Example sentences of "thing can be [verb] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Three things can be demonstrated to trainees here : |
| 2 | I have done little to remedy that myself , except to fall back on the preferred notion of level , which at least can begin to explicate how things can be reached by effort at some times but not others . |
| 3 | I guess we 'll never know looking back on it , various things can be traced to David and other things to Tony . |
| 4 | Many things can be said in conversation which assume a different weight when used , verbatim or otherwise , on the printed page . |
| 5 | Leibniz was quite right , of course , to reject the view that a sufficient criterion of numerical identity of things can be defined in terms of the conditions under which we distinguish between their respective positions in space , but he himself had no better explanation to offer . |
| 6 | Many things can be made from dates . |
| 7 | ‘ THIS is an ideas battle … not every one of these things can be distilled into politics — you know , who 's for this and who 's for that , and if this person is for this , somebody else has to be for that . |
| 8 | All kinds of things can be used as reflectors : projection screens ; aluminium foil which has been crumpled , roughly straightened out and stuck onto a sheet of hardboard ; or purpose-made reflectors bought from photographic dealers . |
| 9 | The same thing can be said about expense recognition , although there is a system of accounting which recognizes a debit earlier than the receipt of an invoice . |
| 10 | Multiple Network Terminal Servers can be integrated into one network : each has 64 serial ports and one parallel port per unit , and the thing can be managed by SunNet Manager . |