Example sentences of "can be take " in BNC.
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| 31 | The system manages not only data about maintenance crews and equipment , but also rules that specify how long crews can work , which stations can be taken off-line without blacking out the city , and so on . |
| 32 | This debate can be taken as something of a dry-run of the political battle should a formal request for really massive aid be delivered . |
| 33 | The Queen , in her private capacity , is incapable of incurring liability , and no proceedings by way of action or prosecution can be taken against her . |
| 34 | If a son or daughter commits a crime and is sentenced to imprisonment , the court will not allow an anxious father or mother to take their place , so how can it be that my sin can be taken by another ? |
| 35 | The women and children , the cattle and treasures of these cities can be taken as spoil by the people , and kept by them as a gift from their God through whose strength they will have gained the victory . |
| 36 | ‘ I deplore the attitude that people can be taken on without any training , ’ says Mr Boswell . |
| 37 | The embrace can be taken to extremes . |
| 38 | As Roy Hattersley , himself an opponent of the scheme , reminded journalists yesterday , proportional representation would involve a radical change from one form of democracy to another ; it is n't something which can be taken lightly . |
| 39 | The same advantage can be taken of star clusters like the Pleiades and the Hyades : their component stars were born from the same gas clouds and must therefore be at the same distance from us . |
| 40 | The policy can be taken out by or on behalf of any expectant mother aged between 18 and 42 . |
| 41 | Comfort can be taken from hoping that her daughter will grow up into ‘ a brilliant and glorious human being ’ , but it soon becomes clear that , beneath her cool , confident exterior , Camille too is damaged and vulnerable . |
| 42 | The spirit of our times does not believe in the sacrifice of private happiness for public duty , and this can be taken as a sign of moral decline . |
| 43 | So as to underline that all measures are intended to benefit the young person , provisions for involuntary care have been removed and the views of the young person have to be taken into account in deciding on a form of assistance , although no steps can be taken against the wishes of the parent or guardian ( except in an emergency , s. 43 ) . |
| 44 | The square shape becomes a virtue , as the blade can be taken right up to a wall or back of a cupboard . |
| 45 | A small garden that can be taken in at a glance can soon become boring . |
| 46 | Breakfast can be taken at the top of the Schilthorn ; take the cable car to the ‘ Piz Gloria ’ revolving restaurant for a breakfast served in the most glorious of surroundings . |
| 47 | Facilities include 3 tennis courts ( payable locally ) , sunbathing lawns and a large terrace where light meals or snacks can be taken at lunchtime . |
| 48 | Once an imbalance occurs between the number of males waiting to acquire units and the number of units that can be taken over or entered , the system could go into a series of oscillations which would be self-perpetuating , at least for some time . |
| 49 | While no confirmation has been found among records of Garrick 's career , it can be taken on Duncombe 's word that the actor prepared the proposals . |
| 50 | If fruits , trees , and plants are images of labour for Mary Leapor , these lines can be taken as a criticism of owners reorganizing the land . |
| 51 | Dying Colinetta 's defence of her reputation can be taken simply as an attempt to obscure conflicts relating to common pasture land . |
| 52 | ‘ Mopsus ’ can be taken as a comic piece . |
| 53 | In view of public concern about violence and indiscipline in schools and the problems faced by the teaching profession today , to consider what action can be taken by central government , local authorities , voluntary bodies owning schools , governing bodies of schools , head teachers , teachers and parents to secure the orderly atmosphere necessary in schools for effective teaching and learning to take place . |
| 54 | From across the square the Romanesque lines of the church are masked , not only by later work that war in the Baroque style , but also by the adjacent multi-floor modern buildings and the traffic lights , the latter set in such a position that no useful photograph can be taken that does not include them . |
| 55 | This can be taken to mean that the one proper way for an authority to decide its actions is to ask itself what are the reasons which apply to its subjects and attempt to follow them . |
| 56 | Increased efficiency can be taken into account . |
| 57 | The slow learning of the group given consistently reinforced pre-exposure can be taken as being a special case of latent inhibition — of associability being lost by a stimulus followed by a consistent consequence . |
| 58 | If the memory of the association of a given flavour with illness can be taken to be more important than the memory that the flavour has also been experienced without harmful consequences , then the latter memory would interfere after a short but not after a long retention interval . |
| 59 | There is , however , evidence from a quite different experimental procedure that can be taken to confirm that retrieval mechanisms play an important role in the phenomena considered here . |
| 60 | The experiment by Jaynes ( 1950 ) ( see above , p. 153 ) can be taken as demonstrating an equivalent effect in rats . |