Example sentences of "[verb] can be [vb pp] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most institutions offer an official life trajectory in terms of which honour can be acquired and reputation gained . |
| 2 | I hope I have demonstrated some of the variety of ways in which Credits can be used and as I write perhaps some genius is thinking up yet another variation to deal with a particular problem . |
| 3 | The choice of bibliographies used can be monitored and spot checks made on the orders proposed , taking some limited subject areas and using sections of a reliable and up-to-date bibliography . |
| 4 | The validity of some of the figures used can be challenged and different methods of accounting can demonstrate different relationships between growth and spending . |
| 5 | The information produced can be amalgamated and distributed to all the learners , so that everyone has the benefit of the work of the entire group . |
| 6 | Buckets can be filled with snow — loosely or hard packed — and the amount of water found when the snow has melted can be discussed and compared . |
| 7 | Michael Rosen understands that rhythm makes language memorable for children , and what 's remembered can be possessed and loved . |
| 8 | What I hope to have shown , which is consistent with a certain tentativeness about what has been said , and with incompleteness , is that we do have a grasp of both dependent and independent conditionals , which grasp can be clarified and which gives to us an explicit understanding of the seven causal connections that were set out . |
| 9 | But there must be concerns at the prospect of the need to break up such a service and whether the work it is undertaking can be maintained and appropriately financially supported in smaller units . ’ |
| 10 | This chapter briefly surveys the nature of user needs and the factors which bear upon use , and then attempts to summarize the methods by which use can be studied and analysed . |
| 11 | A field of rare flowers that is destroyed can be replanted and may eventually be the same as the field that was destroyed ( even if the process does take 1,000 years ) . |
| 12 | However , radar has the advantage over the passive receipt of radio waves that the pulses sent can be controlled and their nature and time of sending are known . |
| 13 | The unexpected usually occurs in military affairs for the simple reason that what can be foreseen can be deterred and so tends not to happen . |
| 14 | There are three main ways in which the material that you study can be remembered and become part of your intellectual lore : by the use of repetition , association , and memory-joggers or mnemonics . |