Example sentences of "can be [verb] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The classroom gives us one example of this , and as we will reveal , one of the places where some form of serious life can be lived is on the football terraces . |
| 2 | The best that can be hoped is that the Senate and the House will agree on amendments to the law which will remove the gimmicks and inject more discipline into the process . |
| 3 | The first and most obvious question which can be asked is , why call the union between a man and an operated transsexual a ‘ marriage' ? |
| 4 | Nothing changes/feelings shift , move endlessly in circles/moths beating at glass endlessly/all that energy expended on nothing/no-one lets you in/desire and what can be desired are all fixed within strict parameters/ established as everything you 're not/desire written against your body/encoded in all the spaces which are not you/contours which are not yours/you occupy the gap between desire and fulfilment/absence of choice/no choice at all/why are moths nocturnal when so strongly attracted to light ? |
| 5 | Bright clear days when the Alps can be seen are rare , ( and the more pleasurable for being so ) , and if you want such days you had better come in spring or autumn when the heat haze is reduced . |
| 6 | Three rusted iron wheels remain at the site , but otherwise all that can be seen are foundations and watercourses . |
| 7 | The second way in which this trend can be seen is in the content of advice given . |
| 8 | What can be seen is that Parliament can not have intended an implied limitation along the lines of Ex parte Blain , 12 Ch.D. 522 . |
| 9 | What can be seen is that the attempt to correlate black youth and crime is a latent but definite element in the law and order debate . |
| 10 | What can be seen is that young girls are growing up far more quickly , and expect to be treated like adult earlier these days . |
| 11 | Various ways in which this can be done are set out in Appendix 5 . |
| 12 | The most that can be done is that B may allow C to use his name to claim the money . |
| 13 | Clearly , therefore , there is no way in which oxygen can be obtained without any water loss : the best that can be done is to minimize the loss . |
| 14 | That this can be done is borne out in practice , and it is sometimes noted that , in the course of treatment for some long-standing chronic condition , patients will re-experience old symptoms which they may have forgotten about . |
| 15 | The rejoinder must be : although we may generally have neither the time nor the inclination to look at literary language under the microscope in this way , the fact that it can be done is important , and the doing of it can not fail to sharpen observation , by making us aware of how larger effects are built up from smaller ones . |
| 16 | The work which can be done is any work a solicitor normally does other than representation in a court or tribunal . |
| 17 | When it is thought vital that members or creditors should receive notice , the Act requires them to be given notice by the company ; in relation to the general public the best that can be done is to require publication in newspapers . |
| 18 | The best that can be done is to convert the uncertainty , which is not quantifiable , into risk , which is . |
| 19 | The best that can be done is to convert the uncertainty , which is not quantifiable , into risk , which is . |
| 20 | All that can be done is to point to the factors that the courts commonly take into account when calculating the multiplier . |
| 21 | As has been seen , the only ground on which a right in the strong sense can be defeated is an even weightier competing right advanced by another individual . |
| 22 | such goals that can be indicated are frequently vague , multiple and contradictory . |
| 23 | It is far easier to trace one 's ancestors in the second half of the sixteenth century than in the Middle Ages , and the information that can be collected is usually much fuller than before . |
| 24 | Some of the ways in which this can be achieved are described in the discussion which follows of preventing accidents in the home ; at work ; at play ; and while travelling . |
| 25 | Better support for carers is an essential ingredient of good community care and we want to ensure that practical examples of how this can be achieved are well publicised so that others can emulate them . |
| 26 | Unless the both the page printer and the page makeup software support a page description language such as PostScript or DDL the results that can be achieved are limited . |
| 27 | Under Venezuela 's five year plan for 1984–1989 the profile of debt payments allows for annual growth of 2.5 — 5.5% but whether this can be achieved is highly dependent on oil prices and quotas since oil accounts for over 90% of exports . |
| 28 | The extent to which subject coverage on the shelves can be achieved is a matter of library policy , funding , the amount of shelf space available , and the efficiency of interlending systems to which the authority has recourse . |
| 29 | Whether this can be achieved is debatable because management schemes implemented to date have not been uniformly successful due to the tremendous variation in ecology and terrain . |
| 30 | Returning to the problem of Table 10.1 , we have seen that the best value that can be achieved is 1 . |