Example sentences of "and [adj] can be [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All that matters is to educate the local predators , and that can be done with different colours in different places . |
| 2 | We need to attract and retain members and that can be done with information which is very powerful . |
| 3 | It will be possible to divert the A forty traffic away from the Green Road Roundabout along the M forty extension out to Wendlebury and then back down the new dual carriageway A forty three to rejoin the A forty near to Pear Tree , and that can be done from January ninety ninety one without waiting another seven or eight years for a Barton by-pass . |
| 4 | Needs to be softer , needs to be softer and that can be done by using a a diffuser over the light , using an umbrella , any way that you can soften , like using a reflector , all kinds of things to do . |
| 5 | This for Lévi-Strauss is tied up with the business of ‘ science ’ , which aims to discover truths that are universal and that can be seen to be a product of their method . |
| 6 | I say again that in Northern Ireland the Housing Executive has spent a great deal more per capita than is the case elsewhere and that can be seen by anyone who visits public sector housing in Northern Ireland . |
| 7 | It 's very thick on the outside but almost , you can almost see through some of the bone in the base there and that can be caused by as , a blow on the head if it 's the bolt of the erm brain that 's caused , got the injury , or from the base of skull is usually caused by er landing on your feet from heights , and |
| 8 | I make a plea for the Government to consider a matter of urgency , either through independent research or their own officers , finding a long-term method of achieving a much more comprehensible system that is easy to use and that can be understood by ordinary people . |
| 9 | Now , the , there , it appears that there 's a whole variety of phenomena er which suggests that sentence divides up in this way and that can be explained on hypothesis we just call such a division a constituent , and then we stipulate that , as certain operations can only apply to constituents . |
| 10 | Lyons ( 1977a : 669 ) inclines to a view that , since place-deictic terms like this and that can be used in a temporal sense ( especially to refer to proximal and distal parts of an unfolding discourse ) , place deixis is more fundamental than time deixis . |
| 11 | Furniture requires finishes that can be made perfectly smooth to the touch and that can be brought to a mirror-like gloss , if required . |
| 12 | What is more , there is a great deal of empirical evidence ( amassed over many years ) suggesting that human perception is the result of a non-introspectible process of construction , a process that takes a measurable amount of time and that can be interfered with in specific ways . |
| 13 | But it is of great interest , because it demonstrates a familiar mode of argumentation that has been more widely used in historical descriptions and that can be found in many places , and I shall comment on a similar case in ME below . |
| 14 | They are available from about £320 and some can be fitted with decor panels to match the rest of your kitchen . |
| 15 | There are several Cepheids well within binocular range , and some can be followed throughout their variations with the naked eye : Eta Aquilæ , Zeta Geminorum and Beta Doradûs , for example . |
| 16 | If what has been hypothesised so far is true , much of the variation in linguistic interactions which is not explicable in terms of grammatical or phonological conditioning can be accounted for by changes of footing , involving a switch from one ( linguistic ) persona to another ; some can be accounted for by the speaker 's failure to identify perfectly the speech patterns of the prototypes of the personas which s/he seeks to animate at a particular time ; and some can be accounted for by the speaker 's imperfect ability to reproduce those speech patterns which s/he has identified . |
| 17 | FIL file creation time , and some can be changed with immediate effect by stopping the process , editing the parameter and restarting the process . |
| 18 | WATER TANKS AND PIPES Insulating water tanks is the next job and this can be done with special padded material , secured in place by wire , or with special ready-made padded jackets , or , if you have a standard-sized water tank , with special pre-cut packs of sheet insulation that are placed around the tank and secured with tape or wire . |
| 19 | Ideally , the diagnosis should be confirmed before treatment , and this can be done with capillary blood glucose test sticks . |
| 20 | Far better to make sure that the inferences are correct , and this can be done by ensuring that the observer and the observed are thinking together , not in opposition . |
| 21 | There are also times when we need to ensure that we understand what is being said , and this can be done by asking simple questions or making comments which help elucidate or develop what the counsellee is saying , such as , ‘ So you think that … ’ , or ‘ You mean that … ‘ , or even ‘ I 'm not sure that I follow what you mean … |
| 22 | In order to disaggregate clusters of inside cells of ICMs it is necessary to decompact the aggregates first and this can be done by a 20-min incubation in warm Ca2+-depleted M2 + BSA or M2 + BSA containing 0.5 μg/ml CCD . |
| 23 | The secret is to arrange the stripes so that they do not appear to be in regular order and this can be done in a number of ways . |
| 24 | Secondary encopresis Children 's bowel control may have relapsed in response to a stressful event like the birth of a baby , a traumatic separation or loss , and this can be seen as a regression to an earlier level of emotional development . |
| 25 | The concept of exchange has often been used to describe support in families , and this can be seen as expression of mutual self-interest . |
| 26 | The existence of the Commissioner has clearly had an impact on the protection of rights of trade union members , and this can be seen upon examination of the figures produced by the Commissioner which analyse her work . |
| 27 | It has assumed " the system as before " , but with trimmings , and this can be seen in the very use of the phrase " audio-visual aids " , a term which presupposes a type of use , as an adjunct , an added extra , a novel way of doing the same thing . |
| 28 | Moreover , the lunar seismic signals were of a very different nature from those seen in the Earth , and this can be explained by the prevalence of a fragmented medium in the outer regions of the Moon . |
| 29 | Osbern records the presence of royal housecarls to prevent interference by the Londoners , and this can be fitted into a credible historical context of popular hostility to the Danes in the city , arising from the fighting and sieges of Æthelred 's time , the heavy taxation of 1018 , and the probability that Cnut found it prudent to maintain a garrison there . |
| 30 | In problem 1 , we want and this can be ensured by imposing . |