Example sentences of "can [be] [adj] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead their ill-paid labour means that the beans can be air-freighted at considerable cost to arrive at supermarkets with flavour and crispness intact . |
| 2 | Formic acid can be helpful to pregnant women . |
| 3 | Though competition can be helpful for big publicly financed science projects , co-operation would bring even bigger benefits |
| 4 | Homoeopathy can certainly help to improve the body 's function and the anthroposophical remedy iscador — prepared from mistletoe and similar to Viscum album in the homoeopathic materia medica — can be helpful in certain types of cancer . |
| 5 | Additionally , confidence can be useful for certain types of secrets for which other rights are inappropriate such as the recipe for Coca-Cola or a secret research technique or industrial process . |
| 6 | Some agencies offer special services which can be useful for specific jobs . |
| 7 | The chapter concludes with some examples of how insights gained from psychotherapy can be useful in social work practice . |
| 8 | Special types of graph paper can be useful in different circumstances . |
| 9 | A technique known as " funnelling " in which more general questions are followed by more specific ones amplifying the general ones can be useful in guiding the interviewer through the schedule and encouraging the respondent to give fuller answers . |
| 10 | Question of omitting it does n't arise unless until we get to that part of the plaintiff 's case and erm I shall hear the evidence of the plaintiff and the other witnesses first and the advocation can be renewed in due ti in due course at the proper time . |
| 11 | These problems can be due to poor pot construction , or to the fact that the carbon track on the pot is reacting like an old-style carbon granule microphone , thus making the pot noisy when used . |
| 12 | A wide range of pollutants can be present in indoor air , including chemicals from vehicle emissions , photocopiers and laser printers and dust from human skin , smoking , asbestos , mineral fibre and other sources . |
| 13 | This may show that unequal supply of arms can be compatible with narrow ( though clearly not with comprehensive ) neutrality . |
| 14 | Oh they they might do that but then er if you can be selective in other words I mean if they 've got competition and the competition 's advertising they 've got to come come to terms with that . |
| 15 | Milan can be circumspect about visiting conductors , but on this occasion even the orchestra was stamping its approval for Lorin Maazel , a phenomenon I was told the Scala had not witnessed for over two decades ( you would have thought they might have managed it in the recent past for Muti , watching with no evident rancour from the box : but apparently not ) . |
| 16 | Headway 's thorough multi-syllabus approach means that students and teachers can be confident of rounded language development on all fronts . |
| 17 | Able-bodied men and women between 18 and 60 have been prevented from leaving Sarajevo so that they can be available for military or wartime government service . |
| 18 | Slow bowling can be decisive in one-day cricket , and we must have at least one tight spinner . |
| 19 | Hansen ( 1980 ) maintains that hearing people can learn sign language to a satisfactory extent and can be successful in passive learning , i.e. understanding deaf people 's signing , within a short time . |
| 20 | Often the adverts are not geared to needs but aim at ‘ developing a desire ’ , thus fostering a consumerist mentality which can be detrimental to developmental effort . |
| 21 | Faith can be impervious to mere facts . |
| 22 | There are a number of ways in which trade unions can be involved in Compact : 1 . |
| 23 | There are a number of ways in which trade unions can be involved in Compact . |
| 24 | Errors in recall can be similar for different individuals . |
| 25 | In the recent House of Lords judgment in the aptly named Savage case , the court ruled that a person can be guilty of actual bodily harm regardless of whether she — in that case — intended any harm or was reckless about causing harm , so long as she intended the assault . |
| 26 | Mapping applications The precise and particular methods of engineering geophysics can be invaluable in geological mapping , where problems of structure and stratigraphy are local rather than regional . |
| 27 | While such contacts can be invaluable in difficult market conditions with the ensuing scarcity of land , it may prove difficult to actually find suitable sites . |
| 28 | Consequently , even if the desulphate ester of PABA-UDCA is disulphated at the 3α position by bacterial action after oral administration the 7 β-monosulphate ester of PABA-UDCA formed can be resistant to bacterial transformation resulting in no absorption from the gut and rapid excretion into faeces . |
| 29 | You should not exceed this amount because iron can be toxic in certain individuals . |
| 30 | Vines under stress from drought are vulnerable and , unlike most forms of cryptogamic disease , powdery mildew can be rife in dry conditions . |