Example sentences of "can [pron] [be] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | CAN EVERYONE BE HYPNOTIZED ? |
| 2 | The next riser can them be positioned on top of the tread , using a short batten to measure from the front of it , to keep the tread widths even . |
| 3 | This neat little gadget replaces the old cotton reel studded with nails and is a quick and easy way to produce knitted cords and braids , which can them be combined and used in many ways , such as trimmings , toys appliqué and jewellery . |
| 4 | The second side of the work can them be removed from the machine on to the garter bar . |
| 5 | Sir : Can nothing be done to stop these wildcat strikes by escalators on the Underground ? |
| 6 | ‘ Can nothing be done to prevent these spasms ? ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Miguel , when we go back , can I be treated simply as your nurse , your employee ? |
| 8 | One of the questions you may be asking yourself is ‘ Can I be taught to act ? ’ |
| 9 | How can I be done with it when I 'm like this ? |
| 10 | Can I be tested without my consent ? |
| 11 | CAN I BE TESTED WITHOUT MY CONSENT ? |
| 12 | If I assault someone and it is not justified , not justified , can I be arrested ? |
| 13 | ‘ Can I be dropped off at the airport ? ’ she was glad to ask as the signs came up . |
| 14 | ‘ Can none be found to play with the king but only his brother which hath no wish to play because of sickness ? ’ |
| 15 | Can you be treated with homoeopathy if you are already being treated with orthodox medicine ? |
| 16 | Can you be breathalysed in your own home ? |
| 17 | How can you be retired sick and get one of them ? |
| 18 | The important point to bear in mind is — can you be understood ? |
| 19 | You can not be compelled to commit , or be a party to , a criminal offence or to undertake any other unlawful act ( such as , in one reported case , procuring prostitutes for the firm 's customers ) , nor can you be forced to put yourself in immediate physical danger . |
| 20 | How can you be blamed for something that is n't your conscious fault ? |
| 21 | For neither of which favours can you be blamed . |
| 22 | Can you be sued ? |
| 23 | Likewise in the case of Lewis 's Eve : if she is ransomed by Ransom 's struggle with the Un-Man in the underworld , a sort of Harrowing of Hell sequence , how can she be said to have resisted the temptation on her own ; and if she has not really resisted through her own strength — if she is to be rewarded with immortality and felicity for something she has not done herself — where is the justice in the punishment , on another planet , of Eve and her descendants , for something which again was not wholly her responsibility ? |
| 24 | So can she be said to have died as a result of the accident ? ’ |
| 25 | How can she be denied ? |
| 26 | Nor can she be expected to . |
| 27 | The Chinese cosmology based on li and ch'i goes back only to the Neo-Confucian movement of the Sung dynasty ( AD 960–1279 ) , a conceptual revolution which can itself be understood in Kuhnian terms as a response to the breakdown of an older paradigm . |
| 28 | Underlying the analogy is the thought that natural selection can itself be understood as a process whereby information is selected and transmitted , it applies a simple logical model to a natural phenomenon . |
| 29 | The same approach can be adopted for TRPs since Phase I can itself be regarded as a TRP . |
| 30 | Unlike the past participle and the -ing form , however , the infinitive does not evoke its event as partially or completely realized at the point in time where it is referred to its support , and so the incidence of the event to the support can itself be seen as a mere possibility . |