Example sentences of "can be [verb] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 520 that the Crown Prosecution Service can be bound if they consent to be bound . |
| 2 | In this way the financial circumstances and family formation of those aged 16-20 in 1961 can be mapped until the cohort is aged 42-46 in 1987 . |
| 3 | Whether it 's rape by a former boyfriend , abuse by an older authority figure , repeated groping by a brother or cousin , or assault by a casual acquaintance , the emotional scars go deep and a woman 's life can be destroyed if she does n't get help in coping . |
| 4 | We are likely to repeat previous styles to get us through the pain , but a point can be reached where the old ways no longer work . |
| 5 | I hope now that perhaps the legal proceedings can be held in abeyance and discussions can take place so some out of court settlement can be reached as the judges are urging . |
| 6 | Usually a compromise can be reached when there is good will and honesty on both sides . |
| 7 | The characteristics of Fig. 7.7 show that for a switching angle of 90 the low speed torque is only 0.1 Nm , but speeds of up to 2500 steps per second can be reached if the motor is lightly loaded . |
| 8 | The classical continuity which remains for the plucked string is that each of its harmonics can be sounded as softly or as loudly as we please . |
| 9 | Credit notes can be exchanged before they mature but this does involve the deduction of a premium . |
| 10 | In such circumstances , the lease and its counterpart can be exchanged immediately they have been settled by the parties ' advisers , and any works to be carried out by the tenant can be dealt with in a licence for alterations . |
| 11 | In that sense , our failure to measure up to that ideal can be seen , can be measured , can be understood , and the strength of the holy spirit can be sought as we all strive in his power not to fail in future . |
| 12 | This cost consciousness can be generated if you attend certain meetings yourself and lead a discussion about the price being paid for such activity . |
| 13 | The Lady of the Hearth can be invoked when you move into a new home . |
| 14 | Even married couples working for the same firm can be fired if the boss can prove that their relationship makes their employment impractical , or that it is against company policy . |
| 15 | I can not be refuted if I claim that my visual sense-field contains a yellow sense-content , but I can be refuted if I go on to claim that there exists a yellow object that is responsible for my sense-content . |
| 16 | This can be represented as shown in Figure 2.2 by Mason ( 1975 p. 2 ) . |
| 17 | As Bob Colenutt describes in this volume ( chapter 2 ) , state financed property speculation can be represented as inner city benevolence when the government hands over rich tracts of real estate to an unaccountable Urban Development Corporation in London . |
| 18 | Thus a very simple view of the operation of language as a coding system can be represented as follows : The broken line in this diagram indicates that although phonology is not actually realized in a written text , it is there " by implication " . |
| 19 | and the structure of a particular sentence can be represented as in Figure 4 . |
| 20 | This is still a confusing drawing but as before can be represented as either nodes , enclosing boxes , primary silhouettes , or secondary silhouettes of the comprising parts as illustrated in Figures 6.30a to 6.30d , respectively . |
| 21 | They can be represented as in Figure 11.6 . |
| 22 | The entities are quantifiable and can be represented as special tables , known as relations . |
| 23 | In the case of the hierarchical data mapping , the one-to-many relationship types can be represented as parent-child relationships but many-to-many relationships are more difficult to represent and lead to duplication . |
| 24 | This model can be represented as in Figure 2.1 . |
| 25 | This mixed model can be represented as shown in Figure 2.3 . |
| 26 | This can be represented as shown in Figure 2.4 . |
| 27 | Thus , as above , letting can be analysed as inseparable from the realization of the event evoked by the infinitive . |
| 28 | This implies in turn that in its use with the modal auxiliaries the bare infinitive can be analysed as expressing a potentiality coinciding in time with another potentiality ( the modal 's event ) . |
| 29 | For the time being , notice that on two occasions , Carol interrupts the flow of her own talk , trying to remember when a particular event took place — and on both occasions her self-interruption is in LE , interrupting a Creole sequence : Thus Carol 's talk in this conversation can be analysed as making use of two distinct codes , " Creole " and " English " , between which she moves systematically from time to time . |
| 30 | Also standardisation of interpretation can be ensured if objectives have been set in terms of a specific number of faults . |