Example sentences of "the [noun sg] can [adv] be " in BNC.
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1 | The base can also be used to hold capillary matting or moist grit for plants that require humid air . |
2 | The advantage of on-line data capture is that temporal or dynamic information about the handwriting can also be collected . |
3 | The change can best be appreciated by comparing Meadville , Pennsylvania , depot of the Atlantic and Great Western ( 1862 ) , with the interiors of the great stations of the 1880s and 1890s . |
4 | The board can also be used for incline/decline work with barbells and dumb-bells , and does not have to be regarded only as a piece of equipment for exercising the stomach . |
5 | The board can then be exposed and processed as normal using the techniques described in previous months . |
6 | When you are happy that the etch resist pattern is as required , the board can then be etched in Ferric Chloride in the usual manner in either an open tray of etchant or using the Seno GS sealed system described last month . |
7 | The board can now be drilled . |
8 | Even that buttock-licker Pybus seems worried that Pahdra Singh has replaced them with his shifty brothers but , as I told Crowe , having a property developer , an estate agent and a supermarket magnate on the board can only be good for the club . |
9 | The fleece can also be applied in autumn as frost protection to extend the cropping period of leafy vegetables well into the winter . |
10 | Where fleece is used to advance and protect the growth of crops requiring a pollination period it will be necessary to uncover the plants for a short time at the flowering stage after which the fleece can then be left on until harvesting to keep out birds , small animals and other pests that might damage the fruit . |
11 | Most brachiopods were attached to the substrate by a stalk , and the hole through which the stalk entered the shell can often be seen on the fossils . |
12 | The sentence can only be assigned the right truth conditions , or alternatively be given the correct semantic representation , if the pragmatic significance of and in this sentential context ( namely the " and then " interpretation ) is taken into account before doing the semantics . |
13 | The technique can also be used to confirm or refute current theories . |
14 | If the money can clearly be proven to belong to you all , and to be your only means of support , it can not be let out of the family , casually , at the whim of one member . |
15 | Indeed , in my opinion , the privilege can only be justified on two grounds , first that it discourages the ill-treatment of a suspect and secondly that it discourages the production of dubious confessions . |
16 | The walls and floor do not move and so count as prone , but the Daemon-room can only be damaged by spells and magical weapons . |
17 | The performance of any individual title in the category can thus be assessed by comparing the issue record on its date label with the ‘ mean issue per book ratio ’ . |
18 | But I believe the hypothesis can still be defended in the light of recent knowledge . |
19 | The hypothesis can therefore be tested by clock-shifting experiments . |
20 | Informed parents have to choose the lesser of two evils , and usually choose to prevent the birth of the affected fetus , but the decision can sometimes be very difficult . |
21 | But Lord Justice Watkins said : ‘ The only place where the decision can now be reversed is in Parliament ’ . |
22 | Clinicians , however , have long been aware that the opposite can also be found : an excessive tendency to divergent thinking — though they have usually called it something else — which the person has difficulty in translating into focused thought . |
23 | If you write the words ‘ Account Payee Only ’ between the crossings on the cheque , you can be certain that the cheque can only be banked by the person to whom you made it out . |
24 | The contrast can only be appreciated if we first quote a more characteristic passage from the same episode : [ i ] That way nothing is accomplished , he thought . |
25 | The BSc or the BEng can also be taken as an ordinary degree after three years . |
26 | Sixty years after Schoenberg was making those remarks and nearly twenty years since Karajan made his recording of the Op. 31 Variations , it is still possible to meet the argument that the gramophone can never be a substitute for the sound of ‘ the real thing ’ in the concert-hall . |
27 | As described above , this phosphate group lies in an anomalous position as a result of the base-stacking properties of the CTAG sequence , and the interaction can therefore be regarded as sequence-dependent . |
28 | Since the field of view must be known before the exposure can reasonably be calculated this procedure is called before the best exposure is known . |
29 | But even in a Lutheranism which has had married priests for four centuries , the notion that the mere presence of a woman acting as priest pollutes the sanctuary can still be a powerful belief . |
30 | My contribution is that , my experience is that the hook can often be a national event . |