Example sentences of "can be [vb pp] [prep] some " in BNC.

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1 Probably they would have had no application to W. , but even where they are applicable it may be in the long-term interests of the minor that if the same treatment can be secured upon some other basis , this shall be done .
2 It is desirable therefore to devise an indexing system , by which words can be related to some other data structure that is more easily processed and stored .
3 Of equal importance is the ability to understand what can be seen at some historical sites where there is little attempt at historical reconstruction to assist understanding — perhaps a burial mound in the middle of a field or a ruined castle .
4 The emotional , mental and spiritual levels form an energy field around the body known as the aura , aspects of which can be seen by some people and which have recently been partially demonstrated by modern technology .
5 This was a favourite feature in olden times , and a similar petal formation can be seen in some modern bred fuchsias .
6 The practical interconnection between gender , ethnicity and class can be seen in some of the ethnographies of women 's lives that have been recently produced .
7 The difficulty with this philosophy , however , is that it can be taken to the extreme , as can be seen in some Local Education Authorities ( LEAs ) which have an all-out integration policy .
8 This more exclusivist approach can be seen in some of the proposals embodied in Mr Gorbachev 's Murmansk Initiative most of which was directed to the Nordic and other Arctic states .
9 Secondly , the interaction of different components may also indicate that less work can be done at some other level .
10 Once this is achieved — and this , it is held , can be done by some sort of physicalist theory of mind with strong behaviourist elements — then most of the insoluble problems of early modern philosophy disappear .
11 The question is whether this can be achieved without some form of outside aid .
12 Terence Johnson has pointed to the limits that can be placed on some professions by their clients or employers .
13 Yet , since they have this ambiguous , double-edged aspect too , even the latter are not totally evil but can be turned to some good .
14 In the Hind III digested DNA , eight bands can be discerned with some bands being doublets or triplets .
15 The revolt was essentially Oldcastle 's attempted revenge for his arrest in the previous year , and the only economic motive which can be discerned among some of the rebels was a possible hope of seizing some ecclesiastical property .
16 Hence most provenance studies are of ceramic and stone materials , where the composition and microstructure of the basic raw materials is relatively unaffected by the manufacturing process , although we will see that metals too can be provenanced in some circumstances .
17 .. requires consultation with the redundant employee so that the employer may find out whether the needs of the business can be met in some other way than by dismissal and , if not , what other steps the employer can take to ameliorate the blow to the employee .
18 What can be stated with some certainty is that Earth 's unique combination of water and heat started the whole process off , as all the laboratory experiments would appear to confirm .
19 What can be stated with some certainty is that ‘ London ’ is by no means the be-all and end-all of the emerging story and that an ‘ explosion ’ is occurring in terms of new record labels .
20 7 The consequences of a finding of unreasonableness It can be stated with some degree of certainty that both academic and judicial opinion is divided as how to characterise a contract in unreasonable restraint of trade and the consequences thereof .
21 Most health education and health promotion campaigns are based on the assumptions that individual lifestyles play an important role in experiences of health and disease , and that individual behaviour can be influenced by some combination of information , emotional appeal and suggestions for change .
22 It can be grown on some of the poorest land in the world , which is totally unsuitable for conventional crops , and in regions where people have no work and are living in poverty .
23 Of course , there is a definite limit to the strength of cross wind that can be accepted by some machines , particularly those fitted with tail-skids rather than tail-wheels .
24 The demo can be played for some time and allows for detailed assessment before opting to buy .
25 Custom-made order forms , listing ‘ authorised products ’ only , and stock control forms can be obtained from some .
26 The dependence here upon existing stock sizes is an obvious disadvantage , and can be counterbalanced to some extent by allocating on the basis of use — though even this will in part at least reflect existing conditions .
27 The flavour of this can be tasted at some sites , for example Staneydale ‘ Temple ’ in Shetland , which lies within a landscape of neolithic settlements and field-systems .
28 And as depressed parents can have a deleterious effect on their children 's behaviour and vulnerability to psychiatric disturbance ( Rutter , 1966 ) , the number of people who can be affected in some way by the disorder is substantial and marks it out as one of the most important psychiatric conditions .
29 Also , bear in mind that traces of drugs remain in the system and can be detected for some time after you have stopped taking them .
30 This shift from a narrative cinema to a postmodern cinema of spectacle can be detected in some of the biggest moneyspinning films from the mid-1960s , such as Spaghetti Westerns ( Frayling 1981 , pp. 39f ) , in which realist narrative structure is violated by the presence of events which are interchangeable or gratuitous , by films like Scorsese 's Mean Streets which resolutely refuse to end .
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