Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] can be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's excellent for the size of car , conveniently shaped and the back seat splits or can be removed entirely . |
| 2 | Information skills classes ( run by the librarian ) can include the use of databases as part of normal search procedures and the creation of small specialist databases can be part of the course or can be made in advance for specific topics . |
| 3 | These beds can be used to produce salad crops and fresh herbs or can be used as nursery beds for self-raised perennials and shrubs until they 're sufficiently well-established to be planted out . |
| 4 | Some spotlights have a magnetic backplate so that they can be attached to any surface and pointed in any direction or can be set to swivel around inside a container . |
| 5 | This is certainly a limitation of windstopper over microfibres or pertex coverings , which have some rain resistance or can be treated with a water repellent . |
| 6 | Furthermore , this jack can deliver two different pickup signals or can be adapted to provide on/off switching when used with battery-powered circuits . |
| 7 | The hood is designed to fit in with standard kitchen units or can be fitted on its own over a freestanding cooker and is available in white or brown . |
| 8 | The Foyer on the ground floor of the Chesham Building offers suitable space for small exhibitions and poster sessions or can be used for registration purposes . |
| 9 | Instead of seeking opportunities to come clean , being realistic and perceptive about when and to whom to make an ‘ advance ’ , and taking risks that can be recouped , self-doubt floods the whole question with anxiety , and replaces a balanced point of view with crude prejudices and images of disaster . |
| 10 | The process demonstrates both response to external pressure and the action that can be taken between companies which are both based in industrialised ( and therefore interdependent ) countries . |
| 11 | Game theory , in general , postulates a set of ‘ players ’ ( the ‘ interested parties ’ , be they individuals or groups ) , each of whom has a set of strategies ; strategies meaning courses of action that can be taken , which may be conditional on moves made by the others . |
| 12 | I support the Bill , because anything that can add to the action that can be taken against car thieves is welcome . |
| 13 | If the seller does not fulfil this task , the buyer 's right to cancel is extended indefinitely or until he takes action that can be construed as accepting the agreement . |
| 14 | As many parasites occupy more than one environment during their life-cycles , they must possess suites of characteristics that can be expressed at the proper time . |
| 15 | The fabliaux do , however , maintain a number of prominent characteristics that can be called " realistic " . |
| 16 | Other complex aptitudes that can be measured in tests are : |
| 17 | Includes the history of the safari , methods of travelling , nine classic areas to visit and the animals that can be seen . |
| 18 | These figures vary , as they are bound to do , with differences in types of books stocked , binding policies , local circumstances , and — especially — the size of local bookfunds and therefore the minimum physical standard of stock that can be fixed pragmatically by each authority . |
| 19 | Appeal to ecclesiastical censure as a way of explaining the misfortunes of scientific theories is a card that can be overplayed . |
| 20 | Each box comes bundled with MS-DOS and Microsoft Corp Windows , but options include an on-board 50-pin SCSI 2 host adaptor and cable for extra storage or use of CD-ROM for multimedia applications ; and a network card that can be plugged into a 16-bit network adaptor socket . |
| 21 | 1.1 The overall goal of this investigation is to argue that there is a very great deal that can be said , that has not yet been said , about the semantic value of fundamental syntactic relations . |
| 22 | Most important , the formal statistical reasoning that can be applied to a-priori hypotheses is strictly invalid for exploratory analysis . |
| 23 | The discussion so far has focused on the sociolinguistics of dialect-divergence and the methods that can be used in order to establish in-group norms of language use that are not previously part of the knowledge of the investigator . |
| 24 | Compiling a directory of employers willing to employ Downs school leavers provides the framework for clarifying the feasibility and methods that can be used in a further , more substantial research contribution . |
| 25 | If you 've never had a day 's illness in your life , it 's hard to imagine the financial disruption that can be caused by sudden hospitalisation . |
| 26 | The incomplete , sluggish and/or mistaken adjustments to changing economic signals that can be found in the Keynesian and monetarist short-run situations are removed from the new classical world by economic agents ' incentives and their ability to use full information to adjust to any new configuration of nominal variables as rapidly as possible . |
| 27 | I shall go into greater detail than my right hon. and learned Friend the Member for Monklands , East had a chance to do on the kinds of investment that can be produced , rather than the consumption boom which the Chancellor hopes for . |
| 28 | Short of drastic action , to split up a major firm ( as in the AT&T case in the US ( Alcoa , United Shoe , AT&T , and IBM ) or to order divestment ( as in Supply of Beer , 1989 ) , the remedies that can be applied are invariably weak . |
| 29 | Furniture requires finishes that can be made perfectly smooth to the touch and that can be brought to a mirror-like gloss , if required . |
| 30 | This is not an allegation that can be levelled at Frank Tipler , a cosmologist at Tulane University in Indiana . |