Example sentences of "[noun] can [be] [verb] [adv prt] of " in BNC.

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1 These cause trouble because often the speller does not recognise that words can be made up of different bits brought together .
2 Each group has a word such as ‘ measurements ’ or ‘ recommendations ’ , and the object is to see how many other words can be made out of this .
3 The ears can be made out of felt and a small tail can be made of cotton wool .
4 And in the event of a failure the vehicle can be taken out of service , which should increase the reliability of the system .
5 The uncomfortable aspects of the metaphor can be screened out of memory because the wish is to create a ‘ new ’ family within the enterprise and so rectifying past , actual experiences in families , or simply perpetuate memories of good families .
6 An integrated circuit can be made up of a few capacitors , diodes , resistors and transistors or even thousands of them .
7 If stored in or applied by these materials QACs can be drawn out of solution and become unavailable to use .
8 Yet , as reported in community Care ( Politics , 4 March 1993 ) most SSDs have strict criteria for eligibility for services , and ‘ only the most complex personal care needs can be met out of the money available . ’
9 Visiting yachts can be taken out of the water by the club 's ten ton crane and wintered on the hard or in the shed .
10 There are more than 30 legal moves in the average chess position , which means that more than 30 different chess positions can be generated out of the average position with a single play , about a thousand ( the rough product of 30 x 30 ) with one full move , a million with two move , and so on .
11 With each step more things can be let out of the pound ; exact discussions can be made less abstract , realistic discussions can be made less inexact than was possible at an earlier stage .
12 ‘ Now , these things can be exaggerated out of all proportion .
13 They were not usually intended to produce a modern type of financial statement and only very rough approximations can be wrung out of them .
14 Of course , some sort of pattern can be teased out of the most disordered subject though it may take half a dozen attempts before a pictorial structure emerges ; such an unhurried approach is not always possible for the long distance traveller .
15 Several further assessments of the UDC policy can be drawn out of MDC 's experience .
16 In windy weather , water from the fountain can be blown out of the pond .
17 Intact chromosomes can be lifted out of cells for genetic studies ; plant protoplasts ( cells devoid of their cell walls ) can be persuaded to grow into whole plants and much has been learned of plant metabolism by grafting experiments — for example the grafting of tomato tops to potato tubers demonstrated the energy storing capacity of tubers , although the — hybrid was of little practical value hybrids of potato and tomato cells have also been grown .
18 Hans Hartmann , oceanographer with the Aquatic resources Conservation Group in Seattle , however , said that scientific studies had been misdirected insofar as they had concentrated on how much of a commercial species can be taken out of the sea , rather than understanding of how the sea itself works .
19 The bag should be emptied before it gets about half full and this is achieved by turning the bag anti-clockwise so that the spout can be pulled out of the dust port .
20 Unless lone mothers can be helped out of low-paid jobs they will still remain poor .
21 The answer is that , in quantum theory , particles can be created out of energy in the form of particle/antiparticle pairs .
22 Partial replacement of Cl - with HCO also increased the uptake current ( Fig. 3 c ) , suggesting that HCO can be transported out of the cell by the uptake carrier .
23 The family setting can not be omitted from considerations of sexuality any more than sexuality can be left out of ideas concerning the complicated web of interaction and relationships which comprise family life .
24 If liked , extra artist 's paint tubes can be made out of leftover fondant , and painted silver once dry .
25 With free counterpoint it is possible also to vary the number of ‘ parts ’ to form chords of different densities at any point , so that each horizontal line can be made up of vertical combinations of various numbers of notes .
26 The key must be to utilize a group of barns , cow sheds or other such buildings laid out round a farmyard , so that vehicles can be parked out of sight .
27 If the Poltergeist can be driven out of the chamber by a Zone of Sanctuary it will flee , as its bounded area is the whole Tower .
28 Similarly , the public but not the press can be kept out of an adult court while a child or young person gives evidence in relation to a sex offence .
29 Other paths can be programmed out of sequences of those provided , together with logical operations where necessary for masking , etc .
30 Probably the major factor which must be addressed before the scheme can be moved out of the realm of an interesting example of developments of classification theory into a practical classification scheme is its organizational backing .
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