Example sentences of "can be [verb] that [prep] " in BNC.

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1 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 ) .
2 It can be seen that during autumn there is a steady increase in the HNO 3 column amount , followed by a decline over winter and a recovery in late spring .
3 It can be seen that as the curvature of these hypersurfaces diverges .
4 From tables 2.4 and 2.5 it can be seen that as gram size increases , processing time increases ( because a larger tree takes longer to build ) , but the shorter lists are comparatively quick to build , and give the best reduction .
5 It can be seen that as the lexicon size increases , more candidate words are allowable , so sometimes the inverted look-up is not used when it might have found the correct word .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 It can be seen that in every case the two sets of coefficients have the same sign and general magnitude .
10 It can be seen that in terms of the formal equations it is possible to make some juncture , but in so doing it is also possible to lose sight of the quite different perspectives from which they derive .
11 From this caricature ( for that is all there is time for here ) , it can be seen that in its empirical tradition , sociology ( and to a considerable extent social psychology also ) deals primarily with western industrial society , which it examines descriptively in a somewhat piecemeal fashion .
12 This feature is illustrated in figure 5.2 , in which it can be seen that in period 3 ( odd ) w t was set the end of the period 2 ( even ) but was actually set two periods earlier in period 1 ( odd ) .
13 It can be seen that in the event of specific goods perishing , the contract may be avoided by section 7 but if in any other case the contract becomes impossible or illegal to perform , it will be frustrated at common law .
14 In this regard it can be seen that in order for the catechesis to work effectively the various members of the group have to work as a team — the L.C. is responsible for presenting the symbol well ; having a good story that echoes the goal clearly ; and providing the opportunity for EACH person to share their story .
15 This context having been provided , it will be possible to reassess the significance of electoral behaviour , and although it can be seen that in some areas and in certain types of constituency manipulation and deference were key factors , on the whole the electorate could not be easily controlled from above .
16 It can be argued that for a second chamber , whose main functions are the consideration of less controversial Bills and the revision of other Bills from the other place without , however , power finally to frustrate the will of the democratically-elected chamber , ( as is now the case with the House of Lords , see below , pp.98–9 ) the fact that it is undemocratic matters little , provided that it is competent to do the job expected of it .
17 To return to the main topic itself , that of the nature of the relationship between housing and fertility , it can be argued that for , those who choose a local authority tenancy , early childbearing , with or without marriage , is a rational strategy because it facilitates access to such a dwelling .
18 For example , it can be argued that between the orally produced blues of the solitary rural Southern black and the equally orally produced collective ‘ gospel song ’ of black Southern churches there are some rather crucial sociological differences , which typically manifest themselves in clear musical contrasts ( secular/religious ; personal/group ; solo/choral ; rhapsodic/iterative ; free rhythm/ strong pulse ; and so on ) .
19 Finally , it can be argued that by focussing on pecuniary compensation , other victim issues are ignored by the ‘ Son-of-Sam ’ model .
20 A habitat specificity of a pollinator would improve pollination success ; however it can be argued that in a dispersal agent this would lead to increased predation of seedlings .
21 It can be calculated that during 1979 , 18 000 women will attend clinics in England suffering from chlamydial infection , which they have no hope of getting diagnosed and therefore treated .
22 It can be calculated that at least 47,000 jobs in ‘ regional policy factories ’ were lost in 1977–81 .
23 Since fast reactors can breed from the depleted uranium in the spent fuel from thermal reactors , it can be calculated that in FBR terms British stocks of depleted uranium are comparable to the country 's coal reserves .
24 ‘ I do not consider that it can be said that at the moment of striking the child , he [ the father ] had the necessary evil intent or wilfulness to justify a finding either that he assaulted the child or that he wilfully ill-treated her .
25 In conclusion , it can be said that during accelerated intestinal transit , slow release preparations , except for Claversal 250 mg tablets , provide higher steady state mucosal concentrations than azo-bound drugs .
26 Nor do I believe that it can be said that in no way can we disentangle ourselves from the religious myth which we have inherited .
27 Note that justices may convict where it can be inferred that at the material time , the penis was exposed .
28 However , from comparisons of Stock Exchange statistics and those compiled by the Bank for International Settlements , it can be inferred that between 70-75% of all sterling eurobonds are listed in London .
29 On such a view , in so far as pragmatics is concerned with context , it can be claimed that by definition pragmatics is not part of competence , and thus not within the scope of grammatical descriptions .
30 It can be shown that for large samples the statistic , called the likelihood ratio test statistic , is distributed as a chi-square variate with g degrees of freedom where , as before , g is the number of restrictions and ‘ log ’ stands for natural logarithm .
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