Example sentences of "they can be [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They can be stated in a number of different ways , but they are generally accepted to be : |
| 2 | To represent photographs taken , so they can be examined within a fictional context . |
| 3 | With certain limited exceptions , married men are exempt from liability for rape of their wives , although they can be prosecuted for any accompanying assault or violence . |
| 4 | When not worn they can be mounted on her nickel and acrylic stands ( right ) and enjoyed as contemporary art objects . |
| 5 | Words are used to inflect if they can be assigned to a number of grammatical classes , and the members of all these classes are distinguished from each other by their morphology ( internal shape ) and by their syntax ( the rules of their use ) . |
| 6 | The leases make the publican responsible for the upkeep of the pub and , although they can be assigned to another person after two years , the original holder would be responsible for meeting payments if that person defaulted . |
| 7 | Similarly , with a clearly enunciated history curriculum other departments in the school can see how they can be served on occasion or a basis can be laid in history which they can reinforce . |
| 8 | If individuals have personal difficulties that do not impinge on their functioning at work they can be assessed under this agreement : the individual would then be referred to an appropriate specialist agency for ongoing work outside the agreement , on a personal basis and without commitment on RBGE 's part . |
| 9 | This pattern has been changing ; there is a tendency now for girls to keep their babies , and over the last year or so girls have been sent there for a variety of other reasons , but essentially so that they can be assessed on their ability to care for their child . |
| 10 | They can be assessed by reference to abstractions . |
| 11 | The necessity for speed in adaptation of agricultural technology exists because of these self-reproducing and self-reinforcing processes — fairly rapid population growth ; political and economic neglect of marginal environments except where they can be exploited for the production of commodities for the national and international market ; and a stagnant production per unit worker and area for the majority of the population . |
| 12 | The same effect can be achieved with a small pair of school compasses ( which have the advantage that they can be adjusted to exactly the right size ) , but these are more difficult to use to get an exact line . |
| 13 | They can be furnished with inexpensive Taiwan furniture and fabric German dolls , or with pricier handmade dolls and fine furniture by skilled English craftsmen . |
| 14 | The outlines shown by daylight are obscured ; shapes and colours are different , if indeed they can be perceived at all . |
| 15 | They have the advantage that they can be calculated for most countries in the world . |
| 16 | The theory of differential equations , as usually taught , is a rag-bag of special tricks , many of which are a waste of time and are included only because they can be calculated without having to think about what 's really going on . |
| 17 | However , they can be calculated from experimentally determined enthalpies by application of Hess 's law . |
| 18 | Optical discs , for example , are made of insulating material ; although they can be coated with a thin metal film and put under an STM , an AFM could examine a product without destroying it . |
| 19 | They can be coated with a white , gold , silver or brass finish , either plain or decorative . |
| 20 | All that statutory reforms have done as yet is to make piecemeal extensions of the remedies afforded to members so that they can be invoked by personal representatives of members . |
| 21 | The ferrets force the rabbits to abandon their homes and bolt to the surface , where they can be killed by a number of methods . |
| 22 | Both titles will have the artwork on the dust jacket repeated on the cover , so that they can be treated as ordinary paperbacks as preferred . |
| 23 | One of the consequences of holding instructions in store locations is that they can be treated as data , and manipulated as such by the computer . |
| 24 | The physical implementation and application areas of microcomputers are thus different from mainstream computers , but at the instruction set level which we discuss in this book they can be treated as variations on the central Von Neumann model . |
| 25 | Science , as it has developed right across the board since the end of the sixteenth century , has operated with the axiomatic assumption that events in the material world , out there , external to human minds , are governed by regularities which are so coherent and consistent that they can be treated as " natural laws " . |
| 26 | Either we may see them as qualifying the properties inherent in the nouns , or we may take the view that lawfulness and distance serve to mark out certain generally recognized subcategories of heirs and cousins ( whereas one can scarcely argue for any generally accepted subcategories of strangers and kids marked out by totality and mereness ) , so that they can be treated as ordinary ascriptive adjectives . |
| 27 | They can be treated in the short term with an anti-male hormone injection from the vet and this will see them safely through difficult periods without the need for the unkindest cut . |
| 28 | Not being part of the Chewong social universe , they operate according to different rules but , interestingly , this does not mean that they can be treated in qualitatively different ways — such as be attacked . |
| 29 | Although these words refer to particularly Caribbean concepts , they can be treated by speakers as words of ordinary ( i.e. London ) English in terms of their pronunciation . |
| 30 | They can be turned into money on demand in most cases ; even where notice might originally have been specified this can usually be waived for a small interest penalty . |