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

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1 The crucial middle ground — the exploration of how words can be manipulated on paper and the effects such manipulation can achieve — may be seriously neglected .
2 Words which are orthographically regular have at least three routes : the GPC route which uses orthographic components to derive their phonological correlates the lexical route which uses the visual representation of the word to access meaning before generating the pronunciation ; and Glushko 's ( 1979 ) " analogy " route whereby words can be pronounced in the same way as their orthographic associates .
3 Badly formed characters and even illegible words can be understood in context because human readers use their knowledge of language and the world to guide their processing .
4 Texts are varied systematically and types of finger movement and speeds on target words can be compared for the different demands made on the reader .
5 If we want to paint a big choral canvas , words can be repeated without any fear of being repetitious , or we can use whole sentences or sections several times over .
6 A few words can be said by a relative or friend , or , if there is no wish for a religious ceremony , a non-religious one can be planned .
7 It is desirable therefore to devise an indexing system , by which words can be related to some other data structure that is more easily processed and stored .
8 This is especially so for handwriting , when not only spelling errors , but also illegible words can be deduced from the context .
9 Burr states that suffixed forms of words can be derived by rule .
10 A further 5,000 unfamiliar words can be added to the system , along with up to 99 standard paragraphs that can be called in as required .
11 Words which fall into the open class are those which are potentially unlimited in number because new words can be added to the language as the need arises .
12 Expected phonological variations within words can be captured through the pre-compilation of reduction rules mentioned above .
13 These new words can be proved by taking statements from an aggrieved person(s) to say how harassed , alarmed or distressed he was .
14 Although words can be processed by a number of different routes , for skilled readers the lexical route is the most attractive .
15 — selectional restrictions of various words can be modelled by the type of links attached to their representative nodes .
16 Key words can be underlined in the same colour .
17 Postal bookings for these trips can be made to NB fare is Irish pounds price .
18 This is a two-machine set-up by which original video recordings can be transferred onto copy tapes .
19 Copyright-cleared background music recordings can be obtained by mail order , and the addresses to contact are to be found in the relevant hobby magazines .
20 Video recordings can be played on internal TV systems .
21 From this period onwards , sound recordings can be divided into two types .
22 Radio programmes or ‘ talking book ’ tape recordings can be used for the same purpose .
23 Proper notice through registry recordings can be accomplished without having to set up a universal or central registry .
24 Some of their characteristics can be observed in soap bubbles and films .
25 In addition , ‘ lark ’ and ‘ owl ’ characteristics can be created by circumstances .
26 No African country has managed to escape from the pattern of its past history , but in the late 1980s certain common characteristics can be seen among the more successful countries , notably Kenya , Cameroun and Botswana .
27 Yet the same characteristics can be found in both .
28 Adorno , Marcuse , and Habermas , like Lukács , work from a similar historical periodization of culture whose fundamental characteristics can be found in Hegel 's writings on aesthetics .
29 Resins with all the required characteristics can be found in the Epoxy family .
30 In this way the major sources of food supply and some of their principal characteristics can be identified for further investigation .
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