Example sentences of "[noun pl] can be [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | The enthusiasm for partnership by individual secondary schools can be of great advantage to primary schools and their pupils . |
2 | In injuries and accidents , the injury remedies can be of great value , and even when surgery is indicated they can be helpful in shortening the post-operative period and in speeding up the recovery process . |
3 | With older , annular-type heaters , the tappings can be on opposite sides of the cylinder . |
4 | When considering the effect of outside influences , two aspects can be of crucial importance . |
5 | Similarly , extensive pastures can be at some distance , since animals can be walked there and kept there for some time by herdsmen . |
6 | Control formats based on escape sequences can be of indefinite length , and page description languages can be extremely powerful . |
7 | The main trunk lines can be of optical fibre and the secondary links of coaxial cable , but this is not an essential feature of the switched-star system . |
8 | The statements can be from other children in the class or they might be standard scientific explanations . |
9 | Because nothing can travel faster than light , an object that can vary its output of energy within a period of a few days can be at best a few light-days across . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | In this context , the linguist 's proclamation of the functional equality of all varieties can be of little help . |
12 | Grandparents can be of special help to a child who feels — mistakenly or not — that he or she is the odd one out or a failure compared to the others in the family . |
13 | ‘ 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 ’ . |
14 | 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 . |
15 | For example , tolerances can be within acceptable limits , but at each extreme . |
16 | Moreover , problems can be like Chinese whispers : the parents may be quite surprised at what you have been told about them and their problems . |
17 | It is important to emphasize how varied volcanoes can be in this respect . |
18 | Dramatisations and reconstructions can be of great value in trying to convey to pupils an idea of the past , but they are none the less interpretations . |
19 | Eruptions can be of three primary types , each associated with a particular form of ejecta — exhalative ( gas ) , effusive ( lava ) and explosive ( tephra ) . |
20 | These objectives can be in quantitative terms eg. the growth rate of profits , or in qualitative terms eg. statements about public responsibility . |
21 | Creative meditation techniques can be of great value here . |
22 | f The past 3 years have made us see how very interested GPs can be with this group . |
23 | 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 . |
24 | Loans can be for double glazing , cavity wall insulation , loft conversion , central heating — permanent improvements that make your home more comfortable to live in — and if you 're thinking of more than one improvement , a loan can be arranged to cover this . |
25 | Loans can be in sole or joint names and unless you are thinking of borrowing above £5000 , we would not usually ask for security . |
26 | These relations can be of three types : logical , temporal , and spatial … |
27 | Implied terms can be of great importance in expert cases , as can be seen from the remarks of Sir David Cairns in Baber v Kenwood Manufacturing Co Ltd and Whinney Murray [ 1978 ] 1 Lloyd 's Rep 175 at 181 , quoted at 13.5.4 . |
28 | Observation materials can be of two kinds . |
29 | 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 . |
30 | Calderas created by violent explosions can be of enormous size . |