Example sentences of "it can be [vb pp] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But if it can be proven that overfishing of sand-eel is the principal cause of the problem , we can only hope that remedial action can be taken before it is too late for our important sea-bird colonies to recover . |
| 2 | For example , it can be stated that ‘ By the end of the ward allocation the student will be able to catheterise a female patient , using an aseptic and atraumatic technique ’ , or ‘ By the end of the ward allocation the student will be able to identify five potential problems associated with catheterization ’ . |
| 3 | In their favour it can be stated that the consultation process which followed the publication of Paying for Local Government showed twice as many people wanting to abolish the rates as wishing to keep them . |
| 4 | However , when these figures are broken down , it can be seen that certain groups , such as single women over 75 , are less likely to have an occupational pension , and , if they do , the average amount is less . |
| 5 | It can be seen that the physician or doctor will have to bear both factors in mind when deciding if the time when a drug is to be taken is important ( see also Chapter 14 ) . |
| 6 | It can be seen that this very advantage now becomes disadvantageous after a time-zone transition when an adjustment of our body to new local time is required . |
| 7 | Thus it can be seen that there is a clear relationship between the depth of each habitable room which is confined to the width of a church 's nave arcade bay and the usable area of the related existing window in the side wall . |
| 8 | It can be seen that by piecemeal legislation great strides have been made towards equality between the sexes as regards legal status , rights and liabilities . |
| 9 | It can be seen that there is a wide variation , especially where the number of dies in a year is small . |
| 10 | In retrospect it can be seen that the most fatal blunder of the campaign was John Smith 's Budget — proclaimed at the time as ‘ an unparalleled act of honesty by any opposition party going into an election ’ . |
| 11 | It can be seen that , as the point of decision making moves more and more into the information side of the system , the significance of in-built values and assumptions expands considerably and the qualitative nature of those assumptions also changes . |
| 12 | In summary , it can be seen that there are a number of functional processes which are concerned with obtaining and distributing resources efficiently . |
| 13 | However , reflecting back on Hofstede 's definition of a budget system as enabling management more effectively to plan , co-ordinate , control and evaluate the activities of an organisation , it can be seen that there are a number of significant management elements in the budgetary process as well . |
| 14 | As such it can be seen that this is not a zero-based allocation system or a total formula-based system . |
| 15 | Therefore , it can be seen that the application of the rational and political framework is a valuable way of identifying the underlying approach to budgeting in a school . |
| 16 | It can be seen that continued administration of the remedy once the disease disturbance has been overcome will result in the presence of an energy pattern of the remedy itself i.e. a proving . |
| 17 | Yet it can be seen that the provision of residential care , in particular short term care , is vital to the future of our mentally handicapped community . |
| 18 | So it can be seen that what was originally a technical question of the definition of tolerable rates of soil loss is a crucial , and deeply ideological one , and therefore not amenable to the cut-and-dried standards of proof on empirical grounds . |
| 19 | It can be seen that this was essentially the plan put forward by Stirling in his original submission for the attack . |
| 20 | From this recital of the general and specific duties of the doctor , it can be seen that the law in England , if understood and followed , is sensitive to the needs of patient and doctor alike . |
| 21 | But gradually the pattern emerges and it can be seen that the cells ' filopodia attach best in the ring region . |
| 22 | Returning to the sea-urchin embryo , it can be seen that the animal-vegetal differences could be used to establish the boundary regions , that is , which end is to be which . |
| 23 | Once it is realized that signals that change cells ' behaviour do not really carry intricate information , then it can be seen that any complexity of behaviour lies in the cells ' capacity to respond rather than in complexity in the signals . |
| 24 | From the second column of the table it can be seen that in 1977–8 , before the crisis year of 1979 , the money supply was growing faster than the cost of living . |
| 25 | When the increases in the money supply are expressed as percentages of adjusted social product , it can be seen that between 1977 and 1985 the government normally took about 6–7 per cent of the social product for extra-budgetary purposes ( 1983 was the major exception ) . |
| 26 | It can be seen that when the bookseller allows a library its full 10% on these titles , his profit will be that much smaller . |
| 27 | On the contrary , it can be seen that the standard of generalist work is raised through the training , enthusiasm and knowledge of the specialists and so is a cost-effective method of raising standards within the CAB . |
| 28 | It can be seen that the only disappointment in our achieved samples was the comparatively small size of the control sample in Ipswich . |
| 29 | It can be seen that data were collected at referral for all those who agreed initially to take part in the project . |
| 30 | It can be seen that in only two cases was the expense of providing support worker help their main reason , but in other cases , too , such a reason was implicit . |