Example sentences of "can be [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To the left can be seen a passing train on the Romsey to Eastleigh line . |
| 2 | Moreover , so far as can be seen a Northumbrian hegemony continued to prevail between the Humber and the Forth and across to the west , above and below the Solway from the Mersey to the borders of Strathclyde , at least until the mid-eighth century . |
| 3 | In this new , or at least much heavier , emphasis on fair dealing can be seen a genuine movement away from the primitive assumptions of the age of Commynes and Machiavelli . |
| 4 | The grounds of the public library at Wallington seem an unlikely setting for industrial remains , but here can be seen a preserved section of tramway used by the Surrey Iron Railway , the first tramway built as a transport system independent of canal and other industrial transport . |
| 5 | A little way up on the left hand side is the Museum Dr Frederico Freitas where can be seen a large exhibition of engravings and porcelain . |
| 6 | In the distance can be seen a shimmering blue-green arch with tinges of pink , and beyond this a fuzzy indistinctness . |
| 7 | Beyond can be seen the outside world of ‘ Natures endless treasurie ’ , with a telescope trained on the heavens . |
| 8 | In the foreground can be seen the old-established straw-plait basket shop . |
| 9 | In S. Vitale , in particular , can be seen the typical combination of subjects in the Bible story depicted next to the Emperor Justinian , his Queen and his Court . |
| 10 | Here again , however , can be seen the persisting tendency to link the conduct of foreign policy with miscellaneous internal functions ; for the First Secretariat of State , as it was usually known , acquired in 1782 control of the Madrid police . |
| 11 | Stimulating though it can be to use an exciting orchestration working to recorded music has its drawbacks : — |
| 12 | The flowchart in section 0401.3 outlines the FSA considerations for determining whether we can accept an engagement and whether a client can be treated a corporate finance client . |
| 13 | If the deep anaphor can be assigned a suitable interpretation from a content-based representation it does not matter , at least as far as a considered judgement of acceptability is concerned , if the previous expression of that content does not parallel the one that would have to be substituted for the anaphor to make a full second clause . |
| 14 | 61 ) the latter can be assigned a similar date ( on grounds which are only slightly more convincing ) . |
| 15 | Of course the game can be played the other way round and even crude Austinian positivism might be treated as vindicated by the English criminal statute . |
| 16 | In addition to the total of 285,000 troops can be reckoned a certain number of Pasdaran , the Revolutionary Guards ( later reported as numbering 250,000 ) and a similarly uncomputed number of baseej , the highly motivated volunteer formations combining adolescents with the over-40s . |
| 17 | Any drill which requires changes in word order , whether optional or obligatory , which requires the addition or deletion of grammatical constituents such as not and which further exacts the alteration of grammatical pairs such as already and yet , can be called a transformational drill . |
| 18 | If the archetypal Tory of the 1979 intake was a rent-a-quote property dealer who backed Mrs Thatcher to the death and the death penalty to the hilt , Mr Heddle can be called a sad loss to the Two Nations Tendency . |
| 19 | It is this particular way of playing which makes Ashton 's La Fille Mal Gardée what can be called a National Ballet in the same sense that both The Firebird and Petrushka can be called Russian National Ballets and Rodeo and Fall River Legend American . |
| 20 | ( This effect could have been calculated from the marginals of figure 13.5 , and can be called a marginal relationship . ) |
| 21 | It does not concern all , either , of what can be called the mental . |
| 22 | It can be called the logical problem , and briefly expressed it is this : in general , what are the premisses or grounds or bases for dependent conditionals ? |
| 23 | My view , which locates racism in the core of politics , contrasts sharply with what can be called the coat-of-paint theory of racism ( Gilroy , 1987 ) . |
| 24 | The pure invention of these tales , the exercise of what at its best can be called the high imagination , allow the writer ( in Dryden 's phrase ) to take the clogs off his fancy , and to escape the world at will . |
| 25 | Did he ever come not merely to see as a possibility but actually to possess a conviction of what can be called the benign indifference of the universe ? |
| 26 | The novelty of such a situation will be more apparent if we compare with it what can be called the classical situation of the ancient world between 600 and 300 B.C. It has become a commonplace , after Karl Jaspers ' Vom Ursprung und Ziel der Geschichte — the first original book on history to appear in post-war Germany in 1949 — to speak of the Achsenzeit , of the axial age , which included the China of Confucius and Lao-Tse , the India of Buddha , the Iran of Zoroaster , the Palestine of the Prophets and the Greece of the philosophers , the tragedians and the historians . |
| 27 | The story of a children 's Christmas , climaxing in a party , comes towards the lower end of these two extremes , and we are going to take it as the plot on which can be built an interesting home movie . |
| 28 | F. This stands for forward pricing and indicates that investors can be given no firm price before the transaction takes place . |
| 29 | can be given a new and believable meaning , provided that this troublesome word ‘ god ’ and all its variations can be refined and enriched to embrace all those manifestations of good , whether from evolution or civilisation , that have emerged since the beginning of life and . |
| 30 | Old furniture and junk-shop finds can be given a new lease of life with a little tender loving care and a certain amount of practical know-how . |