Example sentences of "can [be] [adv] [adv] [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The position can be even further distorted by votes for a particular party being concentrated in a particular region or locality , as opposed to being evenly spread over the country as a whole . |
| 2 | This is the province of what can be most conveniently described as the " phenomenological epistemology " . |
| 3 | It seems to me that , so far as my feelings about it are concerned , my life can be most conveniently divided into two halves : |
| 4 | This can be most easily achieved by an observer who is present while the recording is being made and who can make a full transcription within a few hours . |
| 5 | Simon Werman 's work , at Broomfield , can be most easily identified by his edge mouldings , where they all carry a uniform design of a continuous running stem pattern that has a leaf crossing it at regular intervals . |
| 6 | This image can be most simply regarded as a porosity map , since the impregnating resin has a relatively low atomic number and shows up black . |
| 7 | It is then that a crisis of autonomy can be most nearly identified with a crisis of identity , and can be seen in many an act of teenage rebellion . |
| 8 | A great writer can have , at a particular time , a pernicious or merely deadening influence ; and this influence can be most effectively attacked by pointing out those faults which ought not to be copied , and those virtues any emulation of which is anachronistic . |
| 9 | Consultations with ministers , the provision of information to administrators , direct communication with diplomats and naval officers , all fell within the ambit of less public means of attempted influence and can be most clearly illustrated from the record of the African Institution which has been somewhat overlooked by earlier writers . |
| 10 | Their idea of reality remains trapped in the cultural viewpoint which their theory of literature was trying to replace , and the difficulties which this led to can be most clearly seen in their theory of literary history : despite their innovatory definition of literary history as a discontinuous series , they were unable to explain how literary history related to other historical series . |
| 11 | The difficulty of the term is then obvious , but can be most usefully seen as the result of earlier kinds of convergence of interests . |
| 12 | In defending this choice of subject matter Le Roy Ladurie has recently protested that it represents just whatever can be most readily understood in quantitative terms . |
| 13 | While it was suggested in the previous paragraph that woven fabrics can be edged with matching plain knitted sections , plain knitting can be equally well edged with woven patterns . |
| 14 | While it is true that scavenging fish and snails perform a valuable task , a well ordered pool can be equally well maintained without them . |
| 15 | These changes induced by platelet activating factor can be almost completely reversed by the pretreatment with highly specific and potent platelet activating factor receptor blocker , TCV-309 . |
| 16 | Up to a limiting range of flow , the water can be almost completely softened without any difficulty in control . |
| 17 | In my view , the uniqueness of the current downturn can be almost entirely attributed to the fact that the post boom adjustment in the ratio of house prices to income has not come , as in the past , in the form of real house price declines and rapid nominal income growth , but instead via a sizeable decline in nominal house prices . |
| 18 | Keith Cardwell 's decision to move from the world of commercial photography into the more demanding , and typically less lucrative , area of documentary photography can be almost directly attributed to a TV series , a BBC 1 documentary called The Family . |
| 19 | The secret of survival and success at college can be very largely defined in terms of how well you organize your time . |
| 20 | A fortnight later , bass binding can be very carefully snicked at the side to allow the bud to swell , whereas elastic binding will stretch and can be left a little longer . |
| 21 | In the case of a sale by auction the standard special conditions which incorporate , in turn , the standard conditions can be very simply adapted to the transaction , but remember to insert , in cases to which it will be applicable , a clause providing that the sale is subject to a reserve , unless you can rely on such a provision in the standard conditions , which by reference you incorporate in the special conditions of sale . |
| 22 | It 's an electro-mechanical device , with contacts and so on that tend to corrode and all the rest of it , and that sort of thing can be very conveniently replaced by a small microcomputer . |
| 23 | I do not think the compulsion to write about foreign places can be very closely compared to a painter 's sensuous delight in new light , new forms , new colours , Monet seeing the Cap d'Antibes in blue and rose , Turner seeing the bright watery Venetian light in Venice , Gauguin in Tahiti . |
| 24 | suggest that the transport element tends to dominate the classification , and in terms of opportunities available to the residents in any given location , their quality of life can be very much influenced by whether or not they can afford private transport . |
| 25 | Not only are worm casts rich in plant nutrients , but are in a crumb form some ⅛ in. in diameter which can be very efficiently exploited by plant root hairs from all sides . |
| 26 | Nature 's ingenuity in placing such a feature in a natural setting is such that it can be only marginally improved upon , and then only by skilful planting rather than major structural alterations . |
| 27 | It has been observed that there are failures in both these respects and that ‘ [ e ] mpirical analyses consistently show that fluctuations in the stock price can be only modestly related to economic realities ’ . |
| 28 | This point can be more clearly illustrated by considering the prolonged controversy surrounding the effects of modern farming methods on the rural landscape-This has created as much , if not more , acrimony between farming and environmental interests in recent years , with the destruction of traditional landscape features replacing the extermination of birds of prey as a rallying point for public attention . |
| 29 | In both these examples it is clear that a major advantage of the simulation model is that answers can be more reliably obtained to questions such as ‘ how high should 1 build this bridge ? ’ or ‘ what would be the hydrological effect of building another 2000 houses in Edwalton ? ’ than if the engineer or planner were to rely solely upon rules of thumb or ‘ common sense ’ . |
| 30 | The concept of a forum converted into thermae depended on the presence of floor levels associated with the former , but those identified as such are very thin mortar lines which are far from level , and they can be more reliably interpreted as layers marking stages in the construction . |