| 9 | These can be made even more legible for visually handicapped pupils by turning up the print contrast setting to ‘ dark ’ . |
| 10 | However , it can be questioned just how central this principle of temporal priority is to children 's understanding of natural causal relations . |
| 11 | Estates tail , which formerly could only be created out of freeholds , can now , as equitable interests , be created out of any kind of property ; they are known as ‘ entailed interests ’ , and can be barred not only inter vivos by a deed , but also by a will , provided that the tenant in tail 's interest is in possession , and provided that he specifically refers in his will to the entailed property or the instrument creating it . |
| 12 | The rest can be put down as uncommitted . |
| 13 | Certain conditions can be described specifically e.g. broken limb etc , which when allied with the claimant 's occupation can generally provide a good indication of the potential duration of a claim . |
| 14 | In another series of investigations of artificial pits and wells , Armitage ( 1985 ) has shown that as many as 50–60 individuals can be trapped over relatively short periods . |