Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] can be " in BNC.
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| 1 | When freshly prepared , a period of 30 min or more may be required to stain the slides , but with maturity , this stain " ripens " and staining times can be progressively shortened . |
| 2 | Colonic motility can be conveniently considered under two related aspects , intraluminal pressure activity and transit of intraluminal contents . |
| 3 | The final step provides an evaluation or post-mortem of the whole teaching programme so that , in cases where students have not achieved the objectives , appropriately modified plans can be made for future teaching . |
| 4 | Eight views can be selected with the function keys . |
| 5 | As can be seen , the total sentence can be reduced by as much as 60 per cent if the prisoner is placed directly into Stage 2 after conviction . |
| 6 | Another step in the clockwise direction can be produced by removing the excitation of stack B and exciting stack G. The final step of the sequence is to return the excitation to stack A. Again the stator and rotor teeth in stack A are fully aligned , except that the rotor has moved one rotor tooth pitch , i.e. the angle between adjacent rotor teeth defined in Fig.l .3(b) . |
| 7 | Estimates of life expectancy in residential care at specific ages can be calculated by using a method proposed by Sullivan which applies the age specific and age specific prevalences in five year bands to the 1990 population figures and death rates for England and Wales . |
| 8 | The Moon shows a wealth of detail , and the phases of Venus are easy to pick out , while striking views can be obtained of stellar objects . |
| 9 | ‘ The management executive is saying that some of that money can be spent on supplying condoms to GPs so they can be given to patients . ’ |
| 10 | A key assumption in economics is that money can be used to buy things that satisfy people 's wants and make them happy ( ‘ utilities ’ ) . |
| 11 | Rosen said an Australian intelligence agent told him that the word is now out in South-East Asia that money can be made selling to investigators and journalists phoney samples of ‘ contaminated ’ articles . |
| 12 | Can the Minister justify the payment of more than £234,000 of public money to accountants , bureaucrats and consultants to prepare opting-out submissions when that money can be better used to reduce waiting lists or to make a donation to the appeal for the Royal hospital for sick children in Edinburgh instead of being used to propagate Tory party propaganda which is not wanted by the people of Scotland and which would damage the health service in Scotland ? |
| 13 | It is difficult for Opposition Members to say that there is no problem and that money can be spent because the general tide of expert opinion is in the Government 's favour . |
| 14 | Lincolnshire 's capital , lively financed from revenue , of course grants , and property sales etc. are sold , that money can be transferred into services , and money can be borrowed . |
| 15 | But some of that money can be earned back |
| 16 | The fund to meet the cost of Laura 's treatment was relaunched this week and yesterday an anonymous £100,000 donation was confirmed to the organisers , who are confident enough that money can be raised for the new operation and after= care . |
| 17 | Well , there was a time when it was a bolt from the blue , yes , I mean I 've known for a week or two , but we were delighted to receive it , er we do n't er , it is something that we said months ago that we supported the N H S Lottery because we do feel that money can be raised in this way painlessly towards particularly research and the sorts of things that the N H S on the whole has never really supported fully . |
| 18 | It already has the Patriots ( deployed round the country 's main cities and manned by American crews until Israeli servicemen can be trained to use them ) and the almost permanent presence of America 's deputy secretary of state , Lawrence Eagleburger . |
| 19 | European funding can be lavish but it is tied to cooperation with public bodies . |
| 20 | These generally refer to finding a self-indexing function for tables in main storage ; Jaeschke has developed a method originally proposed by Cichell , and he has shown that , however complicated the key sequence is , a self-indexing function can be found for up to 40 keys so that they fit exactly into a table with the same number of storage positions . |
| 21 | It follows from what has been said so far that , as stable norms can be observed through analysis of linguistic patterns , change in progress will show up as violations of the expected ‘ normal ’ patterns . |
| 22 | What is appealing about the structure at Ichthus is the logic with which it is all applied : each Christian can be involved in a small group that can be healthy , supportive and can help the Christian to be involved in caring for the people immediately around where he lives . |
| 23 | Sometimes the possible link can be from much longer ago than a few months and here the memory is almost invariably an unsolved murder case . |
| 24 | Decisions taken by management are for the future , and some have a very long ‘ planning horizon ’ — the time between making the decision and seeing the consequences of that decision can be very long . |
| 25 | Yes , we could , if you wish actually cut back the complaint examiner time further because there is a clear , very clear , front runner , who Chris and I both believe is appointable , so if it was a question of getting somebody in more quickly , there is the option of not having the second interview , as long as you 're prepared to , you know , to forego that , to get somebody in quickly , but that , I mean that decision can be made at the time . |
| 26 | This major social and economic change can be attributed to two main causes . |
| 27 | Or , concentrated bleach can be diluted with cold water in the proportion one part bleach to ten parts water , to make it thin enough to draw up the needle into the syringe . |
| 28 | ‘ All kinds of typographical fireworks are now made possible by computers and that has generated its own trend : if this or that trick can be done , then it soon becomes fashionable to go ahead and do it . |
| 29 | The Sainsbury Book of Children 's Cookery [ in most branches at £3.45 ] is written by Roz Denny and Caroline Waldegrave and teaches children basic cookery skills , while showing that cooking can be fun . |
| 30 | Details of the syllabus for each course can be found in the appropriate RYA Logbook . |