Example sentences of "can [be] [verb] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How little pacifist or humanitarian feeling was behind such notions is revealed by the concluding remark that ‘ it is only worth while waging war if the enemy can be destroyed with the first blow , which we did not manage . ’ |
| 2 | This stand-alone receiver is the latest addition to the ap range and can be seen for the first time at the London Boat Show . |
| 3 | But now five upstairs rooms have been restored , and can be seen for the first time . |
| 4 | He says that it can be seen for the next week or so in the west , but it 's too faint to be seen with the naked eye . |
| 5 | The Hermitage 's marble version of ‘ Orpheus ’ can be compared with the stone version in Venice and the ‘ Venus ’ from Palazzo Pitti in Florence can be seen with the second version from Munich . |
| 6 | As only the better-off members could afford the piece of silver , this can be seen as the first sign that the classless Society of Archers was being taken over by the wealthier members . |
| 7 | With hindsight , this can be seen as the first step in the transformation of Gloucester into the lord of the north , but this is to read too much into a single grant . |
| 8 | Habituation and sensitization — often grouped together as non-associative learning — can be seen as the first steps towards full-fledged memory , and are universal properties of all organisms with nervous systems . |
| 9 | With hindsight , this can be seen as the first step in the transformation of Gloucester into the lord of the north , but this is to read too much into a single grant . |
| 10 | : It can be seen from the first of the above tables that the mean coverage given by the second level ( 8% ) is just over half that of the first level ( 14% ) . |
| 11 | This more sculptural approach can be seen in the second kind of Negroid painting . |
| 12 | In the reception class it can be seen in the first moments of a school day . |
| 13 | Oils on canvas , paintings on paper , paintings on carved wood panels and large-scale drawings can be seen in the fifth and sixth floor galleries from 14 November until 31 December . |
| 14 | Some indication of how this operates can be seen in the last extract quoted , other answers to these questions are to a certain extent dictated by the nature of the activities involved in each specific arts subject , and the way they are examined . |
| 15 | ‘ It appears nothing can be done until the next round of bids which are not out until later this year after the general election . |
| 16 | There are a number of good reconstruction drawings of them and a clear idea of their appearance can be gained from the sixteenth century measured drawings by Renaissance architects like Palladio which were made when the remains were in a better condition than they are now . |
| 17 | Approval from America 's Environmental Protection Agency means that Portersept , made by Courtaulds Coatings in Louisville , Kentucky , can be applied for the first time to heating , ventilation and air conditioning ( HVAC ) systems . |
| 18 | It is so sensitive ( 99% accurate in laboratory testing ) that an accurate result can be obtained on the first day of a missed period . |
| 19 | Perhaps we are seeing , as an evolution ( the origins of which can be traced to the nineteenth century ) , the emergence of a genuine hybrid tribunal , in which case to suggest that this body is a further example of the use of judges for extrajudicial activities is only one way to describe it . |
| 20 | The remaining DCs can be activated on the next issue of the package . |
| 21 | Now , £10,000 can be invested in the 5th issue index-linked certificates , which are paying indexation plus 4.5 p.c if held for five years . |
| 22 | Using the 26-way tree , a search is successful if each of the candidate letters in the string can be followed to the next one , and if the last letter in the string is flagged for end-of-word in the tree . |
| 23 | Much the same can be said of the third issue , of free trade vs protectionism . |
| 24 | The same can be said of the next dog of great influence : Ch. |
| 25 | However , the future is very uncertain and it remains to be seen if this increase can be maintained during the next few years while the size of the eighteen-year-old population remains large . |
| 26 | This is the base of a samian pot , and the potter 's stamp can be dated to the 2nd century AD . |
| 27 | Both of these designs can be dated to the fourth century , ( Morley-Hewitt 1969 , 2 ) and so might be contemporary with the northern sequence ( see section 3.2 pp. 85-86 ) . |
| 28 | You may be able to claim constructive dismissal even if the incident which directly leads to your departure is minor , if it can be regarded as the last straw . |
| 29 | This has required the Borough of Monmouth to identify land on which 5,500 new homes can be built during the next fifteen years . |
| 30 | The removal of whole communities for the creation of parks began in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries , and hundreds , if not thousands , of instances can be cited from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries . |