Example sentences of "[pers pn] can [be] [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've persuaded the people who matter that I 'm the best man to work with you to help us clear this up , but I 'm like a football manager , Cameron ; I can be replaced at a moment 's notice and I 'm only as good as the results I get . |
| 2 | That way she can keep her puritanical role as keeper of the rules , and I can be represented as a rude anarchist . |
| 3 | Like every rule , it has means by which it is enforced ; in this case , if I break the rule of driving on the left-hand side of the road I can be prosecuted under a law of the land . |
| 4 | She can be sold with a complete charter management , and is the ultimate cruising choice for both charter guests and owners . |
| 5 | A. If you are a tenant of a public landlord , such as a local authority , new town or housing association , and if you have a pressing need to move to another local authority area for a job or social reasons ( for example , because you are elderly or handicapped ) , you should ask your landlord whether you can be nominated for a move under the National Mobility Scheme . |
| 6 | Although any eligible accounts held by you can be associated with a single card , one account must be nominated as the Primary Account to which all transactions relate unless you select a different account for a particular transaction , for example because there are insufficient funds in the Primary Account to meet the withdrawal . |
| 7 | You can be left with a red mark a couple of inches across that takes days to fade . |
| 8 | This , Lukes argued , is the most insidious form of power in that we can be manipulated into a course of action or believing in a set of values without realising it . |
| 9 | A grammatical sequence such as On his victory his opponent congratulates him can be reordered in a number of different ways without affecting its propositional content . |
| 10 | They can be stated in a number of different ways , but they are generally accepted to be : |
| 11 | To represent photographs taken , so they can be examined within a fictional context . |
| 12 | Words are used to inflect if they can be assigned to a number of grammatical classes , and the members of all these classes are distinguished from each other by their morphology ( internal shape ) and by their syntax ( the rules of their use ) . |
| 13 | Optical discs , for example , are made of insulating material ; although they can be coated with a thin metal film and put under an STM , an AFM could examine a product without destroying it . |
| 14 | They can be coated with a white , gold , silver or brass finish , either plain or decorative . |
| 15 | The ferrets force the rabbits to abandon their homes and bolt to the surface , where they can be killed by a number of methods . |
| 16 | For they are presented as holding between structures , or between a structure and the class struggle , and it is so far only an article of faith to suppose that they can be refined to a point where one can identify a specific connection such as that between an aspect of the peasant class and a particular form of capitalist state . |
| 17 | To a large extent the crops grown vary with altitude — they can be grown to a higher altitude on the warmer , less exposed south side . |
| 18 | They can be grown in a large number of different ways but are typically one or two microns thick though they may be millimetres or even centimetres long . |
| 19 | Well if they 've separated you see you get one on the inside track , one on the outside track and they can be separated by a hundred metres so that there 's one , one side one |
| 20 | They can be sacked If it 's less than two years they 've been working , they can be sacked at a weeks notice or whatever it is . |
| 21 | They can be cut with a craft knife , are easy to lay and now come with patterned border tiles , so it 's easy to create an individual effect . |
| 22 | Such bonds may build up before either party is fully aware of the connection , for they can be formed through a process of initiative and response at a very deep level . |
| 23 | Collocations are similar to dictionary definitions inasmuch as they can be expressed as a headword followed by a list of semantically related words . |
| 24 | On a square or round table they can be arranged in a circle around a group of tall candles or a bowl of fruit . |
| 25 | So many people visit the countryside and pick wild flowers because they find them pretty , only to have those flowers wilt and die long before they can be arranged in a vase . |
| 26 | And if you ca n't wait to taste them , you 'll be pleased to know that they can be defrosted in a microwave ! |
| 27 | If you are over-weight , and must cut down the amount you eat , you will repeatedly lapse , to satisfy your cravings. persistent minor symptoms , such as headaches , aching limbs or a lack of energy are often put down to nerves or stress but they can be caused by a reaction to food . |
| 28 | The structure of dialogue , moreover , disallows the taking up of any position beyond the interlocutors from which they can be integrated into a larger totality . |
| 29 | It has been suggested that there are three theoretical approaches to regimes binding erga omnes : they can be regarded as a special concept within the law of treaties constituting an exception to the res inter alios principle ; they can be justified on a public law basis whereby a group of States assume quasi-legislative competence to create a regulatory regime for a defined territory in the overall community interest ; or other processes such as recognition , acquiescence , estoppel , historic title , or the formation of customary international law can produce an erga omnes effect on treaties intended to have that effect . |
| 30 | This means they can be stored in a scientific calculator . |