Example sentences of "can [be] measured in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instrumental neutron activation is still selected most frequently because of its sensitivity , accuracy and the wide range of elements which can be measured in a single sample . |
| 2 | ‘ Our relationship can be measured in hours , my strange beauty . |
| 3 | Haussmann 's success can be measured in gallons : in 1860 27,000,000 gallons a day poured into Paris ( in one form or another ) , by 1870 it was some 80,000,000 . |
| 4 | It can be measured in crude cash terms — the one which politicians focus on — as well as the real innovations of the past decade . |
| 5 | Unfortunately , for some non-oil LDCs such reserves can be measured in terms of weeks rather than months . |
| 6 | These contaminants can be measured in their airborne state and evaluated against the Threshold Limit Value ( TLV ) for the particular substance . |
| 7 | Few astronomers , if any , doubt that this process explains the redshift in the light of ordinary galaxies , and because observations of nearby galaxies ( whose distance can be measured in other ways ) show that their redshifts are proportional to their distances from us , it is assumed that measuring the redshift of a very remote object , whose distance can not be measured directly , tells us how far away it is . |
| 8 | These contributions can be measured in degrees of magnitude varying from a single unit of goodness , as defined earlier in this book , to truly stupendous numbers . |
| 9 | Quality of church life can be measured in the following three ways : |
| 10 | Because the length of the period is so short and can be measured in generations , considerable caution has been shown in the accuracy of dates given by some writers ( Avent 1975 , p. 56 ) . |
| 11 | It is dubbed the BTU tax because energy can be measured in British Thermal Units : a BTU is the amount of energy needed to raise the temperature of a pound of water by one degree Fahrenheit . |
| 12 | Other complex aptitudes that can be measured in tests are : |
| 13 | A suggestive thing about it is that action can be measured in units of Planck 's constant h . |
| 14 | But , as was seen in the last section , deindustrialization can be measured in different ways . |
| 15 | Efficiency can be measured in terms of the rate of return of production , the work content measured over time , or the unit cost of an output . |
| 16 | They suggest that the importance of a position can be measured in two ways . |
| 17 | However , as the next sections will show , income can be measured in various ways and official statistics should be used with caution . |
| 18 | The degree of access to any social service can be measured in terms of either equality or equity . |
| 19 | Not only does mental disability vary so widely that it ultimately defies definition , but the extent to which a given mental disability , in so far as it can be measured in clinical terms , handicaps a person will depend not only upon the disability itself but on the patient 's social circumstances as well . |
| 20 | just how dark each region is can be measured in an automatic scanner which passes a tiny beam of light through it and records how much is transmitted . |
| 21 | Such errors are predictable , or can be measured in steady flight conditions for varying configurations of the aircraft , but an accurate assessment of manoeuvre-induced errors is not possible . |
| 22 | The effectiveness of sales representatives can be measured in a number of different ways . |
| 23 | Market segmentation is especially important in consumer markets , where the numbers of potential buyers can be measured in millions . |
| 24 | ‘ It 's not something that can be measured in time . |
| 25 | ‘ We are very encouraged by the success of the scheme which can be measured in terms of throughput and effectiveness . |
| 26 | Returning to Menard 's definition of science as ‘ the content of these [ scientific ] journals ’ , the scientific literature itself can be measured in a number of ways , and growth in literature is often considered to be concomitant with growth in the subject . |
| 27 | Instead , the orthodox presumption is that the same concept can be measured in different ways using different indices . |
| 28 | Spectra can be measured in a number of ways ; for soluble polymers a film can be cast , perhaps even on the N a Cl plate to be used and examined directly . |
| 29 | This can be measured in terms of its domestic and transnational political organization , direct and indirect TNC interference in host country politics and the extent to which these constrain and are constrained by the domestic and/or transnational labour movement . |
| 30 | Culyer ( 1980 ) , among others , is critical of this argument because , despite the claim made above , he notes that the argument continues to assume that utilities of the individuals can be summed , which presupposes they can be measured in the same units . |