Example sentences of "can [be] [verb] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It also means that it can be subbed to fit the available space without any rewriting . |
| 2 | However , by using the up and down arrow keys , the display area can be scrolled to access the remaining lines . |
| 3 | The filler is receptive to dye , so the repair can be coloured to match the surrounding wood |
| 4 | In a situation where it is required to perform some task , the reaction time can be seen to include the following : ( a ) the time taken by the stimulus to activate the sense organ and for impulses to travel from it to the brain , ( b ) the central processes concerned with the identification of the signal and the response to it , and ( c ) the time required to energise the muscles and produce the correct response . |
| 5 | Principally a mapping of elements or domains , this can be seen to underlie the textual features of explicit surface metaphors , implied metaphors , metaphoric readings of texts , perceived co-operation and coherence . |
| 6 | At the bottom of it the Cheney Longville road can be seen crossing the double track of the Shrewsbury and Hereford joint line , as it still does , by an overbridge . |
| 7 | Today the Fothergill Fountain can be seen regaling the first president 's achievements . |
| 8 | Child care experts have gathered from throughout Scotland to discuss what can be done to improve the educational record of children in care . |
| 9 | This matter is of the greatest concern to my constituents , many of whom are at their wits ' end as to what can be done to halt the murderous menace of the theft and racing of cars in residential city streets . |
| 10 | It induces nausea and thereby inaction , since nothing can be done to affect the essential condition : action requires illusion . |
| 11 | 15th , Monkeys on the Edge : What can be done to save the rare primates of Brazil 's Atlantic Forest ? |
| 12 | Try as the leadership might to erase what happened , nothing can be done to change the one fact on which the future of China turns : the men who ordered the assault on Tiananmen Square will surely die long before the youth they ordered to be killed . |
| 13 | As with Land Rovers , updating ( and possibly a personal number plate ) can be done to hide the true age of a Range Rover or to improve its appearance or replacement for accident or corrosion reasons with newer parts . |
| 14 | Side leg exercises can be done to work the outer thigh area , and a wide variety of scissor-type exercises can be done for the hips and lower stomach areas , ( More advanced stomach exercises can be carried out using weights if desired . ) |
| 15 | It can be customised to fit the individual customer 's specific company or employee holiday and sickness entitlements , and a suitable reporting system installed . |
| 16 | If the map can be represented in raster format ( Chapters 2 and 5 ) then image-processing operations can be used to enhance the map image so as to bring out linear features more clearly , and automatic line-following algorithms can be employed to generate the numerical coordinates of points along the lines . |
| 17 | Ideally , the file designer will aim to reduce the time taken to reference this index ; however , when it exceeds a certain threshold value described earlier , a master index , which has one entry for each track of the cylinder index , can be created to reduce the total search time as described above . |
| 18 | Fido can be trained to give the alert if someone is at the door , if the telephone is ringing or a visitor is coming up the path . |
| 19 | It is based on the rationale that patients can be trained to increase the anal sphincter contractile capability in response to rectal distension , if a residual rectal sensation is present . |
| 20 | The school is based on the concept that ‘ Anyone aspiring to be a professional player can be trained to meet the vocational standards of the industry in a dramatically short period of time ’ , a statement guaranteed to raise optimism in any potential student . |
| 21 | It is hoped that the remaining obstacles can be overcome to enable the final selection process to be operational for the 1994/95 intake into the ICSL . |
| 22 | The findings of our survey can be summarised to produce the following picture of the typical ‘ officially known ’ Wirral heroin user : a young , unemployed , single person ( usually male ) , living with his or her family in a socially deprived area , with few or no educational qualifications . |
| 23 | If a hierarchical structure is imposed on these relationships then the approach can be constructed to give the same type of interrelationships normally found in an engineering bill of materials . |
| 24 | A programme for Microbiology/Biotechnology can be constructed using the above two modules together with : |
| 25 | As Myers mentions , there are already some programmes in operation which suggest that the national resource base can be manipulated to accommodate the growing needs of the population without serious impairment of soil fertility . |
| 26 | The search can be extended to check the selected part against other assemblies . |
| 27 | However , the concept can be extended to cover the external as well as the internal managerial labour market , and for present purposes this is the more important aspect . |
| 28 | However words do not combine arbitrarily to form phrases and sentences , so higher level constraints can be applied to reduce the remaining ambiguity . |
| 29 | Details can be obtained form the Personal Energy Foundation by phoning |
| 30 | Voltage and current signals can be used to pre-set speed or to call up the actual values for speed and torque , and the start/stop functions can be activated using the same method . |