Example sentences of "[adj] can be [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.

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1 And when you score a cracker of a goal , you can watch it again on the slow-motion replay ( this can be turned off ) .
2 Some settlement is likely to take place over a period after the trench has been filled , but this can be filled in at a later stage .
3 This can be hung on a classroom wall and it can double as a speaker for audio machines .
4 The odours are the sole attractant for the bees and this can be detected up to 1 km away across water , though perhaps less in forest .
5 For a deeper cure this can be followed up with the constitutional remedy .
6 If a company can ascertain the ACORN categories which make up its target market segments , this can be matched up with the distribution of ACORN types living in any area .
7 Sometimes this can be converted back to a single compartment when bulky items have to be carried , either by zipping out the dividing panel or by loosening a drawcord .
8 This can be borne out by looking at many of the resources available — often well-produced , informative and written from a sympathetic point of view but lacking depth .
9 This can be traced back as far at least as Lord Mansfield , who said : ‘ In all mercantile transactions the great object should be certainty and therefore it 's of more consequence that a rule should be certain , than whether the rule is established one way or the other .
10 In these , positions , the glazing must be ‘ safe ’ , and this can be achieved in may of the following ways :
11 Lustre powder is included as an optional ingredient in some of the cake recipes in this book — a non-toxic shiny coloured powder , this can be brushed on to dry icing to give a lovely shimmering effect .
12 There are various ways in which this can be carried out depending on the age of the child and level of control of the parents .
13 This can be carried out quite easily in the garden , especially if you have a wall or fence with an adjacent path .
14 This can be carried out last thing at night , once the puppy has been outside to relieve itself .
15 This can be carried out with the fish in situ .
16 This can be paid out weekly or monthly .
17 This can be rubbed out later .
18 All this can be put on a quantitative basis and doing so results in the celebrated condition written unc that is , the product of the uncertainties in position and momentum is always at least of the order of magnitude of Planck 's constant .
19 Alas , this can be put down only to incompetence , to sloppy literary habits .
20 It is usually appropriate to see patients one to three times per week at first ; sessions after this can be spaced out to provide continuing support as changes are consolidated .
21 Officials say that unless this can be speeded up , it will take up to three years before the detention centres can be emptied of their present populations .
22 As usual , much of this can be sorted out in the pilot phase .
23 If there is an existing fitting with a spare 50mm boss socket , this can be drilled out and fitted with a boss connector of the appropriate size .
24 Where there is an existing unused boss socket , this can be drilled out using a hole saw
25 If necessary you would then follow-up with physiotherapy treatment ( if referred by a GP this can be claimed back from health insurance ) and remedial exercises in the small but well-equipped gym .
26 The reason for this can be summed up in one word — dragons .
27 This can be dropped in when the sky washes are just damp .
28 ( 1 ) By using the cumulative Current Law Citator , which is published annually ; this can be brought up to date with the Statute Citator in Current Law Statutes — a table of the effect the statutes have on earlier legislation .
29 Hypnotherapy is also useful , except with those susceptible to depression , since this can be brought on or made much worse by hypnosis .
30 There is first a movement inward by which , instead of living in our surface mind , we break the wall between our external and our subliminal self ; this can be brought about by a gradual effort and discipline or by a vehement transition , sometimes a forceful involuntary rupture — the latter by no means safe for the limited human mind and accustomed to live securely only within its normal limit — but in either way , safe or unsafe , the thing can be done .
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