Example sentences of "[noun] can [be] [vb pp] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All power-ups can be upgraded a maximum of five times , and you get more money to spend after each race depending on your finishing position . |
| 2 | Any suspense is negligible , since the baddies can be spotted a mile off : one wears a Mephistophelean beard , the other an insane grin . |
| 3 | Since it is impossible to guarantee that every potato with a fault can be removed a tolerance of not more than 5% of all faults is permitted . |
| 4 | They belong to a point ( if three-and-a-half books can be called a point , for it lasts from half-way through Exodus to the end of Deuteronomy ) of great tension in the narrative . |
| 5 | In fact , such sites can be made a feature in the garden , and it could be worth building a wall on purpose , which would form a barrier to cold wind and contain warmth on its sunny side . |
| 6 | I sound one warning note about individual choice — it works in towns where parents can be given a choice of schools , up to the physical capacity of a school , but in rural areas that choice may be only theoretical . |
| 7 | Rather , the evidence suggests a classification of teams which distinguishes the core team " from the " extended team " , which in turn is distinguished from the " service network " team — if , indeed , a 20-person grouping can be called a team . |
| 8 | But it is no good my holding out any hope that Mrs Ross can be found a place in one of our homes . ’ |
| 9 | On the basis of viscosity data , B can be assigned a value of unity , leading to and . |
| 10 | One insider believes the COSE firms have not yet decided whether to level the playing field at this technology point , or if systems management can be used an excuse for competitive advantage without hurting their collective drive against Microsoft Corp Windows NT . |
| 11 | One insider believes that the Common Open Software Environment firms have not yet decided whether to level the playing field at this technology point , or if systems management can be used an excuse for competitive advantage without hurting their collective drive against Microsoft Corp 's Windows NT : ‘ Do they want to solve the problem is the question ? ’ asks the source , who is afraid that ‘ systems management was a COSE epitaph . ’ |
| 12 | There are many levels of creativity , from craftsmen all the way to poetic sages ; even the creation of a good joke can be deemed an act of creation . |
| 13 | In several respects , control of neural tube defects can be considered an example of how research into congenital abnormalities has progressed more generally . |
| 14 | The Chart-based model used in the following experiments can be considered a hybrid between the blackboard and the hierarchical models . |
| 15 | The foregoing chapter has described the manner in which the Created God can be given a place in the minds of human beings as a feasible entity capable of a spiritual kind of existence . |
| 16 | The plate can then be reworked in these areas or in fact the whole can be taken a stage further by laying another ground of resin and immersing in the acid again . |
| 17 | Using a real-life example that assumes it costs $5 a line to write code and that 100 lines of code can be written a day , SmartStar figures it can cut the cost of generating a trivial application to $750 compared with $12,000 using a tool kit and $7,000 using a Motif GUI builder . |
| 18 | Since a sentence plus its context of use can be called an utterance , Katz 's suggestion amounts to the idea that a pragmatic theory is a function whose domain is the set of utterances and whose range is the set of propositions . |
| 19 | Only B and C come into the differences in energy between terms , so the process of ordering the terms can be made a lot simpler using Racah parameters . |
| 20 | First , however , we must come back to the question of how to read a contingency table when one variable can be considered a cause of the other . |
| 21 | Bennett suggests that whatever precise outcome of the review , ‘ the climate of debate can be changed a lot before you actually do anything about it and that 's what will happen before the next election ’ . |
| 22 | Cooking tunnels mean that between 1500 and 5000 meals can be prepared a day while freeing the chef from performing repetitive tasks and surveilance . |
| 23 | Not true — with curlers to hand and just ten minutes to spare , any short style can be given a shot of glamour . |
| 24 | This approach can be taken a stage further by introducing the marginal efficiency of investment ( MEI ) . |
| 25 | The debate — if such a one-sided affair can be called a debate — took place on 7 April . |
| 26 | He expressed disquiet , however , over strong British government support for the ‘ Carter Doctrine under which any part of the world can be proclaimed a sphere of vital American interests ’ including ‘ the oil-rich Persian Gulf region ’ . |
| 27 | The argument supporting mode e can be taken a stage further . |
| 28 | In the meantime the female can be considered an intruder and be treated as such . |
| 29 | Sheep graze up to its walls , mellow with yellow lichen , and the reedy dykes which surround it are famous for their marsh frogs , whose operatic baritone can be heard a mile away on May nights . |
| 30 | He said : ‘ This will mean children can be given an introduction to sensible drinking in the company of their parents . |