Example sentences of "can [be] [vb pp] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From these can be gathered a handful of needle-thin stuff that can be pushed into a pocket while you collect slightly thicker material . |
| 2 | Beyond can be seen a mixture of walkers , mounted and dismounted cyclists and even the occasional moped ( Figure 6.29 ) . |
| 3 | Beside it is a small round table on which can be seen a photograph of my wife and me with our three elder children ; then there is an armchair also with a long seat and a dark-blue dog bed for our two spaniels beside another table with books and magazines . |
| 4 | Behind him can be seen a picture of the Tibetan director . |
| 5 | Transfer mixture to a bowl ( all this can be done a couple of hours before ) . |
| 6 | This can be done a day ahead . |
| 7 | Sheep graze up to its walls , mellow with yellow lichen , and the reedy dykes which surround it are famous for their marsh frogs , whose operatic baritone can be heard a mile away on May nights . |
| 8 | They distinguish between the function of language as imparting meaning , ‘ making statements which can be assigned a set of truth conditions ’ ( ibid. ) , and its function of regulating and maintaining social or interpersonal relations between people . |
| 9 | In addition each form and each field of each form can be assigned a view and a write security level . |
| 10 | On the basis of viscosity data , B can be assigned a value of unity , leading to and . |
| 11 | Draw up a timetable — some recipes can be cooked and frozen weeks in advance while others can be prepared a day beforehand ; some dishes can only be made on the day . |
| 12 | Cooking tunnels mean that between 1500 and 5000 meals can be prepared a day while freeing the chef from performing repetitive tasks and surveilance . |
| 13 | Although the cake and fondant icing can be prepared a week or so in advance if required , the chocolate work on this cake is best left until nearer the day . |
| 14 | Absorption can be slowed a bit , but not much , if alcoholic drink is taken with food . |
| 15 | All power-ups can be upgraded a maximum of five times , and you get more money to spend after each race depending on your finishing position . |
| 16 | If it can be called a childhood , that is : from the nursery where he learned to be ‘ Chairman Mao 's Good Little Boy ’ onwards , his early life was racked by one political movement after another . |
| 17 | From the beginning of his career Ashton frequently used the old stereotypes but created unique dances which can be called a translation of favourite comic play into the language of ballet . |
| 18 | After much consideration , I have concluded that no activity can be called a sport when any of the following apply … |
| 19 | Copse Corner , copse er , is , is a name which we give to a small wood , a small group of trees is a copse , in India that can be called a shola , S H O L A |
| 20 | It is this careful attention to traditional dance rhythms which is so important to the style of both ballets , although neither can be called a character or national work ( see page 28 ) . |
| 21 | The Battle of the Marne — if it can be called a battle — began at about 14.30 on the afternoon of 5 September , when the advance guard of Maunoury 's Sixth Army encountered a corps on Kluck 's flank , north of Meaux . |
| 22 | There was nothing conscious or deliberate about my decision , if indeed it can be called a decision at all . |
| 23 | What binds all these discordant currents into something that can be called a community ? |
| 24 | Thus : ( 77 ) This side of the box can mean " the surface of the box that can be called a side which is nearest to the location of the speaker at CT " , but : ( 78 ) This side of the tree simply means " that area of the tree visible from the point where the speaker is at CT ( or the space between that area and that point ) " . |
| 25 | They belong to a point ( if three-and-a-half books can be called a point , for it lasts from half-way through Exodus to the end of Deuteronomy ) of great tension in the narrative . |
| 26 | The debate — if such a one-sided affair can be called a debate — took place on 7 April . |
| 27 | Choreographers today also need to understand what can be called a Grammar of Choreography if their work is to emerge as a valid stage presentation . |
| 28 | Rather , the evidence suggests a classification of teams which distinguishes the core team " from the " extended team " , which in turn is distinguished from the " service network " team — if , indeed , a 20-person grouping can be called a team . |
| 29 | He expressed disquiet , however , over strong British government support for the ‘ Carter Doctrine under which any part of the world can be proclaimed a sphere of vital American interests ’ including ‘ the oil-rich Persian Gulf region ’ . |
| 30 | Using a real-life example that assumes it costs $5 a line to write code and that 100 lines of code can be written a day , SmartStar figures it can cut the cost of generating a trivial application to $750 compared with $12,000 using a tool kit and $7,000 using a Motif GUI builder . |