Example sentences of "can [adv] [be] [verb] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Which can only be seen when the gearbox is dismantled . |
| 2 | Genes for failure to resist enslavement by cuckoos can easily be passed down the generations of robins or dunnocks . |
| 3 | As library users have found to their cost , the shelf that held the books marked 636.7 last week might hold books quite differently numbered today , as the stock grows and books move along , and yet the position of a subject 's bookstock can rapidly be found once the all.important subject number is identified from the index . |
| 4 | From Britain and the northern United States , for instance , Ursa Major is circumpolar-that is to say it never sets , and can always be seen whenever the sky is sufficiently dark and clear ; from Hawaii it is not . |
| 5 | Follow-up action can even be taken on a client 's behalf after a telephone consultation . |