Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] can be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Owners of land so registered can be directed by the secretary of state to dispose of it . |
| 2 | Ministers are more subtle , describing the review as ‘ seeking to identify areas where better targeting can be achieved or from which the public sector can withdraw altogether . ’ |
| 3 | What has to be decided is which non-meanings may be significantly regarded as existing " in their own right " , and which can not be so regarded ; what conditions must be fulfilled before a claim that a given topic does so exist can be accepted as meaningful ? |
| 4 | Just as missiles can be guided from aircraft that did not launch them , so jamming can be done by someone else on the bomber 's behalf ; division of labour pays off in battles , too . |
| 5 | If judges carry out their duty of assessing damages for non-economic loss in the money of the day at the date of the trial — and this is a rule of practice that judges are required to follow , not a guideline from which they have a discretion to depart if there are special circumstances that justify their doing so — there are two routes by which the judge 's task of arriving at the appropriate conventional rate of interest to be applied to the damages so assessed can be approached . |
| 6 | Liquids lie on protected carpets rather than soak in , so spills can be blotted up quite easily . |
| 7 | … Once this can be done , the ‘ model ’ of the market so created can be manipulated in order to try to assess the likely effect of different levels of advertising expenditure or different patterns of spending — heavy bursts or lighter-weight ‘ drip ’ patterns for example — on sales . |
| 8 | Commenting on ( 167a ) and ( 167b ) , he observes that only oblige can be followed by a " resultative structure " , whereas make " supposes a concomitance between causation and the actualization of the effect being caused , which forces the latter to refer to the operation itself rather than to the state which results from it " . |
| 9 | Whether or not all meaning can be made explicit in the text is perhaps less critical than the belief that it can and that making it so is a valid scientific enterprise . |
| 10 | Most of the problems must therefore have been solved in the past and the experience thus gathered can be reapplied with small variations . |
| 11 | How that responsibility is best discharged can be decided only by the person concerned . |
| 12 | The earlier text thus revealed can be made more legible by a program that enhances the contrast , picking out the Gothic letters from the surrounding gloom . |
| 13 | Whether the material thus collected can be summarised , and whether all those on the deciding authority must possess all the papers will depend on the nature of the function being performed and the language of the enabling statute . |
| 14 | The fact that he did not stop can be explained or whichever part of this point is applicable . |
| 15 | The use of anthropology which we have already noted can be called historical . |
| 16 | Blindness can be ascertained , the degree to which a person suffers from loss of hearing can be measured , and the extent to which an injury or disease is physically disabling can be assessed in a fairly precise manner . |
| 17 | They will focus on how best use can be made of open spaces in and around housing estates , roads and the transport network , housing and schools . |
| 18 | Any business that operates within the investment arena that is not authorised can be punished by imprisonment or fines . |
| 19 | Normally the growing child overcomes these neuroses spontaneously ; those which are not overcome can be cleared up later in psychoanalysis . |
| 20 | The data thus gained can be assembled under separate headings for each product as follows : |
| 21 | More timid children who are just watching can be encouraged to remember who went into the tunnel first and watch for them coming out again . |
| 22 | The impression just described can be related moreover to the before/after idea which to has been seen to express in its other uses . |
| 23 | Operators which do not commute can be illustrated by considering the action of two polarisers P , and whose optical axes make an angle d with each other . |
| 24 | Ideally , an approach is required which will narrow the focus of the " act of identity " in such a way that individual choices like the one just mentioned can be seen as part of systematic behaviour patterns which are simultaneously typical of speakers ' own fictive speech communities and conditioned by the immediate context of the interaction in which they occur . |
| 25 | Actually all the doubts just mentioned can be cleared up by the use of one word , though it is a word never used in The Lord of the Rings . |
| 26 | Leotards are made to order , so small children and extra outsizes can be accommodated as well as any variation of sleeve length , neck or panel inset ( it would probably be best to telephone the more outrageous requests ) |
| 27 | If you start as an associate student , the courses you successfully complete can be counted towards a degree should you choose to transfer to the undergraduate programme . |
| 28 | Things once done can be undone . |
| 29 | This is not a serious problem and once detected can be rectified easily , by replacing the faulty component . |
| 30 | The conditions under which these several perceptions are differentially elicited can be studied by the technique of ‘ apparent movement ’ , wherein two stimuli or input-arrays are presented successively to the visual system and subjects are asked to report what they see . |