Example sentences of "can be [verb] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The retained profit can be unlocked by declaration of a dividend . |
| 2 | However the actual molecular mechanism by which so much energy can be absorbed during fracture varies a great deal between the different kinds of solids . |
| 3 | On a good day ( for the parents , that is ) children can be absorbed for hours in the imaginative construction of a world which depends on them alone for its realization and reward . |
| 4 | Minerals : Minerals ( or trace elements ) can be absorbed by fish , either from their food or from the surrounding water . |
| 5 | The issue of the legitimacy of corporate enterprise can , however , be saved from being swallowed up in this wider debate if the assumption is made that alternative patterns of distribution can be secured through state action should the prevailing one be considered morally unappealing . |
| 6 | Their datasets are familiar and close at hand and , in some circumstances , can be tailored for student use perhaps with the aid of self-instructional documentation or workbooks . |
| 7 | Both services can be tailored to customer requirements , according to the company . |
| 8 | The driving position can be tailored to perfection by purring motors that raise , lower and recline with hair-breadth precision . |
| 9 | Hard tough polymers can be typified by cellulose acetate and several curves measured at different temperatures are shown in figure 13.7(a) . |
| 10 | The general behaviour of a polymer can be typified by results obtained for an amorphous atactic polystyrene sample . |
| 11 | A shape can be flipped from left to right , mirror imaged vertically and / or horizontally and rotated through any angle as mentioned earlier . |
| 12 | The home ought to be a safe haven , the place where people go to get away from fear and violence , and it is this fundamental feeling of safety which can be destroyed by child sexual abuse . |
| 13 | It 's a ludicrous game of make-believe and let's pretend , and the biggest let's pretend is that Britain is fighting a war of principle , on its own terms , for purposes which the people understand and support , and for aims which can be realised by war . |
| 14 | The slugs obligingly congregate beneath the citrus dome and can be gathered for disposal . |
| 15 | Seasiders have traditionally viewed the shore and estuaries as an interesting playground with a few resources that can be gathered for supper . |
| 16 | An interesting warning can be gathered from Pooley 's that remaining in such an area for more than one minute risks possible harm from radiation . |
| 17 | The mathematics works , the evidence can be gathered from experiments , and so forth , but in the end we find ourselves unable in any coherent way to explain the true nature of reality at the quantum level . |
| 18 | The items can be gathered by children themselves , for example , shiny things ; things of a particular colour ; things of a particular texture ( rough , smooth , prickly ) ; particular shapes ( rounded , with holes , pointed , with straight sides , spirals , etc. ) ; things we use in the kitchen or bathroom ; things that we use to draw with or cook with . |
| 19 | Information can be gathered by means of a questionnaire which new adherents are either invited to fill in themselves , or which can be completed in an interview by one of the church leaders . |
| 20 | For a given polymer + solvent system at a specified temperature , [ η ] can be related to M through the Mark-Houwink equation |
| 21 | The signal contents of these responses need careful reconsideration before they can be related to VOR adaptation . |
| 22 | It can be related to Sinclair 's observation that examples of English are sometimes given which the analysis of actual data reveals do not in fact occur ( see page 76 ) . |
| 23 | In Sections 3.3 and 17.8 , we saw that the vortex street frequency has ranges of decreased regularity ; although these changes can be related to developments in the flow , there are tentative suggestions that they might also be viewed in the present context . |
| 24 | SPELLCHECK has a dictionary of over 6000 words which can be related to text on file . |
| 25 | More recently , information from the registration of births can be related to estimates of the social class distribution in the population derived from the General Household Survey and the Labour Force Survey . |
| 26 | A study of this kind can be related to texts in other media too , giving a comparison of , for example , different ways of approaching the same topic . |
| 27 | It is certainly not enough to say that the former position shows " attribution " and the latter " predication " ; one must go on to say what these terms of one 's theory mean , and if our account is to be genuinely explanatory , we must do so in ways which can be related to concepts and phenomena which stand outside our initial theory . |
| 28 | The temperature T 2 is not of course an experimentally measurable quantity but is calculated to lie approximately 50 K below the experimental T g and can be related to T g on this basis . |
| 29 | For Sartre 's singular universal could never be expected to solve the formal theoretical problem of how individual existential existence can be related to History insofar as it simply renames , in one oxymoronic category , the original antithetical terms . |
| 30 | Opinions on a whole range of theoretical issues were polarized in ways that can be related to positions taken up in the struggle for control of the social framework of science . |