Example sentences of "[noun pl] can be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since BLOBs can be very large , current multimedia database wisdom suggests that each BLOB is best located on its own separate partition of a disc or on its own magnetic or optical disc . |
| 2 | Now we have to be careful with the word ‘ redemptive ’ because in a final way only Christ 's sufferings can be deemed truly redemptive ; but I feel that we can make guarded use of the term . |
| 3 | I am not an uncritical admirer of the Labèque sisters : their performances can be uneven , and I have sometimes found them guilty of grabbing a composition by the collar and belting off with it before it can gets its breath . |
| 4 | He is convinced everybody needs a clear yardstick against which performances can be judged . |
| 5 | Michael Kelly , the director whose company is responsible for Celtic 's public relations , yesterday confirmed that the manager has been asked to report back to the board with his observations on how the club 's performances can be improved . |
| 6 | A few words can be said by a relative or friend , or , if there is no wish for a religious ceremony , a non-religious one can be planned . |
| 7 | These words can be summed up in an acronym DOSES . |
| 8 | Most written languages have an alphabet , and in English everyone is familiar with the 26 letters from which many thousands of words can be constructed , each having a dictionary definition to help the process of communicating . |
| 9 | Words can be emotionally neutral and factual like ‘ black man ’ and ‘ illegitimate ’ , whereas others — ‘ nigger ’ and ‘ bastard ’ — not only indicate a fact but suggest a derisive attitude . |
| 10 | ‘ Foreign ’ words can be heard but meaning can not be attached to them ; they can not be interpreted . |
| 11 | Each group has a word such as ‘ measurements ’ or ‘ recommendations ’ , and the object is to see how many other words can be made out of this . |
| 12 | Indeed , words can be used which will often hide the very feelings which are at the root of the individual 's problems , and which represent the reality of their emotional lives . |
| 13 | These new words can be proved by taking statements from an aggrieved person(s) to say how harassed , alarmed or distressed he was . |
| 14 | The words can be translated : |
| 15 | The phonological forms of words can be systematically modified . |
| 16 | This form of pre-verbal communication may then provide a highly supportive context for the child to interpret adult speech and actively to test her own hypotheses about how words can be used to assist communication . |
| 17 | In any case there is something absurd about the notion that language or words can be attacked independently of their users . |
| 18 | If we believe that words can be ‘ reclaimed ’ , then woman ought to be at the top of the list . |
| 19 | Badly formed characters and even illegible words can be understood in context because human readers use their knowledge of language and the world to guide their processing . |
| 20 | These beginnings , or prefixes , are checked against a lexicon , which is constructed in such a way that prefixes which will not produce legal words can be identified and pruned from the list . |
| 21 | Burr states that suffixed forms of words can be derived by rule . |
| 22 | This is especially so for handwriting , when not only spelling errors , but also illegible words can be deduced from the context . |
| 23 | This data is for a trained writer ( ie. the Freeman vector database contains details of the writer 's handwriting ) , and as can be seen , the number of candidate words can be high , and in such cases the spread of lengths of the candidates is quite wide . |
| 24 | Your stringer should be able to explain these terms and more — and understanding some of the stringers ' buzz words can be useful , even if it 's just to impress your friends . |
| 25 | A further 5,000 unfamiliar words can be added to the system , along with up to 99 standard paragraphs that can be called in as required . |
| 26 | — effects that depend on the arrival time of words can be modelled , allowing ’ snapshots ’ to be taken during the processing of a sentence that induces a ’ cognitive double-take ’ ; |
| 27 | — selectional restrictions of various words can be modelled by the type of links attached to their representative nodes . |
| 28 | It is desirable therefore to devise an indexing system , by which words can be related to some other data structure that is more easily processed and stored . |
| 29 | These words can be re-grouped according to the syntactic categories of noun , verb , adjective and adverb . |
| 30 | The crucial middle ground — the exploration of how words can be manipulated on paper and the effects such manipulation can achieve — may be seriously neglected . |