Example sentences of "can [be] [verb] [adv prt] [conj] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once the basic gesture is jotted down , further refinements can be made ; the arms and legs can be fleshed out and the sex differences made evident . |
| 2 | Once the basic gesture is jotted down , further refinements can be made ; the arms and legs can be fleshed out and the sex differences made evident . |
| 3 | But with England 's great goalkeeper still betraying no signs of his 40 years , except a finely honed judgement that causes the target to shrink before advancing strikers , hopes are high that Poland can be shut out and the points secured that will see England safely through to Italy . |
| 4 | The idea is simple : communities with high unemployment and economic depression can be turned around if the companies that operate in those communities can be persuaded to become involved in them , invest in them , and train and recruit people from within them . |
| 5 | He intends running it with myriad Sparc chips , everything from a low-end Tsunami to a high-end Viking or HyperSparc but until those pieces of silicon become available he 'll use a 40MHz MBus-based Cypress chip that can be swapped out when the time comes . |
| 6 | The value in ( c ) can be ruled out since the standard state of water at 298 K is not steam , H2O(g) . |
| 7 | If there is a significant urethritis , this can be adduced by first sample can be spun down and the solid matter can be stained and microscopically examined . |
| 8 | In a similar way , the mid-range can be filled out or the treble tweaked at the pull of the appropriate pot . |
| 9 | If the first face is not satisfactory at this stage ( wedged or with air bubbles ) , then one of the glass slides can be cut off and the section re-lapped and re-mounted . |
| 10 | As polythene liners have little elasticity , they are installed without water being added , but plenty of movement should be allowed for , so that , when the water is gradually introduced , the wrinkles can be smoothed out and the liner moulded to the contours of the hole . |
| 11 | The alarm may go off at the wrong times and this can be very irritating but the fault can be capitalized on and the child encouraged to get up and go to the lavatory anyway . |
| 12 | The ferret 's function is to frighten the rabbits so that they bolt out of the holes or to force them to retreat through the burrow system until they become cornered so that they can be dug out while the ferret holds them in that fixed position . |
| 13 | It has been market practice in asset-backed transactions for there to be a mechanism whereby transactions can be mopped up when the balance of performing assets falls below a given level , usually 10% of initial principal . |
| 14 | Much will depend on the speed with which the practical aspects can be carried through and the extent to which new members can be attracted from the building societies . |
| 15 | With this kind of exercise the most appropriate media can be picked out and the PR effort concentrated where it is both most needed and most appreciated . |
| 16 | As long as proper written accounts are maintained , everyone can be paid back when the band begins to make money . |
| 17 | Dominating this is a faithful Cessna F.150F which can be sat in and the controls worked . |
| 18 | This takes time to begin with — lots of lovely sitting around going through the magazines again but , when needed , the index which is stored in a file can be looked up and the right magazine located in a few minutes . |
| 19 | This can be dropped in when the sky washes are just damp . |