Example sentences of "that can [be] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The garrulity of women — one of St Jerome 's first objections — clearly underlies the crude joke of Du Con qui fu fait a la besche , noted above , and woman 's moral weakness is apparent in Cele qui se fist foutre sur la fosse de son mari , a version of a tale known as the Matron of Ephesus that can be traced as far back as to the classical author Petronius . |
| 2 | Two proposals led by my family health services authority are to establish a new pattern of audiological services in primary care for elderly patients operating from general practice rather than ear , nose , and throat departments , and to reach a consensus on the range of conditions that can be cost effectively , appropriately , and equitably treated in general practice by physiotherapists . |
| 3 | According to Professor Morag Timbury of Glasgow Royal Infirmary ‘ acyclovir seems set to become one of the first effective anti-viral agents that can be given systemically in safety . ’ |
| 4 | The estimates in Figure 8.2 are not based on observed cratering , which happens far too infrequently , but on the exposure of each planet to the small bodies that can be seen today to move among the terrestrial planets . |
| 5 | John McCorquodale visited Islay , where he was born , to take leave of his relations before emigrating to Canada in 1855 and in the short entry in his diary describes Dun Nosbridge as " the prettiest hill that can be seen anywhere . |
| 6 | John McCorquodale visited Islay , where he was born , to take leave of his relations before emigrating to Canada in 1855 and in the short entry in his diary describes Dun Nosbridge as " the prettiest hill that can be seen anywhere . |
| 7 | In fact the chances for viewing exciting wildlife are getting rarer every day , as hundreds more people take to the hills , bringing dogs and children and wearing colours that can be seen as far away as Belgium . |
| 8 | Some sort of canvas covers that can be stripped so that I 'm Luftwaffe again for the trip back . ’ |
| 9 | Finally , the process of reading itself involves a basic mapping between text world and real world that can be characterised as isomorphic as well . |
| 10 | What is more , a good smallholder , in his own interest , will develop a system of husbandry that can be sustained indefinitely without robbing the soil . |
| 11 | There are five positional patterns that can be played laterally up and down the fretboard and which relate to any major scale ( and its relative minor scale ) : you 'll start on the lowest diatonic note in each key and move up the fretboard to the highest comfortable form ( more on this later ) . |
| 12 | The result is possibly the most ambitious programme of industrial wasteland reclamation in Britain , with lessons that can be applied widely in other reclamation programmes , and it is highly successful . |
| 13 | Lessons have been learned during the reclamation programme that can be applied widely elsewhere . |
| 14 | Similarly , her observation that the U.K. feels bitterness towards nations of a stronger foundation ( morally and economically ) is a rule that can be applied here too . |
| 15 | Producing cars also involves making flexible robots for assembling parts and linking them by computer ; steady improvements in these technologies , in turn , lead to expert production systems that can be applied anywhere . |
| 16 | You can buy liquid shading ( a spray-on opaque covering ) that can be applied directly to the glass , as well as plastic sheeting and mesh that you pin inside the greenhouse . |
| 17 | ‘ Advances in telecommunications technology promise to deprive Federal , state and local law enforcement officers and the public of the incalculable benefits that can be obtained only by court-authorised wire-tapping . |
| 18 | According to the logical positivists , the only permissible scientific concepts are those that can be tied directly to measurement . |
| 19 | When considering the options now open to us in respect of parenting , it is important to understand the enormity of some of the choices that can be made today . |
| 20 | I like to design things that can be made simply but create a dynamic relationship when the elemental parts are put together . |
| 21 | The savings that can be made usually justify the collection of statistics during the life of the file , and some ways of arranging this are described in the next section . |
| 22 | They are a rather different animal , as far as the sorts of applications are concerned , from single chip microcomputers — a single integrated circuit that has all the features , including the processor , of a computer that can be made very cheaply and embodied particularly in things like low cost domestic goods . |
| 23 | Furniture requires finishes that can be made perfectly smooth to the touch and that can be brought to a mirror-like gloss , if required . |
| 24 | So long as there is coal in the United Kingdom that can be extracted efficiently from the ground , I see no day when we could envisage an energy policy that did not embrace coal . |
| 25 | The craft of weaving requires threads that can be bound together , the skill to combine them , and knowledge of the patterns that can be formed . |
| 26 | Sentences that can be analysed often produce a huge number of possible analyses . |
| 27 | Are there any features of the modern jury that can be explained only as historical survivals , which are out of place in modern society , or has the jury been so adapted that it is a truly modern institution ? ’ |
| 28 | Try to plan to seat at least six comfortably , and also have some really occasional chairs that can be stashed away in a cupboard somewhere or brought in from the hall or a bedroom . |
| 29 | And this type of base is also available with head and foot areas that can be raised manually , hydraulically or by motor . |
| 30 | If you are planning to plant out a window box , carefully read the lists of flowers and foliage that can be pressed successfully ( see pp. 12–19 ) to see which ones appeal to you , and also which plants are suitable for the size of container you will be using . |