Example sentences of "can be [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Study can be on a full-time or part-time basis , from one to three years .
2 Some LEAs are in the process of major reorganization themselves , so that heads can be on the receiving end of a stream of directives and initiatives that contradict and countermand each other quicker than they can be assimilated .
3 The systematic model of teaching illustrates how influential correctly used objectives can be on the whole teaching process from planning to assessment , and demonstrates the need for extreme care in choosing them .
4 ‘ Do n't you know how treacherous conditions can be on the Scottish mountains in the middle of winter ?
5 The deposits can be for the following terms : overnight , 1 week , or 1,2,3,4,5,6,9 or 12 months .
6 Caterham is as ready as it can be for the single European market , which is of critical importance since 60% of its production is exported .
7 Self-confidence can be at a low ebb if you 've just been told to p … off by an embittered pedestrian .
8 Having given you a run down of the main events , you can see how harmful rejection and repression can be to a vulnerable sixteen year old girl .
9 If the Legal Aid Board , as the only party adversely affected by the proposed order , has the opportunity to challenge it but decides not to do so , one may ask rhetorically what possible objection of substance there can be to the existing practice .
10 The animals will become as well fitted as they can be to the local conditions .
11 Well increasingly we see that organizations are recognizing that effective use of information as a corporate resource manipulated and manageable as a whole can be of a tremendous competitive advantage and the client server has become the most effective way of exploiting and leveraging that resource .
12 So that there 's a kind of assessment built in there … but that piece of work goes forward in the end and is more , slightly more , formally assessed in the sense that we give them direct feedback on performance , and that runs from technical notes , director 's notes , to a very much more abstract formal assessment , which is essentially subjective , ‘ How does one feel about this piece , the atmosphere it creates ’ , … and that 's quite different from director 's notes , which can be of a technical variety to do with voice , movement , audibility , characterization , anything ; the things that are actually being described , analysed , looked at in the end …
13 Information can be of the most detailed kind ( usually processed by computer ) , or can be of a judgemental nature ( usually in a written report ) .
14 Impairment can be of the sensory receptor , or of the pathway carrying the impulse to the brain , or of the brain 's interpreting ability .
15 The more a government squawks about ‘ individual freedoms ’ , ‘ non-intervention by the state ’ , ‘ private enterprise ’ , and the other great rallying calls of capital , the more certain one can be of the total control by that state of its citizens .
16 Photographs can be put to witnesses during the course of examination in and out of Court and can be of the utmost importance in cases where vague descriptions of a locus , machinery , etc. would be detrimental to advancing a strong defence in Court .
17 An art monograph need not be about a person , but can be about an individual work or a scheme such as a mural decoration .
18 The importance of food to the family can be as a social process or a centre around which all family communication and interaction takes place .
19 This can be as a senior executive , trainer or educator
20 Input devices range from microphones that go into the external jack to compact disk players ; output can be through the internal speaker , or via stereo speakers or headphones plugged into the speaker jack .
21 When old nationalisms come to the surface , having been suppressed for decades , it can be in a pure and dangerous form .
22 Such provision can be in a separate deed between the parties ( to be lodged with the deeds ) .
23 Crashing the car , taking someone else 's life with them , terrible situations , terrible tragedies can come about because a person physically goes to sleep so it can be in a spiritual sense that we can nod off to sleep and not only our lives are involved , but our fellow brothers ' and sisters ' too ,
24 Life 's too short it certainly can be in a racing driver 's career to relax . ’
25 SHe has eluded me completely , which leads me to believe SHe can be in the only place secure enough to hide from me , namely the Roirbak complex at Acropolis Park .
26 What a rock this can be in the shaky marriages around us .
27 We think we can be in the high teens or 20% going forward . ’
28 The right sort of literary experience can be like a nuclear explosion , whereas the ‘ human expressiveness ’ that Scholes detects in the humblest graffito is more like the low-level radioactivity that is always present in the natural environment .
29 Even a kiss can be like the sharp end of a wedge which has the power to pierce our body chemistry , split open our emotional equilibrium and lead desires towards the bedroom far too prematurely .
30 The old and lonely are very vulnerable , and if you have sounded detached , preoccupied , or hurried during the conversation they can easily feel hurt and rejected ; and that hurt can be like an emotional graze that will remain painful until you are able to see them again and heal it .
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