Example sentences of "can be [vb pp] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the processes of digestion is to reduce food to a substance which can be absorbed in the bloodstream as sugar . |
| 2 | Both can be implicated in the crime and convicted . |
| 3 | The different senses of handle can be delimited in the manner suggested above for mouth . |
| 4 | The Blackshard here can be destroyed in the same way as before ( see New Magic ) , with the same effects . |
| 5 | His created paradise is still only temporal and whilst denying that his perfection can be reached in the presence of the temptation of women , he accepts the fact they are here to stay . |
| 6 | Thereafter , the zygote — the name given to the resultant collection of cells — can be implanted in the uterus . |
| 7 | However , in exceptional circumstances , where there is evidence of seriously threatening and violent behaviour on the part of an individual client towards a worker , an interdict can be sought in the courts specifically prohibiting that individual from molesting a particular employee , or visiting , for example a work location where previous visits have indicated a likelihood of danger to staff . |
| 8 | A sinusoidal tensile stress of a given frequency can be generated in the vibrator A and if the electrical vectors from the force and displacement are represented by and then by satisfying the condition the tangent of the phase angle δ between the stress and the strain may be calculated from This operation of adjustment followed by subtraction of the electrical vectors is performed directly in the recording circuit . |
| 9 | It can be shown that semantic network representations are formally equivalent to semantic feature representations , in as much as any information that can be represented in one can be represented in the other . |
| 10 | OE post-vocalic /ht , xt/ , for example — in words of the type riht , niht , PresE ‘ right , night ’ — can be represented in the spelling of Havelok by st , ht , th , cht , cth , but not by , for example gt , ght , or by random and unpredictable forms such as tc or m . |
| 11 | It is likely that other forms of conversation can be analysed in the same way , though this is considerably more difficult . |
| 12 | Overall sound quality is good , without the dulling and squashing side effects that some products can produce ; pumping can be provoked in the hard ratio mode by extreme settings , but that 's only to be expected . |
| 13 | A quantity called the Gaussian curvature quantifies the local curvature of any two-dimensional surface and can be generalized in the case of higher dimensions . |
| 14 | Also about this time Leopold compiled a list entitled ‘ Verzeichniss alles desjenigen was dieser 12jährige Knab seit seinem 7tem Jahre componiert , und in originali kann aufgezeiget werden ’ — [ List of everything that this 12-year old boy has composed since his 7th year , and can be exhibited in the originals ] ( 11 ) , and this may be a draft or copy of a document which accompanied the petition to Emperor Joseph II . |
| 15 | A significant aspect of the religious hegemonic role can be seen in the translation of religious preoccupations into law via the concept of natural law . |
| 16 | The visual result can be seen in the accompanying illustration of Watneys ' Crown at Haddiscoe in Norfolk : two-dimensional windows with flat , reflectant glass and sham glazing-bar strips which wholly fail to capture the depth and character of the original openings . |
| 17 | This move from nominalism about the extra-mental to nominalism about mental acts can be seen in the development from Descartes to Locke and Berkeley , or , perhaps , in the contrast between such continental rationalists as Descartes , Malebranche and Leibnitz on the one hand , and British philosophers from Bacon and Hobbes on the other . |
| 18 | The head , body and arms rise upwards and outwards in all the happy emotions as can be seen in the final dances of The Sleeping Beauty , La Fille Mal Gardée and Daphnis and Chloë . |
| 19 | Their diverse origins can be seen in the microcosm of Nikol'skaia volost' alone . |
| 20 | Giving added sophistication to a range of kitchens where the emphasis is on quality , the turned wood spindles , galleried shelves , a dresser with bevelled glass doors , and the intricate touch of fretwork that can be seen in the photograph , are all features that make these two ranges very special indeed . |
| 21 | This study showed up some fascinating differences : the figurative pieces — small models of porcupines , antelopes and so on — showed no convincing evidence for quantisation , but the geometric pieces did , as can be seen in the frequency charts of the weights ( fig.9.5 ) . |
| 22 | The support for these aims in Britain can be seen in the support the Labour Party is now receiving . |
| 23 | Just as Protestant Action had been supported by the almost completely separate constituencies of rural evangelicals and urban loyalists , so the same divisions can be seen in the reaction to the prison sentence . |
| 24 | This can be seen in the way in which the sides lined up in recent arguments about sabbatarianism in the DUP manifesto . |
| 25 | An indicator of popular views of Party leaders can be seen in the wild rumours which circulated from time to time about prominent figures in the NSDAP . |
| 26 | Just how little the opening of a new Front in the east matched the widespread desire for a rapid end to the war , and how risky the extension of the conflict was felt to be , can be seen in the admission , a few months later , by Adolf Wagner , Gauleiter of Munich and Upper Bavaria , at a meeting of Party functionaries , that if Hitler had consulted the German people before the start of the war in the east about its readiness for the Russian campaign , the vast majority of the population would have said : ‘ My God , keep your hands off , my dear Adolf Hitler . |
| 27 | An example of the political interpretation of coin portraiture can be seen in the fine portraits of a certain Tarcondimotus , who was appointed by the Romans to be the ruler of a small part of south-east Asia Minor in the late first century BC , and subsequently given the title ‘ king ’ by Mark Antony . |
| 28 | But with the Renaissance there was a return to the individualised portraits of antiquity , as can be seen in the portrait of the next king , Henry VIII . |
| 29 | St Bridget 's affinity to the old goddess Bridget can be seen in the wording of long-ago prayers to the Abbess : ‘ Bridget , our torch and our sun ’ … |
| 30 | Scottish resentment can be seen in the half-heartedness of the act of 1555 concerning the spreading of seditious slanders . |