Example sentences of "[art] [noun] can often [be] " in BNC.

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1 Most brachiopods were attached to the substrate by a stalk , and the hole through which the stalk entered the shell can often be seen on the fossils .
2 My contribution is that , my experience is that the hook can often be a national event .
3 If not , the condition can often be rectified by psychotherapy ; and the same applies , of course , where shame or distress are caused to the person affected .
4 In each of these circumstances the issue can often be : When do people start to grieve ?
5 A few colonies of the fungus can often be grown from the vagina of a completely healthy and symptom-free woman .
6 If he or she is apprised in advance of your particular aims and objectives , and work the pupils have already done on the topic , and so on , the session can often be very carefully tailored to get maximum value from the visit .
7 The fact that parents are trying to keep an emotional secret from the child can often be the root cause of the problem .
8 Indeed , as several observers have noted , the avoidance of friction and preservation of peace in the community can often be more important than tackling the causes of wrong-doing .
9 Although the calculations can often be tricky and demanding — perhaps beyond one 's power other than in some crude approximation — it is the first creative stage which is the difficult one .
10 The truth can often be slanderous if it is put in certain ways .
11 The child making the complaint can often be classified as a fuss pot engaged in attention seeking behaviour — a case of the victim being held responsible for the crime ?
12 With a little ingenuity , passages which at first sight would appear to require much use of the pedals can often be made playable with very little chromatic alteration , or perhaps none at all , by using enharmonic equivalents of certain notes .
13 In such cases , the shots can often be saved by dubbing in suitable backgrounds of a kind which do not need to be closely synchronised to the pictures .
14 The reassurance and encouragement of the counsellor can often be sufficient for an older person in this situation .
15 Read the slope of the bank in just the same way as you would with a long putt , and the results can often be very accurate .
16 But it is also emphasized that professional competence is not something that can or should be taken for granted , and that the intimate knowledge of the carer-counsellor can often be as useful as the most vaunted professional .
17 The tests can often be more effective than more expensive and time-consuming tests on mice and other animals .
18 In this way the pattern of the air-jets used for cooling the glass can often be seen in car windscreens .
19 The borehole can often be sited precisely where the water is needed — in a village or factory compound , for example — so avoiding the need for expensive water mains .
20 ‘ That is the most traumatic period for both the children and their parents , as the children can often be subjected to jibes and name-calling , ’ Dr Allen added .
21 The eggs of the lacewing can often be seen as a tiny little cluster at the end of a thin hair-like little stalk usually attached to the undersides of leaves .
22 Because of the nature of the terrain — the land rocky and barren , the coastline highly indented — villages which appear to be close on the map can often be as far as 30 miles apart by winding road .
23 They may play in a different key and with a somewhat different emphasis but the tune can often be heard all the same .
24 The individual squares on the screen can often be small and difficult to see , especially if you are creating a very large design , so a zoom facility is provided .
25 Faults can range from the merely inconvenient , when water spills out of sagging or blocked gutters on to unsuspecting people underneath , to the more serious problem of penetrating damp , where peeling decorations and damp patches inside the house can often be traced to a leaking gutter or downpipe outside .
26 The detail in a close-up can often be assimilated in a flash , and most need only be held for two or three seconds unless the subject happens to be a ‘ talking head ’ , in which case the sound governs the editing rather than the picture .
27 As mentioned earlier a routine can often be regarded as a written task description .
28 A point can often be scored by demonstrating that the law applicable to a problem may depend upon the court before which the case comes .
29 According to Berke and Stubbs ( 1989 ) a DSS can often be conceptualized as a tool to be used as part of an interactive learning process allowing the user to undertake ‘ what if ’ analyses and view the consequences of such alternatives .
30 THE CLASS of a locomotive can often be detected well before it appears on the scene simply by the sound of its whistle .
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