Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] can be [vb pp] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even from the point of view of ‘ saver ’ , let alone ‘ worker ’ , conservative/speculative management of funds can be shown to be damaging : savers ' interests lie in ensuring that when they retire , or reach a specified age , the pensions , endowments or annuities they receive will support a reasonable standard of living . |
| 2 | This is somewhat similar to Olson 's ( 1982 ) argument that the rise and then decline of countries can be linked to their degree of pluralism — an argument which has found little substantial empirical support . |
| 3 | The reversal of fortunes can be attributed to two factors . |
| 4 | More frequently , the cause of problems can be traced to an excessive desire to stick to policies or to a lack of understanding by the planning officers of the realities of life for developers and occupiers of property . |
| 5 | There has been a strong movement in favour of delegalization and privatization of family and personal matters ; but when moral panic breaks out law continues to be invoked as ‘ binding on everyone in society , whatever their beliefs … the embodiment of a common moral position ’ , despite the recognition that ‘ in our pluralistic society it is not to be expected that any one set of principles can be enunciated to be completely accepted by everyone . ’ |
| 6 | The results of searches can be saved to floppies for import into word processing or bibliographic software . |
| 7 | This is provided by ‘ enforcement notices ’ under which an owner who carries out development without permission or in breach of conditions can be compelled to ‘ undo ’ the development , even if this involves the demolition of a new building . |
| 8 | This raft of techniques can be applied to most specialties . |
| 9 | Similar kinds of arguments can be applied to different parts of these extraordinary fossils . |
| 10 | Finally , as we have noted , pronouns are often used non-deictically ; but the actual variety of uses can be shown to be far greater than one would easily imagine ( Watson , 1975 ; Sacks , 1976 ) . |
| 11 | The rules of sets are as follows : a set is a collection of named record types and any number of sets can be defined to the database . |
| 12 | If the super-organism created by a colony of termites can be compared to an antelope , then the disciplined aggressive columns of the army ants must be reckoned to be the insect equivalent of a beast of prey . |
| 13 | The two sets of genes can be expected to ‘ pull together ’ for just the same reasons as all the genes of one individual organism normally pull together . |
| 14 | He wanted to set a standard that says a system is easy to use ‘ if at least 90 per cent of a representative example of users can be trained to the level specified in 15 minutes or less . ’ |
| 15 | Managership of modules can be changed to another branch of the user tree in two steps : change the manager to an ascendant common to both users ( current manager and new manager ) and from there to the new manager . |
| 16 | Ownership of modules can be changed to another branch of the user tree in two steps : change the owner to an ascendant common to both users ( current owner and new owner ) and from there to the new owner . |
| 17 | With regard to the prediction of porosity in the Z2 Carbonate , several studies have now demonstrated that the distribution of facies can be related to the overall thickness of the formation ( Sannemann et al. 1978 ; Peryt et al. 1978 ; Clark 1980b ) . |
| 18 | More recently , information from the registration of births can be related to estimates of the social class distribution in the population derived from the General Household Survey and the Labour Force Survey . |
| 19 | Thus , any desired pattern of dots can be sent to the printer . |
| 20 | In part , the absence of a clear definition of services can be traced to the treatment that services received in past economic literature . |
| 21 | Any individual cell or group of cells can be related to any other cell , just as in your hand created version , yet with a speed and flexibility that can , at first , be hard to believe . |
| 22 | The — s of cows can be shown to be a semantic constituent by the normal test : |
| 23 | Many thousands of cards can be attached to one wheel , which makes it a suitable and speedy system for a large volume of records ( Fig. 6.8 ) . |
| 24 | It is now recognised that if voting rights are to vary , separate classes of shares should be created so that the different number of votes can be attached to the shares themselves and not to the holder . |
| 25 | Following recent tests with a 176 km/h train , however , the engineers have agree that the speed through bends can be increased to 6 degrees of track tilt — or ‘ cant deficiency ’ , in the railways ' jargon . |
| 26 | In certain cases declarations and injunctions can also be sought under Order 53 ; and a claim for damages can be joined to an AJR if it arises out of a matter to which the AJR relates and provided the court is satisfied that the applicant has a case in private law for the award of damages . |
| 27 | As an alternative to ruled horizontal lines , any subtotals in columns can be offset to the right a little to assist the reader to focus on them or discard them as required . |
| 28 | Variations in the experience of kin support The issue here is whether variations in people 's experience of support within families can be attributed to personal and idiosyncratic factors , or whether those variations are related systematically to the position of the parties in economic and social structures . |
| 29 | If you 're short of worktops , a wooden block on wheels can be moved to a free space and allows you to work at a similar height to your kitchen worktop . |
| 30 | Burrough ( 1986 ) suggests that the area of the map covered by lines can be assumed to be an area of uncertainty . |