Example sentences of "can [be] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | TSB Direct also claims loans can be turned round in five days from application . |
| 2 | It has an external control unit , which can be sited up to 30 metres from the detector , and an automatic prism wiping device . |
| 3 | 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 ) . |
| 4 | The sound of their horns clashing during the rut can be heard up to 8 km away . |
| 5 | Er , scrap timber can be stacked up at one side , and used as firewood . |
| 6 | 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 ) . |
| 7 | Analysis of financial statements can be broken down into four major steps . |
| 8 | It seems that each of these can be broken down into five identifiable stages . |
| 9 | The formation of the lattice from its elements in their standard states can be broken down into five steps . |
| 10 | The build itself can be broken down into two groups , ‘ Direct Build Costs ’ and ‘ Other Costs . ’ |
| 11 | Sources of error in the digitizing process can be broken down into two main streams : source map error and operational error . |
| 12 | 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 ? |
| 13 | That a subject is capable of noticing whatever is to be perceived can be broken down into two individually necessary and jointly sufficiently conditions : |
| 14 | The major influences on group effectiveness can be broken down into two main categories : |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 ) . |
| 17 | It can be broken down into three phases . |
| 18 | What the TNCs spend locally can be broken down into three components , namely wages and salaries , utility and service costs , and material linkages . |
| 19 | Courier bags up to 32 kilos in weight can be accepted up to 45 minutes before flight departure to over 60 destinations . |
| 20 | Subject to availability of accommodation , bookings can be accepted up to one working day prior to your intended date or arrival at your hotel . |
| 21 | When you remove the basin brackets from the wall , it is more likely that you will damage the plaster ( there may also be some wood there with an advanced case of wet rot ) ; Allow time in the schedule for repairing the plaster before you go any further — modern d-i-y plasters can be applied up to two inches thick . |
| 22 | The game can be played by over 9 or 18 holes and each player receives a scorecard at the start of the game to record their progress . |
| 23 | Each word has component parts which can be traced back to one of 800 roots . |
| 24 | In Dr Clarke 's view , the origins can be traced back to 1924 , when Keynes published an article advocating ‘ a drastic remedy ’ for unemployment . |
| 25 | The development of the FEL can be traced back to 1950 , when Hans Motz injected 3 MeV electrons from the Stanford linear accelerator ( linac ) into a magnetic undulator , producing millimetre and submillimetre radiation . |
| 26 | The history of the mill can be traced back to 1710 but quite possibly there may have been an older mill on the same site . |
| 27 | The movement can be traced back to 1844 when it started in Rochdale . |
| 28 | However the recent revival of interest in the practice , which can be traced back to 1977 , represents a new departure , rendering it of far greater potential significance than it has previously assumed . |
| 29 | The Larrikins , who can be traced back to 1870 in Australia , were also organised into local gangs or ‘ pushes ’ , and even allowing for exaggeration and over-involvement ( we need not readily accept , for example , that they gorged themselves on raw meat or rigged elections by terrorising voters , as was sometimes alleged ) their behaviour was unbeatably appalling . |
| 30 | The first panspermic hypothesis can be traced back to 1743 and Benôit de Maillet , who suggested that the germs of life came to Earth from space ; they fell into the oceans and in due course grew into fish and , later , amphibians , reptiles and mammals . |