Example sentences of "can [be] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once a decision has been made , then quite honestly the sooner it can been done the better . ’ |
| 2 | We can be producing the same quantity of electronics goods , of many household appliances and so on , with many fewer workers than have been used in past . |
| 3 | During the eighteenth century diplomats were less irregularly paid than had hitherto been the case and there can be seen the first efforts , though very limited and ineffective ones , to provide them with some systematic professional training . |
| 4 | Beyond can be seen the outside world of ‘ Natures endless treasurie ’ , with a telescope trained on the heavens . |
| 5 | In the foreground can be seen the old-established straw-plait basket shop . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | It does not concern all , either , of what can be called the mental . |
| 10 | 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 ? |
| 11 | 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 ) . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 ? |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | A laborious internal review of the Long-Term Costing is undertaken to whittle down the gap , and to highlight vulnerable programmes so that the Secretary of State can be given the strongest possible brief to help him fight for a higher allocation of resources ; and conversely to enable him to fend off attacks by other high-spending ministers , who are intent on grabbing a larger share for themselves , often at the expense of Defence . |
| 16 | If no further contact can be made the general practitioner should be informed . |
| 17 | Enthusiasm can spur one on to cram the border full of as many herbs as possible , but some of them are likely to die as a result , and others will be tall and weedy ; it is far better to plant with spaces between them to start with , allowing them room to grow to their full size so that their growth habit and leaf value can be made the most of in the context of the overall design . |
| 18 | Stock options are not much use as incentives if the price at which they are exercisable is dauntingly out of reach , so IBM Corp is offering a new stock option plan for mid-to-senior level executives — chairman Louis Gerstner offered the plan due to concern ‘ about keeping managers at IBM and motivated ’ : the plan is aimed at the tier of about 1,200 managers just below the most senior level , will offer new options for old ones that were exercisable at prices ranging from $89 to $169 ; the new options are exercisable at $47.88 , and managers will have to swap anywhere from 2.5 to 10 old options for one new one , depending on the original option price ; the options are exercisable after two years and the price must rise 50% above the $47.88 level to $71.82 and stay there for 30 days ; only 50% of the options can be exercised the first year , and 25% for each year after , but the terms do not look particularly attractive . |
| 19 | Tins if originally opened upside down , can be stood the right way up on shelves to look unused , provided that rough and dangerous edges are made quite safe first . |
| 20 | Sacked three times from the county football manager post , McEniff can be forgiven the odd pinch of himself as he takes in the widespread adulation accorded to him now everywhere he goes . |
| 21 | At the outset , it can be asserted the Young Conservatives we studied in no way constituted an ideological group like the Young Socialists . |
| 22 | .. perhaps the next step in future research can be to explore the detailed linkage between environment , scanning , and actual strategic adjustments . |
| 23 | But the loss of faith in the Communist Party is now so nationwide that workers and intellectuals can be making the same demand to deprive it of absolute power . |
| 24 | City streets have also provided Matthew Carr with material , though now he has abandoned his old habit of pulling people in off the pavement , ‘ as it can be taken the wrong way ’ . |
| 25 | Sometimes an impacted basket can be delivered the next day , when the ampullary oedema subsides . |
| 26 | Every group can be tackling the same problem , or different groups can be working on different improvisations . |
| 27 | The biographer of T. S. Eliot , who was himself to speak of the ‘ dark ’ experience , of the ‘ rude unknown psychic material ’ , incorporated in his poem The Waste Land , can be seen in Hawksmoor to contribute to the tradition of romantic fabulation which began with the Gothic novel — a tradition in which darkness is privileged , in which a paranoid distrust is evident , in which can be read the evergreen message that the deprived may turn out to be depraved , and in which there can be two of someone . |
| 28 | In general , mistakes here are small , and can be corrected the next year . |
| 29 | Amongst the disincentives to compiling and maintaining a special classification scheme can be numbered the following : |
| 30 | All around the oval churchyard can be found the sunken tracks that were once the village streets and paths and raised above them are the grassy mounds that cover the foundations of houses and cottages long since gone . |