Example sentences of "[pron] can be [vb pp] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact there are very few goods that are pure public goods ; that is , goods that yield benefits from which nobody can be excluded and for which the amount the individual can consume does not diminish as the number of consumers increases . |
| 2 | A ‘ top-down ’ comment by Holdgate ( 1982 ) also makes a plea for relevant local research which can be applied and its resulting policies replicated . |
| 3 | For the school librarian and teacher , word processing programs on microcomputers allow the creation of documents which can be used once only e.g. a current new acquisitions list or a notice to pupils , but also documents which can be saved and used again . |
| 4 | Lower ribs : These protect various organs like the liver and spleen which can be jolted and hurt when the lower ribs are struck . |
| 5 | For those present their Mass is their one opportunity and they will benefit from any resource and talent which can be gathered and encouraged . |
| 6 | Other spatially referenced data incorporated into the system include those on the distribution of schools , medical and transport services which can be displayed and supplementary information about them obtained . |
| 7 | He added : ‘ The aim must be to produce small claims procedures which can be understood and followed by the do-it-yourself litigant . ’ |
| 8 | a digitizing device using light sensitivity to translate a picture or typed text into a pattern of dots which can be understood and stored by a computer . |
| 9 | * Provide information which can be understood and adequate training |
| 10 | In particular , it may foster the inventor 's ill-informed optimism that he has something which can be developed and exploited for commercial gain . |
| 11 | To return to the source of good , evil and neutral ; whatever , in the conflicts referred to , may have been the intentions or hopes of the protagonists , the fact remains that over the centuries they have produced a constant flow of individual human decisions which can be examined and specified as either good , evil or neutral . |
| 12 | Another group which can be isolated and excluded is that of the fortified posts ( burgi ) along Watling Street from Uxacona ( Red Hill ) to Bannaventa and which will possibly be extended eventually to the south-east . |
| 13 | It does , however , represent a basic structure which can be extended and refined by , for example , subdividing the population into urban and rural components or considering the interactions between populations of several regions . |
| 14 | Postscript is recognisable as something which can be written and read by us humans . |
| 15 | A substantial market exists for reasonably priced , good quality meals , available in an informal setting and which can be obtained and consumed within a fairly short time . |
| 16 | The economics of the project are very encouraging , thanks to the planned use of low-cost modules of development facilities of about 40,000 b/d capacity , which can be built and put in place within a year . |
| 17 | Keeping a work diary provided myself and my managers with quantitative data on my time management which can be scrutinised and kept as one tool to evaluate change . |
| 18 | Here , too , are sedimented conventions of presentation : the need to personalise the issue by interviewing hapless victims , to make comparisons with other events classified as similar in kind and , most obviously in the case of television , to be attracted to that which can be pictured and distracted from that which can not . |
| 19 | The pixels which make up an image on a digitized computer screen are like building blocks which can be coloured and combined in any way the operator 's computer , competence and ingenuity allow . |
| 20 | Yes , both bacteria and animals are already being engineered to produce specific compounds which can be extracted and used for the benefit of farm animals or man . |
| 21 | Also the grass grows for only a short-season , and the amount of hay which can be cut and dried varies from one year to the next . |
| 22 | There are trees such as willows which can be cut and harvested at frequent intervals . |
| 23 | This is in contrast to that information which can be challenged and questioned which has to be made publicly available in support of quality assurance . |
| 24 | Screen 3 … but when the same piece of clip-art is used from within Quattro Pro , a map of France appears , which can be moved and resized to suit your purpose |
| 25 | Throughout , the emphasis is on constructing multiple alternative models , which can be explored and tested against each other . |
| 26 | The interviewer is looking for a relapsed sport or hobby which can be restarted and used as behavioural tasks in homework assignments . |
| 27 | Place the text block back onto the page and you will discover that it has been converted into a graphic which can be stretched and distorted as much as you want . |
| 28 | The creeping rhizome produces young plants which can be divided and transplanted . |
| 29 | The resulting language varies from one author to another , but as written language it has many general features which can be described and analysed ( Perera , 1984 ) . |
| 30 | Although CD-ROMs look much like CD audio discs , they are encoded not with music but information which can be read and displayed by a computer . |