Example sentences of "can [be] [verb] [conj] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If this undertaking is subsequently challenged and found wanting , then the entire entry can be disqualified and any titles won , forfeited . |
| 2 | The effect of analysis techniques on the ranking of investments is shown in Table 4.9 where it can be seen that each method produces a different ranking . |
| 3 | The effect of analysis techniques on the ranking of investments is shown in Table 4.9 where it can be seen that each method produces a different ranking . |
| 4 | ( " on inspection with a microscope it can be seen that each nucleus consists of two identical filaments " ) |
| 5 | It can be seen that many issues on the administrative side affect the social services . |
| 6 | In agreement with their assertion that the principal phase of gas generation from humic sources commences at a maturity level equivalent to R + 1% , it can be seen that this level would be achieved at + 11700 ft ( 3500 m ) using the standard maturity-depth gradient ( Fig. 2 ) . |
| 7 | It can be seen that this view can give rise to a substantial increase in the dependency . |
| 8 | Table 29 summarises before and after information for completed schemes and it can be seen that this target is being achieved with a total estimated reduction of 52 accidents for local road schemes with a further reduction of 16 on trunk roads . |
| 9 | It can be seen that this vowel is most often represented in spelling by the letters ‘ i ’ and ‘ e ’ . |
| 10 | It can be seen that this area raises many difficult issues for the courts to decide . |
| 11 | In retrospect , it can be seen that this failure was , in part , due to the inappropriateness of the mixture . |
| 12 | In addition , the scale factors A and B satisfying ( 6.13 ) and ( 6.14 ) must contain components of S , and from ( 10.3 ) it can be seen that these components are also non-linear in V . |
| 13 | However , compared with the 1989 figures it can be seen that these industries are not without their difficulties . |
| 14 | Mention has already been made of the significance of national trends in age structure , but it can be seen that these effects can be substantially reinforced at the regional and local level through migration . |
| 15 | It can be seen that these functions satisfy the required O'Brien-Synge boundary conditions . |
| 16 | Once it is realized that signals that change cells ' behaviour do not really carry intricate information , then it can be seen that any complexity of behaviour lies in the cells ' capacity to respond rather than in complexity in the signals . |
| 17 | The nature of these changes , then , can be seen as some confirmation that the trends identified by Dearlove were genuine enough , but that working them through has taken much longer to achieve and involved much more upheaval than his initial analysis would have suggested . |
| 18 | It can be seen as another outburst of dissatisfaction about the direction taken by the Cultural Revolution and the failure to eliminate what they saw as the rise of a ‘ Soviet Union type of privileged class ’ ( Brodsgaard 1981 : 753 ) . |
| 19 | Bifurcation , which we mentioned earlier , can be seen as another product of law and order ideology , combined with the pragmatic imperative to do something to limit the numbers in custody : visibly dealing more harshly with the ‘ serious ’ offenders who can be most easily scapegoated ( in the popular press and the public mind ) , while dealing more leniently but less visibly with the much greater number of ‘ run of the mill ’ offenders , is an apparently rational response to a situation where one 's own rhetoric conflicts with practicalities . |
| 20 | You can be kidnapped and all sorts . |
| 21 | There is evidence that general deterrence can be improved if potential offenders ' perceived likelihood of detection can be increased but little evidence that severer punishments deter any better than more lenient ones . |
| 22 | The level of detail can be refined until this sort of analysis merges into one of the other main ways of grouping coins ( see below ) . |
| 23 | But with a mathematical model and sufficient computational power at their disposal , a number of scenarios can be tested and such problems avoided . |
| 24 | An examination of the type specimens together with those from the CYMOR suggest several differences which can be tested when more specimens are collected . |
| 25 | A tree can be constructed where this process is taken to its optimal conclusion , so that all possible common letter sequences are shared . |
| 26 | It can be presumed that all societies possess their own values , stories , rules , theories about the world . |
| 27 | This system can be upgraded when more money and/or water is available by connecting the sewers or installing a cistern-flush toilet . |
| 28 | It can be argued that such schemes should be embodied in statutes so as to put their administration and the principles of compensation on a firm legal footing . |
| 29 | It can be argued that such mothers may not develop protective IgG antibodies and may continue to carry the same strain of group B streptococcus . |
| 30 | It can be argued that such tests are gender biased , both in their questions , which do not draw on social , female-oriented spheres of knowledge , and in their multiple choice format , which , by demanding a single answer from a set of often mutually exclusive possibilities , does not allow for women 's interactive , socially responsive way of solving problems . |