Example sentences of "[n mass] can [be] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That most attractive bird , the heron can be observed more easily now in the reed beds and overhead some geese search for new feeding grounds . |
| 2 | These devices in effect increase the size of program which can be run on a given machine , because much of the required data can be stored externally until needed . |
| 3 | The participant-observer may gather data on interactive behavior with a minimum of observer effect , but very little linguistic data can be recorded accurately in journals several hours after the event . |
| 4 | The real advantage of such modelling systems is , of course , that many iterations using different data can be made extremely quickly and accurately . |
| 5 | Time series data can be represented graphically in a line diagram of observations plotted against time as horizontal axis , successive points being joined by straight lines . |
| 6 | Raw data can be plotted straight on to such paper , as shown in figure 11.6 . |
| 7 | One of the advantages of list processing is that data can be processed sequentially without the records themselves being stored sequentially . |
| 8 | CICS applications and data can be distributed horizontally and vertically across TCP/IP only environments , SNA only environments or the two mixed over local and wide area networks . |
| 9 | If this happens the relatively fast marching High Elf infantry can be moved forward to attack from the front . |
| 10 | The extent and depth of religious belief is notoriously difficult to estimate at any time in any country , but a few general statistics can be applied reliably to the peasantry of 1922 in areas like Belorussia , Kursk , and Tambov . |
| 11 | The completed interview question forms together with answers to the individual questions arising from candidates ' application forms/ c.v.s can be perused afterwards at comparative leisure . |
| 12 | Looking up the hillside to the north from this point , the splendid cairn of Josse Pike can be seen prominently . |
| 13 | The most diligent student of the region 's past will find it extremely difficult to fix upon any period in earlier times in which the condition of the people can be seen as more attractive than the point reached by the early 1960s . |
| 14 | Nominations for outstanding professional or volunteer carers of elderly people can be made either by individuals or organisations and must be in by 30 July . |
| 15 | This space does n't have to be vast — just think of how many people can be accommodated around a 1.5-metre circular table , for instance . |
| 16 | Or if they ask for Brinkley , people can be guided there . |
| 17 | In many organizations where communications in various directions are poor and managers are feeling powerless to influence events , the single most sensible action by senior staff can be to promote more face-to-face meetings . |
| 18 | Another of UnivEd 's functions is the formation of campus companies through which products and processes discovered by staff can be developed commercially together with industrial partners . |
| 19 | For instance , if support staff can be recruited locally in the new site , firms may restrict eligibility for relocation assistance to senior employees or to those with specialist skills who could not easily be replaced . |
| 20 | The distance from the Earth to the spacecraft can be determined very accurately from the time interval between sending a radio signal to the spacecraft , which it receives and immediately acknowledges by sending a signal to the Earth with its own radio , and the receipt on the Earth of the acknowledgement . |
| 21 | Temperature intolerant species can be collected late in the summer after the Autumnal Equinox , and kept through the winter and released in spring . |
| 22 | To be strictly accurate a species can be defined precisely only in living animals , where it refers to populations that can interbreed under natural conditions , and which produce offspring that are capable of further reproducing their kind . |
| 23 | The government 's gathered together knowledgable bodies like the trust into the Ruddy duck Working Group to find out if the two species can be kept apart . |
| 24 | All Corydoras species thrive when maintained in shoals — better still in species groups — although various species can be kept together as one main shoal . |
| 25 | But this territoriality is usually restricted to their own kind and both species can be kept together . |
| 26 | The colours of certain other species can be modified only when there is a genetic shift in their population . |
| 27 | The way in which the process of understanding works can be seen only in the way we produce a response or description of some kind . |
| 28 | ‘ When Florence Nightingale said bluntly that if you overcrowded your soldiers in dirty quarters there would be an outbreak of smallpox , she was snubbed as an ignorant female who did not know that smallpox can be produced only by the importation of its specific microbe , ’ Shaw remarks . |
| 29 | As the returns normally distinguish them the wealth of the gentry can be surveyed more generally , as shown in Table 1.3 . |
| 30 | In some cases , again , his links with the local gentry can be inferred only from his readiness to use them on sensitive business after 1483 . |