Example sentences of "can [be] [verb] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 The mill can be visited most days except Fridays , between April and September .
2 ( This exercise can be repeated several times to discover other Shadow selves . )
3 The nature of H.T. and Floribunda bushes suggests that they should be planted in isolation , or in long and narrow strips where they can be approached both sides .
4 Virtually any piece of equipment you care to name can be hired these days — from access towers and cement mixers , to drain cleaners , wallpaper strippers and the humble stepladder .
5 The many gaps in the fossil record can be interpreted both ways — as being due to the intrinsic incompleteness of a record based on random serendipitous preservation , or as reflecting the true historical sequence : what you see is all there is .
6 For in English-speaking African countries there can be found many strands and many contradictions .
7 Into these can be allocated enough satellites to transmit the 70 channels of TV that American firms say they want to broadcast .
8 As we set out I wonder if I can be allowed more miracles and how the rest of my family and fellow pilgrims will be affected .
9 They take time to make , but can be used many times .
10 As the material is recorded it can be used many times .
11 The advantages of films , video-tapes and MEDIATRON programmes are that they allow the careful preparation of material which is recorded and so can be used many times .
12 Deep acting medicines ( Lycopodium , Calc Carb etc. ) can be used several times daily and repeated for months at a time if necessary .
13 Each launcher in the SS-20 system can be used several times , and the Soviets probably allocate two or three missiles to each launcher .
14 Data in erasable programmable read-only memory ( EPROM ) chips can be updated many times , but only by removing the chip , erasing the original program with ultraviolet light , and then reprogramming .
15 As the product can be released many times to different clients , on each release of the product to a specific client an Issue is created , to act as a cross-reference delineating the relationship between the product and the client .
16 As a product can be released many times to different clients , an Issue is created on each release of the product to a specific client .
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