Example sentences of "can [be] [vb pp] [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | The use of rubber bands on the wrist which can be flicked to produce pain , but no damage is a further possibility . |
| 2 | The first section of this manual gives an overview of the types of reports that can be generated using LIFESPAN PMR . |
| 3 | The purpose of the PST is to provide a basis from which calculations , plans and actions can be generated to aid manufacture of a product . |
| 4 | The purpose of the PST is to provide a basis from which calculations , plans and actions can be generated to aid manufacture of a product . |
| 5 | The current holder of the SPR can be seen using option 3.7.1 — View One SPR . |
| 6 | If it carries a marker its descendants can be recognized , and they can be seen to give rise to all sorts of tissues , from muscle and bone , to liver and brain . |
| 7 | Grice calls such usages floutings or exploitations of the maxims , and they can be seen to give rise to many of the traditional " figures of speech " . |
| 8 | Two pairs of millstones are powered by a breastshot waterwheel driven by the River Ludd , and can be seen grinding flour on Monday and Thursday afternoons in August and September and some Sundays and bank holidays . |
| 9 | At the Grand , magistrates are two a penny , bankers of the sort who never lent Maxwell a farthing can be seen sipping sherry , chairmen of publicly quoted companies compare salaries , and retired officers of field rank renew old NATO friendships . |
| 10 | can be seen to have relevance to measures of output . |
| 11 | But biologically , pain can be seen to have survival value , and the benefit of a mechanism which suppresses pain and cancels an important warning mechanism , is not immediately obvious . |
| 12 | This critique underlies much of the ‘ Great Debate ’ which has been in progress since the Ruskin speech of 1976 and which can be seen to have result ed in the 1986 and 1988 Education Acts . |
| 13 | Villages are hoping that something can be done to stop traffic leaving Holybourne 's main road at high speed . |
| 14 | While little can be done to control spray drift , by planting the margins thickly with irises and rushes the splashing of birds in the shallows can be eliminated . |
| 15 | What can be done to keep weight down ? |
| 16 | Much can be done to increase mobility and to ease pain and discomfort . |
| 17 | Since settlement is a contractual matter , one wonders what can be done to achieve equality of bargaining power in the settlement process . |
| 18 | Perhaps in later life a long-standing partnership with another woman can be expanded to include sex now that there is more time and more confidence . |
| 19 | As we shall see in 6.3 , the interrupt facility can be expanded to switch instruction sequences on the occurrence of many different events ; further we will see the need for a means of ensuring that at critical times the computer is able to ignore all but a subset of these events . |
| 20 | And it can be customised using GemBase development tools from Ross . |
| 21 | A range of very attractive effects can be achieved using slip stitch and changing colour less frequently . |
| 22 | Several strategies can be employed to improve security in hospitals . |
| 23 | Such systems can be employed to provide planning advice and assistance in order to achieve the effective management of aircraft scheduled maintenance activities . |
| 24 | Feed on insects , though often they can be trained to take carnivore flake from the surface . |
| 25 | He refuses to be filmed at the piano , but improvised the show 's incidental music which he can be heard playing off-camera . |
| 26 | There are a number of different levels at which the information content of a vibrational spectrum can be analyzed to allow identification of a sample to be made , or to allow conclusions to be drawn about its structure . |
| 27 | Since this chapter is meant as a normative-explanatory account of the core notion of authority , it can be extended to explain reference to authority in various specific contexts . |
| 28 | Unless existing custodial protection can be extended to include software , the first step towards systematic acquisition will have faltered , and a justification for special provision will need to be articulated ab initio in much the same way as film and sound archives emerged as distinct organisational entities outside the object-centred museum establishment . |
| 29 | Aid to assist joint investment schemes by farmers for fodder production can be extended to include drainage . |
| 30 | A Design Change can be aborted using option 2.7.0 , Abort DC , if , for example , it refers to the wrong module or it has been activated through the wrong package . |