Example sentences of "can [be] [vb pp] [conj] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 As such pluralist studies can be replicated and on the basis of empirical evidence falsified .
2 and the structure of a particular sentence can be represented as in Figure 4 .
3 They can be represented as in Figure 11.6 .
4 This model can be represented as in Figure 2.1 .
5 When the increases in the money supply are expressed as percentages of adjusted social product , it can be seen that between 1977 and 1985 the government normally took about 6–7 per cent of the social product for extra-budgetary purposes ( 1983 was the major exception ) .
6 It can be seen that during autumn there is a steady increase in the HNO 3 column amount , followed by a decline over winter and a recovery in late spring .
7 It can be seen that as the curvature of these hypersurfaces diverges .
8 From tables 2.4 and 2.5 it can be seen that as gram size increases , processing time increases ( because a larger tree takes longer to build ) , but the shorter lists are comparatively quick to build , and give the best reduction .
9 It can be seen that as the lexicon size increases , more candidate words are allowable , so sometimes the inverted look-up is not used when it might have found the correct word .
10 It can be seen that by piecemeal legislation great strides have been made towards equality between the sexes as regards legal status , rights and liabilities .
11 From the second column of the table it can be seen that in 1977–8 , before the crisis year of 1979 , the money supply was growing faster than the cost of living .
12 It can be seen that in only two cases was the expense of providing support worker help their main reason , but in other cases , too , such a reason was implicit .
13 It can be seen that in every case the two sets of coefficients have the same sign and general magnitude .
14 It can be seen that in terms of the formal equations it is possible to make some juncture , but in so doing it is also possible to lose sight of the quite different perspectives from which they derive .
15 From this caricature ( for that is all there is time for here ) , it can be seen that in its empirical tradition , sociology ( and to a considerable extent social psychology also ) deals primarily with western industrial society , which it examines descriptively in a somewhat piecemeal fashion .
16 This feature is illustrated in figure 5.2 , in which it can be seen that in period 3 ( odd ) w t was set the end of the period 2 ( even ) but was actually set two periods earlier in period 1 ( odd ) .
17 It can be seen that in the event of specific goods perishing , the contract may be avoided by section 7 but if in any other case the contract becomes impossible or illegal to perform , it will be frustrated at common law .
18 In this regard it can be seen that in order for the catechesis to work effectively the various members of the group have to work as a team — the L.C. is responsible for presenting the symbol well ; having a good story that echoes the goal clearly ; and providing the opportunity for EACH person to share their story .
19 This context having been provided , it will be possible to reassess the significance of electoral behaviour , and although it can be seen that in some areas and in certain types of constituency manipulation and deference were key factors , on the whole the electorate could not be easily controlled from above .
20 But if a person climbs a nearby hill and looks down on the site , the whole city can be seen and to some extent understood : viewing a site at an angle in this way is equivalent to an oblique aerial photograph .
21 Below , the islands of Rum and Canna can be seen and on the horizon to the west you can look over from the hills of South Uist to Barra Head .
22 I shall argue that Viennese modernism can be seen as in some sense a ‘ Baroque ’ modernism which seems largely to have run counter to the Enlightenment project .
23 In Britain , American experience is commonly cited as setting a precedent both for what can be done and for the policy strategies necessary for success .
24 At a vector distance R from the centre of mass which can be expanded if as where are components of .
25 England and South Africa officials were last night negotiating to see if ‘ God Save The Queen ’ , originally omitted from the Twickenham song-sheet at the request of the SARU , can be reinstated because of the dismay and fury among England supporters .
26 Thus , substantial mortality benefits can be achieved if at least 162.5 mg aspirin is given during the acute phase of evolving myocardial infarction .
27 Ministers are more subtle , describing the review as ‘ seeking to identify areas where better targeting can be achieved or from which the public sector can withdraw altogether . ’
28 Certain types of mental handicap can be caused because of courses of action taken by the child-bearing mother during the period of the pregnancy .
29 No doubt many , probably a majority , of the cases of non-gonococcal urethritis are due to infectious organisms , but there remains a hard core of cases from which no pathogenic germs can be isolated and for which it is just conceivable that antibiotic treatment may not be the best therapy .
30 It is , however , also important to recognize the potential of other bright people who can be trained while in post , and the problems and inefficiencies which can arise from ‘ sectarian professionalism ’ .
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