Example sentences of "can [be] [verb] to [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These may take a bit of finding — although an electronic stud detector will help — but once the batten has been secured , the kitchen cupboard ( or whatever ) can be secured to it with normal woodscrews . |
| 2 | If the right person can be found then much of the detailed work can be delegated to him . |
| 3 | By using Green 's theorem the integral of over the rectangle PNML indicated in Figure 14.1 can be related to its line integral around the boundary . |
| 4 | There will be a number of interactive plenary sessions on the first day with discussions on the future requirements of users from a variety of industries , and on how the emerging technology can be related to their needs . |
| 5 | Provenance studies are more exact , since many grain suites carry characteristic luminescence ‘ fingerprints ’ which can be related to their source rocks ( Fig. 6.5f ) . |
| 6 | ‘ And you do n't think that can be related to his murder ? ’ |
| 7 | HOG will define an object 's attributes — what parameters can be set and what information can be retrieved ; the ‘ methods ’ associated with that object — what can be done to it and what it can do ; and its notification — what the object emits ( such as warning to tell the system that a file is nearly full , for example ) and what it can be read to . |
| 8 | As a consequence , not only is " the family " ( in this restricted sense ) quite a different kind of entity at each phase of its development but , except in so far as the original householders own property which can be transmitted to their children , there is no continuity of the " we " -group beyond the first generation . |
| 9 | And it is one executive decision that can be turned to your advantage . |
| 10 | There need be no implication that success is identified with indefinite continuation : costs , human and material , can be limited to what is acceptable within an agreed time span . |
| 11 | These exercises , which are easily and quickly generated , can be presented to your students either as printed worksheets — you will be provided with the answers on a separate sheet — or can be put on to a floppy disk so that a student or group of students can work on screen . |
| 12 | The kinetic treatment of crystallization from the melt is based on the radial growth of a front through space and can be likened to someone scattering a handful of gravel onto the surface of a pond . |
| 13 | Each symbol represents the analysis of an individual object ; samples of unknown origin can be assigned to their source by their position on such a diagram . |
| 14 | Furthermore , commodity production is being increasingly subdivided into fragments which can be assigned to whichever part of the world can provide the most profitable combination of capital and labour . |
| 15 | What has been said can be extended to them . |
| 16 | First of all , there are ways that missing husbands can be traced so that the divorce petition can be sent to them . |
| 17 | First of all , there are ways that missing husbands can be traced so that the divorce petition can be sent to them . |
| 18 | Timing is also of the essence — flowers can be sent to you through the post as soon as the special event is over , but the best option is to be able to press them on the very day that they are used . |
| 19 | If you are outside London , photocopies can be sent to you for an additional charge or you can use the self-service photocopier if you are in the library . |
| 20 | Items can be sent to my home address by the second week in September , this will give me time to price and size them , a major job as I discovered last time and I will send you the figure of money raised by the end of October . |
| 21 | The relative abundance of dissolved constituents released through weathering reactions into surface waters can be compared to their relative abundance in the bedrock in order to provide information on the types of chemical reactions that are occurring . |
| 22 | Gandhi , as we have seen , sees no superiority in conceiving of God in impersonal rather than personal terms so it is difficult to see how the traditional distinction between higher and lower levels of truth can be applied to him . |
| 23 | Each club of growers , be they of lettuce , tomato , carrots or some other crop , meets with the project manager to discuss how the basic ICMS methods can be applied to their particular crop . |
| 24 | Work has started on developing procedures for dissolving solid samples so that this versatile technique of multi-element analysis can be applied to them . |
| 25 | Rider Haggard 's heroine ( if such a general term can be applied to her ) is introduced in terms that were to become very familiar in his fiction , as a fabled white goddess-figure ruling over an unknown tribal kingdom in unexplored Central Africa . |
| 26 | There seems to me to have been a growing wish to find this ‘ philosopher 's stone ’ , a universal system which can be applied to everything , everywhere . |
| 27 | The first is that the source format be such that all or nearly all of the available computing tools can be applied to it . |
| 28 | Many other breeds have white faces , too , but not necessarily from Hereford or Simmental blood , though the Kazakh Whiteheaded ( USSR ) owes its origins to imported Herefords crossed with the native Kazakh in the 1920s , while the Canadian black or red Hays Converter 's white face can be traced to its Hereford origins in the early 1950s . |
| 29 | Everything that Margery says can be traced to what she would hear in sermons and readings . |
| 30 | I have stressed the view that Dicey 's importance can be traced to his role both in codifying certain ideas and in adapting the analytical method to public law . |