Example sentences of "they can be [adv] [verb] by " in BNC.

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1 They can be broadly characterised by the work of Matza ( 1964 ; 1969 ) , Becker ( 1963 ; 1964 ) , Lemert ( 1967 ) and Goffman ( 1968a ; 1968b ) in the United States , and Cohen ( 1971 ) , Taylor and Taylor ( 1973 ) and Phillipson ( 1971 ) in Britain , among many others .
2 Once the fallopian tubes have been reached they can be artificially blocked by trying and removal of a small piece ( tubal ligation ) or sealing ( diathermy ) or by the use of clips or rings .
3 Before logging on to LIFESPAN to create a Charge Code , the storage directory must be set up by the LIFESPAN Manager , so that when new modules are created and associated with a Charge Code , they can be automatically stored by LIFESPAN in a specific storage directory .
4 Posting mothers ' names where they can be easily seen by anyone entering the unit should be avoided , and a policy developed specifying who is authorised to transfer babies between mothers ' rooms and the nursery .
5 They can be heavily attacked by turnip flea beetle when in the two-leaf stage if the seeds are not dressed , but will usually outgrow the damage .
6 Quick radical solutions to complex human , social , technical and economic problems in such areas can not be expected , but they can be greatly accelerated by the adoption of appropriate financial , administrative and educational systems .
7 They can be specifically blocked by several toxins , for example tetrodotoxin , commonly written T T X , which comes from a Japanese Puffer Fish .
8 Since the relevant ones will be concentrated in one area of the inverted tree they can be quickly located by moving from the root downwards and along the correct branches , without ever having to search the whole database .
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