Example sentences of "[verb] can be [verb] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 If we do not know about something or do not realise what is addressed can be understood in another manner or seen through another lens , it skews our viewpoint ; it limits our options ; it clouds our perspective .
2 Admittedly men produce er , erm , sex cells all the time , but again , there 's no evidence whatsoever to suggest that any experience a man has can be copied into his genes as it were .
3 However the process of dying can be marred by guilt and rejection .
4 If the answer to the pursuer 's case is that the fault for the accident rests wholly or partly with someone else , consideration should be given now to service of a Third Party Notice by which that other party blamed can be brought into the action .
5 Developments across the country are uneven , but the shape of things to come can be seen in the greater provision of minor surgery by general practitioners , the increase in health promotion work in general practice , the employment of staff such as physiotherapists and dietitians to work alongside general practitioners , the establishment of shared care arrangements for treating conditions such as diabetes and asthma , and the introduction of ‘ treat and teach ’ schemes , in which specialists carry out some of their consultations in general practitioners ' surgeries and develop the skills of general practitioners in the process .
6 Blocks which need trimming can be cut with a bolster and club hammer
7 The final set of conditions we shall consider can be represented by the term ‘ readiness to learn ’ .
8 All gasoline-powered cars harm the environment , but the polluting effects of driving can be minimized by using the car carefully .
9 The OFT will look at why a cartridge which trade sources say can be made for less than £10 can cost up to £65 .
10 Even writers working in solitude try to form some idea of the receiver of their work and adjust to it — the meaningfulness of what they say can be viewed as a measure of the success of that prediction and adjustment .
11 That this is what happens can be demonstrated by playing recordings of the clicks to one batch of eggs and so inducing them to hatch well before others of the clutch that have been kept individually and in silence .
12 ww3.pcx Which directories will be searched can be set by pressing the Search button , and then changing the Search path msdos1.pcx Having set the prompt to show the text ‘ What now Fred ? ‘ , the next command sets it back to show the current drive and directory
13 To begin with those relating mainly to the Prague School , there seems , first , to be no objective way of determining what limits can be imposed on the description of the text 's structure .
14 Sometimes decline can be explained as an inevitable concomitant of development ; thus the heyday of Valencian prosperity was matched by a dramatic decline in the silk industry of Granada and the smaller industry of the Aragonese valleys may have suffered from Catalan competition .
15 Everything that Margery says can be traced to what she would hear in sermons and readings .
16 This may be because they occur only in association with a particular element , like the cran — of cranberry , or because they occur with a particular semantic value only in the context of one other element , like the — en of oxen , the ab — of abnormal , or foot in foot the bill ; in a case of collocational uniqueness of either of these types , no contrast in which the unique element participates can be tested in a distinct linguistic environment .
17 READ# can be used as an alternative to INPUT#
18 READ# can be used as an alternative to INPUT# Write the variable " var " to the file opened as " fnum " .
19 An understanding of why settlements are deserted and have presumably been relocated can be revealed from an examination of the chronology of the settlements and by comparison with the locational qualities of later sites .
20 Being Disabled can be divided into two distinct strands : impairment and Disability .
21 Details of monies to be collected can be transmitted in many ways — magnetic tape , floppy disk , telephone , or through computer bureau — depending on individual preference .
22 Cracks in bitumen felt can be sealed with a bitumen mastic , but even if you find the roof surface in relatively good condition , it would be a good idea to give it a nice thick coat of roofing compound , such as Isoflex , by Roncraft .
23 That the financial parameters adopted can be related to or inform the levels of payments for services that will support alternative arrangements for some individuals assessed as requiring residential care services .
24 By promoting the exchange of ideas and experiences , the lessons learned and technologies applied can be adapted by LASMO engineers to be reapplied and to add value to new ventures .
25 They fry can be left with the parents until they attain anything up to one inch in length , but it is often advisable to remove the parents long before this .
26 If we 're measuring the m membrane current , which here I 've called a macroscopic current because we 're we 're integrating over a whole area of membrane , this , with respect with any given channel will comprise can be expressed in terms of the number of channels which are present , the probability that each one of those channels is open , the open state probability , and in terms of the unitary current of each channel , that is the single channel current .
27 What has been said can be extended to them .
28 Ideally , all that needs to be said can be said in an hour , and if you think the journalist is genuinely interested in your work , try to give him or her as much time as required — it is appreciated .
29 With writing , at least , they believe , what is said can be taken to be what is meant .
30 The very fact that Barthes does not present his work in terms of a theory of ideology means that the interpretive basis on which he is operating can be withheld from the reader .
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