Example sentences of "thing can be [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Three things can be demonstrated to trainees here : |
| 2 | From this account of 1773 , two things can be noted : the miners first offered a price , and the objects of their anger were merchants intending to remove corn from the locality . |
| 3 | It 's not enough to say that things can be done differently or better . |
| 4 | Some things can be done without it but we do need money . |
| 5 | Remarkable things can be done linking projectors and computers so that you get composite or varied images on a wall of screens . |
| 6 | This means that some quieter things can be done which are not possible if there are a great number of children around . |
| 7 | Computationally-inclined psychologists or epistemologists , however , are more likely to be interested in how these things can be done , irrespective of which species manage to do them . |
| 8 | Explanations of this kind have a certain political attractiveness — by making training , selection and deployment the target of reform , things can be done , they can be seen to be done , and they can be done relatively cheaply too . |
| 9 | Some interesting and useful things can be done in the way of improving specific item search systems , but only if the catalogue has considerable " knowledge " of bibliographical items ( for example , one can envisage a catalogue which could say , " We have n't got Joseph Matthews on online catalogue screen displays , but there is an article in Library trends which might be of some interest " ) . |
| 10 | what three things can be done to prevent it ? |
| 11 | Well , yes they may want to do something about it , but they may be just too scared to give any details which would lead to something being done about it , I mean things can be done about it , but only if the child wants them done . |
| 12 | The examples above illustrate the fact that different things can be planned . |
| 13 | Money is used as a common denominator in which the value of things can be expressed in the market . |
| 14 | I have done little to remedy that myself , except to fall back on the preferred notion of level , which at least can begin to explicate how things can be reached by effort at some times but not others . |
| 15 | I guess we 'll never know looking back on it , various things can be traced to David and other things to Tony . |
| 16 | Many things can be said in conversation which assume a different weight when used , verbatim or otherwise , on the printed page . |
| 17 | Two things can be said about this to avoid the impression that the different tendencies are simply expressions of a ‘ national character ’ , or of the irresponsibility of entertainment against the social purposiveness of public service — though the latter explanation , if understood historically rather than morally , is not completely without foundation . |
| 18 | Er , I can say for instance that I 'm changing because I 'm er getting older , I 'm getting tireder erm all sorts of things can be said about me . |
| 19 | Leibniz was quite right , of course , to reject the view that a sufficient criterion of numerical identity of things can be defined in terms of the conditions under which we distinguish between their respective positions in space , but he himself had no better explanation to offer . |
| 20 | Many things can be made from dates . |
| 21 | For carbon dioxide ( CO2 ) , though , things can be made more complicated . |
| 22 | The idea that things can be made easier for women through medical advances can lead to a lot of disillusionment . |
| 23 | In an attempt to recover prestige and to circumvent the Chancellor he tried for personal contact with King William , hoping desperately that , as he said , ‘ between sovereigns things can be arranged ’ . |
| 24 | All these things can be achieved if it is acknowledged that all procedures should a validated by users under the normal conditions of use . |
| 25 | ‘ Coleraine showed that things can be achieved if you 're prepared to battle and that 's what I want to see us doing tomorrow . ’ |
| 26 | I can not , he says , ‘ really persuade myself that the truth of things can be perceived by mortal men ’ . |
| 27 | Even if these things can be believed , it would be foolish to write off the Khmers Rouges . |
| 28 | These things can be thought about , moral problems can be faced and solved , one just needs the will and the courage . |
| 29 | I 'll be spending all day on the phone when I get home to see if things can be sorted out . |
| 30 | These things can be taken too much to heart . ’ |