Example sentences of "[adv] can be [verb] " in BNC.

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1 Well Boris Yeltsin this morning has said that he wants a veto over the use of nuclear weapons and about ninety percent of which I think are on Russian soil , that perhaps can be interpreted , additional safeguard to have another veto .
2 Much can be done in-house to boost morale .
3 Much can be done to increase mobility and to ease pain and discomfort .
4 However , much can be done by the teachers themselves at very little cost to the department .
5 But with compatible partners , much can be done , and I believe increasingly that there will be more compatibility when the practice of local accountability conforms with the theory .
6 The arbiter of taste in this instance has to be parents themselves , and much can be done to avoid unhappy experiences from the outset by determining preferences and approaches to the care of your child when your childminding arrangement begins .
7 Although some expense may be involved , much can be done by the class teacher in the day-to-day management of the classroom .
8 While it is true that the spores can easily hop over the garden fence , and there is not a lot to be done about sources of infection further along the road , much can be done by being entirely ruthless in cleaning up your fallen leaves and rose debris .
9 As Sir Patrick Geddes , an early sociologist , commented in 1904 : ‘ Whether , under favourable circumstances and the rare public spirit of private owners , much can be done , or to any wide extent , so long as absolute individual ownership in land and ground values is allowed , seems to me very doubtful . ’
10 But much can be done to teach new music by one person using voice and gesture alone .
11 Stephenson thinks that unless there are no informal carers ( in which case providing continuous support at home is much more expensive than residential care ) much can be done to keep even very dependent people at home .
12 But much can be done with the interpretation . ’
13 But because such systems are modular , much can be done with simple commands .
14 Although that has meant that not much can be done , in principle it is a good idea in that it forces underwater sites to compete with land sites for funding , and tends to keep the attention on the point that it is archaeology we are talking about .
15 Sometimes there is no coherent pattern in a time series and not much can be done by way of analysis other than elementary smoothing .
16 Not all environmental improvement , however , requires large expenditure and much can be done by careful design and painstaking attention to the detail of operations .
17 Much can be discerned simply by the way the burial ground is laid out .
18 Much can be gained by assessing the way a candidate puts him/herself .
19 Much can be gained by assessing the way a candidate puts him/herself forward in his or her own paper — ie good presentation .
20 As we have learned elsewhere , much can be gained by examining residuals , here called the rough .
21 Much can be gained from the openness of communication and willingness to learn from others
22 Much can be gained from the openness of communication and willingness to learn from others .
23 It is doubtful whether much can be gained by trying to achieve any greater precision than that suggested in the definitions above .
24 As with the best coffee-table books , much can be gained simply by browsing through the photographs and their informative captions .
25 Most drainage schemes should have some regard for the importance to wildlife of these areas , and much can be achieved on quite small areas .
26 Used on their own as a research method they have limitations but , within these , much can be achieved .
27 Much can be achieved within present resources by doing things differently ( sometimes radically so ) .
28 All were answered at length in a meticulous hand and , from a closer study of these letters , much can be learned of this gardener who was to be acknowledged as the greatest of his time .
29 So much can be learned by watching and copying .
30 Much can be learned simply by visiting other schools , seeing teachers and other professionals at work in different settings and exchanging ideas and experiences .
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