Example sentences of "[noun pl] can be [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Similarly , extensive pastures can be at some distance , since animals can be walked there and kept there for some time by herdsmen . |
| 2 | On any given strand , the bases can be in any order , but there are rules governing the pairing between the bases on the one strand and those on the other ; adenine always pairs with thymine , and guanine with cytosine . |
| 3 | In this context , the linguist 's proclamation of the functional equality of all varieties can be of little help . |
| 4 | ‘ Acquired language abilities can be of little or no use when it comes to examination of detailed tender documentation or foreign standard forms of contract ’ . |
| 5 | It is a fact that acquired language abilities can be of little or no use when it comes to examination of detailed tender documentation or foreign standard forms of contract . |
| 6 | It is important to emphasize how varied volcanoes can be in this respect . |
| 7 | f The past 3 years have made us see how very interested GPs can be with this group . |
| 8 | The lordship in question is the novelist 's , not only in the usual sense , often forgotten , that every word of the novel is his , but also because the speech of its characters can be like that of the narrator , and indeed like that of the writer of Kingsley Amis 's discursive prose . |
| 9 | Such electrodes can be of several types ; they may be fine glass tubes filled with solutions of drugs or salts to be pumped out close to specific cells , or they may be ‘ stimulating electrodes ’ designed to deliver trains of electric pulses — of the sort described in relation to LTP . |
| 10 | Settling tanks can be of several types , and they use the principle of slowing the rate of flow of the water to allow the solid particles to fall out as a sludge that can be removed separately . |
| 11 | Workbooks can be of several types , ranging from those covering basic library skills based on the holdings of a specific library , to subject-related workbooks . |