Example sentences of "can [be] [verb] [adv prt] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once the basic gesture is jotted down , further refinements can be made ; the arms and legs can be fleshed out and the sex differences made evident . |
| 2 | Once the basic gesture is jotted down , further refinements can be made ; the arms and legs can be fleshed out and the sex differences made evident . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | She can be reached on or , via BBC Books ' publicity office on |
| 5 | But with England 's great goalkeeper still betraying no signs of his 40 years , except a finely honed judgement that causes the target to shrink before advancing strikers , hopes are high that Poland can be shut out and the points secured that will see England safely through to Italy . |
| 6 | As the cursor is moved around the grid , the individual rectangles can be coloured in or left blank as desired . |
| 7 | Their doubts can be seen over and over again from their words . ’ |
| 8 | He can be contacted on or . |
| 9 | These can be spooled in or out by the divers , from a control unit . |
| 10 | Banana skins , for example , are sometimes dried for weeks until they have gone black , then the inside off the skin can be scraped off and smoked . |
| 11 | That , in some cases , that has been explored for the storage of heat in the summer which you would then use in the winter , but everywhere one comes back to storage nuclear power stations can not be turned up and down quickly at the moment , so either with electricity you have to have a uniform demand for electricity , or you have to , say , burn gas to provide an alternative way of generating electricity which can be turned up and down at will . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Systems which operate on the type of boiler which can be turned on or off ( gas-fired or oil-fired ) can have one of a number of controls fitted . |
| 14 | He indicated this would be done by a public works policy which ‘ would have a balancing effect on development and can be turned on and off as circumstances require ’ . |
| 15 | The idea is simple : communities with high unemployment and economic depression can be turned around if the companies that operate in those communities can be persuaded to become involved in them , invest in them , and train and recruit people from within them . |
| 16 | It is impregnated with glue , and fabric can be ironed on when dampened . |
| 17 | And I think it 's very important that people can come and talk to you and some representative 's of the board because there is unrest Tom and I 'm not prepared to stick my neck out and say in what quarter this lies but it can be got over it can be ironed out because running a theatre is to do with team spirit and that team spirit get 's conveyed to the public . |
| 18 | Useful points to look for are cord/cordless functions and travel cases so the shaver can be charged up and used while travelling . |
| 19 | They also get the tusks and the bristles which they sell or barter in India , and a large proportion of the fat , which can be rendered down and used for cooking , or dried and preserved to smear on cuts and bruises . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The problem , whether it be vaginismus ( painful contraction of the vaginal muscles ) in the woman or failure to obtain an erection by the man , can be complained about and used as a defence against recognizing the problem in the self . |
| 22 | Here the solution is to set a long net around the thicket so that it is totally surrounded and enclosed , in the hope that the rabbits can be bolted out and entangled in the net . |
| 23 | Apply a wood preservative that can be painted over or varnished afterwards . |
| 24 | Areas can be painted in or you can edit the Attribute screen on a pixel by pixel basis — in magnified mode if you really want to be accurate . |
| 25 | The value in ( c ) can be ruled out since the standard state of water at 298 K is not steam , H2O(g) . |
| 26 | Peter Taylor , of the Political Ecology Research Group , has already pointed out the above-average numbers of cases of leukaemia in Barrow , Cumberland and Westmoreland , although he says ; ‘ Any link to the pattern of 1957 fallout can be ruled out because of the very low doses and the nature of the radioactivity . ’ |
| 27 | If there is a significant urethritis , this can be adduced by first sample can be spun down and the solid matter can be stained and microscopically examined . |
| 28 | The following bar graphs or charts show how the information can be broken down and looked at more closely . |
| 29 | The structure is detailed in Figure 6.3 and can be broken down as follows : 1 ) part number — which consists of a lead number and variable number , 2 ) description/classification — based on a company specific or geometric feature procedure , 3 ) node position — the global position of each component part 's node , 4 ) enclosing box excursions — maximum and minimum values in each coordinate direction that describes the geometric domain of the part , 5 ) attributes — sub-divided into primary and secondary : PRIMARY : ( a ) Unique — only occurrence of this part ; ( b ) Base — fundamental part used to manufacture others ; ( b1 ) Made from — a modification to an existing ( base ) part ; ( b2 ) Variable — special sub-set of ( b1 ) which describes a family of parts all similar to the base part . |
| 30 | This structure is followed in the example given above and can be broken down as follows : If after the Seller has given the Buyer notice that the goods are ready for collection [ case ] , the Buyer fails to collect the goods within seven days [ condition ] , the Seller [ subject ] may make arrangements for the storage of the goods [ action ] and the Buyer shall reimburse the Seller all costs and charges incurred as a result of such storage . |