Example sentences of "[adv] can [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well Boris Yeltsin this morning has said that he wants a veto over the use of nuclear weapons and about ninety percent of which I think are on Russian soil , that perhaps can be interpreted , additional safeguard to have another veto . |
| 2 | It 's quite a common condition , mostly affecting people under the age of about 30 , both sexes equally , and obviously can be very distressing . |
| 3 | Much can be learnt from periods when there is a greater quantity of written information , and books such as C. E. Challis , The Tudor Coinage ( 1978 ) , C. M. Cipolla , Money in Sixteenth-Century Florence ( 1986 ) and E. Besly , English Civil War Coin Hoards ( 1987 ) are very illuminating and can reveal many of the potential pitfalls of analysing coin evidence from earlier periods . |
| 4 | All were answered at length in a meticulous hand and , from a closer study of these letters , much can be learned of this gardener who was to be acknowledged as the greatest of his time . |
| 5 | Much can be done in-house to boost morale . |
| 6 | So much can be conveyed by putting your arms around someone 's shoulders or giving them a kiss . |
| 7 | Much can be gained by assessing the way a candidate puts him/herself . |
| 8 | Much can be gained by assessing the way a candidate puts him/herself forward in his or her own paper — ie good presentation . |
| 9 | As we have learned elsewhere , much can be gained by examining residuals , here called the rough . |
| 10 | Most drainage schemes should have some regard for the importance to wildlife of these areas , and much can be achieved on quite small areas . |
| 11 | Much can be done to increase mobility and to ease pain and discomfort . |
| 12 | However , much can be done by the teachers themselves at very little cost to the department . |
| 13 | It is natural to worry about children , especially when they are ill , but worrying too much can be very harmful to them . |
| 14 | But with compatible partners , much can be done , and I believe increasingly that there will be more compatibility when the practice of local accountability conforms with the theory . |
| 15 | So much can be learned by watching and copying . |
| 16 | The arbiter of taste in this instance has to be parents themselves , and much can be done to avoid unhappy experiences from the outset by determining preferences and approaches to the care of your child when your childminding arrangement begins . |
| 17 | Much can be learned simply by visiting other schools , seeing teachers and other professionals at work in different settings and exchanging ideas and experiences . |
| 18 | Although some expense may be involved , much can be done by the class teacher in the day-to-day management of the classroom . |
| 19 | Even in such circumstances , none the less , much can be found out by the judicious interrogation of the sources and witnesses which are available , as the history of the Suez crisis shows . |
| 20 | While it is true that the spores can easily hop over the garden fence , and there is not a lot to be done about sources of infection further along the road , much can be done by being entirely ruthless in cleaning up your fallen leaves and rose debris . |
| 21 | Much can be gained from the openness of communication and willingness to learn from others |
| 22 | Much can be gained from the openness of communication and willingness to learn from others . |
| 23 | But much can be inferred from statistics of births in any year to women who already have 0 , 1 , 2 , etc. children ( figure 4.13 ) . |
| 24 | As Sir Patrick Geddes , an early sociologist , commented in 1904 : ‘ Whether , under favourable circumstances and the rare public spirit of private owners , much can be done , or to any wide extent , so long as absolute individual ownership in land and ground values is allowed , seems to me very doubtful . ’ |
| 25 | As Mr. Richards says , much of the procedure stems from the relevant statutes and regulations , and much can be gleaned from A Guide to the Award of Costs in Criminal Proceedings ( R.C.J. ( 1991 ) H.M.S.O. ) , which contains a section ( Section 6 ) on ‘ Wasted Costs and Orders … |
| 26 | But much can be done to teach new music by one person using voice and gesture alone . |
| 27 | It is doubtful whether much can be gained by trying to achieve any greater precision than that suggested in the definitions above . |
| 28 | Stephenson thinks that unless there are no informal carers ( in which case providing continuous support at home is much more expensive than residential care ) much can be done to keep even very dependent people at home . |
| 29 | But much can be done with the interpretation . ’ |
| 30 | As with the best coffee-table books , much can be gained simply by browsing through the photographs and their informative captions . |