Example sentences of "[pron] can be [adv] [vb pp] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dickinson , to be fair , poses the biographer special problems : so many theories , so few facts — or , more accurately , so few biographical facts which can be neatly matched to the tussles and triumphs of individual poems . |
| 2 | Fitting the system is a fairly simple matter and all components come on a frame which can be simply attached to most sprayers . |
| 3 | As we have seen , linguistic variables may be markers of certain fine-grained social functions within the community , which can be broadly considered to be identity functions , and which may appear as age , sex or areal differences , for example . |
| 4 | The Amiga is already supported by a large body of games software which can be easily transferred to CD-ROM for sale to CDTV owners . |
| 5 | As the recordings ( a co-production with SDR Stuttgart ) are also of notable quality , the result is an issue which can be firmly recommended to those looking for worthwhile versions of these works for their collections . |
| 6 | Inhabitants also suspect that the area has a case history of health problems which can be directly related to the pollution of the creek . |
| 7 | Now the VHS manufacturers have designed a machine which can be manually switched to half speed during recording . |
| 8 | While such simple dichotomies are misleading — all categories of music live in the world of capitalist cultural production , while none can be entirely reduced to it , and a more accurate picture is of a spectrum of possibilities marked by internal conflict — their existence not only confirms the influence of the critique of mass culture in musical practice and popular consciousness , it also indicates that within the premises of such a critique , Adorno draws the net too tightly . |
| 9 | One can be confidently applied to Middlewich in Cheshire , where early exploitation of the inland brine springs is attested by the excavation of several brine pits and quantities of briquetage . |
| 10 | Results are only acceptable if they can be logically related to present-day trends . |
| 11 | The pragmatic theories we have examined leave a number of unanswered questions , and they are in need of considerable extension before they can be fruitfully applied to discourse analysis and language teaching . |
| 12 | How we seek to describe these attitudinal variables has always been a problem , and how they can be easily harnessed to the task of language learning has still to be adequately determined . |
| 13 | The certificates they obtain do not specify the centre as Maidstone Prison ; they can be safely shown to employers and are much prized . |
| 14 | RDS is the most common cause of death in the first week of life , yet the outlook for babies at risk is better if they can be quickly transferred to suitable intensive care units . |
| 15 | This definition was used by Cohen to explain the response to youth in the 1950s and 1960s but it can be similarly applied to moral crises in the more distant past — one may refer by way of example , to the nexus of fears generated by the French Revolution , which significantly shaped the contours of ‘ Victorian ’ sexuality , or the anxieties which produced the legislative restructuring of the 1880s and 1900s , or the fears generated by the cold war in the 1950s . |
| 16 | However , while the Architecture-Neutral Format is unlikely to appear on the market this year , Goldstein says that the Foundation plans to hold a conference on the technology at the end of the year , to find out which companies are interested in bringing the stuff to market and how it can be best introduced to an industry audience already blinded by science . |
| 17 | However , whilst ANDF is unlikely to appear in the market this year , Goldstein says OSF plans a conference on the technology for the end of the year to find out which companies are interested in running the stuff to market and how it can be best introduced to an industry audience already blinded by science . |
| 18 | All plant has been specifically designed for multi-purpose usage so it can be easily adapted to many different chemical processes , enabling Fluka to adopt a versatile and flexible approach not only to production but also to specific customer developments in which they are actively seeking to become involved . |
| 19 | City institutions who received money from Maxwell may be reluctant to give it back unless it can be clearly sourced to the pension fund . |
| 20 | The attraction of so-called Third World labour is the fact that it can be cheap compared to that in the advanced capitalist countries . |
| 21 | Notice , however , that although we may have views on the social class distribution of [ ta ; ] deletion ( it can be readily observed to be less common in middle-class Belfast English ) , social class is at this stage an external category . |
| 22 | It is not a programming language though it can be readily converted to a computer program , because it is a strict and logical form of English and the constructs reflect structured programming . |
| 23 | If time and budget are limited the release may have to do everything and indeed it can be usefully sent to all the media which might be interested in the story . |
| 24 | It would not be quite true to claim that his wide experience of light music , and the strain of singing long parts , with numerous encores , throughout the week left no mark on either his style or his vocal chords ; but he can be justly likened to two other similarly popular tenors , John McCormack and Tito Schipa , in his ability to return successfully to serious music until the end of his career . |
| 25 | Once again , it is the existence of a state of coherence between field frequencies that constitutes the cause of cancer : nothing can be effectively subjected to any influence whatsoever if the subject is not of the same nature as the influence , and the ancient statement ‘ all is energy ’ is the most meaningful contribution that emphasizes the primary , fundamental nature of all phenomena in the created world and the basis of interaction between all things . |
| 26 | Before any of them can be significantly claimed to be logical as well as grammatical subjects , and treated as denoting certain objects that exist in their own right rather than merely describing attributes of such objects , or representing something purely fictional , certain additional conditions must be fulfilled . |
| 27 | The size of the beds is much more easily appreciated , the spaces between them can be better compared to the dimensions of the beds , and the proportions of the various plants can be correctly assessed , so that mistakes in juxtaposition can be adjusted . |