Example sentences of "can be [verb] in the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 The Blackshard here can be destroyed in the same way as before ( see New Magic ) , with the same effects .
2 It is likely that other forms of conversation can be analysed in the same way , though this is considerably more difficult .
3 Overall sound quality is good , without the dulling and squashing side effects that some products can produce ; pumping can be provoked in the hard ratio mode by extreme settings , but that 's only to be expected .
4 The significance of Chilperic 's murder for Gundovald 's cause can be seen in the curious chronology of the whole affair .
5 Perhaps the best recent example of this , and of the media 's growing significance in overtly political activity , can be seen in the Labour Party 's strategies in the period immediately preceding the 1987 general election .
6 An approximation of relative strengths can be seen in the following table :
7 Some of the typical distinctions between discourse which has been written and that which has been spoken can be seen in the following two descriptions of a rainbow .
8 This can be seen in the following examples .
9 The importance of that case in the employment context can be seen in the following example .
10 The differences between quotation and paraphrase can be seen in the following contrasting examples : Quotation " One of the most striking things about detective fiction " , Patricia Craig argues in her critical introduction to English detective stories , " is the ease with which it accommodates all kinds of topical ideologies . "
11 A similar pattern of pressure and response can be seen in the moral restructuring of the last decades of the century .
12 If the absorption spectra of reagents and products happen not to cross there can be no isosbestic point , but the same effect can be seen in the first-derivative spectra .
13 This can be seen in the liquified , dead centre of the carbuncle .
14 Evidence of this can be seen in the surprising number of items surviving from the late 19th and early 20th centuries , which one could be forgiven for thinking were only a few decades old .
15 Peacocks , ducks , geese , deer and rare sheep can be seen in the immediate environs .
16 Here lay the spur to innovation , as can be seen in the Norman and Flemish accounting systems , which combined the techniques of survey and inquest with the new arithmetic to protect and increase the revenues available to the duke of Normandy and the count of Flanders .
17 The relative importance may change , as can be seen in the increasing importance of mechanical weathering in cold and dry climates .
18 The need for monarchy to be functionally rationalized , at least implicitly , can be seen in the official programme to the Coronation of 1953 .
19 Proof of the paper 's central role in pop at the time can be seen in the regular NME Poll Winners ' concerts held in London each spring .
20 The most graphic impression of Cordon-trained vines can be seen in the late winter months , as one travels from Louvois on the D34 .
21 This more sculptural approach can be seen in the second kind of Negroid painting .
22 It has been almost impossible for them to acquire the artistic infrastructure that should surround those works so that they can be seen in the right scholarship context .
23 Such a division into higher and lower ( genuine and superficial ) themes can be seen in the classic work on the psychology of prejudice , The Authoritarian Personality ( Adorno et al . ,
24 Developments across the country are uneven , but the shape of things to come can be seen in the greater provision of minor surgery by general practitioners , the increase in health promotion work in general practice , the employment of staff such as physiotherapists and dietitians to work alongside general practitioners , the establishment of shared care arrangements for treating conditions such as diabetes and asthma , and the introduction of ‘ treat and teach ’ schemes , in which specialists carry out some of their consultations in general practitioners ' surgeries and develop the skills of general practitioners in the process .
25 The effect of these induced voltages can be seen in the high-speed waveform of Fig.5.2(c) , in which the waveform can no longer be described in terms of a simple exponential rise and decay .
26 This can be seen in the religious movements mentioned above which reacted against an orthodoxy which in its own way had a distinctly rationalist colouring , even though it was opposed to humanistic rationalism .
27 The confluence of the San Juan and Colorado rivers can be seen in the lower centre-left of the image .
28 Philip Pearlstein can be seen in the new Hirschl & Adler space in SoHo from 7 November to 5 December , Eric Fischl at the newly-configured Mary Boone gallery from 7 November to 19 December and Volker Stelzmann , who matured as an artist in East Germany , shows ‘ Berlin Today ’ a series of twenty-five paintings in the spacious new quarters of the Forum Gallery .
29 In the reception class it can be seen in the first moments of a school day .
30 The legacy of decades of growing central financial control can be seen in the central levers of power that now exist ( see Figure 5.1 ) .
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