Example sentences of "it can [be] [verb] at " in BNC.

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1 The bench table is fitted with a very useful horizontal angleguide which can be locked into any position in front of the disc , or it can be locked at the desired angle while being free to slide in a slot parallel with the disc face .
2 It can be seen at Citizens Advice Bureaux , or at funeral directors who are members of the Association .
3 It can be seen at certain times .
4 It can be seen at the National Gallery from 22 November to 7 February 1993 , and at the Metropolitan Museum from 11 March to 23 May 1993 .
5 The only thing these artists have in common is their gallery of origin the Bachelier-Cardonsky of Kent , Connecticut , USA which has sent their work for the first time ever to Paris where it can be seen at Gianna Sistu for a month .
6 It can be seen at once that this essence or core of the conception is sufficiently basic and general to allow ample scope for the more elaborated and specific definitions which we often meet with .
7 And it can be done at any level .
8 It can be done at this speed .
9 Erm er it 's er it 's obviously annoying for me personally , er but the worst thing about it is that it can be done at the drop of a hat , you say , I want information on X. and they say , Yes we can provide .
10 This is familiar language , and Eleanor Gordon and others have argued that much more investigation of the circumstances of setting up women 's unions is needed before it can be accepted at face value , Material obstacles made union membership difficult for women : their low pay made it hard to pay dues , while their domestic duties as daughters and sisters , not to mention the question of staying out late , made it hard to attend meetings .
11 For example : it can be said at once — and briefly — that the probability that she was massively involved in the murder of Darnley is very strong .
12 PRP 's great advantage is that it can be implemented at the level of the individual operating unit where employees feel that their efforts can have an impact .
13 If meaning can be derived by participants in the communication then there must be a significatory system operating and it can be analysed at the level of the first order regardless of what the meaning is .
14 The analogy must not be overstretched , but the fact that it can be made at all shows how integrated mass media were into the rhythms and activities of society .
15 It can be made at any time once an action has been raised .
16 It conveys strain and effort ; the psychological rendering of a concentration on each separate moment and the feeling that every moment will be recoverable in memory ( perhaps strobe-like stop-motion would be more logical here , but it could provoke laughter or distraction , a break in concentration on the story ) ; and finally the suggestion that the action is so rapid that it must be slowed down so that it can be perceived at all .
17 One of the fundamental aspects of LIFESPAN is that it can be accessed at any time from any directory to which you have access .
18 Remember to tie a strong rope to the bag so it can be retrieved at the end of the day or to refill .
19 Now lawyers for Asda supermarkets have realised it can be sold at any time by the case — that means at least nine litres of wine or 20 litres of beer .
20 Oil deserves to be found and pumped out if and only if , it can be sold at a price that covers the cost of appropriate environmental safeguards , by a company with a powerful incentive to keep those safeguards working .
21 There are for instance extreme examples of the inhibition or punishment of the sexual act in which laughter can not be other than inhumane if it can be found at all : for example in Connebert , where a lecherous priest has to castrate himself in order to save his life , or Le Prestre et le leu , " The priest and the wolf " , a laconically brief tale of just twenty-eight lines relating how a peasant digs a trap for a lecherous priest , into which first a wolf , then the priest , and then the wife 's maid sent to see if the priest is coming fall in turn , after which the peasant kills the wolf , castrates the priest , and chases off the maid .
22 The degree of confusion usually reduces with the passage of time , although it can be heightened at any point in life as a result of threat or adversity .
23 A sensible way for her to prepare for such an eventuality is to keep a small case already packed and labelled with her name and address in her wardrobe or in a corner of her bedroom where it can be got at easily ( see Chapter 13 ) .
24 Caught early enough , it can be held at bay .
25 It can be changed at any time ( with the process stopped ) .
26 But if it 's , if it can be dropped at your place
27 It can be used at both small and large scale , in the construction of aircraft and in the architecture of their vast shelters , hangars , stadia and the like .
28 The Client must have been created before it can be used at this option .
29 And it even comes in a plastic bottle , so it can be thrown at Teddy without causing serious injury .
30 If it does so the provisions of section 80A apply instead of those in subsections ( 4 ) and ( 5 ) of section 80 and the authority can be given for any fixed period or indefinitely though it can be revoked at any time .
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