Example sentences of "[noun] [vb mod] readily [be] " in BNC.

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1 In the New World the working of silver , like that of gold and copper , seems to have begun in Peru where native silver could readily be collected for melting .
2 Pearl-bearing oysters can readily be gathered by divers without recourse to elaborate equipment .
3 There are few examples of their being scattered extensively and repeatedly used within a single text ; where this does happen , as for instance in Les quatre Souhais Saint Martin , the practice can readily be justified by its thematic significance ( on which see further below ) , as again can be seen to be the case with the cornucopia of excrement that Robin drops on to the deservedly victimized Jouglet .
4 The justification for an involvement in partnership can readily be found on philosophical grounds about which there is little dispute .
5 This may be a little exaggerated , but it makes the point quite nicely that the commodity position of British trade recovered strikingly well after 1945 — essential imports could readily be paid for by exports plus the American loan remarkably quickly after the war 's end .
6 Experimental results showing the involvement of RNA and protein synthesis in memory formation could readily be accommodated to the new molecular thinking , but what really raised the temperature of the whole enterprise were reports that began to appear of bizarre memory experiments involving planaria .
7 We expect that our work can readily be extended to versions of the language .
8 The drafters of the 1533 act can readily be imagined looking up the statute of Richard II which referred to ‘ varlets called yeomen ’ in the service of lords — the Canon 's Yeoman no less .
9 The effects of drugs , lesions and other manipulations can readily be tested in this type of equipment by a study of their effect on the speed and directness with which the rat can find the hidden shelf .
10 Although Garvey and Caramazza describe implicit causality as a property of verbs , it is , as we have already implied , best regarded as an aspect of world knowledge and , as such , its effects can readily be accommodated within the mental models framework , particularly if one assumes with Ladusaw & Dowty ( 1988 ) that generalizations about roles associated with verbs lie in the domain of world knowledge rather than linguistic theory .
11 Examples of this kind could readily be multiplied , but it does not follow that the different methods espoused are really all that different in their fundamental orientations .
12 It is a sin for which neither absolution nor salvation may readily be forthcoming .
13 However , the rich variety of Jovian colours could readily be produced by traces of other substances in the cloud particles , traces that are far less abundant than the main constituents of such particles .
14 Similar messages can readily be derived from Dewey 's work .
15 ( What would have happened at Verdun had Renault remained out of business can readily be deduced from what has already been said about the Voie Sacrée . )
16 A number of reservations can readily be identified .
17 Some ideas can readily be recalled to consciousness , and these Freud thinks of as in the preconscious .
18 In these nuclei the body can readily be distinguished from the chromocentres since it is appreciably darker staining and lies in a small " notch " in the nuclear membrane .
19 It might , of course , mean that that particular person will readily be labelled ‘ deviant ’ , but it is equally possible that an individual could fully appreciate the attitude(s) of the generalized other and yet choose not to act within its framework .
20 The differentiation between hypertrophic gastropathy and Zollinger-Ellison syndrome can readily be made by the serum pepsinogen A:C ratio , as all five patients with hypertrophic gastropathy had a low , and all Zollinger-Ellison patients a normal ratio .
21 Moreover , ventilation is impeded by the bad , confused method of building of the whole quarter , and since many human beings here live crowded into a small space , the atmosphere that prevails in these working-men 's quarters may readily be imagined .
22 The same argument could readily be made for restaurants , but there is a difference .
23 Although the addition of gold softens tumbaga axes , their working edges could readily be toughened by hammering .
24 This is the usual method and amendments can readily be made to such a file if errors are detected .
25 Pure platinum could readily be shaped by hammering , the technique most commonly found on prehistoric nose-rings from Colombia , but its high melting point ( 1775C ) put casting the pure metal beyond the reach of early smiths .
26 Judicial decisions can readily be found in the common-law world which use commercial utility as a justification in their reasoning .
27 Foreign genes can readily be inserted into the virus genome and expressed at high levels .
28 Anyone who might oppose the new legislation can readily be branded as showing indifference towards the dreadful consequences which have sometimes flowed from these offences .
29 But the line of thought can readily be adapted to our previous reasons for questioning Lipsey 's diagram .
30 These examples could readily be multiplied .
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