Example sentences of "can be [adj] to [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We need to admit that for many older churches it takes much longer to change and also that a more traditional style can be helpful to many in finding Christ personally and following him radically . |
| 2 | There are specialised optical aids which can be helpful to some visually handicapped pupils . |
| 3 | Contact also with organisations for the assistance of widows can be useful to some women , and one of these , CRUSE , which has already been mentioned , runs groups and an excellent counselling service . |
| 4 | Whilst the first alternative can be effective to some extent , there is a limit to which expenditure of this kind can be reduced . |
| 5 | Sine [ by the minimality of c ] no pi can be equal to any qi , we may assume [ WLOG ] that |
| 6 | The problem is that just like the ‘ moral treatments ’ of the nineteenth century , normalization has come to mean different things to different people , and professionals who have espoused the concept of ‘ normalization ’ often proselytize their views with a religious fervour which , though often motivating to fellow staff , can be alienating to those who are unfamiliar with the concept . |
| 7 | A LAN ( Local Area Network ) means that a single printer , modem , or application can be available to all network users . |
| 8 | It is the problem of how the necessary support , in a physical and environmental sense , which in different circumstances the old would obtain in the setting of a family or a closely-knit village community , can be available to these millions of ageing individuals isolated in a modern industrial society . |
| 9 | But reason requires that protest itself needs to spring from and to recognise a liberal sentiment , since romantic revivalist passion and the protest which its enthusiasm engenders can be inimical to both the interests of the individual and free social cooperation . |
| 10 | A local microcomputer is like a manual record system which can be accessible to all levels of staff . |
| 11 | He developed a detector for decays of carbon-14 , a radioactive form of carbon , that can be used to this end . |
| 12 | Again , computer models ( incorporating knowledge gained from previous dams ) can be used to some extent to predict the likely effects of future projects . |
| 13 | The services can be similar to those of orthodox Christianity , except they are led by mediums , and the sermon is often replaced by a seance . |
| 14 | Attitudes can change , can be changed , can be responsive to many kinds of stimuli , such as election campaigns , advertising , interactions with others , and so on , and sometimes such changes are crucial to understanding and predicting the outcome of events . |
| 15 | ‘ High risk ’ activity involves transfer of fluid that can be infectious to another person , to a site where infection has been known to occur . |
| 16 | Theological answers , even though correct , can be unhelpful to both of these types , though in different ways . |
| 17 | So in all these kinds of different ways , religion provides succour erm , gratification and er , is the fulfilment of people 's wishes , particularly th their frustrations , their erm , feelings of er being the victims as it were , of the world , can be satisfied to some extent by religious belief , which holds out some , some prospect of and hope , at least in the afterlife , if not , if not in this life . |
| 18 | On the other hand , even such seasonal workers ' commitment to work , needs and interests are likely to be different from those of regular workers ; this despite the fact that their pay or access to fringe benefits can be inferior to those of regular workers . |