Example sentences of "and this can [adv] be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Normally , Sodium Hydroxide — Caustic Soda ( N a OH ) — solution is used as a developing agent , and this can easily be made up at home . |
| 2 | Similarly , a wooden bar with a box on either end will serve as a barbell and this can easily be weighted by filling the boxes with soil or sand . |
| 3 | Many cuisines that are based on grains and pulses make extensive use of a wide range of spices to flavour their foods and this can clearly be seen in Indian and Far Eastern cookery . |
| 4 | Ward teaching commitments must be honoured , and this can not be done if the clinical teacher is asked at short notice to participate in classroom teaching . |
| 5 | To take the example given earlier , it is necessary to show that the statement about the toothache can indeed be paraphrased into a statement about the corresponding neuro-physiological event ( and hence that the occurrence of the latter event is a logically adequate criterion for ascribing the experience in the given instance ) , and this can not be done without making use of the premisses which such a proof might be expected to underpin . |
| 6 | A single electron or positron can not identify a W - of W + with certainty ; there is always a neutrino emitted with the electron in the decay and this can not be detected . |
| 7 | This can not be done by the person alone , because help is needed in overcoming the amnesias and the emotional repressions , and this can not be achieved by introspection . |
| 8 | Other people need to be excited by new approaches and this can not be achieved by a dull and formal memorandum . |
| 9 | Strategic vision and consistency of policies by firms , by their financial investors , and by government , are crucial , and this can not be achieved without a coherent sustained industrial strategy . |
| 10 | What is happening — and this can not be prevented — is that the bound Fiend within the weather-vane is being freed , and at the end of 3 Turns the weather-vane will shatter and it will be released . |
| 11 | MG Kent TN4 8XP THE difficulty faced by many younger pensioners is that the husband 's income derives mainly from occupational pensions and this can not be transferred to the wife . |
| 12 | Modern warfare and the modern economy , for example , require increasingly higher levels of technology and this can not be avoided if any state wishes to participate , or if threatened , survive in the contemporary world . |
| 13 | It appeals to reason , but in order to reason we have got to take something for granted as a starting point and this can not be proved . |
| 14 | Like children and families , social workers also need support and this can not be guaranteed by Act of Parliament alone . |
| 15 | We should not , however , expect a question for the initial verb alone since this is only possible in English for verbs which describe something as being , in some as yet ill-defined sense , " done " to their objects : ( 69 ) what did Rafferty do to the cistern ? and this can not be claimed for the verbs preceding clausal adjectives any more than for a verb which precedes an explicit subordinate clause . |
| 16 | This racist behaviour is rational , because such strategies of social closure are logically consistent with the aims of protecting white privilege , and this can best be done through organized forms of discrimination , rather than at the level of individual expressions of prejudice . |
| 17 | The state has a duty to protect its citizens from external enemies , and this can best be achieved by maximizing its power vis-a-vis other states . |
| 18 | Clearly these are still working groups , usually of type ( ii ) , with a manifesto , a periodical and exhibitions , but there has also been a change of some kind in their social relations , and this can best be understood by the second kind of analysis , of the proposed and actual relations with all those beyond the group . |
| 19 | The most radical act of 1689 was the break in the succession , and this can unquestionably be seen as a victory for the Whigs . |
| 20 | Broad agreement has to be reached , too , on how she will be able to fit in happily with your particular routine of family life , and this can only be decided after very frank discussion of her needs and yours . |
| 21 | A full and accurate assessment of land potential involves detailed enquiries into soil and climate and experience of the behaviour of the crops and livestock it carries , and this can only be achieved over a period of years . |
| 22 | So , according to Davis and Moore , stratification and inequality are both positively functional and inevitable in human societies , because societies have to fill a number of ‘ key ’ positions with the ‘ right ’ people , and this can only be achieved by allocating unequal rewards to these positions . |
| 23 | It i.s therefore important to have a sufficient range of variation in these independent variables ' , and this can only be achieved by means of cross-national study . |
| 24 | So at the end of the day it must be for the courts to decide how to classify particular functions , and this can only be done on the basis of some normative judgment about the desirable scope of judicial review . |
| 25 | Le Grand , for example , insists that for egalitarian policies to succeed , ‘ it is necessary to reduce the hold of the ideology of inequality on people 's values and beliefs and this can only be done by challenging the factual underpinnings of that ideology . ’ |
| 26 | Unfortunately , experience is the best guide to fabric interpretation , and this can only be obtained by study of many different sediment types . |
| 27 | Personal injury practitioners can only make any sort of profit at all if they achieve a realistic cash flow and this can only be obtained by ensuring that payment is made as soon as the case is settled . |
| 28 | Having work at an appropriate height in relation to distance from the eye makes a real difference to avoiding unnecessary fatigue , and this can only be effected by a comfortable working position . |
| 29 | And this can obviously be done by any intelligent teacher who is not an artist . |
| 30 | Gradually , through compromise , a workable plan will emerge , and this can then be broken down into a programme phased over a number of years . |