Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] can be [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Performances of the Everyman production of Shakespeare 's Much Ado About Nothing can be seen at the Huyton Suite in Poplar Bank , Kirkby , on November 19 at 2pm and 7.30pm . |
| 2 | When two businesses are both buying from and selling to one another the outstanding accounts between them can be offset and the net balance paid by whoever owes it to the other . |
| 3 | Ideally , this should be the same as P(G) for each G. The discrepancy between them can be quantified as a number , commonly called C. This is zero when each P' ( G ) equals the corresponding P(G) . |
| 4 | The standard weapon of an infantryman in the British army , a type of camera and the latest aid to computer games playing may all share the same initials but that 's about as far as any similarity between them can be made to stretch . |
| 5 | Moreover , ‘ structural ’ relations between them can be clarified , by showing for instance that this computation is or is not a necessary prerequisite or accompaniment of that one . |
| 6 | The global system is most fruitfully conceptualized as a system that operates at three levels , knowledge about which can be organized in three spheres , namely the economic , the political and the cultural-ideological . |
| 7 | ‘ Our staffing levels constrain the time off which can be allowed ’ … |
| 8 | This is not to belittle the exploits of Hadlee , Phillip or can der Bijl , who were essential parts of their sides ' successes , but none of whom can be said to have been an out-and-out pace man . |
| 9 | The contradictions between these implicit tendencies and Goody 's explicit rejection of them can be explained by the framework of distinctions on which the inquiry is based in the first place . |
| 10 | Schmidt ( 1991 ) reviews a wide variety of von Restorff-like effects and argues that many of them can be explained using a single theory of distinctiveness . |
| 11 | So I have to make decisions as I go along as to which points need to be spelled out , which of them can be stated sparely , or which of them do not need to be mentioned at all but can be left to be inferred . |
| 12 | A great advantage of these tests — one that was not found in ‘ real ’ tasks — is that sets of them can be made of equal difficulty . |
| 13 | So is indecisiveness an excess of imagination which can see so many possibilities in each alternative that none of them can be rejected ? |
| 14 | Although the various social sciences take different interests in such matters and differ also on how such an understanding of them can be achieved , they do at least share this common source of data ; that is , what the members of society have produced , and are producing , in the way of artifacts , social groups , institutions , documents of various kinds , systems of conflict and co-operation , records , and so on . |
| 15 | Some of them can be isolated . ’ |
| 16 | It is hoped that more and more of the applications for renewal of approval will be such that they can be granted without any extensive dialogue on them being necessary , and indeed that many of them can be granted without any visit being made to the College by representatives of the Council or vice versa and without any special conditions being attached to the approval . |
| 17 | In the care of the charity , children begin to thrive and many of them can be trained in various ways of earning a living . |
| 18 | The development of methods of mass diffusion ( first printed , then electromechanical and electronic ) has affected all forms of music , and any of them can be treated as a commodity ; if a widely distributed recording of a Tchaikovsky symphony turns the piece into ‘ popular music ’ , then the definition is , to say the least , unhelpful . |
| 19 | Multiple choices are learned and any one of them can be followed — as for example incest versus outbreeding — but there is an innate predisposition to learn certain ones in preference to others , or else to choose them once they have been acquired . |
| 20 | In addition , many of them can be tied into Personal Construct Theory in a way that allows its associated Repertory Grid Technique to be used both as an investigatory tool and as a means whereby the perception of art might be enhanced . |
| 21 | The lines are so close together that two of them can be seen crossing the planet Jupiter at any one time . |
| 22 | But few of them can be done in isolation and all require some element of partnership . |
| 23 | In marital therapy it is often noticeable that although a couple are asking for help to sort out their problem , so that they may have the closeness and intimacy for which they yearn , fear overcomes hope , and whenever things start to improve one of them can be relied upon to start up the next quarrel . |
| 24 | I can confirm that , of course , I made none of those statements , but I believe that each of them can be attributed to the Leader of the Opposition . |
| 25 | More important is the fact that none of them can be divorced from the realm of values . |
| 26 | Most of them can be put together quite cheaply but without ruining the style or atmosphere of the room ; on the contrary it 's often these that add most of the character to a room and reflect your personality better than the bought pieces which can look like everyone else 's . |
| 27 | These are often inexpensive bulbs too , and most of them can be left to naturalise freely with the minimum of attention . |
| 28 | White cells in donor blood may cause problems like fever and infection in recipients , and 99.9% of them can be removed with modern filters . |
| 29 | Both of them can be thought of as being exercised in varying degrees , so that observation of people can be carried out with varying degrees of participation and varying degrees of control . |
| 30 | This is not to say , however , that in certain applications , the use of ‘ normal ’ in-rack sprinkler systems is not perfectly satisfactory where the arrangement of sprinklers can be such that a number of them can be brought in early against the fire , or where the nature of the goods stored is such that flames are unlikely to damage them within the first few moments of fire development . |