Example sentences of "the [noun sg] can [be] [vb pp] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The opportunity can be described to the individual and their interest determined . |
| 2 | The idea is that those being considered for the award can be attached to any of the Divisions within the Department and will include trainee Roadworkers , Technicians , Graduate Engineers and Accountants and all training schemes currently operating within the Department . |
| 3 | Does the Minister agree that the next time one of these offenders comes before the courts for sentencing , if the sentence does not contain a deterrent element , bearing in mind the increase in this type of crime , it would be wise for the Home Office to seek the guidance of the Attorney-General so that the sentence can be referred to the Court of Appeal , which could then lay down a guideline sentence for this type of crime which contains a deterrent element ? |
| 4 | Histoire , whilst at one level a transposition of the discontinuity of experience , can at the same time be considered as providing an implicit commentary on the nature of fiction and writing : the text can be said to be formed from a meditation on a collection of postcards which the narrator is sifting through . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Often the computer can be connected to a printer to provide an instant printout . |
| 7 | At this size , the feeding can be reduced to twice over a three day period . |
| 8 | If the operator is following a linear feature , such as a contour line , the digitizer can be switched to streaming mode and the location of the pointer recorded at some specified time interval , such as every tenth of a second . |
| 9 | The knitting can be taken to the church . |
| 10 | Handling under power is very simple and the yacht can be brought to a stop from full speed ahead within her own overall length . |
| 11 | If you repay your loan early , the protection can be transferred to a new loan . |
| 12 | Finally , the rig can be attached to the board . |
| 13 | True ‘ living fossils ’ are really rather rare , and the term can be applied to both simple and highly complex organisms that have outlived the time when the earth was populated with many more of their kind . |
| 14 | It is otherwise where the employee can be considered to be part of the " brains " of the company , ie sufficiently senior for his acts to be regarded as those of the company . |
| 15 | The condition is a predicate which is true of just those states N that the action can be applied to . |
| 16 | It is necessary , in my judgment , to look at the facts somewhat closely to see what amounts to a discharge and how far the reasoning can be applied to the case , not of joint and several debtors , but of several debtors alone , albeit all liable for the same debt . |
| 17 | Remembering bacon and ham , the versatility of the pig can be stretched to pies , sandwiches and ham , egg and chips . |
| 18 | Examples would be where the witness can be shown to be unreliable , biased or prejudiced . |
| 19 | It is hoped that the result can be generalised to the macroeconomic level and that useful insights will be provided about the performance of UK companies in an increasingly competitive international environment . |
| 20 | The induction in the core is magnified by the high permeability , except in the saturation regions where the result can be seen to be a trapezoidal induction waveform ( Fig. 3 ) . |
| 21 | This causes no problem , as the defendant can be said to be at fault whenever he commits a tort . |
| 22 | Children may discover that the covering of sand in the tray can be pushed to one side into a mound , yet will still push back to cover the tray . |
| 23 | On such a stack-oriented computer an operand can be transferred from a store location to the top element of the stack ( pushing down all previously entered operands ) , and the contents of the top element of the stack can be copied to a store location , the top element remaining on the stack or being deleted , moving up all earlier elements ; the former is more akin to the conventional " store " operation , although the latter is more common . |
| 24 | The range can be seen to be surprisingly restricted , however , with the emphasis on basic services ( especially metalworking ) at most sites ; more specialized activities are less well represented . |
| 25 | As long as this is respected , the rigidity can be used to good purpose . |
| 26 | Down on the studio floor the mood can be likened to the kind of calm that precedes a storm . |
| 27 | Length can be obtained by simple means : as one canon ends it can continue by voices changing roles — the following voice becoming the leading one — ; and perhaps register ; the polyphony can be altered to canon by inversion , or the parts move backwards in retrograde or as a crab canon ; we can have episodes where augmentation lengthens note-values or diminution shortens them , and towards the end a ‘ stretto ’ can bring imitations at closer intervals , giving a sense of culmination . |
| 28 | I would like to know if the machine can be converted to full time four wheel drive , There are no real advantages to permanent four wheel drive but , if you wish to , use the transfer box from a 1948–50 Series One . |
| 29 | The centre of the resonance can be determined to 1.5 mHz ( a thousandth of the linewidth ) after just 100 launches . |
| 30 | The psychoanalysis can be used to a limited extent , despite more collective , historical roles er , within disagreed over conflicts in people , or perhaps you say that all the time . |