Example sentences of "[n mass] can be [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The classic bob can be swept back to ring the changes . |
| 2 | The system also ‘ stores ’ details of the last 5,000 lightning strikes , and this data can be played back in accelerated fashion , enabling pilots to track the movement of thunderstorms . |
| 3 | Mr Ferris asks us to point out that one of the requirements of the UK Air Navigation Order is that the current registered owner of an aircraft must keep the Authority informed of any changes to their address or ownership details in order that the UK Register of Civil Aircraft can be kept up to date . |
| 4 | Throughout November and December a few big cod can be taken over low water from the end of the sandbar on night tides . |
| 5 | However , deterrence will exist only when young people can be locked up in secure accommodation : if they can not be locked up , all this will be a waste of time . |
| 6 | This administrative process is very slow and limits the rate at which people can be sent back from Hong Kong . |
| 7 | ‘ I deplore the attitude that people can be taken on without any training , ’ says Mr Boswell . |
| 8 | Both of them can be thought of as being exercised in varying degrees , so that observation of people can be carried out with varying degrees of participation and varying degrees of control . |
| 9 | It is also equally extraordinary how mean some people can be to pass on such a pony to an unsuspecting family with small children ! |
| 10 | Instead of filling the directly vacant post , staff can be moved round , and the resulting vacancy filled . |
| 11 | With this kind of exercise the most appropriate media can be picked out and the PR effort concentrated where it is both most needed and most appreciated . |
| 12 | Hans Hartmann , oceanographer with the Aquatic resources Conservation Group in Seattle , however , said that scientific studies had been misdirected insofar as they had concentrated on how much of a commercial species can be taken out of the sea , rather than understanding of how the sea itself works . |
| 13 | Added to the difficulty of implementing blanket controls are the following factors : few ports of entry have any animal holding facilities , making it impossible for animals to be kept back ; customs staff often do not have the necessary background to identify an endangered animal ; and containers can be difficult to examine and endangered species can be smuggled in with other animals . |
| 14 | Such small works can be carried out without applying for grant and , therefore , the whole farm does not have to comply with the regulations . |
| 15 | All extended proportional series can be broken down into a number of linear series of cells , as in figs. 5.6 and 5.7 , and this is the form in which we shall study them . |