Example sentences of "[noun pl] can be [vb pp] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | This computer programme comes with FINDPHONE and can be applied to the same data to select different types of data for different grammatical purposes , e.g. all words can be extracted and put in a separate file to add to your lexicon . |
| 2 | These beginnings , or prefixes , are checked against a lexicon , which is constructed in such a way that prefixes which will not produce legal words can be identified and pruned from the list . |
| 3 | Recordings can be erased and the sheet reused . |
| 4 | Kossen also says that these characteristics can be learned and developed , thereby suggesting that leaders may be made as well as born . |
| 5 | Even lime soaps can be dispersed and solubilized , so that there is the basis of a useful emergency treatment that can be applied when the normal supply of soft water is not available or where , for some reason , hard water has been run into a vessel and it is desired to counteract its effect in situ . |
| 6 | Christians see , in this miracle , the eternal truth that sins can be forgiven and that this forgiveness comes through Jesus . |
| 7 | These tripods can be dismantled and stored in the minimum space and used without maintenance for many years . |
| 8 | Some of these might be : recognizes that a number of squares can be rearranged and form several different shapes ; knows that , in order to cover a given rectangle with different sizes of squares , the smaller squares will produce the larger numbers ; knows that to find an area is to find the number of unit shapes which will cover a shape . |
| 9 | But one criticism made later in the same commentary drew attention to what was thought to be missing " above all , two things : one of them a sense of history , both a broad and more local framework within which the achievement of these schools can be placed and evaluated ; the other a sense of the actual texture of the schools themselves " ( Tizard et al. |
| 10 | In Northern Ireland , where wider cultural values about gender and sex roles are reinforced by common practice , policewomen can be humiliated and face hostility and resentment from some male members of the public who expect to deal with policemen , and normally do . |
| 11 | Clumps can be divided and sown in April or late August , and thinned . |
| 12 | Used as a subsystem in the Infinity 90 , up to 512 of these units can be coupled and used in various configurations as communications processors input/output and general purpose compute systems . |
| 13 | Using an extra RAM card your own settings can be stored and recalled for future use , or for use with another A2 — possibly one installed in a studio you are visiting . |
| 14 | The main sources and applications of funds can be identified and any changes over time recorded . |
| 15 | For around $7,700 — rather more than the cost of a burial — clients can be pickled and preserved for eternity . |
| 16 | Political activities such as party meetings and rallies can be observed and supervised , but there is no way of controlling what an individual listens to on his radio set . |
| 17 | To summarize : the purpose of the experiment is to create a standardized situation for the researcher to study , in which all variables are under the control of the experimenter , and in which the results of manipulating variables can be studied and measured . |
| 18 | Trips to the reservoirs and dams can be arranged and are highly recommended for the breathtaking views of the Kitzsteinhorn , Gross Glockner and Steinenes Meer . |
| 19 | Full spatial relationships can be obtained and checked in their orthogonal views . |
| 20 | Relationships can be destroyed and friendships lost when you come to need drugs more than you need other people . |
| 21 | But before we can understand the operation of macroeconomic management it is first necessary to examine a simple model within which some of the more fundamental macroeconomic relationships can be identified and explained . |
| 22 | Like the ME-6 the parameters can be selected and changed in seconds , and BOSS are to be congratulated on this . |
| 23 | HOG will define an object 's attributes — what parameters can be set and what information can be retrieved ; the ‘ methods ’ associated with that object — what can be done to it and what it can do ; and its notification — what the object emits ( such as warning to tell the system that a file is nearly full , for example ) and what it can be read to . |
| 24 | Size and quantity of flowers for vases can be estimated and experimented with . |
| 25 | He reckons there are no shortages of possible uses — farmers can use it to do their accounts , women with child-care responsibilities can work in their own time on the word processors , publicity material for local craftsmen can be produced and so on . |
| 26 | There are obvious analogies to the immune system , including the fact that these proteins can be induced and that there are extremes of individual variability often related to the presence of polymorphisms that can lead on occasion to hypersusceptibility to the effects of environmentally derived agents . |
| 27 | The group has just officially opened a badger nursery where young injured and orphaned animals can be raised and returned to the wild . |
| 28 | Breeding records are kept so that unproductive animals can be identified and culled . |
| 29 | The proembryoes can be frozen and stored , and their availability improves the chance of success of in vitro fertilizations as well as allowing a woman to have another child a year or two after the first . |
| 30 | This is noticeable when short term goals can be identified and seen to be worth reaching and may well account for the very impressive efforts by schools in agricultural , sports and music competitions . |