Example sentences of "can [be] [verb] [verb] [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Susanna Rance finds out why serious-minded La Paz dwellers can be seen walking down the streets intently fondling toy cars , play-money and doll 's house pieces . |
| 2 | Female crickets can be trained to walk along a ‘ Y-maze ’ ( Figure 8.2 ) , on which they have to turn to the left or right . |
| 3 | Thus the term irony is used in something approaching its usual acceptance when Brooks associates it with Yeats 's appeal to the Greek sages in ‘ Sailing to That Yeats should speak of the ‘ artifice of eternity ’ evidently undermines in a sense the appearance of passion and sincerity with which he invokes the Greek sages , and thus can be said to bring about a kind of ironic reconciliation between his aspiration of a life free from Nature , and his rational awareness of his human limitations ( Brooks 1949 : 173 ) . |
| 4 | Any Macintosh can be designated to back up the network . |
| 5 | For example , two colossal standing figures that are among the museum 's Nubian treasures will remain in the Egyptian galleries until a system can be devised to shore up the structure . |
| 6 | However , recent technological advances have made possible a robot which can be programmed to carry out a range of services on command . |
| 7 | Finally , a unit can be added to print out a complete network diagram . |
| 8 | Show how software that allows alternate indexes to be created can be used to set up an inverted file system |
| 9 | The action research of the Brunel school can be used to draw out the key advantages of the controlled authority . |
| 10 | It can be used to cast off a group of stitches at , say , the last row of the shoulder ( when the shaping has been done using the holding position ) . |
| 11 | Discussion of the number of guesses recorded can be used to point out the different kinds of letter order in words . |
| 12 | This year , with the Democrats poised to win the state , the national leadership is looking to see whether the same tactics can be used to turn back the tide on the Republicans nationwide . |
| 13 | It seems to me that very few staff are addressing themselves to the kinds of things ( e.g. resources , teaching style , subject content , and attitudes and the hidden curriculum ) that can be used to bring out the best of the pupils ' cultures and backgrounds . |
| 14 | Bulletin boards and list servers can be structured like company e-mail in that subsections can be used to follow up a particular discussion or to follow through all the different accounts and editions so that one person can go back and read the whole story from the beginning to the last entry . |
| 15 | Because they are unaffected by psychology and do n't take break tests they can be used to pin down a much more powerful enemy , diverting attention away from the core units . |
| 16 | This cash can be used to pay off the loan . |
| 17 | This can be used to pay back the capital you borrow now . |
| 18 | If , of course , the room is quite big , all sorts of divider devices can be used to partition off a dining area , from screens of one sort or another to large indoor plants or trees . |
| 19 | To start with there are 102 effects which can be combined to make up an effect chain using up to 6 effects simultaneously . |
| 20 | Relatives of people living in care homes can be expected to make up the difference between the amount of benefit and the charges actually levied by by the home . |
| 21 | The answer is that no-one can control or even forecast accurately the maximum flow of water that can be expected to surge down the Tay valley and through Perth . |