Example sentences of "[noun pl] can be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sexual images can be about liberation , which is why the moral Right wants to ban them . |
| 2 | The enthusiasm for partnership by individual secondary schools can be of great advantage to primary schools and their pupils . |
| 3 | In injuries and accidents , the injury remedies can be of great value , and even when surgery is indicated they can be helpful in shortening the post-operative period and in speeding up the recovery process . |
| 4 | With older , annular-type heaters , the tappings can be on opposite sides of the cylinder . |
| 5 | Some LEAs are in the process of major reorganization themselves , so that heads can be on the receiving end of a stream of directives and initiatives that contradict and countermand each other quicker than they can be assimilated . |
| 6 | When considering the effect of outside influences , two aspects can be of crucial importance . |
| 7 | Similarly , extensive pastures can be at some distance , since animals can be walked there and kept there for some time by herdsmen . |
| 8 | The emotional relationships can be of aggression , depression and , most of all , schizoid withdrawal . |
| 9 | Control formats based on escape sequences can be of indefinite length , and page description languages can be extremely powerful . |
| 10 | Entries can be on a postcard laid out in the manner of the entry coupon . |
| 11 | Entries can be on a postcard laid out in the manner of the coupon . |
| 12 | Subcutaneous injections can be in the scruff of the neck close to the handler 's thumb while holding the mouse firmly on a surface that it can grasp . |
| 13 | And it has installed control software to ensure that engineers can be on site in four hours if necessary . |
| 14 | Prospecting licences can be for up to 250 km² ; for an initial period of two years , renewable for a further two years at the discretion of the Department . |
| 15 | Perhaps the best way of illustrating just how this operates in practice and how far-reaching its effects can be in terms of building up the involvement of an entire school community in a philosophy and policy for the future is to show what has happened in one Lincolnshire school . |
| 16 | PASSIONS run high when the subject of animal rights is raised ; so high that the warring factions can be at odds even over ownership of key metaphors in the argument . |
| 17 | The main trunk lines can be of optical fibre and the secondary links of coaxial cable , but this is not an essential feature of the switched-star system . |
| 18 | The statements can be from other children in the class or they might be standard scientific explanations . |
| 19 | Network DDE is much the same except the connected applications can be on physically different computers on the network . |
| 20 | Applications can be like teaching machines , coaxing users to the right choices without penalties , says Sippl . |
| 21 | Applications can be like teaching machines , coaxing users to the right choices without penalties , says Sippl . |
| 22 | Because nothing can travel faster than light , an object that can vary its output of energy within a period of a few days can be at best a few light-days across . |
| 23 | Appeals can be by way of a hearing or by written representation . |
| 24 | On any given strand , the bases can be in any order , but there are rules governing the pairing between the bases on the one strand and those on the other ; adenine always pairs with thymine , and guanine with cytosine . |
| 25 | The package index is not a precision tool but in practice variations between packages can be in the order of 2–300 per cent so the differences are likely to exceed percentage error . |
| 26 | In this context , the linguist 's proclamation of the functional equality of all varieties can be of little help . |
| 27 | Grandparents can be of special help to a child who feels — mistakenly or not — that he or she is the odd one out or a failure compared to the others in the family . |
| 28 | ft provides an invaluable example of the way in which soft systems ideas can be of benefit to MS professionals and other analysts , and , in turn , to those organisations that make use of their services . |
| 29 | Initial costs can be between £¼ and £½ million . |
| 30 | By contrast , a small saving in purchasing costs can be worth considerably more in terms of equivalent sales value . |