Example sentences of "can [be] [verb] [prep] be [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Explanations of this kind have a certain political attractiveness — by making training , selection and deployment the target of reform , things can be done , they can be seen to be done , and they can be done relatively cheaply too . |
| 2 | The only council member who can be seen to be motivated by hostility to the family is William , lord Hastings . |
| 3 | The only council member who can be seen to be motivated by hostility to the family is William , lord Hastings . |
| 4 | When a thin section of a basalt is examined under a microscope , it can be seen to be made up of a closely-felted mass of interlocking needle-like crystals of feldspar , a millimetre or so long , with a scattering of more colourful tiny crystals of olivine and pyroxene and some black opaque specks of iron oxides . |
| 5 | In the final section ( 3.7 ) , we give a table of quantitative data from these three passages , so that our analysis can be seen to be based on " hard evidence " . |
| 6 | The singularity occurs when , and thus can be seen to be associated with the focusing singularity in region IV . |
| 7 | The more sociological aspects of psychoanalytic theory appear now to be based on firmer foundations , for the theory of the development of the person can be seen to be grounded in the therapeutic encounters of psychoanalysis . |
| 8 | Hunter ( 1980 ) sees parallels with other pressures for change : ‘ arguments for participation in the classroom can be seen to be linked with the growing agitation for community participation in politics , industrial democracy and the feminist and anti-racialist movements ’ ( pp. 231 — 2 ) . |
| 9 | The police car can be said to be represented as a " welcome sight " , and there is therefore a reference to the time before its appearance which is not present in the sentence with the subordinate clause . |
| 10 | ‘ Adaptive information ’ can be said to be inherited , if natural selection has built that information into the animal 's genes over the generations . |
| 11 | It is hard to identify a dividing line at which making can be said to be completed and implementation to start . |
| 12 | Histoire , whilst at one level a transposition of the discontinuity of experience , can at the same time be considered as providing an implicit commentary on the nature of fiction and writing : the text can be said to be formed from a meditation on a collection of postcards which the narrator is sifting through . |
| 13 | Whereas for Horvath and Sankoff ( as noted above ) the linguistic variables are ‘ well defined ’ , this is not so in a dialect-divergent community : in such a community few of the linguistic variables can be said to be defined at all . |
| 14 | It is in this sense that a system of majority decision-taking , rather than any particular decision , can be said to be based on consent . |
| 15 | I am therefore of the opinion that the power of the court to make an order under section 236 is not limited to documents which can be said to be needed ‘ to reconstitute the state of the company 's knowledge ’ even if that may be one of the purposes most clearly justifying the making of an order . |
| 16 | It must comprehend alternatives in policy , since it is only if an electoral decision can alter the actions of government that popular control can be said to be established … |
| 17 | Is it not possible that French influence can be made to be felt once more ? |
| 18 | Functional studies were essentially positivist in nature and depended upon the notion that phenomena can be explained as instances of repeated and predictable regularities in which form and function can be assumed to be related , and indeed form and process figured in the titles of a number of books concerned with processes ( e.g. Carson and Kirkby , 1972 ; Gregory and Walling , 1973 ) . |
| 19 | Although there is some latitude between these grants , in that part of the capital grant can be transferred to be used on the current grant , the distinction between them is maintained and is important . |
| 20 | Thus the total number of transactions T in the economy can be taken to be fixed if full employment is the norm , or alternatively the assumption that the quantity of money has no permanent effect on the real sector of the economy implies that T is independent of M. Consequently there should be a definite relationship between the quantity of money and the price level if the velocity of circulation can also be shown to be independent of M. |
| 21 | The proposed development is contrary to the stated policy of the local planning authority where new dwellings in the countryside are normally resisted unless they can be shown to be justified by agricultural need . |
| 22 | If it is possible to generalize from this at all , it is that presence of predator remains in a fossil assemblage gives no indication of method of origin of the assemblage , even if it can be shown to be accumulated by a predator . |
| 23 | Clarification of this distinction would enable the correct questions to be asked about those interventions that are provided although a need does not exist ( reducing inappropriate care ) and those interventions that are not provided although they are demanded and can be shown to be needed ( rationing ) . |
| 24 | For example , in many tissues , 2 2 Na can be shown to be concentrated into plasma membrane vesicles in the presence of an in to out transmembrane H + gradient . |
| 25 | At the same time , it reveals a succession of different grants , none of which can be shown to be associated with the original concession of Sapaudia . |
| 26 | Under the Convention , a requested State is to apply the same measures of compulsion as would be available in purely domestic cases ; this is reflected in the provision in section 2(3) of the Act that an order under that section may not require any particular steps to be taken unless they are steps which can be required to be taken by way of obtaining evidence for the purposes of civil proceedings in the court making the order , i.e. , the High Court . |
| 27 | Knowing these devices for narrowing down contextual possibilities does not imply that one can judge how best to act upon such knowledge , how much can be left to be inferred from context , how much needs to be made grammatically explicit . |
| 28 | So I have to make decisions as I go along as to which points need to be spelled out , which of them can be stated sparely , or which of them do not need to be mentioned at all but can be left to be inferred . |
| 29 | Buxtehude has set out to show that if cyclists can be persuaded to be disciplined , if pedestrians can be more tolerant and if the police will be more supportive then mixing the modes is possible . |
| 30 | A certain area of the water surface can be allowed to be covered over by floating plants , especially if certain plants preferring shade or poor light conditions are grown . |