Example sentences of "can be [verb] one " in BNC.

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1 He knows that individual managerial excellence can be achieved one day and lost the next .
2 I allow enough clearance so that the Top E string can be raised one semitone when fitted with .009″ — .042″ gauge strings .
3 We thus see the reason for the choice of C ♭ for its normal key , since every note in the scale of C ♭ can be raised one or two semitones without changing its name .
4 Easily Accessible : Walks spiral out in every direction , including the Pennine Way , which runs across Black Hill and can be joined one mile from the house .
5 Now EMLA , a local anaesthetic cream , can be applied one hour before an injection , to remove pain from the site .
6 He can be given one more magic item from Warhammer or Warhammer Magic at the standard points cost .
7 ‘ Yer can be paddlin' one minute and swimmin' the next . ’
8 From the passages on servants discussed above , the description of work can be judged one of the major concerns of the poem .
9 Further down the street can be found one of the only blacksmiths and farriers in the area , a very busy place , which also doubles as a local meeting place .
10 And now finally — as we always seem to be saying at the conclusion of our news bulletins — perhaps I can be allowed one or two serious observations .
11 McGegan 's problem ( if it can be considered one ) is that his own orchestra , Philharmonia Baroque , is based in Los Angeles , and is therefore too expensive to bring annually to Göttingen .
12 Within the NHS the Government requirement for ancillary services to be offered to private as well as ‘ in house ’ tenders can be considered one such strategic objective .
13 In contrast to the comments ( above ) on pavements with four pairs of interlaced squares , this mosaic can be considered one of the first examples of a distinctive saltire arrangement : an arrangement which has pelta-urns ( with bases facing away from the central roundel ) on each arm .
14 The tale of the fall at the last fence by the VA can be told one day , but for now talk of fund-raising , sponsorship , sale of merchandise etc etc by keen , but necessarily overnight , groupings of enthusiasts will only serve to muddy the waters .
15 This is not because it can be proved one way or the other that either or neither version is the type of play that Marlowe would have written .
16 If a message can be compressed one hundred times , it can be transmitted in one hundredth of the time , or transmitted at the same speed through a channel with one hundredth of the band width , and it can be stored in one hundredth of the volume of the original .
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