Example sentences of "[verb] can [be] [vb pp] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most institutions offer an official life trajectory in terms of which honour can be acquired and reputation gained . |
| 2 | But it is hard to see how the wider transformations we seek can be established except on the foundations that community mental health services could provide . |
| 3 | The danger of swallowing can be minimised if companies take the tender offer route — buying minority stakes which still enable them to exercise some control , and still share costs in areas such as research or marketing . |
| 4 | I hope I have demonstrated some of the variety of ways in which Credits can be used and as I write perhaps some genius is thinking up yet another variation to deal with a particular problem . |
| 5 | Anger against the person who has died can be experienced as dangerous and may not be tolerated by the bereaved , so other outlets for our anger and sense of loss have to be found . |
| 6 | Indeed in all the contexts examined to date have suggests that the disposition of the " subordinate " ( denoted by its direct object ) to comply can be assumed or taken for granted : a sentence such as I had him cry , for example , would sound rather strange , unless imagined in a situation where someone is disposed to cry on request ( as in the context of a film director who is referring to an actor working under his orders ) . |
| 7 | The choice of bibliographies used can be monitored and spot checks made on the orders proposed , taking some limited subject areas and using sections of a reliable and up-to-date bibliography . |
| 8 | The validity of some of the figures used can be challenged and different methods of accounting can demonstrate different relationships between growth and spending . |
| 9 | The information produced can be amalgamated and distributed to all the learners , so that everyone has the benefit of the work of the entire group . |
| 10 | Which one it gets can be treated as random . |
| 11 | The fact that he did not stop can be explained or whichever part of this point is applicable . |
| 12 | Thus , as above , letting can be analysed as inseparable from the realization of the event evoked by the infinitive . |
| 13 | Buckets can be filled with snow — loosely or hard packed — and the amount of water found when the snow has melted can be discussed and compared . |
| 14 | Michael Rosen understands that rhythm makes language memorable for children , and what 's remembered can be possessed and loved . |
| 15 | What I hope to have shown , which is consistent with a certain tentativeness about what has been said , and with incompleteness , is that we do have a grasp of both dependent and independent conditionals , which grasp can be clarified and which gives to us an explicit understanding of the seven causal connections that were set out . |
| 16 | As often , when one is confronted with what appears an intractable philosophical problem , there is an overwhelming temptation to try to argue it out of existence by showing that the linguistic expressions with which it is linked can be modified or paraphrased into other , less problematic , expressions without any loss of truth or philosophically relevant meaning . |
| 17 | From the Parliamentary answers to which I have referred , and from the other evidence before us in these appeals , it is clear that the procedure now followed can be summarised as follows . |
| 18 | Teacher 's notes on the strategies and scheme of work followed can be added once the course is running , together with ideas for activities and exercises , checklists of historical questions , and any assessment material . |
| 19 | These are electronic devices which are connected into the video transfer line , and they not only optimise the signal for copying but enable you to control the picture brightness and colour ; fades can be added as well . |
| 20 | The major difference between these two forms is that CPM assumes that the time required to complete an activity can be predicted fairly accurately , and thus the costs involved can be quantified once the critical path has been identified , whereas PERT assumes that time has to be estimated in drawing up the critical path . |
| 21 | This is not the place to elaborate upon why the educational system we have inherited can be described as men 's education or why , even in areas like adult and community education in which women outnumber men as students , and are employed in considerable numbers as part-time tutors and volunteers , the structures in which we operate are so effectively well grounded in male power and male values as to appear inevitable . |
| 22 | But there must be concerns at the prospect of the need to break up such a service and whether the work it is undertaking can be maintained and appropriately financially supported in smaller units . ’ |
| 23 | This chapter briefly surveys the nature of user needs and the factors which bear upon use , and then attempts to summarize the methods by which use can be studied and analysed . |
| 24 | In essence , B's claim can be characterised as asserting that he has been denied the right to a fair criminal trial . |
| 25 | The advantages identified can be summarised as follows : |
| 26 | However , there is a question about what a naturalized epistemology can offer by way of an explanation or justification of the contributions to knowledge that we make by contributing to an ongoing process of inquiry : we want to know , in such cases , not how we have arrived at the truth , but how what we do can be understood as contributing to the fact that someone else ( or perhaps ourselves ) can arrive at the truth at some time in the future . |
| 27 | If retrieval of the CS-US association depends upon the presence of the cues of the conditioning context whereas the cues of the pre-exposure context allow retrieval of the information that the target stimulus is not followed by any event , then no conditioned responding can be expected when the CS is presented in the latter context . |
| 28 | A field of rare flowers that is destroyed can be replanted and may eventually be the same as the field that was destroyed ( even if the process does take 1,000 years ) . |
| 29 | However , radar has the advantage over the passive receipt of radio waves that the pulses sent can be controlled and their nature and time of sending are known . |
| 30 | The unexpected usually occurs in military affairs for the simple reason that what can be foreseen can be deterred and so tends not to happen . |