Example sentences of "can [be] [verb] [to-vb] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | Often a random pattern is adopted and on observation the cleaner often can be seen to cover some parts of an area many times yet miss others . |
| 2 | More can be done to cut some of the regulatory burdens our shipping industry faces . |
| 3 | The problem , as many writers since Adam Smith have recognized , is that a market can be manipulated to give some of those involved greater economic power so that competition is distorted and economic efficiency impaired . |
| 4 | However , the advice and assistance scheme can be extended to provide some form of representation through the advice by way of representation scheme ( ABWOR ) which extends to certain domestic proceedings in a magistrates ' court , urgent court applications , and other proceedings , that is hearings before Mental Health Review Tribunals and prison boards of visitors . |
| 5 | Yet in some of the most fundamental areas of the enquiry , we find ourselves involved with societal processes which can be said to precede some senses of ‘ sociology ’ . |
| 6 | As Lévi-Strauss himself acknowledges , all social phenomena can of course be said to possess or exhibit ‘ structure ’ ( i.e. some degree of orderliness and patterning ) , just as , with almost equal plausibility , they can be claimed to have some functional significance . |
| 7 | The government hopes that at some point the Liberation Front can be persuaded to accept some form of autonomy short of independence , but that seems unlikely in the foreseeable future . |
| 8 | In addition to discussion of management problems , these sessions can be used to tackle some of the tensions and frustrations that can arise in teams of this kind , which are dealing with a rapid turnover of patients with acute problems , or problems that sometimes seem intractable , and where drop-out rates may be high . |
| 9 | The example shows how a system which can be in one of two states can be simulated , and how the results of these simulations can be used to gain some understanding of system behaviour and of the controls which influence this behaviour . |