Example sentences of "[adj] can [be] [verb] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hang-gliding : This can be arranged for the intrepid , and is definitely worth it though we ca n't cover this with our standard insurance . |
| 2 | They must provide cover for absent colleagues for up to three days , though this can be extended for a teacher whose classroom teaching duties occupy less than three-quarters of his or her working week , or where it is not ‘ reasonably practical ’ for a supply teacher to be found to replace the absent colleague . |
| 3 | If this can be done for an amorphous sample and a corresponding sample which is highly crystalline , a relative measure of crystallinity for other samples of the same polymer can be obtained . |
| 4 | These can be kept for a long time and are likely to breed . |
| 5 | Black or white tri-laminate scratchplates come as standard , but these can be changed for a much more interesting and fashionable pearloid affair which , for some strange reason , costs a touch more . |
| 6 | So who 's making the profit , if a typical CD retailing at 12.99 can be made for a mere 50 pence ? |
| 7 | Much the same can be said for the group of surnames representing the former holding of offices , which includes such obvious examples as Butler , Chamberlain , Reeve , Beadle , Granger and Steward , but some are less obvious because time has dimmed both the memory of the office concerned and distorted the spelling of the name : Grieve = a farm steward ; Gayler = a gaoler ; Bailey = a bailiff or sergeant ; Spencer = a dispenser of provisions ; Tunnard = guardian of the village ( tūn ) pound ; Senskell = a majordomo ( seneschal ) ; Wardrop = a wardrober . |
| 8 | The same can be said for the ME-10's overdrive ; again this sound is a matter of taste , although not really mine . |
| 9 | The trouble is that charity work never ends and the same can be said for the constant need for money to pay for research work , buy new hospital machinery or vehicles for disabled youngsters . |
| 10 | Much the same can be said for the use of the ‘ grid ’ in countless high-modernist abstract paintings by Mondrian , Reinhardt , and many others . |
| 11 | The best that can be said for the education available for the children of the eighteenth-century poor is that it managed to maintain the levels of the later seventeenth century . |
| 12 | In Bacon 's books , Sprat says , ‘ are every where scattered the best arguments , that can be produced for the defence of Experimental Philosophy ; and the best directions , that are needful to promote it ’ , while according to Glanvill ‘ all the main heads of natural history have received aids and increase from the famous Bacon , who led the way to substantial wisdom , and hath given most excellent directions for the method of such an history of nature ’ . |