Example sentences of "[adj] [pron] can be [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are also two ‘ pad ’ settings , one which puts the ground lift on or off and another which can be set at 40dB , 12dB or 0dB . |
| 2 | In this she can be considered to be the founder of district nursing . |
| 3 | Buying a second-hand board is rather like the second-hand car or computer market in that there are plenty of bargains but unless you are careful you can be ripped off . |
| 4 | This one can be made in almost the same way as the Diamond , except that the cross-spar or spreader has to be bent at the centre . |
| 5 | Technically , this one can be played using either pick or fingerstyle , although I think that Joe used a pick on the record . |
| 6 | Meanwhile , this one can be enjoyed for what it does in its own right . |
| 7 | A broken one can be replaced at a more convenient time . |
| 8 | From this it can be concluded first that Aristo interprets the dispositions as trusts . |
| 9 | From this it can be concluded that only 1.4 per cent of this large number of coins establishes the date of the deposit but in this case , since there are no later Roman coins found in Britain , it could be even later ; a salutary lesson for all excavators . |
| 10 | From this it can be seen that no one method is suitable for all learning/ teaching situations or for all individuals . |
| 11 | From this it can be seen that recruitment will be most effective if everyone is involved and understands the problem . |
| 12 | From this it can be seen that the rate of exchange must fall to make the US$ more expensive . |
| 13 | In support of this it can be asked , if the proposers of a merger can not demonstrate such benefits then who can ? |
| 14 | From this it can be inferred that monetary or economic activity ( defined as the intensity of coin use and hence loss ) was greater in rural than in urban centres in the last century of Roman rule in Britain . |
| 15 | The Belfast community is a broadly monodialectal one , but within this it can be described as a divergent-dialect community ( Johnston , 1983 ) . |
| 16 | If the tenants can get this it can be used to provide additional care . |
| 17 | Hence , p has all the values of a probability and in the situation where all investors are risk averse it can be shown that it is equal to the probability with which we started . |
| 18 | From Table 2 it can be seen that there a significant main effect for level of processing , but no significant main effect for type of response . |
| 19 | The contact becomes an act only if in some way or another it can be provided with a social meaning . |
| 20 | This is an exaggeration , but you should remember that the older the history book ( especially over 20 years ) the less reliable it can be considered to be , because ( i ) new evidence is always being unearthed ( ii ) all historians tend to write from within the perspective of their own times ( " every generation writes its own history " ) ( iii ) most professional historians update their own interpretations according to personal preference and in the face of scholarly criticism . |
| 21 | It would be solved at once if we were to abandon faith for something more solid which can be known . |
| 22 | Our gloss acrylic coating can be burnished to a mirror-like gloss surpassing that which can be obtained with polyurethane varnishes . |
| 23 | Essentially the assertive female cross-dresser inverted the metaphysics of difference : from being a divine law inscribed essentially in each of God 's subjects and which knowledge of self would confirm , sexual identity and sexual difference are shifted irretrievably into the domain of custom , of the social , of that which can be contested . |
| 24 | It is quite possible that the extent of unmet legal need can never be ascertained and that which can be ascertained can not adequately be explained . |
| 25 | This attitude was reinforced by the second wave of technology which provided instrumentation , ways of sensing and recording data which gave more accurate and reliable data than that which can be detected directly by the human senses . |
| 26 | that the only kind of learning worth seriously measuring is that which can be evaluated by making a mark on a card for subsequent ingestion by a machine ( An awful corollary to this is that judgments made by human beings must be given less weight than electronically certified facts . ) |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Allocated expenditure is that which can be identified as being used for the benefit of a particular country within the EC . |
| 29 | The choice of treatment may be skewed towards that which can be paid for , rather than that which may be in the best interests of or preferred by the patient . |
| 30 | Although the speed of the computer does not allow animation comparable to that which can be produced on film , there is no doubt that this facility , which has only just begun to be explored , can give real power to the teacher . |