Example sentences of "is [verb] can be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The NeXT Computer Inc workstations it is reselling can be supported by CLARiiON over the network but not directly . |
| 2 | Any that is exposed can be taken out and sold for scrap . |
| 3 | If we do not know about something or do not realise what is addressed can be understood in another manner or seen through another lens , it skews our viewpoint ; it limits our options ; it clouds our perspective . |
| 4 | That being so , B can not be trying to deceive A. The only way in which the assumption that B is cooperating can be maintained is if we take B to mean something rather different from what he has actually said . |
| 5 | These figures are collected continuously , and at any particular moment details of what is happening can be worked out . |
| 6 | With writing , at least , they believe , what is said can be taken to be what is meant . |
| 7 | For instance , If the Buyer shall fail to pay for any delivery in accordance with the terms of this contract , the Seller shall be entitled to withhold future deliveries until such payment is made can be replaced by If the Buyer fails to pay for any delivery in accordance with the terms of this contract , the Seller may withhold further deliveries until such payment is made . |
| 8 | The very fact that Barthes does not present his work in terms of a theory of ideology means that the interpretive basis on which he is operating can be withheld from the reader . |
| 9 | In an economic system coordinated solely by markets there is no guarantee that what is produced can be sold . |
| 10 | The ylang-ylang is a flower , but it 's a tropical flower and it 's this is called can be called the Oil of Tranquillity . |
| 11 | For what is displayed can be checked by others , and , if possible , reproduced by them . |
| 12 | Although this effort has been piecemeal and has occurred in widely differing contexts , the direction in which it is moving can be identified . |
| 13 | Though eventually the head will have to recommend a decision to governors , the process by which that decision is reached can be shared . |
| 14 | As often , when one is confronted with what appears an intractable philosophical problem , there is an overwhelming temptation to try to argue it out of existence by showing that the linguistic expressions with which it is linked can be modified or paraphrased into other , less problematic , expressions without any loss of truth or philosophically relevant meaning . |
| 15 | The third main way in which the idea of structure is undermined can be seen in Barthes 's use of the idea of codes . |
| 16 | But there must be concerns at the prospect of the need to break up such a service and whether the work it is undertaking can be maintained and appropriately financially supported in smaller units . ’ |
| 17 | The burr that is left can be removed with a file or sharp cutting knife . |
| 18 | The law therefore does not confer an explicit right of protest but it circumscribes our freedom to do so , and what is left can be enjoyed . |
| 19 | By using a grid marked out on the ground , each point where a reading is taken can be plotted . |
| 20 | An insight into the way the official terrain is constructed can be gained by noting the exclusion of other categories , which might have yielded different ‘ problems ’ : ‘ Muslims ’ , ‘ Jews ’ , ‘ Catholics ’ , ‘ Protestants ’ , etc . |
| 21 | The usual legal connotations of ownership are therefore irrelevant , but the possession of information , or the ability to control it , may nevertheless be of great significance ; in an entirely trivial sense the paper or computer tape on which information is recorded can be owned , and while this does not confer rights of ownership over the information itself , this distinction may seem empty if what really matters is control of access to and use of information . |
| 22 | A field of rare flowers that is destroyed can be replanted and may eventually be the same as the field that was destroyed ( even if the process does take 1,000 years ) . |
| 23 | If the only working capital that is required can be provided by the personal capital of the participants , then partnership may well fit the bill . |
| 24 | The object of section 23 is to ensure that the person who really is to blame can be convicted . |
| 25 | Paths with whatever surface is chosen can be laid at the start when the beds are being dug or later at a more convenient time , but it does make life easier if they can be finished before planting the beds . |