Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] can be [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you do not have space for a build-in model beside or under the sink , there are portables available that sit on the worktop , where they can be connected to the taps and drains for washing . |
| 2 | Potting of growing plants should be continuous until they attain a size where they can be transferred to the outdoor pool without hazard . |
| 3 | This in turn led to DoE Circular 22/83 which recommends that planing gain is only reasonable where it can be said to fairly and directly relate to the actual development being proposed . |
| 4 | Finally , the particle hmm is not dismissable as just a " performance error " or a " filled pause " ; it has specific interactional functions , best explicated in terms of the system for taking turns at speaking in conversation , where it can be seen to be ( amongst other things ) a turn-holding device ( see Chapter 6 ) . |
| 5 | Double-clicking on a graph makes it appear full-screen , where it can be embellished to your heart 's content using the menu system |
| 6 | They are a useful cleaning option , supplementing chemical activity , although they can be damaging to some surfaces . |
| 7 | The leases make the publican responsible for the upkeep of the pub and , although they can be assigned to another person after two years , the original holder would be responsible for meeting payments if that person defaulted . |
| 8 | ‘ The management executive is saying that some of that money can be spent on supplying condoms to GPs so they can be given to patients . ’ |
| 9 | Although the second- and third-years do n't officially come back until next week , Puddephat 's tutees have been called back early so they can be allocated to new people quickly . |
| 10 | Although it can be linked to the idea of attaining personal meaning through work , much of our potential may be attained outside of work in terms of sport or hobbies . |
| 11 | The process involves plasticising the wood or mdf , so it can be bent to a consistent shape . |
| 12 | The content of each lesson is agreed beforehand in consultation with teachers so it can be tailored to the priorities and individual needs of the school or class . |
| 13 | There are plans to put this programme on to videotape , so it can be shown to customers locally without the need for lengthy and expensive trips to the UK . |
| 14 | Most of the former car works at Cowley is being demolished to make way for new development , but one building has been carefully taken down so it can be donated to the Oxford Bus Museum Trust . |
| 15 | Meanwhile donations for the Jane Goodall Institute to help less fortunate chimps than ours can be sent to Dilys Vass , who can also supply membership details and further information . |
| 16 | The ultimate ‘ aim ’ of beauty , if there can be said to be such a thing , is to point us towards the spiritual realm . |
| 17 | Distributors and retailers selling " own brand " goods can be liable if they can be said to be holding themselves out to be the producer . |
| 18 | Words are used to inflect if they can be assigned to a number of grammatical classes , and the members of all these classes are distinguished from each other by their morphology ( internal shape ) and by their syntax ( the rules of their use ) . |
| 19 | The activities of delinquent fans might be more intelligible if they can be related to particular roles and positions with respect to other fans . |
| 20 | Surpluses on a period of account should not be automatically lost , if they can be demonstrated to be the result of efficient working and not over budgeting , otherwise controllers will ensure that there are no surpluses . |
| 21 | If they 're relatively technical , then I , then I 'd be grateful if they can be left to the officers , but obviously if there 's anything that erm , is political in anyway , big P or small P , then at least we can get in touch with the er , P A G , and if necessary call a meeting in respect Chair . |
| 22 | The argument is that funds should not be diverted to the government sector if they can be put to a more productive use in the private sector . |
| 23 | The inconvenience which this causes can normally be reduced only by delaying the binding of serial parts until they can be considered to be no longer ‘ current ’ , or by ensuring that the time which they spend off the shelves ‘ at binding ’ exceeds by as small a margin as possible the time required physically to bind them . |
| 24 | As the preceding paragraphs have shown , child care is , until the Children Bill becomes law in the early 1990s , based on the Child Care Act 1980 , under which one major duty of the local authorities is to receive children into care and provide them with adequate substitute homes unless or until they can be returned to their natural parents . |
| 25 | The dump will hold the highly-radioactive waste until it can be taken to British Nuclear Fuel 's Sellafield works for reprocessing to extract uranium and plutonium . |
| 26 | The knowledge model , if it can be mapped to the physical world , must itself comprise discrete quantities , varying in a quantised ( step-wise ) manner . |
| 27 | Discrimination in education , as in other spheres covered by the Act such as employment ( see Chapter 9 ) is also permissible if it can be shown to be ‘ justifiable ’ . |
| 28 | If it can be shown to be successful at bureau level then there are certainly grounds for extending it throughout the democratic structure of the CAB . |
| 29 | If it is possible to generalize from this at all , it is that presence of predator remains in a fossil assemblage gives no indication of method of origin of the assemblage , even if it can be shown to be accumulated by a predator . |
| 30 | Increase in enamel thickness , but the enamel is even thicker than in afropithecins , as measured for the Pasalar sample , with relative enamel thickness of 19.71 ( ref. 47 ) , although it has yet to be measured for any of the African Kenyapithecus ; this character may be diagnostic of node 1A if it can be shown to be ancestral for both pongines and hominines ; |