Example sentences of "[adv] can be [verb] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | All were answered at length in a meticulous hand and , from a closer study of these letters , much can be learned of this gardener who was to be acknowledged as the greatest of his time . |
| 2 | Men , those working full-time and those with fixed-term contracts , are more likely to have taken a temporary job because they had been unable to find a permanent job and thus can be thought of as " involuntary " temporary workers . |
| 3 | Women ( particularly married women ) , those with part-time and those with seasonal , temporary or casual jobs , are more likely to have taken a temporary job because they did not want a permanent job and thus can be thought of as " voluntary " temporary workers . |
| 4 | This connects with practice and also can be conceived of as a two-stage operation . |
| 5 | It consisted of a line of timber post-built ‘ halls ’ and numerous sunken-floored buildings ; there is no formal plan and little can be seen of streets or boundaries . |
| 6 | Little can be made of this , although the biographer of Edward the Confessor speaks of Danes preparing to rebel against Cnut early in his reign , and Henry of Huntingdon thought that an English and Danish attack on the Wandali ( the Wends , the Slav peoples on the southern shores of the Baltic ) occurred in its third year . |
| 7 | Examples certainly can be found of men giving practical support to relatives on a reciprocal basis , usually involving typically ‘ male ’ activities such as gardening and decorating ( Pahl , R.E. , 1984 ) . |