Example sentences of "it can be [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

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31 Very often assessment of a child 's language is required in order that it can be presented to other professionals who are seeking to help that child .
32 It can be generated from conventional fuels .
33 The product development venture , SunSolutions , a new moon circling Sun Technology Enterprises , last week debuted its first product , ShowMe , its computer conference software : based on Open Look , it says it can be deployed for on-line meetings and collaborating on compound documents in real-time over a TCP/IP net work .
34 While this maxim applies especially to press , it can be extended to other media , too .
35 We need now to assess the validity of this approach , to see whether it can be extended to other kinds of discourse , and to examine alternative approaches too .
36 Further , it can be checked against other contemporary annals , whether produced in Charles 's kingdom but giving a perspective very different from the AB 's ( the brief Annals of the monastery of Fontanelle , or St-Wandrille , near modern Le Havre , for instance , have their own house-based story to tell ) , or written in another Carolingian kingdom , like the East Frankish Annals of Fulda which are just as slanted as the AB , but in a different direction .
37 It can be blended with other fibres too .
38 It 's grown on huge farms called plantations , and it has to be planted , as the name suggests , cultivated and harvested , before it can be packed into great ships and sent to us .
39 We have examined these processes in three different areas : perception as far as it can be determined from neurophysiological and laterality studies , remembering in a short-term memory context , and organisation in recall as it occurs in story-telling .
40 Hence it can be determined by practical considerations arising from the organization of police work , such as the time of the shift , the approach of shift change-over , the time of the year , considerations about overtime , and the dislike of paperwork ( Gardner 1969 : 132 ; Holdaway 1980 : 59 , 1983 : 57 ) .
41 In either event , the power to exclude or modify pre-emptive rights ceases with the expiration or revocation of the authority conferred under section 80 , ( or 80A ) though it can be renewed by special resolution when , and to the extent that , the authority is renewed .
42 Designed to make the most of your hair 's natural movement , it can be sprayed on wet or dry hair and will encourage any natural curls or waves that you have and add body and shine .
43 We can not do this overnight , but it can be achieved with gradual development over a number of years .
44 By determining the composition of the object , it can be compared with natural sources of clay ( in the case of ceramics ) or stone and can indicate where the object originally came from .
45 In principle it can be detected by inelastic neutron scattering or by electron energy-loss spectroscopy [ Section 5.3.4 ] , for which there are effectively no symmetry selection rules .
46 Although infra-red light is invisible to the human eye , it can be detected by special photographic film ; in general , the amount of infra-red light reflected from a plant depends on its ripeness , so that infra-red photographs can produce good-contrast images of crop marks that may be hardly visible on ordinary photographic film or to the eye .
47 However , it can be incorporated into published campaigns quite easily .
48 The first public taxonomic databases have experimented with the handling of alternative taxonomies ( as in the US Nature Conservancy 's taxonomic inventory with local variants ) , with attaching biological data in such a way that it can be refreshed for subsequent taxonomic changes ( for example , ILDIS/Chapman and Hall Leguminosae phytochemical database ) , and with the use of images ( such as The Plant Fossil Record ) .
49 It can be removed by vigorous aeration — perhaps over a day or more — or by the use of water conditioners .
50 So CAMPAIGN is a very original product that takes on a huge task and just about succeeds … it can be criticised in certain areas , but on the whole is a very designed game that ‘ boldly goes where no game has been before … ‘
51 It is about extending decision-making to the level where it can take place most effectively and where it can be informed by local circumstances in the context of the policy and philosophy of the school .
52 I love it just as it is but it can be sauced with burnt brandy .
53 However , if only one variable , such as the amplitude , is measured it can be measured with arbitrary precision .
54 It can be measured in crude cash terms — the one which politicians focus on — as well as the real innovations of the past decade .
55 Not only does mental disability vary so widely that it ultimately defies definition , but the extent to which a given mental disability , in so far as it can be measured in clinical terms , handicaps a person will depend not only upon the disability itself but on the patient 's social circumstances as well .
56 The dump will hold the highly-radioactive waste until it can be taken to British Nuclear Fuel 's Sellafield works for reprocessing to extract uranium and plutonium .
57 Since word order is not now needed for signalling an increased specificity of conceptual meaning it can be put to other purposes , as we shall see presently .
58 Mr Webb says the row wo n't stop his fund raising activities — but he thinks the hospital should refund the money it spent , so that it can be put towards other needy projects .
59 Cotton or fine linen can be used as a painting support either by itself stretched onto a wooden frame or stretcher , or it can be glued onto strong card or hardboard to give a good painting surface to oils or acrylics .
60 There certainly is scope for such studies : documentary material survives in town archives in such forms as deeds and rentals , and in some cases it can be supplemented by archaeological work , as twentieth-century redevelopment in town centres has given opportunities to investigate the surviving material remains below .
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