Example sentences of "thing can [be] [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Three things can be demonstrated to trainees here : |
| 2 | Well , yes they may want to do something about it , but they may be just too scared to give any details which would lead to something being done about it , I mean things can be done about it , but only if the child wants them done . |
| 3 | Some things can be done without it but we do need money . |
| 4 | Some interesting and useful things can be done in the way of improving specific item search systems , but only if the catalogue has considerable " knowledge " of bibliographical items ( for example , one can envisage a catalogue which could say , " We have n't got Joseph Matthews on online catalogue screen displays , but there is an article in Library trends which might be of some interest " ) . |
| 5 | Money is used as a common denominator in which the value of things can be expressed in the market . |
| 6 | I have done little to remedy that myself , except to fall back on the preferred notion of level , which at least can begin to explicate how things can be reached by effort at some times but not others . |
| 7 | I guess we 'll never know looking back on it , various things can be traced to David and other things to Tony . |
| 8 | Two things can be said about this to avoid the impression that the different tendencies are simply expressions of a ‘ national character ’ , or of the irresponsibility of entertainment against the social purposiveness of public service — though the latter explanation , if understood historically rather than morally , is not completely without foundation . |
| 9 | Er , I can say for instance that I 'm changing because I 'm er getting older , I 'm getting tireder erm all sorts of things can be said about me . |
| 10 | Many things can be said in conversation which assume a different weight when used , verbatim or otherwise , on the printed page . |
| 11 | Leibniz was quite right , of course , to reject the view that a sufficient criterion of numerical identity of things can be defined in terms of the conditions under which we distinguish between their respective positions in space , but he himself had no better explanation to offer . |
| 12 | Many things can be made from dates . |
| 13 | I can not , he says , ‘ really persuade myself that the truth of things can be perceived by mortal men ’ . |
| 14 | These things can be thought about , moral problems can be faced and solved , one just needs the will and the courage . |
| 15 | ‘ THIS is an ideas battle … not every one of these things can be distilled into politics — you know , who 's for this and who 's for that , and if this person is for this , somebody else has to be for that . |
| 16 | These things can be had by any animal that really needs to run fast , but they must be bought . |
| 17 | You have plenty of good ideas about how things can be changed for the better or how your home can be improved , modernised or beautified . |
| 18 | All kinds of things can be used as reflectors : projection screens ; aluminium foil which has been crumpled , roughly straightened out and stuck onto a sheet of hardboard ; or purpose-made reflectors bought from photographic dealers . |
| 19 | Some things can be talked about , others ca n't . |
| 20 | The best way to capture the Scottish public imagination for a Scottish parliament is to remind them how much things can be improved on the jobs scene because the Scottish parliament will be taking the decisions presently taken by the Westminster Parliament . ’ |
| 21 | the real thing can be recognised by the incredible number of bites you get in such short time . |
| 22 | So the idea is you have some kind of token so that er , classic example in sort of junior schools , primary schools , that y'know if a child actually does what you want it to do , it gets a kind of star in a star chart and added up so many stars it gets some kind of present and basically the same kind of thing can be applied in clinical and in occupational settings as well . |
| 23 | Much the same thing can be said of the to infinitive denoting something which is actualized as a consequence of causation ( cause , force , occasion , get , order , tell ) , assistance ( help ) , discovery ( find ) , daring , etc . |
| 24 | But the same thing can be said of any major city in the world . ’ |
| 25 | The same thing can be said about expense recognition , although there is a system of accounting which recognizes a debit earlier than the receipt of an invoice . |
| 26 | Multiple Network Terminal Servers can be integrated into one network : each has 64 serial ports and one parallel port per unit , and the thing can be managed by SunNet Manager . |
| 27 | I think the management thing can be addressed in a different way erm excuse me erm , oh I 've lost my thread now but , oh yeah that 's right |
| 28 | Once you 've er got over the newness of it the the the thing can be put in away in a drawer can be put back in it 's box . |