Example sentences of "they can [be] [vb pp] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With certain limited exceptions , married men are exempt from liability for rape of their wives , although they can be prosecuted for any accompanying assault or violence . |
| 2 | The leases make the publican responsible for the upkeep of the pub and , although they can be assigned to another person after two years , the original holder would be responsible for meeting payments if that person defaulted . |
| 3 | If individuals have personal difficulties that do not impinge on their functioning at work they can be assessed under this agreement : the individual would then be referred to an appropriate specialist agency for ongoing work outside the agreement , on a personal basis and without commitment on RBGE 's part . |
| 4 | The outlines shown by daylight are obscured ; shapes and colours are different , if indeed they can be perceived at all . |
| 5 | They have the advantage that they can be calculated for most countries in the world . |
| 6 | They can be damaged by those who are over-protective as well as those who neglect or abuse them . |
| 7 | The four legs and four rails that will make up the seat-jointing section are cut oversize so that they can be cut in half . |
| 8 | They can be created with many of the electronic publishing packages but are often better produced by a dedicated forms program . |
| 9 | People understand their own and other people 's lives not just in terms of class fractions or units of labour power even if they can be categorised as such . |
| 10 | They can be placed on all , odd or even pages and they can include time , date and page numbers . |
| 11 | After these simple substitution drills are mastered separately they can be placed alongside each other ( as above ) and drilled across as a system drill . |
| 12 | You could even buy one of the sub-£200 XTs that are on the market at the moment — but do n't make the mistake of thinking that they can be pushed into many other applications areas . |
| 13 | The symbolic roles of precious substances in human affairs are many and various and they can be viewed from several directions . |
| 14 | It is hoped that more and more of the applications for renewal of approval will be such that they can be granted without any extensive dialogue on them being necessary , and indeed that many of them can be granted without any visit being made to the College by representatives of the Council or vice versa and without any special conditions being attached to the approval . |
| 15 | In a large proportion of the cases , when they can be applied at all , both uses — associative and ascriptive — make equally good sense because the facts observed or imagined can be described equally well either way ; the mental , linguistic , difference is there but both mental representations can be mapped onto the same single external situation . |
| 16 | They are shunted from one set of rails to another ; turn-tables spin them round until they can be run upon any particular line ; by means of capstans and ropes the loaded trucks are warped this way or that ; and tank engines push them hither and thither . |
| 17 | PLUVIUS PITCH COVERS ( ) also provide protective equipment : they can be seen at many of the county grounds , including Lord 's . |
| 18 | They can be seen from several miles away , and they can also be shot ( not necessarily killed ) over considerable distances with high-powered rifles . |
| 19 | They can be studied in many different ways and with varying degrees of sophistication . |
| 20 | First , they can be situated in any part of the UK , which makes access difficult and the length of time to get the information can be long . |
| 21 | Those , they would argue , can not be shot since they will not leave their burrow system , and so they can be left until another day , when perhaps they will decide to bolt more readily . |
| 22 | They can be described in many other ways , as yang and yin , as materialism and spirituality , as individualism and cooperation . |
| 23 | " It would be wrong for me to pretend that these problems can be solved quickly — if they can be solved at all . |
| 24 | They can be bought at most large hardware stores and fixed by a handyman . |
| 25 | One sees all these little points of landscape in walking round the parish of Helpston , but they can be found in many parishes in these parts of England . |
| 26 | Since " herb " is an umbrella word covering all types of plant , it follows that they can be propagated by most of the methods used for plant increase , but there are two commonly used : seed and division . |
| 27 | The report recommends that children should learn to write clearly and accurately in Standard English , and argues that they can be helped in this by learning to use descriptive technical terms to talk about language . |
| 28 | In such cases it is essential for the predators to evolve inborn reactions to the warning signals of the lethal prey , so that they can be avoided without any learning process taking place . |
| 29 | Only in cases where these additional agencies are unimportant , or where they can be identified with some degree of certainty , will the breakage data be useful in analysing fossil bone assemblages . |
| 30 | Some spotlights have a magnetic backplate so that they can be attached to any surface and pointed in any direction or can be set to swivel around inside a container . |