Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] can be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The proposal that Hartle and I made can be paraphrased as : The boundary condition of the universe is that it has no boundary . |
| 2 | An example of what I mean can be found in Strathclyde , where in every division of the police force there is a well-established female and child unit , staffed principally by female officers who are well trained and highly experienced in interviewing skills and techniques in cases involving sexual assault , child abuse and/or sexual abuse . |
| 3 | The content of what I say can be analysed , commented on , communicated to third parties . |
| 4 | This work will set the tone for the new structure , and I hope can be completed well within two months . |
| 5 | The clearest and most sophisticated expositions of secularisation that I know can be found in Martin ( 1978 ) and Dobbelaere ( 1981 ) . |
| 6 | Evidence that there was a Borsholder here I believe can be derived from Borseholders Wood , a name that I think has been corrupted from Borsholder . |
| 7 | Erm the there is something which I suppose can be said about what you should do , if you 're an N F and a , and a , an a dominant intuitive . |
| 8 | When I first became involved in what I suppose can be called the politics of conservation , I was swift to argue that farmers are the essential inhabitants of the countryside , and not least of the most beautiful parts of the countryside . |
| 9 | Anthony Trollope possessed great talent which I think can be seen clearly in ‘ Barchester Towers ’ and ‘ The Last Chronicle of Barset ’ . |
| 10 | The last two lines I think can be read in more than one way . |
| 11 | Essentially it adds to measures in various statutes , notably in the Highways Act 1980 — covering England and Wales — and the Roads ( Scotland ) Act 1984 , so that traffic-calming techniques of the sort that I outlined can be constructed by highway and road authorities . |
| 12 | Many of his utterances were , however , sermon commonplaces , to which parallels can be found in other contemporary preaching . |
| 13 | There is a limited amount of money available for these payments , so social fund officers have to look at the needs of all those who apply for help and decide which needs can be met . |
| 14 | Most institutions offer an official life trajectory in terms of which honour can be acquired and reputation gained . |
| 15 | Link Officers will identify interest and seek views on the way in which support can be implemented . |
| 16 | I hope I have demonstrated some of the variety of ways in which Credits can be used and as I write perhaps some genius is thinking up yet another variation to deal with a particular problem . |
| 17 | The only basis on which costs can be awarded is that a party has acted ‘ frivolously , vexatiously or otherwise unreasonably ’ . |
| 18 | The great change which followed can be attributed partly to changes in social beliefs and attitudes in the 1950s and 1960s , and partly to the success of three strands of investigation , which began more or less independently but soon converged . |
| 19 | What I hope to have shown , which is consistent with a certain tentativeness about what has been said , and with incompleteness , is that we do have a grasp of both dependent and independent conditionals , which grasp can be clarified and which gives to us an explicit understanding of the seven causal connections that were set out . |
| 20 | This chapter briefly surveys the nature of user needs and the factors which bear upon use , and then attempts to summarize the methods by which use can be studied and analysed . |
| 21 | A characteristic of subdivision is an attribute or property which all concepts in a given facet have in common and by which isolates can be grouped . |
| 22 | The sorts of correlation which exist can be illustrated by considering presuppositions . |
| 23 | There are many ways in which help can be obtained for those who are incontinent . |
| 24 | The role of the lawyer or adviser in taking the initiative in identifying problems with which help can be provided becomes important , and it is in this type of work that the law centres have been particularly successful . |
| 25 | In addition , it is normal to put a maximum period during which claims can be made — usually six or seven years for taxation , since that is the normal limitation period , and two to three years for other warranties ; but this obviously needs to be looked at in each case in the light of particular facts , warranties , assets and liabilities . |
| 26 | 4 is devoted to the consideration of polymers as heterogenous materials , or composites since , except for amorphous polymers , most polymers which crystallize can be considered as at least two-phrase materials . |
| 27 | They can be bare records of numbers and events or they can be windows on a living school and most heads will be able to think of ways in which reports can be used to enrich governor perceptions , prompt good questions and solicit positive advice and support as soon as they have made a breakthrough into a sense of their responsibility for creating a favourable climate . |
| 28 | Nor did we reflect on the way in which work can be used by some people as a substitute for living an authentic life . |
| 29 | One part , the part that writes , that creates something new , requires a protected private space , a ‘ dark backward abysm ’ out of which daydreams can be called up in security . |
| 30 | It is sometimes supposed , by those who do allow that consciousness is a reality not caught by any of the doctrines we have considered , that none the less nothing enlightening can be said of it . |