Example sentences of "can be [vb pp] [prep] [adj] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Children 's co-operation can be secured by guiding and helping them towards some desirable action or way of thought . |
| 2 | It is an attempt to partition the intellectual content of a subject area so that individual elements can be mapped to recognisable and clearly defined sub-areas . |
| 3 | The Government remain committed to the Anglo-Irish Agreement unless and until agreement can be reached on new and more broadly satisfactory arrangements . |
| 4 | Only this will ensure that in future all machine-readable data can be exchanged across disciplinary and professional boundaries . |
| 5 | A new town may physically take up a small space , but the end result can be seen from far and wide . |
| 6 | This can be done in slatted or packed towers or , if required , under pressure , by the injection of air . |
| 7 | In other rooms , interesting effects can be achieved with wallmounted or free-standing uplighters , which bounce their light off the ceiling , and with special recessed ceiling lights which ‘ wash ’ a wall with light . |
| 8 | This can be achieved through modular or distance learning study . |
| 9 | We have seen how a couple of strands of consonant voices can be turned into mild or harsh dissonance , or vice versa — how dissonant voices can be turned towards consonance . |
| 10 | An important distinction is between intrusive and non-intrusive measuring devices ; the former can be sub-divided into destructive and non- destructive devices . |
| 11 | Designed to make the most of your hair 's natural movement , it can be sprayed on wet or dry hair and will encourage any natural curls or waves that you have and add body and shine . |
| 12 | Its a pump-action , easy to use product that can be sprayed onto wet or dry hair , making hair manageable and adding natural-looking control as well as versatility . |
| 13 | Poor nutrition can be caused by inadequate or restricted intake of food for a variety of reasons . |
| 14 | However , we suggest that the use of physiological data that can be influenced by medical and nursing intervention should not be used for audit . |
| 15 | While useful for assessing the severity of illness of individual patients or groups of patients , physiological data that can be influenced by medical and nursing intervention , such as that obtained by the APACHE II score , can not , paradoxically , be used to compare unit performances and must not be used for audit . |
| 16 | The individual 's powers of recovery can be impaired by physical and mental exhaustion , as there are no reserves of energy to overcome the crisis . |
| 17 | A spirit-based Sanding Sealer can be applied to new or stripped wood , or after it has been stained . |
| 18 | This is the technique of flash photolysis , and again it can be applied to gaseous or to liquid samples . |
| 19 | It would be wrong , however , to dismiss completely advances in productivity-enhancing research which can be applied to steep-sloped and marginal areas . |
| 20 | So the idea is you have some kind of token so that er , classic example in sort of junior schools , primary schools , that y'know if a child actually does what you want it to do , it gets a kind of star in a star chart and added up so many stars it gets some kind of present and basically the same kind of thing can be applied in clinical and in occupational settings as well . |
| 21 | Separate figures can be obtained for expressive and comprehension scales . |
| 22 | The text flow can be interrupted at any time by clicking the mouse or the flow method can be altered to semi-automatic or back to manual by clicking in conjunction with the Command or Shift keys . |
| 23 | This is a means whereby analogue signals like guitar , vocals etc. can be converted to digital and inputted to computer storage , to be sequenced and looped or whatever digital hocus pocus takes your fancy . |
| 24 | When batches are large , overall throughput will be much improved if any runs can be converted to batched and sorted operations . |
| 25 | The development of paper money can be traced to economic and social developments in Western Europe during the 1600s . |
| 26 | But the seeds of the artist 's powerful progress in the great decade from 1954 can be traced in other and lesser works throughout the exhibition . |
| 27 | It is governed by discoverable mechanical laws which can be expressed in mathematical and chemical formulae . |
| 28 | Returning from our detour , what , if anything , can be said about regulated and publicly owned companies compared with public liability companies ? |
| 29 | Exactly the same can be said of ethical and psychological categories , or any critical categories whatever . ’ |
| 30 | This way , the interminable arguments about whose numbers are correct can be replaced by sensible and informed discussions about the real issues . |