Example sentences of "[conj] can [be] [verb] by [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In that case he said : As I understand it , the essence of this branch of law , whatever the origin of it may be , is that a person who has obtained information in confidence is not allowed to use it as a springboard for activities detrimental to the person who made the confidential communication , and springboard it remains even when all the features have been published or can be ascertained by actual inspection by any members of the public . |
| 2 | ‘ Michelet has strong emotions , and he smears what he feels on to paper without caring in the least how he does it , and without giving the slightest thought to technique or conventional forms — just shaping it into any form that can be understood by those who want to understand it . ’ |
| 3 | Insufficient attention has hitherto been given to the role that can be played by scholarly publication in influencing harmonization . |
| 4 | A game that can be played by all the family is quite rare so this is sure to be popular among readers . |
| 5 | A game that can be played by all the family is quite rare so this is sure to be popular among readers . |
| 6 | A game that can be played by all the family is quite rare so this is sure to be popular among readers . |
| 7 | The EC Foreign Ministers ' meeting on May 2 [ see above ] concluded that the EC was " willing to recognize Macedonia as a sovereign and independent state within its existing borders and under a name that can be accepted by all parties concerned " . |
| 8 | Of course , there is a definite limit to the strength of cross wind that can be accepted by some machines , particularly those fitted with tail-skids rather than tail-wheels . |
| 9 | As for the Hooligans , newspaper cartoonists ' sketches of their dress permutation depicted a more sharply defined style than anything that can be discerned by modern eyes from surviving photographs of the period — although that should not surprise us , because it is also a characteristic feature of the emphasis given to the cut of clothes within ‘ high ’ fashion sketches . |
| 10 | The received waves are called radar echoes and they can carry the various categories of information that can be borne by any em wave , as outlined in section 3.1.2 , though planetary temperatures can not normally be extracted by radar . |
| 11 | If you 've never had a day 's illness in your life , it 's hard to imagine the financial disruption that can be caused by sudden hospitalisation . |
| 12 | A structure is a potential piece of language that is something like a framework having certain open places that can be filled by appropriate items but not by inappropriate ones . |
| 13 | The Prisoners ' Dilemma is an interesting metaphor for the fundamental biological problem of how cooperative behaviour may evolve and be maintained ; alternative approaches involve , for example , studies of how the patchiness that can be created by limited dispersal or population ‘ viscosity ’ might favour the evolution of altruism through the elevation of inclusive fitness within kin groups . |
| 14 | There is only a limited amount of change that can be achieved by direct transformation in the ‘ swords to ploughshares ’ manner . |
| 15 | However , we suggest that the use of physiological data that can be influenced by medical and nursing intervention should not be used for audit . |
| 16 | While useful for assessing the severity of illness of individual patients or groups of patients , physiological data that can be influenced by medical and nursing intervention , such as that obtained by the APACHE II score , can not , paradoxically , be used to compare unit performances and must not be used for audit . |
| 17 | The kind of non-randomness that can be generated by simple sieving is roughly equivalent to opening a combination lock with one one dial : it is easy to open it by sheer luck . |
| 18 | As with the previous study it is anticipated that the project will generate findings that can be used by various government departments and other public bodies to address issues of policy . |
| 19 | In Mr Dobbs 's words , a telecottage is ‘ a room in a village filled with computer communications that can be used by local people to learn and work ’ . |
| 20 | 10 What is the smallest number that can be divided by 1 8 or 30 and leave the remainder 5 ? |
| 21 | In future , while candidates will be allowed to use advanced calculators , they will be forbidden from storing information in the memories of such machines or from using calculators that can be linked by aerial to computers outside the examination room . |
| 22 | We do not mean a freedom that can be enjoyed by one man or one set of men at the cost of a loss of freedom to others . |
| 23 | Another correspondent came up with this analogy : ‘ It 's comparable to requiring Detroit to produce automobiles that can be overtaken by faster police cars . ’ |
| 24 | Corticosteroids have a deleterious effect on bone density that can be reduced by concurrent treatment with HRT . |
| 25 | It can also ‘ sort of ’ recognize your handwriting and convert it into text that can be read by any application — just as if you 'd typed it in . |
| 26 | Mutations in Escherichia coli recB or recC genes result in a defect in recombination and DNA repair that can be suppressed by additional mutations in sbcB and either sbcC or sbcD ( 3 , 4 ) . |
| 27 | But a fourth kind of intelligence might be added , which is diplomatic intelligence , which bears not the remotest relationship to any of the other three , nor to any kind of intelligence that can be identified by any human being . |
| 28 | I wonder if there really are time traps , where events and people from the past remain locked in a moment that can be revisited by those in the future . |
| 29 | There are three categories of 1:50 000 sheets in the programme : sheets requiring full resurvey ; sheets that can be updated by partial revision ; and sheets that will be produced as provisional editions by desk compilation alone . |
| 30 | Minitel — a computer database that can be rented by any telephone subscriber through France 's telecommunications agency , ACT — offers thousands of vacancies , and you can advertise yourself . |