Example sentences of "can be [vb pp] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once a decision has been made , then quite honestly the sooner it can been done the better . ’ |
| 2 | Beyond can be seen the outside world of ‘ Natures endless treasurie ’ , with a telescope trained on the heavens . |
| 3 | A few miles from where the tiny ships first ‘ debouched from the Strait ’ is a spot which marks one of the suture-lines of the planet , one of those rare sites where can be seen the brushstrokes of creation . |
| 4 | These cords trail away into the distance , and there can be seen the hands of Drachenfels himself , drawing the essence out of the soul and into his own hands . |
| 5 | In this view from the Round House towards THE SQUARE — a typical contradiction — can be seen the Trocadero on the corner of the substantial block of buildings which replaced the ‘ bankers ’ . |
| 6 | In the foreground can be seen the old-established straw-plait basket shop . |
| 7 | In this paradox can be seen the dilemma experienced by professionals . |
| 8 | Inside there is a piscina and in the bedrooms can be seen the outline of old windows that have been filled and plastered over . |
| 9 | As can be seen the trend analysis once again confirms that although the business is expanding in terms of sales costs are escalating ahead of sales . |
| 10 | In the more elaborate tombs can be seen the manner of domestic interior design , for the rock has been hewn to imitate rafters and ridge-piece . |
| 11 | In S. Vitale , in particular , can be seen the typical combination of subjects in the Bible story depicted next to the Emperor Justinian , his Queen and his Court . |
| 12 | During the eighteenth century diplomats were less irregularly paid than had hitherto been the case and there can be seen the first efforts , though very limited and ineffective ones , to provide them with some systematic professional training . |
| 13 | Here again , however , can be seen the persisting tendency to link the conduct of foreign policy with miscellaneous internal functions ; for the First Secretariat of State , as it was usually known , acquired in 1782 control of the Madrid police . |
| 14 | As can be seen the bulk of binding activity eluted with 1.0M NaCl buffer D ( lanes 13-15 ) . |
| 15 | There is a simple reason for its relative anonymity As far as can be ascertained the future of Cotherstone cheese appears to be in the hands of one lady , And she refuses absolutely to communicate with the media . |
| 16 | M oral philosophers are accustomed to start from the individual pursuing his own ends ; at once the question arises ‘ Why should I prefer anyone else 's to my own ? ’ , and until it can be answered the advantage lies with the egoist . |
| 17 | He can be denied the nomination only by an extraordinary blocking coalition of ‘ super-delegates ’ — party bigwigs who make up nearly a fifth of the voting delegates at the convention — and delegates already won by Tsongas and by Brown , plus a handful of delegates ( more than a tenth of the total ) who are already pledged as ‘ uncommitted ’ . |
| 18 | Its issue presupposes that some function of the body remains to be performed , and this sets an internal time limit after which the order could not issue ( although an applicant can be denied the order because of undue delay even before the expiry of this time ) . |
| 19 | If a woman and a man are living together as a couple , the woman can be charged her partner 's Poll Tax if he does not pay , and the man can be charged the woman 's Poll Tax if she does not pay . |
| 20 | If the inherent friction torque of the system can be neglected the equation for the rotor position relative to equilibrium ( 4.3 ) is modified by the damper torque : So the single step response of a system with a VCID is third-order , compared to the second-order Eqn . |
| 21 | Unless some of these problems can be overcome the GMC 's recommendations will be impossible to implement . |
| 22 | One difficulty is caused by Pascal 's lack of the facility available in ALGOL68 and Ada whereby a constant can be assigned the value of an expression . |
| 23 | It is a version of truth-conditional semantics , though , in which not sentences , but only utterances in context , can be assigned the propositions they express . |
| 24 | On the front panel of the selected case can be mounted the main On-Off switch , a neon indicator lamp , the ‘ volts out ’ control ( or switch system ) and the output terminals . |
| 25 | Instead of giving your mum chocolates ( or cake as they did in those days ) , you could treat her to a special melon basket , which can be prepared the day before . |
| 26 | Of course the game can be played the other way round and even crude Austinian positivism might be treated as vindicated by the English criminal statute . |
| 27 | For example , it can be argued the expansion into amalgamated police units has enlarged the organization to a point where it is no longer accessible to the man in the street ; alternatively , it may be that the use of a centralized computer and complex technical aids has alienated the public even at the same time they are increasingly fed a diet of violent news snippets which reinforce a fear of crime and generate another ‘ folk devil ’ of criminal menace , which demands the impossible : a policeman on every corner . |
| 28 | Milton 's high style allowed Samson to be read in a manner which reassured the very groups it can be argued the poem attacks . |
| 29 | It can be argued the flames have been fanned in part by attitude displayed by Milne 's hooking rival , Brian Moore , who once summed up the England approach by saying : ‘ Nobody likes us and we do n't care . ’ |
| 30 | A fourth type of critic can be called the compiler , whose criticism is implied in choices for collections or exhibitions . |