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

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1 We need one more equation between our variables that can again be provided by Gauss 's law .
2 A more recent re-statement is given in the judgment of Lord Morris of Borth-y-gest in Esso Petroleum Co Ltd v Harper 's Garage ( Stourport ) Ltd [ 1968 ] AC 269 : In general , the law recognises that there is freedom to enter into any contract that can lawfully be made .
3 If one manages to find the simplest method at the first attempt that can mostly be attributed to good luck .
4 It produces data that can easily be expressed in statistical form .
5 Perhaps by analogy with this he began to see that animal species too are in a state of dynamic equilibrium with one another and with the environment , an equilibrium that can easily be disturbed by geological changes or by the immigration of new species into the area .
6 Mung beans are very small green beans that can easily be sprouted at home for use as a salad vegetable .
7 First , those items which make it difficult to recognise specific abilities in a child will be of less value than those which provide descriptions that can easily be applied .
8 It is the kind of job that can easily be made to seem glamorous or tempt the power-mad .
9 On the other hand , noticeable deviation from typical target-language patterns of chunking information and signalling relations is likely to result in the sort of text that can easily be identified as a translation because it sounds ‘ foreign ’ .
10 One that can easily be forced is the detection of switched off illumination ( or merely low light ) and this works reliably .
11 What that means , among other things , is that feminists who engage in this kind of research must refuse easy answers , answers that can easily be accommodated within the system as it is now .
12 Instead , wear several light layers of clothing that can easily be added or removed as you walk .
13 I always accept any little presents from clients , especially if it 's cash , or anything that can easily be changed into cash .
14 We often receive letters about relatively minor matters that can easily be put right after discussion with patients .
15 a simple embedded mark-up that can easily be used by other tools .
16 Of these three , it is only the existence of the ‘ unit of desire ’ that can reasonably be challenged .
17 The APB went on to observe that ‘ … the degree of reliance that can reasonably be placed on financial statements will decrease as the length of time that has elapsed since their approval by the directors increases ’ .
18 The highest level of verbal information that can reasonably be expected from an automatic tagger is the transitivity of the verb .
19 Another example that can loosely be referred to as scavenging is bone collecting by harvester ants ( Shipman & Walker , 1980 ) .
20 For Ullman is concerned with types of perceptual process that can plausibly be attributed to many animal species .
21 It brings points to the notice of the authorities that can well be overlooked in the dayto-day running of the force ; points that can , when corrected , benefit a great many people . ’
22 The propagation of plants and the breeding of fish are pleasurable pursuits that can also be followed .
23 Provided the model relating population to these land-cover data is reasonably good , the resulting relationship can then be used to estimate populations for any set of imposed or natural areal units that can also be located on the image .
24 There is a vast untapped genetic and metabolic biodiversity in nature that can also be harnessed .
25 The PB800 is ideal for the athlete who wants a spike that can also be used on the country .
26 At the garden centre you can obtain bags of granite chippings that can also be used as decor for the aquarium base , although it is no use where high turnover undergravel filtration is in use as it soon blocks and becomes covered in a blanket of waste matter .
27 Here we are concerned with a form of corporate provision that can also be used to provide at one and the same time a safety net and a reward for initiative .
28 From Deleuze and Guattari , Lecercle picks up the idea of the potential violence of the institution of language which , as they point out , is not so much a neutral entity that can best be analysed by looking at " normal " ( i.e. declarative ) sentences as a series of other people 's slogans organised into a system of power-relations .
29 Perhaps the most important aspect of this persona is the extent to which , in terms of intratextual characterization , it overlaps with the figure of the clerc/clers , a term that can best be translated as " student " in this context .
30 When the smoke clears Pain Teens turn out to be more down to earth , a punky bar band who occasionally stray into territory that can best be described as extra terrestrial .
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