Example sentences of "[pron] can be [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Secondary information services typically index a document into terms of an indexing language which can be considered a semantic net . |
| 2 | This is a sort of ‘ semi-film ’ , made by shooting the pictures of a specially drawn storyboard with a rostrum camera , which makes it possible to produce an almost moving picture with varying lengths of focus , to which can be added a recorded soundtrack . |
| 3 | and fair enough , but you can be doing A Level English because you want to be a physiotherapist , and you need that other A Level , is that not true ? |
| 4 | A good idea is to attach stickers announcing when the last change was made : otherwise , you can be running a clapped-out tube at the very time it 's most needed . |
| 5 | When a specific pathogenic organism is implicated , such as the gonococcus , there can be assumed a natural cause-and-effect , and the presence of pus-cells is easily explained . |
| 6 | In the reported cases there can be found a wide range of different approaches , from that which treats the Convention as exclusively regulating the procedures to be followed to that which recognises the availability of the Convention but asserts that the powers and practice of United States courts are essentially unaffected . |
| 7 | The substance of all that has so far been written in this chapter illustrates how there can be established a firm belief that God and man have developed from a common origin , the origin itself being irrelevant . |
| 8 | For this reason it is wise to keep a few in a bowl during the winter , so that they can be given a little warmth during early spring to encourage premature growth and shade the first flush of water discolouring algae , thus discouraging its growth . |
| 9 | AMERICAN sports fans tend not to believe the evidence of their own eyes until they can be shown a corroborating statistic . |
| 10 | On the contrary , it can be given a sharp , stressful edge by writing in such a way that the usual triadic structure is partly or totally demolished . |
| 11 | Obviously , the regiment must include a standard bearer before it can be given a magic standard . |
| 12 | He can be offered a divisional job in one of the UK divisions I suppose . ’ |
| 13 | It is this particular way of playing which makes Ashton 's La Fille Mal Gardée what can be called a National Ballet in the same sense that both The Firebird and Petrushka can be called Russian National Ballets and Rodeo and Fall River Legend American . |