Example sentences of "can be [vb pp] [adj] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Vitamin C This vitamin is present in fresh fruit , particularly orange and grapefruit , and vegetables , including new potatoes , but it can be rendered useless by long storage or over-cooking . |
| 2 | Bent DNA can be detected due to anomalous migration in polyacrylamide gels since bent DNA fragments migrate more slowly than linear fragments of the same size . |
| 3 | Fred Sedgwick shows how poetry can be made accessible to diverse groups of children of primary school age . |
| 4 | Alternatively the National and Regional Coaching Centres have supplies which can be made available to local or district associations of governing bodies . |
| 5 | It is concerned with the forms energy can take , how efficiently it can be used and to what extent energy can be made available for useful work . |
| 6 | The fact is that even if significant quantities of material can be made available from super quarries and recycling ( both of which cause their own environmental problems ) the environment and communities of Wales are facing a dramatic and unsustainable burden from aggregates provision in the years ahead . |
| 7 | The fact is that even if significant quantities of material can be made available from super quarries and recycling ( both of which cause their own environmental problems ) the environment and communities of Wales are facing a dramatic and unsustainable burden from aggregates provision in the years ahead . |
| 8 | Many deficiencies can be made good from alternative sources : time and again the Valor Ecclesiasticus , compiled barely a decade later , gives virtually the same values as the survey for Church properties . |
| 9 | A mutual survival strategy , involving the control of conflict through compromise , can be made acceptable in varying degrees to all concerned . |
| 10 | Its ability to trap dust , the ease with which stale and fresh foam can be kept separate without mutual diffusion , and the barriers it offers to the spread of flame or explosion , are all points in its favour . |
| 11 | When the extremities are warm , the whole body can be kept warm with light clothing . |
| 12 | I would not wish here to be thought to be saying more than I am saying : my phrasing of the proposition is intended to stress the negotiation by which meanings are shared among us — not to presuppose some innate psycholinguistic stratum which can be laid bare by mere exposure to the ebb and flow of the dialectic . |
| 13 | The timing of dissolution , alteration and replacement can be established relative to other diagenetic events . |
| 14 | However the settlement leaves open the question whether member States can be found liable under international law for the debts of an organisation which has entered into transactions in its own name . |
| 15 | Now , locations can be specified relative to other objects or fixed reference points , as in : ( 66 ) The station is two hundred yards from the cathedral ( 67 ) Kabul lies at latitude 34 degrees , longitude 7° degrees Alternatively , they can be deictically specified relative to the location of participants at the time of speaking ( CT ) , as in ( 68 ) It 's two hundred yards away ( 69 ) Kabul is four hundred miles West of here In either case it is likely that units of measurement , or descriptions of direction and location , will have to be used , and in that case place deixis comes to interact in complex ways with the non-deictic organization of space ( see Leech , 1969 ; Fillmore , 1975 : 16-28 ; Lyons , 1977a : 69Off ; and references therein ) . |
| 16 | From within the farm , organic matter can be returned direct by grazing animals ; as liquid slurry from dairy cattle sheds ; as raw or rotted farmyard manure ( FYM ) consisting of dung , urine , and bedding ; as rough or fine compost ; as a specially grown green manure crop ploughed in ; or as a grass ley . |
| 17 | Plant oils — sunflower , rape , soy , etc — can be used direct in slightly-modified diesel engines or mixed with conventional fuel . |
| 18 | It can be used wet into dry paint or wet into wet , although once it is dry it is longer than for other types of paint , being anything from a day to a week depending on the colour . |
| 19 | It can be used wet into dry paint or wet into wet , although once it is dry it is longer than for other types of paint , being anything from a day to a week depending on the colour . |
| 20 | In the five years since this judgment , Parliament has shown little interest , although the Labour Party has endorsed a proposal that those in the distribution business should be under a legal obligation to supply any publication requested by their customers — a reform which would require abolition of the rule that distributors can be held responsible for particular defamations of which they have no knowledge but which are nonetheless contained in libel-prone publications . |