Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] can be [verb] " in BNC.

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1 A good rule of thumb is that a model may be considered a potential hit if at least half its base area lies under the template , while models whose bases are only touched or grazed can be ignored .
2 If this situation arises any possibility that users of the financial statements will be misled or confused can be mitigated by further explanation .
3 In a large proportion of the cases , when they can be applied at all , both uses — associative and ascriptive — make equally good sense because the facts observed or imagined can be described equally well either way ; the mental , linguistic , difference is there but both mental representations can be mapped onto the same single external situation .
4 Following am , both the long words name and naming can be matched ( Fig. 7.5.3 ) .
5 Easy to spawn in a planted tank , and fry can be brought on with adults .
6 Pruning and picking can be carried out easily .
7 Details of how this account should be created and used can be found in section 2 , ‘ ORACLE RDBMS ’ .
8 the products demanded and supplied can be determined .
9 Collecting data in different forms so that results can be collated and compared can be done in several ways and can form the basis of much useful discussion .
10 A very high standard of stitching and finishing can be found on this shirt , the seams either being overlocked or enclosed , making them fairly robust .
11 even though characteristic ways of feeling and behaving are habitual , they can be controlled and , if necessary , unproductive ways of feeling and behaving can be replaced with more satisfactory ones .
12 The inside of each binding is a compacted mass of yellowed fatty tissue in which whorls and furling can be seen , looking not unlike the surface of the cerebral cortex .
13 The to following allow and permit can be conceived with either an initial interception , as in ( 212 ) and ( 213 ) , or a final one , as in They stood by and allowed him to steal my car .
14 Many of the things people say and write can be divided into facts and opinions .
15 Fresh green growths should not be cut down , but any stems that have yellowed and withered can be cleared away .
16 The beginnings of modern thought about sleep and dreaming can be traced to the late eighteenth century , the time of the Enlightenment .
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