Example sentences of "[noun sg] can [be] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just across the Dean Bridge beside the imposing facade of Stewarts Melville college can be found the gracious Victorian setting of the Queensway Hotel . |
| 2 | .. perhaps the next step in future research can be to explore the detailed linkage between environment , scanning , and actual strategic adjustments . |
| 3 | Sometimes an impacted basket can be delivered the next day , when the ampullary oedema subsides . |
| 4 | Every group can be tackling the same problem , or different groups can be working on different improvisations . |
| 5 | If no further contact can be made the general practitioner should be informed . |
| 6 | Of course the game can be played the other way round and even crude Austinian positivism might be treated as vindicated by the English criminal statute . |
| 7 | In the foreground can be seen the old-established straw-plait basket shop . |
| 8 | A laborious internal review of the Long-Term Costing is undertaken to whittle down the gap , and to highlight vulnerable programmes so that the Secretary of State can be given the strongest possible brief to help him fight for a higher allocation of resources ; and conversely to enable him to fend off attacks by other high-spending ministers , who are intent on grabbing a larger share for themselves , often at the expense of Defence . |
| 9 | Caerleon , the legionary fortress of Isca , boasts the atmospheric remains of a Roman amphitheatre and baths complex , whilst in the beautiful Wye Valley can be found the substantial ruins of Tintern Abbey and Chepstow Castle . |
| 10 | Nowhere to the west of the Wallace Line can be found the giant Cassowary , Birds of Paradise or marsupials of Australasia , and nowhere to the east of it are found the tigers , elephants , primates and early man which crossed the land-bridge once connecting Java , Sumatra and Borneo to mainland Asia . |
| 11 | Amongst the disincentives to compiling and maintaining a special classification scheme can be numbered the following : |
| 12 | In the church vestry can be found the unsmiling and stalwart statue of Queen Elizabeth 1 . |
| 13 | All around the oval churchyard can be found the sunken tracks that were once the village streets and paths and raised above them are the grassy mounds that cover the foundations of houses and cottages long since gone . |
| 14 | Enthusiasm can spur one on to cram the border full of as many herbs as possible , but some of them are likely to die as a result , and others will be tall and weedy ; it is far better to plant with spaces between them to start with , allowing them room to grow to their full size so that their growth habit and leaf value can be made the most of in the context of the overall design . |