Example sentences of "[pron] can now [be] [vb pp] " in BNC.

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1 Teachers and LEAs could not keep track of this deluge , little of which can now be recalled by practitioners in any detail .
2 We have , however , recently contributed towards the purchase by ECTF of the CABI ‘ TREES ’ CD-ROM , which can now be accessed by all RBGE staff at the Darwin Library .
3 ‘ It is my view they need an era of increased certainty which can now be built on the foundation of recent reform decisions and on which they can , with far more confidence than has been the case in the past , base and plan their futures . ’
4 This was the beginning of an interesting and complex relationship , which can now be evaluated in a better informed , more balanced way .
5 They included ‘ Flying Scotsman ’ and ‘ Mallard ’ , which in 193 8 set up the world speed record for a steam locomotive of 126 m.p.h. , and which can now be seen at York ( q.v . ) .
6 In operating an incomes policy on low pay , by changing the incidence of taxation on income and wealth , by cutting the rise in the welfare budget , while letting tax welfare be consumer led , the Government has brought about a revolutionary polarization in income and living standards , which can now be seen not only in the official data on income distribution , but also in widening class differences .
7 This might exclude many students who are currently enrolled in English degrees , even those with good A-levels which can now be obtained very largely by studying drama and fiction .
8 To examine this shift , we return to the first order condition , equation ( 16 ) , which can now be rewritten as The term in square brackets is positive for the first order condition for a maximum to hold .
9 First , by spending less on goods and services , the government will free some resources which can now be used by the private sector .
10 ( a ) Have you discovered any methods which can now be used to investigate another text or author ?
11 Nothing has been more ominous in the doctrinal shift of the 1980s than the actual hostility to this term which can now be found in Roman teaching .
12 Exactly fifty years earlier , two scientists in the Physics Department demonstrated a device which changed the course of history , and which can now be found in 48% of British homes .
13 That Jennens had some talent as a poet may be judged from ‘ Parthenissa 's Answer to the Pocket-Book 's Soliloquy ’ , a poem in Leapor 's second volume which can now be attributed to her .
14 The extent to which control has moved out of the hands of the local authorities can be seen in Figure 6.7 , where an asterisk ( * ) indicates a power traditionally held by the LEA which can now be taken over by schools which ‘ opt out ’ ; a dagger ( t ) indicates new powers which central government has taken on since 1979 , often transferred from the LEA ; and a double dagger ( 1– ) in the parents or governors column indicates new duties and rights they have received since 1979 .
15 Network and relational database systems to which can now be added a fourth :
16 She can now be seen on general release in the Neil Jordan film The Crying Game , cast as an IRA terrorist .
17 Their efficiency and reliability have also increased , to the extent that they can now be regarded as a primary recharging source for a yacht 's batteries alongside the engine alternator or the petrol generator .
18 And I hope they can now be resolved .
19 That they can now be reprinted is a confirmation of his final optimism when he wrote : ‘ They murder our love — and it lives .
20 The only place they can now be found in the entire country is in Upper Teesdale .
21 Whether they actually were subversive becomes irrelevant to the extent that they can now be retrieved to offer a potential that has a contemporary , that is twentieth-century , political relevance .
22 The best speech synthesisers are capable of producing speech of such high quality that only an expert can distinguish it from a recording of a human being 's speech ; less sophisticated synthesisers are becoming so cheap that they can now be bought for attaching to ordinary micro-computers .
23 The evolutionary story , to the extent that it can now be understood ( and to the much more modest extent to which I understand it myself ) seems to me to give some support to the view that in this respect the historical story means very much what it seems to mean .
24 It can now be applied with a small paintbrush .
25 In archaeology , I understand , it can now be said that computers are automatically considered for any project , however small .
26 A recent scientific review states that : ‘ On the basis of a large body of research , it can now be stated that passive smoking causes lung cancer in non-smokers and serious respiratory illness in babies …
27 It can now be seen that these pieces of equipment constitute a basic gym around which routines for both beginners and advanced trainers can be structured .
28 The Medway Letter Line was meant to include ‘ unknown ’ floods , as well as recorded ones , and as information on flooding has become more sophisticated , it can now be seen to have overstated the benefit area by attempting to be on the safe side .
29 It can now be seen as a deliberate political reaction to the earlier building , and it is even recorded that on its completion in 537 Justinian promised God that he himself had ‘ vanquished Solomon . ’
30 It can now be seen that the sum of constant capital used up in the two departments during the production cycle is less than the total means of production produced by Dept .
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