Example sentences of "[pers pn] can [be] [vb pp] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'll give you a number where I can be reached in any emergency . ’ |
| 2 | The woman we have just described is 30 lb ( 13.6 kg ) overweight and she should be delighted if she can be rid of this in around a year . |
| 3 | You can be excommunicated for that , you know . ’ |
| 4 | While the objections to this point of view are obvious — we can be led into all manner of belief by wishful thinking — it coincided with the beginnings of a general desire to re-open the discussion which Locke had apparently concluded for good and all . |
| 5 | Sprague summed up : ‘ So we can be united in this as all things ? |
| 6 | Er we are good friends , er although competitors and erm my view is that that whoever , who are the Walsall producers make the best leather we can be found in this country . |
| 7 | President , Congress , Conference I know we will all welcome all the pressure that we can be brought to this government and its pursuit of policies if that 's the right world , policies that do n't have a direction would just have them from one crisis to another . |
| 8 | With certain limited exceptions , married men are exempt from liability for rape of their wives , although they can be prosecuted for any accompanying assault or violence . |
| 9 | The leases make the publican responsible for the upkeep of the pub and , although they can be assigned to another person after two years , the original holder would be responsible for meeting payments if that person defaulted . |
| 10 | If individuals have personal difficulties that do not impinge on their functioning at work they can be assessed under this agreement : the individual would then be referred to an appropriate specialist agency for ongoing work outside the agreement , on a personal basis and without commitment on RBGE 's part . |
| 11 | The outlines shown by daylight are obscured ; shapes and colours are different , if indeed they can be perceived at all . |
| 12 | They have the advantage that they can be calculated for most countries in the world . |
| 13 | They can be damaged by those who are over-protective as well as those who neglect or abuse them . |
| 14 | The four legs and four rails that will make up the seat-jointing section are cut oversize so that they can be cut in half . |
| 15 | They can be created with many of the electronic publishing packages but are often better produced by a dedicated forms program . |
| 16 | People understand their own and other people 's lives not just in terms of class fractions or units of labour power even if they can be categorised as such . |
| 17 | They can be placed on all , odd or even pages and they can include time , date and page numbers . |
| 18 | After these simple substitution drills are mastered separately they can be placed alongside each other ( as above ) and drilled across as a system drill . |
| 19 | You could even buy one of the sub-£200 XTs that are on the market at the moment — but do n't make the mistake of thinking that they can be pushed into many other applications areas . |
| 20 | The symbolic roles of precious substances in human affairs are many and various and they can be viewed from several directions . |
| 21 | It is hoped that more and more of the applications for renewal of approval will be such that they can be granted without any extensive dialogue on them being necessary , and indeed that many of them can be granted without any visit being made to the College by representatives of the Council or vice versa and without any special conditions being attached to the approval . |
| 22 | In a large proportion of the cases , when they can be applied at all , both uses — associative and ascriptive — make equally good sense because the facts observed or imagined can be described equally well either way ; the mental , linguistic , difference is there but both mental representations can be mapped onto the same single external situation . |
| 23 | They are shunted from one set of rails to another ; turn-tables spin them round until they can be run upon any particular line ; by means of capstans and ropes the loaded trucks are warped this way or that ; and tank engines push them hither and thither . |
| 24 | PLUVIUS PITCH COVERS ( ) also provide protective equipment : they can be seen at many of the county grounds , including Lord 's . |
| 25 | They can be seen from several miles away , and they can also be shot ( not necessarily killed ) over considerable distances with high-powered rifles . |
| 26 | They can be studied in many different ways and with varying degrees of sophistication . |
| 27 | First , they can be situated in any part of the UK , which makes access difficult and the length of time to get the information can be long . |
| 28 | Those , they would argue , can not be shot since they will not leave their burrow system , and so they can be left until another day , when perhaps they will decide to bolt more readily . |
| 29 | They can be described in many other ways , as yang and yin , as materialism and spirituality , as individualism and cooperation . |
| 30 | " It would be wrong for me to pretend that these problems can be solved quickly — if they can be solved at all . |