Example sentences of "[noun pl] can be [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now we have to be careful with the word ‘ redemptive ’ because in a final way only Christ 's sufferings can be deemed truly redemptive ; but I feel that we can make guarded use of the term . |
| 2 | Michael Kelly , the director whose company is responsible for Celtic 's public relations , yesterday confirmed that the manager has been asked to report back to the board with his observations on how the club 's performances can be improved . |
| 3 | He is convinced everybody needs a clear yardstick against which performances can be judged . |
| 4 | Most written languages have an alphabet , and in English everyone is familiar with the 26 letters from which many thousands of words can be constructed , each having a dictionary definition to help the process of communicating . |
| 5 | The crucial middle ground — the exploration of how words can be manipulated on paper and the effects such manipulation can achieve — may be seriously neglected . |
| 6 | Words which are orthographically regular have at least three routes : the GPC route which uses orthographic components to derive their phonological correlates the lexical route which uses the visual representation of the word to access meaning before generating the pronunciation ; and Glushko 's ( 1979 ) " analogy " route whereby words can be pronounced in the same way as their orthographic associates . |
| 7 | Badly formed characters and even illegible words can be understood in context because human readers use their knowledge of language and the world to guide their processing . |
| 8 | This computer programme comes with FINDPHONE and can be applied to the same data to select different types of data for different grammatical purposes , e.g. all words can be extracted and put in a separate file to add to your lexicon . |
| 9 | For example , as in HWIM , both phonological variations within words and across words can be represented . |
| 10 | Target words can be matched exactly as spelt or phonetically . |
| 11 | ‘ Foreign ’ words can be heard but meaning can not be attached to them ; they can not be interpreted . |
| 12 | Before words can be exchanged , however , they sup up and slip off to some other pub . |
| 13 | Texts are varied systematically and types of finger movement and speeds on target words can be compared for the different demands made on the reader . |
| 14 | If we want to paint a big choral canvas , words can be repeated without any fear of being repetitious , or we can use whole sentences or sections several times over . |
| 15 | These words can be re-grouped according to the syntactic categories of noun , verb , adjective and adverb . |
| 16 | Each group has a word such as ‘ measurements ’ or ‘ recommendations ’ , and the object is to see how many other words can be made out of this . |
| 17 | These cause trouble because often the speller does not recognise that words can be made up of different bits brought together . |
| 18 | A few words can be said by a relative or friend , or , if there is no wish for a religious ceremony , a non-religious one can be planned . |
| 19 | Words can be split either according to a set of pre-defined rules or from a table of correct hyphenations but in both cases ensure that English English is being used rather than American . |
| 20 | It is desirable therefore to devise an indexing system , by which words can be related to some other data structure that is more easily processed and stored . |
| 21 | She argues that there are good reasons for supposing that variables such as frequency , concreteness and prior priming — all of which influence the speed with which individual words can be accessed ( see Chapter 6 ) — will affect sentence production . |
| 22 | But leaving that aside , as I have already explained , the court will not be ‘ hearing and determining the swap cases together ’ and I do not think those words can be stretched so as to include the present procedural arrangements . |
| 23 | Indeed , words can be used which will often hide the very feelings which are at the root of the individual 's problems , and which represent the reality of their emotional lives . |
| 24 | This form of pre-verbal communication may then provide a highly supportive context for the child to interpret adult speech and actively to test her own hypotheses about how words can be used to assist communication . |
| 25 | Since discourse unfolds in time , it seems natural that time-deictic words can be used to refer to portions of the discourse ; thus analogously to last week and next Thursday , we have in the last paragraph and in the next Chapter . |
| 26 | Store chips come in two forms ; normal read/write store ( usually called RAM , for random-access memory ) and read-only store or ROM ( for read-only memory ) , where the contents of individual words can be read but not written . |
| 27 | These beginnings , or prefixes , are checked against a lexicon , which is constructed in such a way that prefixes which will not produce legal words can be identified and pruned from the list . |
| 28 | For context , the problem is to explain how contextually anomalous words can be identified ( e.g. , Norris , 1981 ) … |
| 29 | This is especially so for handwriting , when not only spelling errors , but also illegible words can be deduced from the context . |
| 30 | Burr states that suffixed forms of words can be derived by rule . |