Example sentences of "can now be [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps one of the most welcome results of its installation , has been the fact that hotplates , which can often cause dishes to dry out , can now be dispensed with for high volume catering . |
| 2 | Fortunately most equestrian expectations can now be fulfilled . |
| 3 | Homogenisation — the forces keeping the genes in a family similar to each other — is more subtle ; but the way in which this can occur can now be explained by a variety of molecular mechanisms which ensure , willy-nilly , that one variant copy would replace all other copies . |
| 4 | The concentration of ozone in surface air at Cape Grim can now be explained in terms of the competition between vertical mixing in the lower few kilometres of the atmosphere , near-surface destruction by photochemical reactions , and continuous , slow , dry deposition . |
| 5 | This can now be explained by the fact that H pylori causes a selective increase in G17 , which is the form of hormone which rises most with eating . |
| 6 | On-farm collection of semen can now be arranged for owners of males and the semen , frozen , can be stored by COBS . |
| 7 | Customers can now be invited to view carpets in their new showroom , a facility not available in the old office . |
| 8 | The evolutionary story , to the extent that it can now be understood ( and to the much more modest extent to which I understand it myself ) seems to me to give some support to the view that in this respect the historical story means very much what it seems to mean . |
| 9 | Many categories of street furniture can now be listed — pillar boxes , telephone kiosks , drinking fountains and bus shelters . |
| 10 | Interest rates can now be fixed for the duration of Fixed Term Accounts . |
| 11 | Although the Freer 's holdings have increased dramatically since the gallery opened — only 8% of the collections can now be exhibited at one time — it is nonetheless impossible to expand above ground near the Mall . |
| 12 | Far from being a ‘ disease of the mind ’ , as was once supposed , schizophrenia can now be regarded as an ‘ organic ’ disorder similar in many respects to Parkinson 's and Alzheimer 's diseases , in which pathological changes and abnormalities are more easily identifiable . |
| 13 | Their efficiency and reliability have also increased , to the extent that they can now be regarded as a primary recharging source for a yacht 's batteries alongside the engine alternator or the petrol generator . |
| 14 | Narrative , which at the level of narration is most threatened by referential interpretations , can now be regarded as a self-contained system with its own internal rules governing every aspect of its operation ; the signs of the narrator are embedded in the narrative , hence perfectly detectable by a semiological analysis . |
| 15 | This doctrine has its roots in the equitable nature of the duty of confidence but can now be regarded as covering both equitable and contractual obligations of confidence ( see Initial Services Ltd v Putterill ) . |
| 16 | This idea can now be refined through Bourdieu 's concept of habitus , in which the social group 's perspective upon some form is always predicated upon the historical construction of its dispositions , interaction being a conjunc-ture which can not be reduced merely to its immediate context ( Bourdieu 1977 : 81 ) . |
| 17 | Since July last year we 've been close to or below our target and the original CAT can now be disbanded . |
| 18 | Specific developments within formal education and their relation to the new English can now be given direct attention . |
| 19 | Calpol can now be given to babies developing a feverish reaction after triple immunisations against whooping cough , diphtheria and tetanus . |
| 20 | Standard thin sections required for teaching collections or archive purposes can now be given self-adhesive labels on which can be written all the details of the sample . |
| 21 | It can now be seen that these pieces of equipment constitute a basic gym around which routines for both beginners and advanced trainers can be structured . |
| 22 | That recent moment of glory , the Benson and Hedges Cup win at Lord 's in 1987 , can now be seen to have been illusory . |
| 23 | The sale of Vernons , generally viewed as a reflection of cash-flow difficulties at the time , can now be seen as yet another example of Sangster 's far-sightedness , in part encouraged by expectations of a national lottery in Britain . |
| 24 | The Medway Letter Line was meant to include ‘ unknown ’ floods , as well as recorded ones , and as information on flooding has become more sophisticated , it can now be seen to have overstated the benefit area by attempting to be on the safe side . |
| 25 | Some of the poems had been written during the 1860s , others were of more recent date , but the overall impression — which so disturbed contemporary readers — of austerity , metrical irregularity and verbal roughness , reminiscent of an oral tradition , can now be seen , in the words of another poet , David Wright , ‘ as a beginning of the end of Victorian poetry ’ . |
| 26 | They included ‘ Flying Scotsman ’ and ‘ Mallard ’ , which in 193 8 set up the world speed record for a steam locomotive of 126 m.p.h. , and which can now be seen at York ( q.v . ) . |
| 27 | This coach , after some hundred years of care at Wolverton , was handed to the National Railway Museum , and can now be seen at its York Museum . |
| 28 | It can now be seen as a deliberate political reaction to the earlier building , and it is even recorded that on its completion in 537 Justinian promised God that he himself had ‘ vanquished Solomon . ’ |
| 29 | It can now be seen that the sum of constant capital used up in the two departments during the production cycle is less than the total means of production produced by Dept . |
| 30 | Indeed , so firmly did they reject the view that adults should be given the right to choose their own cinema entertainment — ‘ whatever turns you on ’ , as the saying went — that their Report marked the beginning of a historic swing of the pendulum away from what can now be seen as the libertarian heyday of British media law . |