Example sentences of "and this can [adv] be [verb] " in BNC.

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1 Normally , Sodium Hydroxide — Caustic Soda ( N a OH ) — solution is used as a developing agent , and this can easily be made up at home .
2 Similarly , a wooden bar with a box on either end will serve as a barbell and this can easily be weighted by filling the boxes with soil or sand .
3 Many cuisines that are based on grains and pulses make extensive use of a wide range of spices to flavour their foods and this can clearly be seen in Indian and Far Eastern cookery .
4 This racist behaviour is rational , because such strategies of social closure are logically consistent with the aims of protecting white privilege , and this can best be done through organized forms of discrimination , rather than at the level of individual expressions of prejudice .
5 The state has a duty to protect its citizens from external enemies , and this can best be achieved by maximizing its power vis-a-vis other states .
6 Clearly these are still working groups , usually of type ( ii ) , with a manifesto , a periodical and exhibitions , but there has also been a change of some kind in their social relations , and this can best be understood by the second kind of analysis , of the proposed and actual relations with all those beyond the group .
7 The most radical act of 1689 was the break in the succession , and this can unquestionably be seen as a victory for the Whigs .
8 Broad agreement has to be reached , too , on how she will be able to fit in happily with your particular routine of family life , and this can only be decided after very frank discussion of her needs and yours .
9 A full and accurate assessment of land potential involves detailed enquiries into soil and climate and experience of the behaviour of the crops and livestock it carries , and this can only be achieved over a period of years .
10 So , according to Davis and Moore , stratification and inequality are both positively functional and inevitable in human societies , because societies have to fill a number of ‘ key ’ positions with the ‘ right ’ people , and this can only be achieved by allocating unequal rewards to these positions .
11 It i.s therefore important to have a sufficient range of variation in these independent variables ' , and this can only be achieved by means of cross-national study .
12 So at the end of the day it must be for the courts to decide how to classify particular functions , and this can only be done on the basis of some normative judgment about the desirable scope of judicial review .
13 Le Grand , for example , insists that for egalitarian policies to succeed , ‘ it is necessary to reduce the hold of the ideology of inequality on people 's values and beliefs and this can only be done by challenging the factual underpinnings of that ideology . ’
14 Unfortunately , experience is the best guide to fabric interpretation , and this can only be obtained by study of many different sediment types .
15 Personal injury practitioners can only make any sort of profit at all if they achieve a realistic cash flow and this can only be obtained by ensuring that payment is made as soon as the case is settled .
16 Having work at an appropriate height in relation to distance from the eye makes a real difference to avoiding unnecessary fatigue , and this can only be effected by a comfortable working position .
17 And this can obviously be done by any intelligent teacher who is not an artist .
18 Gradually , through compromise , a workable plan will emerge , and this can then be broken down into a programme phased over a number of years .
19 Very often the way in which change is implemented is left to the school to decide and this can then be done in accordance with its philosophy and aims .
20 One of the products of this type of theory is a prediction of the reflectance under given conditions , and this can then be compared with the results of experiments .
21 Results of surveys taken in recent years in AIB have indicated that staff morale is low — as it is in all banks — and this can certainly be said for those in Britain where members have had to endure in the past five years a two year period of unreal thinking , the additional pressures brought on by the recession , the pressures brought on by short staffing and on top of all that the lack of recognition in monetary terms for their efforts in ‘ keeping the ship afloat ’ .
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