Example sentences of "[noun sg] can be [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A speed can be locked in by selecting a dial letter and pressing the Power-on button . |
| 2 | On arriving , one will see there are two possible ways through the mountains , the easier being that to the south where a main feeder of the loch can be followed up to the watershed . |
| 3 | When accurate information is available for analysis by management , trends and patterns in absenteeism will emerge and appropriate action can be decided on . |
| 4 | The better view is that no action can be brought in England unless the article is also actionable under the law of the country where publication took place . |
| 5 | A break-point can be picked out from the graph of employees in employment ( Figure 2.1(a) ) : 1966 was the peak year for the total number of jobs in the economy . |
| 6 | Occasionally a gelding , or even a mare , may be so aggressive that there is a real possibility of it seriously injuring another horse , especially if there are shelter sheds another horse can be trapped in , although for some horses even the corner of the paddock is enough . |
| 7 | The main elements of this conception can be set out very briefly in the following way . |
| 8 | The following day the whole fence can be raked down from both sides to make it shed rain better , and the rakings piled on top . |
| 9 | Alternatively , pipework can be covered up , either with home-made boxing made from plywood or with one of the proprietary products . |
| 10 | Anything that you design within the programme can be saved on to disk for future use . |
| 11 | Such reasoning can be traced down to the present day , although there are variations on the theme . |
| 12 | Equity can be played down : |
| 13 | Luckily for the curious , this historical sideline can be followed up in a number of publications , both about individuals and institutions . |
| 14 | This ladder may be either caught in at the beginning by transferring the ladder stitch to the adjacent needle OR the stitch can be run down as you work and picked up and reversed after the cable is finished to form a purl stitch on the right side . |
| 15 | Money collected as a result can be paid in at branches of the Halifax Building Society and will be given to the Barnardos charity . |
| 16 | Neither of these two previous statements implies a restriction on how the drawing can be laid out but rather indicates a preferred order to simplify the mental visualization necessary for the designer . |
| 17 | You can shoot the material in any order , the edited movie can be built up from the best parts of the recording , and the overall shape of the movie can be finally determined when the material to be retained is known . |
| 18 | Courier bags up to 32 kilos in weight can be accepted up to 45 minutes before flight departure to over 60 destinations . |
| 19 | The potential of the new trucks will remain limited until their weight can be brought down . |
| 20 | The problem IASC , and the market regulators ' body Iosco , faces though is determining how harmonisation can be brought about . |
| 21 | Hand-shaking , nose-rubbing , and courtly bowing , are among the alternative actions by means of which a greeting can be carried out . |
| 22 | In these cases a Boolean AND condition can be set up . |
| 23 | At the same time the detailed shape of the boundary is changing ; each bulge and indentation can be identified over only a limited time . |
| 24 | Notice , too , that the Laplace transform of a relevant Kirchhoff equation can be written down immediately when there is no energy stored in the circuit initially . |
| 25 | As with glass , aluminium can be recycled over and over again . |
| 26 | So , knowing the sequence of nucleotides in a gene , which may be thousands of nucleotides long , the order of amino acids in the protein can be worked out . |
| 27 | After these stages have been completed , the financial appraisal can be carried out . |
| 28 | No absolute rule can be laid down as to the way the subordinate judge should proceed . |
| 29 | No one pretends that the calculation of the multiplier is a scientific operation and no hard-and-fast rule can be laid down for calculating it . |
| 30 | Sales and purchasing directors and managers will probably have authority to make commercial contracts in most cases , whilst warehouse and delivery staff will generally not have authority to agree contracts or vary terms , but no hard and fast rule can be laid down . |