Example sentences of "it [modal v] easily be [vb pp] " in BNC.

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1 It may easily be shown that the solutions of Khan and Penrose , and of Szekeres are included in this class .
2 It may easily be objected that if he had wished to avoid becoming archbishop he had simply to refuse .
3 At least one small nineteenth-century factory in Dentorn , Greater Manchester , as an area noted for the manufacture of hats , was built with certain architectural features included so that it might easily be converted into a terrace of houses .
4 It is so small and mobile that it could easily be hidden , and it can carry nuclear or conventional warheads .
5 And I remember an earlier epoch when the geologists were told by the physicists , including the great Lord Kelvin himself , that they were foolish to postulate so many millions of years for earth history , when it could easily be calculated from classic physics that this was quite impossible .
6 It could easily be done .
7 It could easily be done here .
8 Sit behind the wheel of the Calibra and it could easily be mistaken for a Cavalier GSi .
9 To my mind , it begins so well that it could easily be mistaken for a translation of an eighth-century hermit 's verse , composed in a beehive hut by a contented holy man of Old Ireland .
10 The vihuela tablatures contained villancicos and romances — with the melody in red figures– as in Luis Milan 's El Maestro ( Valencia , 1535 or 6 ) , so that it could easily be sung as well as played .
11 It is not quite clear what he meant by this ; the point may well be not that the new kings — Eardwulf in Northumbria , and Coenwulf in Mercia — were of non-royal stock but that they were not of the lineage , respectively , of Aethelred and Offa — but it could easily be construed as a slur .
12 Telling the truth was recognized as desirable , but when truth came into conflict with a more important value , such as justice , it could easily be discarded .
13 In fact , it could easily be thought that increased alcohol consumption could result just in the increased incidence of recurrent pancreatitis .
14 The fear for it is that it could easily be hurt without complaining and could suffer at the hands of careless children who would treat it too much like its namesake .
15 Seed will be ripe in late summer , and should be watched carefully in the last week or two , or it will easily be lost .
16 It will tend to lie doggo in the light and , because it is flat , it can easily be mistaken for a small mole on the shin .
17 Radiological studies are not able to precisely define the muscular end of the oesophagus and when a Barrett 's oesophagus is present with gastric mucosa lining the distal oesophagus , it can easily be mistaken for a hiatal hernia .
18 Where sterilisation is necessary , for example in quarantine or treatment tanks , it can easily be achieved by reducing the water flow through the UV system .
19 Because of the common age of onset being in the late teens it can easily be equated with the usual somewhat awkward behaviour and natural rebellion of teenagers , and initially be set aside by both relatives and professionals , resulting in great family trauma , and at times violence or suicide .
20 It can easily be pointed out , by way of criticism , that Benjamin neglects unduly both the effective autonomy of artistic forms and traditions and the power of the actual ( capitalist ) social relations of production , in the wider society as well as the particular apparatus .
21 This information is mostly for the GM , but some of it can easily be fed to the PCs before an adventure .
22 This structure should be generally more useful in the future because it can easily be expanded to store extra information , should this become necessary .
23 Environmentalists oppose the deep burial method for dealing with radioactive waste , claiming that it constitutes a hazard for many thousands of years and should thus be stored above ground where it can easily be monitored for leakages .
24 ( The ‘ higher powers ’ of an intransitive relation arise when there are chains of elements each related to the next by the relation in question ; thus , if A is the father of B , B of C , and C of D , then A stands in the ‘ third power ’ of the relation ’ — father of — ’ to D. ) It can easily be seen that A in 1(a) and P in 1(b) fulfil this requirement ( assuming , of course , that the lines in the diagrams symbolise the relation of dominance ) .
25 It can easily be seen by comparing the two sets of columns that fine-class homophones together with lack of word boundary information result in a large increase of valid words .
26 Do n't feel restricted to a circle if you want to make a garland design , as it can easily be manoeuvred into other shapes .
27 If the structure of the data is maintained , it can easily be merged with existing models .
28 He was ‘ convinced that my fellow politicians unnecessarily exaggerate the influence of labour … it can easily be overcome by a political leader with genuine sympathy with the working class and a practical programme ’ .
29 The chosen lexicon or word list must be represented in computer memory , but there are numerous methods which could be employed to do this , in order that it can easily be searched .
30 Although the system works brilliantly in most women , it can easily be disrupted — by stress or crash dieting for instance .
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