Example sentences of "[det] [noun] can be " in BNC.

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1 ‘ 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 . ’
2 A key assumption in economics is that money can be used to buy things that satisfy people 's wants and make them happy ( ‘ utilities ’ ) .
3 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 .
4 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 ?
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 But some of that money can be earned back
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 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 .
13 ‘ 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 .
14 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 .
15 Details of the syllabus for each course can be found in the appropriate RYA Logbook .
16 By applying judgements to the curriculum itself , evaluation by the users of that curriculum can be brought into the classroom , evaluation can be made to serve as a basis for new directions in the process of teaching and learning … it can shape and guide learning and guide decisions within the curriculum process .
17 There is a real element of truth in it if we conclude , as I think we must , that in those who have failed to come to terms with the demands of a civilized existence any representative of that existence can be seen as an incitement to protest , especially if , as in the case of the police , that representative has only too obvious a. resemblance to the forbidding father of early childhood with whom the individual has not come to terms because of chronic irresolution of the Oedipal dilemma .
18 The language competence accredited at each level can be described as follows :
19 Spain , for example , has warned against imagining that unity can be achieved by creating new institutions .
20 If that change can be put down to one man it is Bob Brett , who took over coaching duties from Balazs Taroczy in February last year .
21 Medical audit should relate to aspects of clinical activity over which one has some control so that change can be initiated if a problem is identified .
22 The purpose of analysis is to break the errors into different groups so that teaching can be specific .
23 It can be argued , for example , that teaching can be accomplished more effectively if teacher and student adopt their appropriate roles .
24 The particular areas covered in each case can be found in the relevant guidebooks or on notices posted at access points , car parks etc .
25 We reach this conclusion in the light of the evidence that notwithstanding the rules as to dismissal for theft as applied in the first place … each case can be and is reviewed on the intervention of the security officer who … will make an appropriate recommendation where the case does not warrant dismissal . ’
26 Apart from the fact that in the Fearon case the residence requirement was not coupled with a nationality requirement , that case can be distinguished on several counts .
27 The facts of that case can be taken from the headnote :
28 The extent of that remuneration can be known only when the assessment has been carried out that is provided by the legal aid scheme .
29 Newspaper reports , where a reporter was present at the scene , might be thought to be valuable , but unfortunately it has been shown only too often how little reliance can be placed on them .
30 At first he considers that the conflict between literary values and contemporary culture can be resolved in a typically modernist manner , in that literature can be the means of subverting " conventional " views of life .
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