Example sentences of "[adv] can be [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Mr. Richards says , much of the procedure stems from the relevant statutes and regulations , and much can be gleaned from A Guide to the Award of Costs in Criminal Proceedings ( R.C.J. ( 1991 ) H.M.S.O. ) , which contains a section ( Section 6 ) on ‘ Wasted Costs and Orders … |
| 2 | They glow in the dark so can be used as a practical yet fashionable way of making drivers aware of children in the dark . |
| 3 | The relative percentage scores listed above can be taken as a very rough indication of prototype awareness , illustrating the radiality of the knowledge system . |
| 4 | For what sense exactly can be attached to a statement that a given particular is " to the north of itself " or that it " precedes itself " ? |
| 5 | Who knows how many quarrels , false accusations , unnecessary dismissals , how many promising careers cut short can be attributed to a butler 's slovenliness at the stage of drawing up the staff plan ? |
| 6 | The ability to communicate extra-sensorily can be seen as a sort of literary emblem of that which is fundamentally beyond expression . |
| 7 | The argument thus far can be fortified by a consideration of the nature of the ‘ ought ’ . |
| 8 | It is suggested that the aim of constraining the managers of the large public company by organizing the internal division of power in the company appropriately can be achieved in a variety of ways . |
| 9 | Thus it is assumed that the attitude-holder might possess certain beliefs , whose content implicitly can be taken as a criticism of counter-stances , but these stances may not yet have been historically realized in argument . |
| 10 | If the approach to be found here can be tied to a previous tradition , it will be to the modern speculative grammar of which Jespersen and Sapir were eminent exponents earlier in the century ; this tradition has become unfashionable in the past two or three decades , though distinguished work in this mode has still been produced by various scholars , for instance P. H. Matthews in England and Dwight Bolinger in America ; in particular , if there are any worthwhile results in the present text , they owe much to Bolinger 's example of investigation through careful scrutiny of what really happens grammatically when a given expression is used . |
| 11 | The walls here can be negotiated for a view of the Icelandic interior — — stunning wildness and extent . |
| 12 | For instance , one of the signs that extremely and fast are united in a grammatical construction is the fact that the sequence extremely fast can be replaced by a single element , say , old , which has the same relationship to cars as does extremely fast ; furthermore , this substitution causes no grammatical change in the rest of the sentence . |
| 13 | They are relatively cheap and sometimes can be produced by a hospital workshop — or an imaginative husband ! |
| 14 | The binary search technique described earlier can be used with a dynamically allocated structure . |
| 15 | The use of endoscopic biopsy specimens in histopathological diagnosis and of imaging techniques in staging disease extent avoids the need for laparotomy and gastrectomy which consequently can be reserved for a minority of cases . |
| 16 | Old textbooks should not be thrown away , since they may have material ( sources , illustrations , diagrams ) that at least can be used in a " cut and paste " session to produce new teaching material . |
| 17 | however can be found for a general polymer from birefringence and n.m.r. studies . |
| 18 | So , er er aggression again can be seen as a demand placed on the ego by the id , or for erm release as it were , when an ego erm goes and does something that , that releases the aggression . |
| 19 | A fusion of these two methods is imperative for the good harmonic flow of serial music , which thereby can be turned towards a greater degree of atonalism or otherwise , at any moment , as the composer wishes . |
| 20 | I am told by those who have responsibility for the care and custody of young people that they can actually do something with them over that period — but little can be achieved with a young man in one or two months . |
| 21 | The significant point is that an initial capital is a form of emphasis or highlighting in writing , and therefore can be used as a visual correlative of emphasis in speech ( see further 5.4.2 ) . |
| 22 | It is worth emphasizing its major difference from the structuralism of the sixties and seventies : whereas this later structuralism is mainly interested in the structure of literature as a whole , to the extent that this too can be viewed as a system of signs , the Prague School version took as its main object the structure of the individual text and , like the later Formalists , viewed the individual text as a system . |
| 23 | Gathering market information is an increasingly important consideration for many businesses and this too can be done over a WAN . |