Example sentences of "can be [verb] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If anything can be concluded from this book , it is that I was born , ’ writes Sisson after touching on that event , which occurred 75 years ago in a building since occupied by the Bristol Rovers Supporters Club . |
| 2 | What then can be concluded from this debate ? |
| 3 | However , detailed observations of a variety of teachers using the same material ( see , for example , reference 2 ) immediately reveals the wide range of teaching styles that are used and the apparent ease with which almost any material can be absorbed into any style . |
| 4 | Gay women can be absorbed in any aspect of the women 's movement , ’ she says . |
| 5 | From nine months to four years a child can use a seat in the back that faces forwards and which can be secured by rear seat belts or their anchorage points . |
| 6 | The division between health and social needs can be narrowed by joint training . |
| 7 | What phenomena can be mapped from such imagery ? |
| 8 | A general concept can be exemplified by any number of particular instances which need not stand in any causal relation with each other . |
| 9 | It is good advice for there is no substitute for the sort of general information that can be gathered in this way . |
| 10 | Massey agrees that the fate of entities which are part of large spatially diverse enterprises can be related to explicit planning decisions , but considers that it is dangerous to somehow regard such actions as ‘ worse ’ than the consequences of the anonymous system forces of capitalism as manifested through market relations . |
| 11 | Not only is the method not scientific but , to the extent that Marx did make certain historical prophecies which can be related to empirical evidence over long periods of time , these can be examined and by and large they have not proved to be valid . |
| 12 | All of the forms within one database can be related to each other . |
| 13 | The underlying concept is that pairs of sentences that have constituents in common can be related to each other by a linguistic transformation . |
| 14 | The various moduli can be related to each other in a simple manner , because an isotropic body is considered to possess only two independent elastic constants and so |
| 15 | Library education will be more effective if the student understands what he is doing and why he is doing it — that is , if new facts can be related to existing knowledge . |
| 16 | The damage , is fairly obvious to see is produced by these two and it 's worth pointing out that persistence can be related to this catalase enzyme . |
| 17 | If we accept that the narrative discourse represents the consciousness of the unnamed ‘ jealous husband ’ of the woman known as A … , then the ambiguities and contradictions in the text can be related to this narrator 's obsessive fascination with the possibility of his wife 's adultery . |
| 18 | A leading client who is a major manufacturer of toiletries wishes to expand into higher priced , bigger margin and smaller volume markets which he believes can be reached through existing distribution channels . |
| 19 | However , if we begin from the view that the deaf child is communicatively competent in sign language , given access to appropriate models , then all his learning goals can be reached through this language and the child becomes a second language learner in relation to English . |
| 20 | Rutli can be reached at leisurely pace in 1½ hours from the start of the walk . |
| 21 | There is no limit to the number or variety of different conclusions that can be reached at this stage in the process . |
| 22 | In the final article in our series , Richard Holloway reflects on conclusions that can be reached on modern society from the attitudes and opinions revealed in the course of the week Fighting the good fight |
| 23 | It is hoped that the Director of Conciliation , Mr. Ray McGee will be of assistance to both parties in order that agreement can be reached on this issue . |
| 24 | All can be reached by public transport and offer quiet and relaxing woodland walks . |
| 25 | I 'll give you a number where I can be reached in any emergency . ’ |
| 26 | My own opinion is that all cold-blooded animals are endowed with responsive behaviour that can be mistaken for higher intelligence , when what we are really dealing with are reflex actions to given stimuli — as in Pavlov 's dogs , which salivated when a bell they associated with food was rung . |
| 27 | It is also important to remove all traces of abrasive powders used in sample preparation , because they usually have a bright luminescence themselves and can be mistaken for heavy mineral grains in the sample . |
| 28 | It is only by overlooking details of the presentation of the monk within the verse and taking a very generalized and abstract view of the plot , as the Host does , that the monk can be mistaken for any sort of comic rogue . |
| 29 | This greyish film can be mistaken for fungal infection . |
| 30 | Initially , output will be SIF resolution , or 352 by 240 pixels , 1.5Mbps and 30 frames a second but output can be generated at any format , resolution or bit rate that the application requires , so long as the system configuration is adequate to support the desired compression rates and quality factors . |