Example sentences of "[vb base] [conj] it can [be] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 Even psychiatrists in favour of ECT acknowledge that it can be misused .
2 They say if it can be done on water , it can be done on Mission Bay , the largest aquatic playground in the world .
3 If that is done , I hope that it can be done here .
4 Lakatos 's theory gains support if it can be shown that episodes in the history of science , that have been inexplicable in terms of rival methodologies , are explicable in terms of the methodology of research programmes .
5 Even your supporters are becoming alarmed by the destabilising effect of general practitioner fundholding , as you top slice cash from the central reserve and ensure that it can be spent only on the limited number of services that general practitioners are allowed to purchase directly .
6 BA 22/42 is therefore probably involved in phonological processing independent from memory and our data demonstrate that it can be activated even in the absence of external auditory phonological stimulation .
7 They 've changed quite the opposite way because er I now know that it can be done and how important advertising is to the even to the local businesses .
8 Note that it can be viewed when the LIFESPAN Process is active , by using the VMS command TYPE to display its contents on the screen .
9 I believe that it can be done without internment .
10 Curiously , Gill and Jackson are aware of the problem of identity confusion but believe that it can be avoided if black children are placed transracially when very young : ‘ it is possible that older black children may , by the time a placement has occurred , have already internalised a definition of themselves as being black and that this definition may jeopardise the possibility of integration and emotional identification within a white family ’ ( p. 138 ) .
11 This may seem so obvious as not to need stating , but I believe that it can be overlooked .
12 I believe its main ingredient was quinine and doubt if it can be obtained today .
13 As , managing director of business psychologists , John Nicholson Associates , explained : ‘ A crude analogy is if you are a fleet manager and one of you cars is not working properly , then you check out the problem and see if it can be fixed in-house or go to external specialists to get it back on the road in peak condition as soon as possible . ’
14 In general , then , we need to try to explain the earliest arrangement of the basic administrative land units in our study area and see if it can be identified as being of pre-Roman , Roman , or later date .
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