Example sentences of "it can [be] [verb] and [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a horrific crime and I hope the two thugs who did it can be apprehended and sent away for a long time . ’ |
| 2 | His relational model is a theory of what data is and how it can be stored and retrieved . |
| 3 | Release information in limited quantities so that it can be absorbed and understood . |
| 4 | But if man is vulnerable to impulses which send him spiralling down into darkness , that very vulnerability is the means by which he can existentially know the strength whereby it can be healed and stabilised . |
| 5 | All that is rather peculiar but it can be digested and lived with . |
| 6 | Laid mesh side up it gives a good base for carpets and tiles , and smooth side up it can be painted and stencilled to match design schemes . |
| 7 | After first construction and adjustment it can be erected and dismantled quickly : provided anchorages and connections are well made , it is trouble-free . |
| 8 | I would like to see existing provision improved by upgrading the Pencaitland railway path so that it can be cycled and walked in all weathers . |
| 9 | Metal is one of the most versatile materials known ; it can be melted and poured into a mould of almost any shape , hammered into thin sheets , drawn into fine wires and extruded as rods and pipes . |
| 10 | If the objective is to maintain the company 's reputation , then some attempt must be made to define ‘ reputation ’ in useful terms such that it can be measured and evaluated . |
| 11 | Faber is introducing a new vertical blind called Uprite which has aluminium slats and will give unequalled service as it can be washed and re-hung immediately . |
| 12 | It can be rinsed and re-used two or three times . |
| 13 | The famous Chapter 5 of the first book , which deals with the transformation of labour from a stage where it is a ‘ part of life ’ to a stage under capitalism when it takes on the imaginary form of a thing separate from the labourer , when it can be bought and sold , is worked out in Formen , in the discussion of tribal , oriental , and ancient societies which it contains . |