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 .
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