Example sentences of "[conj] can be [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of these ideas can be used directly as you knit or can be sewn on afterwards as a pleasant ploy during the holiday season . |
| 2 | Rubber Girl stores easy in raft or can be blown up to add extra floatation . |
| 3 | They will wash four to six place settings , can stand on the draining board or worksurface , or can be built in below using a kit supplied by the manufacturer . |
| 4 | The twin handled grill pan pulls forward horizontally to a safety stop position or can be lifted out altogether . |
| 5 | These exercises , which are easily and quickly generated , can be presented to your students either as printed worksheets — you will be provided with the answers on a separate sheet — or can be put on to a floppy disk so that a student or group of students can work on screen . |
| 6 | It is a fundamental concept that can be traced back to earliest times . |
| 7 | They also evince an obvious preference for Greek , as against Latin , as an object of study — a preference that can be traced back to Nietzsche 's schooldays , which produced a noteworthy essay on Sophocles ' Oedipus Rex ( 1864 ) . |
| 8 | Historians who have reconstructed the context of his trip have generally concluded that , far from being a momentary aberration , the Montreal speech was the culmination of a policy that can be traced back to the early 1960s . |
| 9 | With such diversity , each subject can only be treated briefly , and the book effectively gives thumbnail sketches of a list of topics that can be followed up elsewhere in depth . |
| 10 | That is something that can be argued over in specific instances . |
| 11 | The trauma captured in splitting is that one is n't there ; the same trauma that castration comes to symbolise is that one is incomplete ; the trauma that can be lived over and over again in the endless by-ways of life 's failures and imperfections . |
| 12 | A very fresh addition to the arcade section , great fun and one that can be played over and over again . |
| 13 | If the mixture is stirred vigorously , the tin particles form a froth on the top that can be scraped off . |
| 14 | You can access a pop-up calculator , a notepad facility that can be called up each time you execute the program and , from a reviewers point of view the most appealing , you can access the manual at any time during the running of the program . |
| 15 | A further 5,000 unfamiliar words can be added to the system , along with up to 99 standard paragraphs that can be called in as required . |
| 16 | Economic income is simply the maximum amount of real income that can be consumed out of real wealth during a given period without impairing the ability of that stock of real wealth to deliver real income and hence real consumption in the future . |
| 17 | It is the amount that can be consumed out of wealth and leave sufficient wealth to deliver a constant economic income in all future periods . |
| 18 | The tray should be in a part of the room that can be mopped up easily , but not isolated from the rest of the children and adults in the group . |
| 19 | The number of wheel chairs that can be fitted in , and the number of residents needing regular help with toileting , washing and dressing , has to be balanced alongside the needs of other residents . |
| 20 | We also have the latest in up-to-date technology — the TV set in the corner , which has a twin BBC-ITV facility , and , of course , a number of lights that can be turned on or off at the flick of a switch . |
| 21 | Any process with a clearly defined end and intermediate objectives that can be broken down into easily analysed subskills is ideally suited for computerisation . |
| 22 | The first is that a word is typically the smallest element of a sentence which has positional mobility — that is , the smallest that can be moved around without destroying the grammaticality of the sentence ( ignoring any semantic effects ) : |
| 23 | No , these are facts that can be borne out . |
| 24 | Apply a wood preservative that can be painted over or varnished afterwards . |
| 25 | Outstanding incompatibilities not resolved by the ABI — and there is little doubt that different look and feels will still prevail — are to be addressed by a streamlined porting environment that can be whittled down over time as more features are incorporated into the ABI . |
| 26 | Band filters that can be tuned down to low frequencies are useful in a host of applications including electronic oscillators . |
| 27 | In my view , however , therein lies its strength ; it is a programme that can be relied on to give an unvarnished account of the proceedings of the House and its committees ; it has been called a mini-Hansard . |
| 28 | In open rock pools , Bullheads , Taurulus bubalis , Dragonets , and Gobies , are some of the small fish that can be scooped up with a small net , together with Hermit Crabs that can be spied trundling over the bottom . |
| 29 | Both will be available for Fir Park tomorrow night and that is the value of a strong pool as well as a points cushion that can be leaned on but not to the stage of deflation . |
| 30 | He intends running it with myriad Sparc chips , everything from a low-end Tsunami to a high-end Viking or HyperSparc but until those pieces of silicon become available he 'll use a 40MHz MBus-based Cypress chip that can be swapped out when the time comes . |