Example sentences of "[noun pl] it can be [verb] " in BNC.

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1 It is purely a prohibition on use — not on possession — and in view of the reservations made by states parties it can be viewed as little more than a ‘ no first use ’ pact .
2 Increasingly in some areas it can be seen that settlement sites occupied in the Roman period continued through post-Roman times to form the basic framework of medieval and modern villages and hamlets .
3 In developed countries it can be observed that the widespread utilization of informatics :
4 As the boundaries of the relevant area are straight lines it can be evaluated quite simply : and so the average torque can be found from : To allow for slight changes in the load torque , due to wear of the components during the system 's working life , the constant frequency clock would be set between 90 and 100 steps .
5 The record in a profile can contain inputs spanning more than a hundred years , and under favourable circumstances it can be used to chart oscillations in recharge , from which one can infer climatic history .
6 Even when it is necessary to close down factories it can be done with compassion , in his view .
7 From these three major sources it can be seen that rape and sexual assault are very rarely the subject of investigative journalism outside of some judicial context .
8 Though the panther 's coat looks totally black , in certain lights it can be seen to be patterned with even darker spots .
9 From the curves it can be seen that there is a rapid change in log over a narrow range of temperature corresponding to the glass transition .
10 From the junction conditions it can be seen that , in this case , these functions necessarily take the forms : .
11 However , compared with the 1989 figures it can be seen that these industries are not without their difficulties .
12 In The Lord of the Rings it can be expressed by such high-status characters as Faramir , who says at one point that he does not hope to see Frodo ever again , but nevertheless invents a picture of them in an unknown future ‘ sitting by a wall in the sun , laughing at grief ’ .
13 With these coordinates it can be seen that the Schwarzschild mass parameter , which is unity in the line elements ( 10.51 ) and ( 10.53 ) , is here related to the amplitudes of the approaching waves by .
14 In fact , in some ways it can be seen that the more capable the NHS is of meeting demand , the greater the demand is likely to be .
15 The chance of an exposure transmitting infection varies both between the different ways it can be transmitted and , for reasons yet undetermined , between different people engaging in the same activity .
16 Not many women are totally happy with their body but luckily there are lots of ways it can be improved upon .
17 The end result may sometimes be less polished than purpose-made demonstration material but case study material is intended as a working document of current classroom practice and it has the advantage of flexibility in the ways it can be used .
18 On the other hand , just as he defended the use of Article 100 , George Close also defended the use of Article 235 on the same grounds , i.e. that even in purely economic terms it can be shown that environmental and consumer legislation does in fact affect production and marketing costs .
19 In many of Tamm 's populations it can be shown ( Harper , 1967 ) that the plants originally present were progressively lost and that the rate of loss was remarkably constant .
20 In a school with clear lines of communication between departments it can be agreed which department will actually teach the way to manipulate data and analyse results and which will use this skill elsewhere for extension work .
21 From the spectra it can be seen that the intensity of the β-peak relative to the α-peak is much stronger in the dielectric response compared with the mechanical measurements .
22 Two of the stars in the Square point downward to Fomalhaut in Piscis Australis , which is the southernmost of the first-magnitude stars to be visible from Britain ; from South England and New York latitudes it can be seen easily enough , but from North Scotland it barely rises .
23 In both cases it can be argued that the succession is not to the treaty , but to the territory as defined .
24 Although in both cases it can be argued that the sight of the police car is what caused the speaker to be glad , the way in which these notions are put into relation is not the same .
25 This may suggest that he travelled , but the presence of texts in foreign languages among his songs is by no means conclusive , for in some cases it can be shown that the words are not original .
26 In both cases it can be shown that the saturated areas of the Moon have ages of about 4200 Ma .
27 The Abortion Pill is best used in the early weeks of a pregnancy — certainly in the first three months , although in some cases it can be used later .
28 There certainly is scope for such studies : documentary material survives in town archives in such forms as deeds and rentals , and in some cases it can be supplemented by archaeological work , as twentieth-century redevelopment in town centres has given opportunities to investigate the surviving material remains below .
29 From the subsequent descent of his estates it can be established that John 's heir was one Thomas Clanvow , either a son or a brother ; but the general uncertainty attending the family pedigree makes it impossible to establish with accuracy the relationship between him and other members of the family .
30 From these values it can be seen that , as with the bigram results , the Marshall equation again produces the best results .
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