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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | It says video or a maximum 640 by 480 pixel rectangular region of the screen can be sent in near real time . |
| 7 | The company says video or a maximum 640 x 480 pixel rectangular region of the screen can be sent in near real time . |
| 8 | Also the larger tablets can be broken up for small fish . |
| 9 | The overall goal of ‘ increasing social contacts ’ , just like ‘ having more money ’ , can be broken down into specific objectives and activities . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Fibre by definition can not be broken down by our digestive systems , but it can be broken down by normal healthy bacteria in our large bowel . |
| 12 | The system also ‘ stores ’ details of the last 5,000 lightning strikes , and this data can be played back in accelerated fashion , enabling pilots to track the movement of thunderstorms . |
| 13 | That is something that can be argued over in specific instances . |
| 14 | As the modern term for this genre the word fabliau can be traced back to scholarly writing of the seventeenth century . |
| 15 | Hospitals were to become a setting later in the decade for ‘ Doctor ’ films , ‘ Carry Ons ’ and such tepid dramas as Behind the Mask ( 1958 ) , but the genre can be traced back to White Corridors ( 1951 ) where , amidst the routine romantic squabbles , and an occasional lecture on the working of the NHS , two strong stories evolve : a researcher develops a drug that will kill infections resistant to penicillin and his lover secures herself a registrar 's post against nepotistic competition , by skilfully operating on a patient her rival has misdiagnosed . |
| 16 | The authoritarian philosophy can be traced back to sixteenth-century England , where strict controls were imposed on the publication of what were regarded by the king and his advisers as seditious pamphlets and journals . |
| 17 | These stages , linked to the known planets , can be traced back through medieval literature to the ancients . |
| 18 | However , deterrence will exist only when young people can be locked up in secure accommodation : if they can not be locked up , all this will be a waste of time . |
| 19 | If the article was unstained , and was finished with a clear coating , the damaged area can be filled up by repeated applications of a clear polyurethane , transparent French polish or cold cure lacquer . |
| 20 | When building timber steps , these treads can be filled in with compacted soil , finishing off with bark chippings . |
| 21 | Hooded brass or chrome floor lamps make especially good reading lamps since they can be moved around to various chairs or sofas , and set to shine on books , or they can be directed onto a wall or ceiling . |
| 22 | The party is now run under a kind of democracy of the dead , whereby huge nominal majorities can be run up in pre-ordained electoral charades , but the real contests and choices have been fixed in advance by an ever-narrowing circle of a favoured élite . |
| 23 | Once a shape has been generated , however , it can be plotted at any position and in any orientation or size so a library of shapes can be built up for repeated use . |
| 24 | Band filters that can be tuned down to low frequencies are useful in a host of applications including electronic oscillators . |
| 25 | The last kind of Professional Development Award is the Certificate , which can be made up of varying numbers of National Certificate Modules , Higher National Units , or Workplace Assessed Units . |
| 26 | The essential idea is that all the possible states of oscillation of light moving in the z direction can be made up of judicious mixtures of the two basic oscillations in the x and y directions . |
| 27 | These cause trouble because often the speller does not recognise that words can be made up of different bits brought together . |
| 28 | With free counterpoint it is possible also to vary the number of ‘ parts ’ to form chords of different densities at any point , so that each horizontal line can be made up of vertical combinations of various numbers of notes . |
| 29 | If liked , extra artist 's paint tubes can be made out of leftover fondant , and painted silver once dry . |
| 30 | The computer will point you in the right direction of a fuel pod which can be scooped up at close range . |