Example sentences of "can [be] [verb] [to-vb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many Religious belong to international congregations and can be asked to work at home or abroad . |
| 2 | In the CO map of Fig. 4 b , several narrow bands of foreground clouds can be seen to cross in front of the broad emission from the centre . |
| 3 | Group norms can be seen to develop at Stage 3 in the above analysis . |
| 4 | While there are some ‘ off the shelf ’ packages which can be employed to assist in time and cost controls , there are no comprehensive programmes which can simply be applied to every surveying job , basically because no two are entirely alike . |
| 5 | Cotton can be brushed to feel like flannel and yet not be so hot . |
| 6 | Experiments show that bees can be trained to come to sugar solutions in response to an artificial magnetic field . |
| 7 | This action centred-account can be extended to allow for conflict between local interests and system forces expressed through the state system and becomes analytically interesting when there is a radical working-class political domination of local government . |
| 8 | With regard to the military and the political process , we should ask , not when it intervenes , but rather how it intervenes , since all military organizations can be observed to intervene in politics at some point . |
| 9 | The potential for change is therefore always present in variation , and may appear as a progressively greater or lesser favouring by the speech community of particular linguistic variants from among the variants that are available in the community at some particular time : to that extent change can be said to consist of change in community norms . |
| 10 | In other places , the line falls below areas which can be said to benefit from improvement . |
| 11 | If ‘ they ’ can be made to change by education or compulsion , then the problem of soil erosion and pasture degradation would be solved . |
| 12 | Anxious clients can be taught to cope with stress . |
| 13 | Now psychologists at Edinburgh University have found that even young children can be taught to cope with traffic . |
| 14 | As is well known , chimpanzees can be taught to communicate with sign language , though there is no evidence that they have such a language in their natural state . |
| 15 | These are , the chapter says , creating new pressures for the extension of joint regulation which ‘ inevitably raise the question whether existing institutions can be developed to provide for employee involvement at this level , or whether new institutions are needed . ’ |
| 16 | REACTION TO CAMP ROUTINE AND RESPONSIBILITIES : Lenny can be trusted to carry to completion any task given to him . |
| 17 | Any reduction in orbital speed by the action of an additional force can be shown to lead to shrinkage of the orbit . |
| 18 | These problems are by no means unique to language in a signed mode and , as before , what appears to be true of spoken languages also can be shown to occur in BSL , |
| 19 | It contains practical suggestions for different activities , and includes a set of worksheets which can be photocopied to help with planning and record keeping . |
| 20 | Round tables and drop-leafs can be bought to act as library tables and sofa tables as described above , or there are large adjustable coffee and cocktail tables which can be raised to dining or lowered to coffee table height as desired . |
| 21 | Therefore it is proposed that national supervisory rules should be harmonized , not in every detail , but only in the key factors — other less crucial aspects of the rules can be allowed to vary from country to country and be subject to mutual recognition . |
| 22 | Provided the number of information arrivals is sufficiently large , the central limit theorem can be used to argue for normality in the distributions of price changes ( over a given number of information arrivals ) , and volume ( over a given number of information arrivals ) . |
| 23 | Me know the answer ! , in contrast , both the extra-verbal person evoked by me and the generalized person incorporated within the infinitive know as the support of a merely potential knowing are situated in the present , which explains the absence of to and the fact that this sentence can be used to call into question the possibility that the speaker has the knowledge at the present moment . |
| 24 | A full product range is offered including trees , elbows and straight connectors , and there is a handy end stop which can be used to blank off pipe ends temporarily . |
| 25 | If there is still any doubt , the LIFESPAN validation program can be used to check for self consistency of the database . |
| 26 | It is sometimes claimed that stylometry enables the scholar to identify the fingerprint of an author , a stylistic criterion , or set of criteria , which can be used to determine with certainty questions of disputed authorship . |
| 27 | This shadowing phenomenon can be used to determine nearest neighbour interatomic distances in surfaces . |
| 28 | If the Scoutmaster says a novelty plastic umbrella stand is pure elephant 's foot or if the vicar 's wife passes off a gold-plated tie-pin as the real thing , they can be held to account under law . |
| 29 | Obviously , a number of simplifying assumptions have been made here , but the model can be elaborated to allow for price elasticity of demand , differences in learning rates , differences in cost of capital , and so on . |
| 30 | The minimum period which a prisoner can be expected to serve in order to satisfy the requirements of retribution and deterrence has become known as the tariff period . |