Example sentences of "[that] [n mass] can [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ As one of a growing band of organic sheep farmers , I know that sheep can be reared without cruelty . |
| 2 | The fact that microcomputers can communicate with larger computers means that data can be prepared on the micro and then sent to the mainframe at a convenient moment . |
| 3 | But the basic point is that data can be stuffed into files whenever you need it in that format . |
| 4 | One of the advantages of list processing is that data can be processed sequentially without the records themselves being stored sequentially . |
| 5 | A great deal of other software is become transparently compatible , so that data can be shared between database programs , word processors , and graphics software , using multi-tasking operating systems . |
| 6 | When fly and lure fishing only are allowed on a water there is no other way that fish can be caught . |
| 7 | However , this technique is particularly unsuitable for population estimation because as Tobler ( 1979 ) points out , there is a danger that people can be created or removed . |
| 8 | The other side of the placebo coin is that people can be made ill by something they believe will make them ill . |
| 9 | Research has shown what most of us have always known , that people can be divided into two groups , ‘ easy weight gainers ’ and ‘ hard weight gainers ‘ . |
| 10 | ‘ I deplore the attitude that people can be taken on without any training , ’ says Mr Boswell . |
| 11 | Dr. Glasser 's Control Theory holds that people can be shown that they do have the choice of control over their thoughts and actions even though awareness of that choice may initially elude them . |
| 12 | One is , nevertheless , bound to suppose that it is only in extreme conditions that people can be expected to volunteer the suppression of individuality to the extent that the more extreme forms of co-operative require : only , that is in short , where a life of one 's own would not be supportable . |
| 13 | ‘ 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 . |
| 14 | Yet another happy and successful Christian Aid Week is now over and we all rejoice that £8063,36 can be given to the cause in 1982 . |