Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] can [be] [vb pp] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When two businesses are both buying from and selling to one another the outstanding accounts between them can be offset and the net balance paid by whoever owes it to the other . |
| 2 | A paper published in Nature , for example , will contain a very small number of references , each of which can be regarded as highly influential on the authors , because that journal limits the number of references per paper . |
| 3 | Secondly , there is the resulting force field , the various terms of which can be taken as force constants for the motions used initially to define the problem . |
| 4 | Nisbet maintains that these five strategies represent the range of possibilities and that they can each be located on a spectrum , the poles of which can be described as ‘ hard ’ and ‘ soft ’ . |
| 5 | First-hand experience is invaluable but only a limited amount of it can be arranged and you certainly ca n't have large numbers of trainees sitting at the back of the same class . |
| 6 | This may buy some short-term security , but at the cost of limiting how much of themselves can be revealed and used in relationships with others . |
| 7 | CHURCHES AND CHAPELS continue to form a major part of the work of SAVE , particularly the serious problem of what can be done when they become redundant and are closed . |
| 8 | there must be a realistic view of what can be achieved but it should n't hinder the improvement process nor stunt enthusiasm . |
| 9 | Partnership It should rival the best of European cities and should be famously celebrated in Britain as an example of what can be achieved when resources and the expertise to implement solutions to environmental problems are combined with civic will . ’ |
| 10 | Objectively , in terms of what can be seen and/or heard . |
| 11 | A description of an organism in terms of what can be seen or measured . |
| 12 | Laid mesh side up it gives a good base for carpets and tiles , and smooth side up it can be painted and stencilled to match design schemes . |
| 13 | Our concern is rather to break away from the stale confrontation of reason and spontaneity which has persisted since the Romantic Movement , to invite the man of reason to admit that he never has had any ends which did not spring from his own spontaneity , and the intuitive and impulsive that no insight that flashes from theirs can be acknowledged as objective truth until it survives the ruthless justice of reason . |
| 14 | However the proposed European directive has a number of further hurdles to be negotiated before it can be finalised and even when it is it 's unlikely to be implemented before nineteen ninety six . |
| 15 | Freud sees this aspect of Judaism as marking an advance away from sensuality , from what can be seen or touched , towards intellectuality , thought processes about unseen things , such as God . |
| 16 | Berkeley offers Newton 's achievements in illustration of how the hidden rules , or ‘ laws of nature ’ , by which God excites ideas in us can be discerned and systematized . |
| 17 | As long as we accept that there is a limit to what can be done and that in no way 's detracted from fire station . |
| 18 | We shall be drawing our examples from the professional knowledge , not only of teachers , but of media specialists and librarians , because they have much to suggest to us , and because their contributions within schools and without are important to what can be attempted and achieved . |
| 19 | The austerity of the positivist programme may at first sight seem highly scientific , with its rigid adherence to what can be measured and its banishing of all that is not the immediate fruit of experience . |
| 20 | The weaknesses which strike the economy as a whole — scarcities , changeovers from design to mass production — are , even in the defence sector , the principal constraints on what can be produced and how . |
| 21 | It seems irresponsible and morally indefensible to intervene in clients ' lives if you are uncertain about what can be achieved and the best methods of doing so . |
| 22 | In Britain , American experience is commonly cited as setting a precedent both for what can be done and for the policy strategies necessary for success . |