Example sentences of "[det] can [be] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This can be accessed even if the machine wo n't boot . |
| 2 | This can be developed thus ( in pairs ) : 1 . |
| 3 | This can be reached only by an impartial examination of each piece of evidence as it is uncovered . |
| 4 | This can be expressed compactly as where the Kronecker delta is defined to be unity if α is equal to β but zero otherwise . |
| 5 | This can be expressed mathematically as where T absolute temperature . |
| 6 | This can be expressed mathematically as where r is the rate of diffusion and d the gas density . |
| 7 | This can be expressed very physically in the way breasts are now regarded as being for feeding babies rather than for making love , and most couples experience tensions over their sexual relationship in the early months and even years of parenthood . |
| 8 | This can be arranged easily by standing order , automatic transfer or by telephone . |
| 9 | This can be explained largely by the industrial and occupational distribution of the jobs which they have and by the overlap between part-time working and temporary working . |
| 10 | He asks " How are such propositions possible ? " , and his answer is that this can be explained only by assuming that space and time are a priori features of our cognitive constitution , not properties of things in themselves . |
| 11 | This can be explained quite simply . |
| 12 | This can be understood physically in this way : a fluid particle that is displaced but then falls back to its original position without any mixing with its new environment does not transfer any heat , but it can transfer momentum through the action of pressure forces . |
| 13 | Instead of using a fixed percentage , Cubbin and Leech argue that a shareholder or group of shareholders can be regarded as having control where it is likely that they would win a contested vote , but that this can be determined only by examining the degree of dispersal of shareholdings within the individual company concerned . |
| 14 | A situation like this can be covered very succinctly by panning from a shot of the mother to a view of the child who is receding into the distance . |
| 15 | This can be tested both by examining the structure of the pot itself and by making a similar pot in this way to see if the result matches the pot being studied . |
| 16 | This can be defined abstractly as the sum of values of both final goods and services and investment goods in a country . |
| 17 | This can be observed particularly for some of the small fragments which give a very weak signal suggesting they contain very few repeats . |
| 18 | This can be extended either as in fig. 5.5(a) or as in 5.5(b) : |
| 19 | On divorce a married woman may now apply for a property transfer order , and this can be made even if she has made no direct financial contribution to the purchase or improvement of the matrimonial home . |
| 20 | This can be made more valuable by the inclusion of the hospital chaplain . |
| 21 | This can be explored graphically as a principle of basic design that is applicable in other arts . |
| 22 | The reader only has to glance at a good modern textbook of infant development ( say , Bremner 's Infancy ) to get the main message : very young humans are prodigiously skilled at picking up geometric and social information , and this can be seen both informally ( a neonate turning to a voice ) and in the laboratory . |
| 23 | The effects of this can be seen both in the current major reviews of BBC funding and in discussions over the future of Channel Four . |
| 24 | This can be seen clearly in the medieval illustrations of post-mills which originally rested on a kind of wooden tripod . |
| 25 | This can be seen most clearly when considering their behaviour . |
| 26 | This can be seen most clearly in the operation of the judicial system . |
| 27 | ( This can be seen most clearly in the case of a company involved in mining natural resources which are in finite supply . |
| 28 | This can be seen most easily in fig. 10.4 . |
| 29 | This can be seen most clearly in the case of men who entered Gloucester 's service in one context and were then employed or rewarded in another . |
| 30 | This can be seen most notably in William Morris , who began under the influence of the group and in much of his practice clearly stayed within their cultural formation , yet who at a later period ( the 1880s ) developed the dissent from commercial civilization into outright opposition to the whole capitalist order . |