Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] can be [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not all can be traced to the Black Death , but it must have been a significant factor . |
| 2 | Because there is no record 0 , the nearest that can be obtained to a continuous set of numbers will be : Thus addresses : are missing . |
| 3 | The variety at first seems bewildering , but leaving aside primitive creatures like jellyfish and corals which we have already discussed , and the much more advanced backboned fish , nearly all can be allocated to one of three main types : shelled animals , like clams , cowries and sea snails ; radially symmetrical creatures like starfish and sea urchins ; and elongated animals with segmented bodies varying from wriggling bristle worms to shrimps and lobsters . |
| 4 | The underlying quarrel in marriage is frequently about how often each can be allowed to be the baby . |
| 5 | Junctions whose sugar puckers can be classified as XS can be transformed to the B II state with less structural perturbation and , in particular , little effect on the facing strand , but this does not imply that the energetics of the transition is easier in these cases . |
| 6 | The production of and resistance to the antibiotic is coded for on plasmid pAg K84 , but unfortunately this can be transferred to the pathogen in the presence of another opine ( nopaline ) , which is contained in crown gall tissue . |
| 7 | Knowing these devices for narrowing down contextual possibilities does not imply that one can judge how best to act upon such knowledge , how much can be left to be inferred from context , how much needs to be made grammatically explicit . |
| 8 | Again this can be turned to the researcher 's advantage . |