Example sentences of "is [vb pp] [conj] can [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When using this option to introduce new media items , you must tell LIFESPAN what state it is in , selecting either 1 , to reserve the code for an item not yet initialised , or 2 , to indicate that the item is initialised and can be used . |
| 2 | It can be seen , then , that we are dealing with a condition that is some two or three times as common as gonorrhoea , for which an organism is implicated and can be grown in perhaps 50 per cent of cases ; and yet there are no facilities , generally , for its isolation . |
| 3 | The gas is collected and can be burned directly for domestic heating and cooking or used to produce electricity in a generator ( see figure 5.21 ) . |
| 4 | With a water butt , the water is collected and can be used for gardens . |
| 5 | ‘ We firmly and explicitly reject the idea that a Ph D student should be primarily a research assistant involved in an ongoing research project … the preparation of a Ph D thesis … provides a means of ensuring that research undertaken is preserved and can be made available to others . ’ |
| 6 | It also has to have some mechanism by which the latent TL signal is zeroed that can be related to an archaeological or geological event of interest . |
| 7 | out , and work for is used or can be used |
| 8 | Where you find those two provisions you construe the document , not as a release , but merely as an undertaking not to sue a particular individual , and the result is that the right to proceed against the co-debtor is reserved and can be put in force against him . |
| 9 | It depends upon the weather and the number of visitors at the resorts , and greater flexibility is required than can be provided by simple fixed-term contracts . |
| 10 | Double or treble sub-letting of the work may occasionally occur either as a deliberate policy of the sub-contractor , or where more work is acquired than can be coped with . |