Example sentences of "can [be] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The data and data structures that have been identified can be mapped on to conventional computer files or clerical files and not necessarily databases . |
| 2 | TSB Direct also claims loans can be turned round in five days from application . |
| 3 | The introduction of newly-developed linings that can be pushed down into crumbling sewers to extend their life is widely touted as bringing the cost of renovating the nation 's sewers down somewhere nearer to what impoverished water authorities can afford . |
| 4 | Economic income is simply the maximum amount of real income that can be consumed out of real wealth during a given period without impairing the ability of that stock of real wealth to deliver real income and hence real consumption in the future . |
| 5 | It has an external control unit , which can be sited up to 30 metres from the detector , and an automatic prism wiping device . |
| 6 | Allows you to purchase one of three items — Seats ( initial ground capacity of 10,000 can be increased up to 40,000 ) , Security Cameras ( to avoid costly crowd violence ) , or a Coach And Youth Team ( allows players to join your squad from the youth team , also helps with training ) . |
| 7 | Lustre powder is included as an optional ingredient in some of the cake recipes in this book — a non-toxic shiny coloured powder , this can be brushed on to dry icing to give a lovely shimmering effect . |
| 8 | The sound of their horns clashing during the rut can be heard up to 8 km away . |
| 9 | Er , scrap timber can be stacked up at one side , and used as firewood . |
| 10 | If you are interested in helping to guide the society through committee-work or know someone else who is ‘ good ’ on committees , please let the Office have that nomination ( with the nominee 's permission , of course ! ) by 19 February 1988 , so that if more than three candidates come forward , ballot forms can be sent out in good time . |
| 11 | It says video or a maximum 640 by 480 pixel rectangular region of the screen can be sent in near real time . |
| 12 | The company says video or a maximum 640 x 480 pixel rectangular region of the screen can be sent in near real time . |
| 13 | Those that you think are worth persevering with can be grown on for another year , getting a second chance to bloom . |
| 14 | Also the larger tablets can be broken up for small fish . |
| 15 | Usually it is a united group of notes , as in ( a ) below , but sometimes it can be broken up into two or more parts , as in ( b ) : This first musical thought usually comprises an even number of bars , two , four , or even six , but there is nothing to prevent it being otherwise ( note the eleven-beat phrase in the Musorgsky , Example 4 , above ) . |
| 16 | The overall goal of ‘ increasing social contacts ’ , just like ‘ having more money ’ , can be broken down into specific objectives and activities . |
| 17 | Analysis of financial statements can be broken down into four major steps . |
| 18 | It seems that each of these can be broken down into five identifiable stages . |
| 19 | The formation of the lattice from its elements in their standard states can be broken down into five steps . |
| 20 | Any sentence can be broken down into immediate sub-units which themselves have reasonably independent status as coherent wholes , whose combination produces the original sentence . |
| 21 | The build itself can be broken down into two groups , ‘ Direct Build Costs ’ and ‘ Other Costs . ’ |
| 22 | Sources of error in the digitizing process can be broken down into two main streams : source map error and operational error . |
| 23 | Since the relevant words are ‘ I know , Pamphilus , that everything I leave you will pass to my sons … ’ , the question can be broken down into two parts : do these words amount to a trust at all ? |
| 24 | That a subject is capable of noticing whatever is to be perceived can be broken down into two individually necessary and jointly sufficiently conditions : |
| 25 | The major influences on group effectiveness can be broken down into two main categories : |
| 26 | Subsequent experiments have revealed that the concept of attentional focus can be broken down into two separate factors : one concerns the intrinsic importance of actor and acted-upon ; the other concerns informational aspects of actor and acted-upon . |
| 27 | The market for private motor-cars , for example , can be broken down into several segments , depending on income levels , family commitments , benefits sought and many other preferences . |
| 28 | Most writings seem to agree that leadership vision , or ‘ visioning ’ , as the process has sometimes been called , can be broken down into three distinct stages : ( 1 ) the envisioning of ‘ an image of a desired future organizational state ’ ( Bass , 1987 : 51 ) which ( 2 ) when effectively articulated and communicated to followers ( Bennis and Nanus , 1985 ; Tichy and Devanna , 1986 ; Gluck , 1984 ) serves ( 3 ) to empower those followers so that they can enact the vision ( Sashkin , 1987 ; Srivastva , 1983 ; Conger and Kanungo , 1987 ; Robbins and Duncan , 1987 ) . |
| 29 | It can be broken down into three phases . |
| 30 | What the TNCs spend locally can be broken down into three components , namely wages and salaries , utility and service costs , and material linkages . |