Example sentences of "and [adv] [pron] can [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Bible is treated primarily as a human product ; the world is explored by human investigation , and only what can be established rationally and scientifically is to be believed ; religion itself must be validated by reference to human experience , human values and human reason . |
| 2 | None of these elements is specified , and only one can be identified with any confidence . |
| 3 | None of these elements is specified , and only one can be identified with any confidence . |
| 4 | But the main disadvantage of the Edinburgh Room is that you can borrow slides only and not everything can be photocopied . |
| 5 | To put it another way , he was aware of the idea of divided consciousness , much discussed in his day , and here and elsewhere he can be seen applying it to his own actions . |
| 6 | A master disk can be read into memory and once there can be written out to blank disks many times . |
| 7 | He certainly has not become an angel overnight , but his more extreme behaviour has been left behind and usually he can be relied upon to be helpful and co-operative . |
| 8 | Leaving aside several other good attempts to explain the difference between causes and causal circumstances and their effects , and also what can be said of great obstacles in the way of these attempts ( Mackie , 1974 , Ch. 7 , 1979 ; Ayer , 1984a ; Sanford , 1976 , 1985 ; Papineau , 1985b ; Honderich , 1986 ) , let us return to and concentrate on our ordinary convictions about the difference . |
| 9 | Another point to remember is that flowers will wilt badly , or even die , if they are left sitting in a hot car or office all day , so if you have to buy them hours before they will be pressed , put them in plenty of water as soon as possible or , better still , buy them on your way home and then they can be pressed fairly quickly . |
| 10 | The questions can be listed in rough under the headings ( some people put each question on a card to begin with ) and then they can be moved about so as to produce what seems to be a good ‘ flow ’ for the interview . |
| 11 | A Lancefish bait placed in a convenient place in the aquarium can be used to attract them and then they can be picked off , the bait being removed afterwards , of course . |
| 12 | You can get back from York in quarter of an hour and then you can be sat there for |
| 13 | We can do , we 've just got to , I mean we 've just got to ask everyone to give a very brief report erm on another occasion and then it can be kept very short , I think though , there are , there are times when , when , you know , we do want to hear what 's going on with sort of er networks and campaigns , we do need that time as well do n't we , er so we ca n't , I do n't think we can always do it . |
| 14 | Sometimes a trait gets passed on from generation to generation , and sometimes it can be missed out altogether . |
| 15 | Starting out with the Boston Consultancy Group , and eventually forming his own firm , Telesis ( Greek for well-planned progress ) , Mr Magaziner specialised in advising large companies ( Ford and General Electric ) and small countries ( Sweden ) on why things cost as much as they do , and how they can be made to cost less . |
| 16 | Fear trained on-site Colombian drillers , mud loggers and well superintendents and their assistants as to which PDC drill bits are the most efficient for various different formations , and how they can be made to drill faster . |
| 17 | It also requires the experience gained from having operated the facilities to understand where the pitfalls are and how they can be avoided . |
| 18 | But , as we saw , this will not work ; for if we are to be able to make significant identifying references to qualities , we need a distinction between qualities and their existentially unique instances , and this raises the problem of determining the precise ontological status of such instances : i.e. what such instances are , and how they can be identified and distinguished from each other . |
| 19 | In later chapters ( such as chapter six ) we will examine doubts like these in depth to see how they arise and how they can be resolved . |
| 20 | This will include information about risk factors and how they can be changed for the long-term good . |
| 21 | If we really want to empower minority students , he says , educators themselves must find out why students are failing and how they can be helped . |
| 22 | ‘ It will provide a showcase to business people of all the attributes the industry has in Scotland and how they can be used , while getting a real exchange going as to how it should develop in the future . ’ |
| 23 | Your son 's teacher should be able to refer him to an educational psychologist who 'll try to find out why he acts as he does , and how he can be helped . |
| 24 | His relational model is a theory of what data is and how it can be stored and retrieved . |
| 25 | Most of the summer pond problems are easily prevented providing you are aware of what causes the trouble , and how it can be overcome . |
| 26 | Anxious to proceed as carefully as possible the Procuratia has engaged the conservation firm Syremont ( part of the Ferruzzi-Montedison group ) to assess the damage and how it can be stabilised . |
| 27 | Describe IBM 's VSAM software , explaining how it operates and how it can be optimized . |
| 28 | An emeritus Fellow at Merton College , Sir John Badenoch was asked to investigate what cryptosporidium is , and how it can be prevented . |
| 29 | Finally , the whole idea of people 's education will need elaboration , and how it can be implemented will depend on these political developments . |
| 30 | They contain background information to help engineers and all interested parties to gain a fuller understanding of the Code and how it can be implemented . |