Example sentences of "and this [noun sg] can be [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Critical listening enables nurses to evaluate communication and this skill can be developed by using the radio and teacher-produced tape recordings . |
| 2 | And this experience can be gained either by formal education and or on the job training . |
| 3 | This is not all ; for if any unwanted change in the output occurs and this change can be fed back to modify the duty cycle ratio in the proper sense , the output can be stabilized at some desired value , any deviation from that value being automatically corrected . |
| 4 | Normally , some records are accessed more frequently than others , and this tendency can be used to decrease average access time . |
| 5 | Although platelet activating factor is capable of stimulating enzyme secretion from the isolated acinar cells , according to our results , it actually inhibits this secretion in vivo and this inhibition can be reversed by the pretreatment with TCV-309 . |
| 6 | Male contacts of women with trichomonal vaginitis can be shown to harbour the organism in a certain proportion of cases , and this proportion can be increased if extra care and time is taken looking for the protozoon . |
| 7 | A great thrust , the Outer Hebrides Thrust or Fault , terminated the Laxfordian sequence of events , and this thrust can be recognised at the present day as a feature on or near the eastern seaboard of the entire Outer Hebrides chain of islands ( see Fig. 7 ) . |
| 8 | The Mentawai Islands off the west coast of Sumatra represent the highest parts of the outer-arc ridge of the Sunda Arc and this structure can be traced northwards as far as the Indoburman Ranges in Burma ( Fig. 3.9 ) . |
| 9 | Many people have studied languages in the past in school or elsewhere and this knowledge can be built upon . |
| 10 | Stable assembly of HLA class I molecules in the mutant cell line T2 is dependent on binding by peptides and this phenomenon can be used as a peptide binding assay . |
| 11 | This phrase means that there was no current vehicle excise licence in force and this point can be verified by making enquiries at the DVLC , Swansea . |
| 12 | The British Election Surveys have shown how age , social class and other attributes are related to voting , and this information can be linked to findings on the attributes of migrants to assess how migration may have affected election results . |
| 13 | Potential energy is one convenient way of parking energy until it is wanted and this energy can be followed through its various subsequent transformations by a sort of accounting procedure which can be very revealing . |
| 14 | Susan Mayor , head of Christie 's Costume and Textiles department commented : ‘ Costume of this date is rare but seventeenth-century royal costume is surprisingly rare , and this piece can be dated exactly to a single day , 21 November 1673 when the history of England hung in balance . |
| 15 | All rocks , however , and especially basaltic rocks which contain a lot of iron minerals , are weakly magnetized , and this magnetism can be detected by sensitive instruments . |
| 16 | Damage to properties owing to clay shrinkage is most likely to occur following long periods of drought and this condition can be exacerbated by the influence of tree roots or vegetation . |
| 17 | Each such node S is at the end of a path from the start , and this path can be traced back from S by following pointers . |