Example sentences of "can be [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The craft of weaving requires threads that can be bound together , the skill to combine them , and knowledge of the patterns that can be formed . |
| 2 | It can be concluded therefore that the action project appears to make a difference in terms of the length of time people are sustained at home , but only to a certain type of dementia sufferer , and the numbers affected are likely to be small unless a wide geographical area is covered . |
| 3 | Tobacco accounts for ‘ little more than 1% of the $50bn ( £28.9bn. ) spent on advertising in the EC in 1990 ’ ( Financial Times , 20.5.91 ) and advertising industry forecasts are for a strong rise in total advertising expenditure throughout the EC , so that the removal of tobacco advertising can be absorbed easily . |
| 4 | When buying shoes , opt for lace-ups , or those with T-bars , as they can be secured firmly . |
| 5 | Granted structures of the Prisoners ' Dilemma type , cooperative behaviour can be secured only granted a certain level of assurance , and the need of norms ( in particular of sanctioned norms ) to produce that assurance shows that the assurance can not be adequately delivered by genetically based signals . |
| 6 | It follows that overseas salespeople need to understand how culture functions in individual overseas markets in order that the selling approach can be tailored accordingly . |
| 7 | It can be tailored specifically to the needs of the child and parents and its design can vary widely . |
| 8 | This has the advantage that the courses can be tailored specifically to meet company requirements and individual employee 's needs . |
| 9 | The data and data structures that have been identified can be mapped on to conventional computer files or clerical files and not necessarily databases . |
| 10 | If a local entity analysis is carried out , the model can be mapped on to a database and applications applied to it before another local data analysis is started . |
| 11 | This means that the best possible data model can be formulated with the knowledge that it can be mapped on to a DBMS . |
| 12 | Whether they can be mapped seismically within or below thrust sheets is more of a problem , but it is one that the industry seems confident of defeating in other parts of the world . |
| 13 | Getting people into appropriate slots — with the right experience behind them — mans that succession routes can be mapped out . |
| 14 | Their bodies can be mapped out like butchers ’ charts … |
| 15 | In addition to the fact that multiple complexes with defined stoichiometries can be mapped simultaneously , this in gel procedure circumvents the limitations imposed by the aforementioned factors , whereas its inherent advantages renders it ideal for methylation protection analysis of non-abundant and/or kinetically labile complexes . |
| 16 | You can be calling professionally . |
| 17 | The modern qualitative theory can be fleshed out into a quantitative technique ; and this book tells a coherent and deep mathematical story , packed with insights and ideas . |
| 18 | Once the basic gesture is jotted down , further refinements can be made ; the arms and legs can be fleshed out and the sex differences made evident . |
| 19 | Once the basic gesture is jotted down , further refinements can be made ; the arms and legs can be fleshed out and the sex differences made evident . |
| 20 | The White Paper , Caring for People , was a partial response to Griffiths and it can be fleshed out into a workable comprehensive policy ; it became law in June 1990 with the passing of the NHS and Community Care Act . |
| 21 | I put " as if " in quotation marks because electron spin is not a phenomenon which can be visualised quite as simply as that . |
| 22 | As getting in necessitates standing on the red leather trimmed seat , the manufacturers thoughtfully provide a ‘ mud flap ’ of similar material which can be flipped over from in front of the squab . |
| 23 | In view of the statement made by the Chief Constable of the Royal Ulster Constabulary that terrorist movements can be destroyed very effectively from within , will the Secretary of State consult his right hon. Friend the Prime Minister to ensure that the full weight of the intelligence services is brought to bear on all terrorist movements within the United Kingdom ? |
| 24 | The trauma captured in splitting is that one is n't there ; the same trauma that castration comes to symbolise is that one is incomplete ; the trauma that can be lived over and over again in the endless by-ways of life 's failures and imperfections . |
| 25 | Indeed the great scope for integrating walking and public transport into a new system of transport can be realised partly through attention to the interface between the modes . |
| 26 | The decoder has to create a cognitive space in which the deictic elements and terms can be realised indexically . |
| 27 | In his discussion of two lyric poems Keith Green suggests that the deictic expressions occurring in each text guide the reader in the construction of a context where their symbolic meanings can be realised indexically , i.e. where they perform a referential function . |
| 28 | Insects can be gathered not only from their nests and tunnels , but from the air . |
| 29 | The reasons given can be gathered under four broad heads : it would be a ‘ perilous adventure ’ to superimpose one part of a foreign system of law ( that is , the English law of mortgage ) upon the different system of land law in Sri Lanka ; the evidence about delay in enforcing mortgages and its adverse effects on the confidence of investors was thin ; the English rule , that a mortgagee should be able to sell the property on default without intervention of the court , would lead to breaches of the peace ; and there was a need to protect borrowers . |
| 30 | At best , the CTP is a vacuous summary of these observations , a framework within which they can be gathered together . |