Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] can be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | an Aux(iliary) Input ( also a stereo 3.5 mm socket ) connects a cassette player to the GX-7 , the guitar output is mixed in and can be heard via a pair of Walkman headphones connected to the Out , the guitar appearing at the centre of the stereo image . |
| 2 | Macnicol shows that the roots of these views lie deeper and can be found in the social debates of the past one hundred years . |
| 3 | ‘ Much as can be expected . ’ |
| 4 | Further exemptions and detailed information on the above exemptions are contained in the FSA and in the later Statutory Instruments referred to above and can be obtained from CFSU , London . |
| 5 | This structure is followed in the example given above and can be broken down as follows : If after the Seller has given the Buyer notice that the goods are ready for collection [ case ] , the Buyer fails to collect the goods within seven days [ condition ] , the Seller [ subject ] may make arrangements for the storage of the goods [ action ] and the Buyer shall reimburse the Seller all costs and charges incurred as a result of such storage . |
| 6 | It is now occupied by an engineering company , and is not open to the public , but its most interesting feature is outside and can be seen from beside the millstream . |
| 7 | Thus , and again for example , the measure of velocity v=d/t can be instantiated in a number of ways , in car speedometers , lasers bounced off the moon , radar , inertial navigation , astrolabes , etc. and can be expressed in various kinds of ratio scales translatable one into the other , such as feet per second , miles per hour , metres per second , and so on . |
| 8 | On the individual level , a decision to adopt the Second Choice , would introduce the overriding need for two new elements in human development , ( a ) , personal self-control , and ( b ) , the requirement to develop a response to the emotions which does not damage , more than can be avoided , the happiness of others . |
| 9 | At Greenwich Pier , the last surviving sailing clipper , Cutty Sark , is moored permanently and can be visited . |
| 10 | Initial goals should be reached at the end of the fifth year ( 16+ ) but the Compact entitlement stays with students permanently and can be redeemed whenever they leave full-time education . |
| 11 | The calves grow quickly and can be taken to substantial weights without becoming too fat , providing prime beef . |
| 12 | LM observation can be carried out rapidly and can be used to scan slides and select good cells for further analysis in the EM . |
| 13 | Faxes can be saved in order to be printed later or can be sent to other system subscribers — again using the keypad on a touch tone phone . |
| 14 | Thus we have shown that for each m the product of n elements unc can be defined unambiguously and can be denoted by unc without brackets . |
| 15 | It is an effective method especially if the charge affects daily life so that the trained group can be seen to operate differently and can be asked for advice frequently . |
| 16 | To refit a wheel , the tyre is picked up and can be rotated on the pivoting platform to re-align the holes to the studs . |
| 17 | Implicit links have proved to be difficult for the machine to locate automatically but can be entered manually by the user in most hyper-text systems and in small-scale applications can provide very rich structures . |
| 18 | But they are brought together , in successive books , by the force of this preoccupation , and the reader has to make what he can of the resemblance between two figures quite remote from one another in any coarser understanding of the matter , to do this while adjusting his sight to a vista of copycats , impostors and successive interpretations — a vista which is far from unfamiliar now and can be caught , for instance , in the productions and reproductions of contemporary literary theory . |
| 19 | OUP expect to establish with the supplier the criteria which will be used to determine whether the system functions correctly and can be accepted by OUP . |
| 20 | Gene mutations occur spontaneously and can be induced by mutagenic agents such has high temperature , mustard gas , and radiation . |
| 21 | As far back as can be traced it has been a village of yeomen , small independent farmers , and never since medieval times an estate village ruled by one big landowner , though for a period in the 18th and 19th centuries the Grimston family of Kilnwick and later the Hothams of South Dalton acquired some farms . |
| 22 | The British picture is different ; rapes , robbery and assault are predominantly intra-racial as far as can be analysed , except for racial attacks on blacks . |
| 23 | The original document no longer exists , as far as can be determined , but in November 1948 David Stirling wrote a confidential memorandum on the origins of the regiment he founded , on which much of the following section is based . |
| 24 | Husameddin 's argument , moreover , ignores the facts that Shams al-Din is known to have been part of Molla Fenari 's name but not , so far as can be discovered , of that of his son and that the son was regularly referred to as Mehmed Sah whereas it is not known that Molla Fenari ever was . |
| 25 | States that ‘ the essential characteristics of Green Belts is ( sic ) their permanence and their protection must be maintained as far as can be seen ahead ’ . |
| 26 | Suppose also that it is somehow possible to place it in a space capsule in which it can survive , so far as can be seen , for ever , without any external aid . |
| 27 | As far as can be seen , they were not involved in their lord 's personal life . |
| 28 | He never developed a major following there — even , as far as can be seen , in the early 1470s when there was still a possibility that he might take on a political role . |
| 29 | Penda 's invasion of the territory of the eastern Angles in 635/6 or 636/7 , when he slew in battle both King Ecgric and the ex-king , Sigeberht , who had been brought out of his monastery to lead the army with Ecgric ( HE 111 , 18 ) , terminated , as far as can be seen , the exercise of royal power among the eastern Angles by the direct descendants of Raedwald ( see Appendix , Fig. 5 ) , and made the repression of Penda 's ambition imperative if Oswald were to reconstruct the paramount position which had been Eadwine 's . |
| 30 | It may be simply that no document has survived in which Aethelberht was required to acknowledge Aethelbald as his overlord , but so far as can be seen there was no restriction on the power of the Kentish king to grant land to whomsoever he wished . |