Example sentences of "can be [verb] to one " in BNC.
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| 1 | The overall responsibility for the organisation of the ward learning programme can be delegated to one particular member of staff , but everyone in the ward team should participate . |
| 2 | The principles on which these three kinds of bodies are built are so fundamentally different that it is difficult to believe that they can be related to one another except right at the very roots of the evolutionary tree . |
| 3 | With a many-to-many ( m:n ) relationship , each entity can be related to one or more occurrences of the partner entity . |
| 4 | For a first call session player the A2 can be expanded to one of the most comprehensive sound libraries a guitarist can buy . |
| 5 | Once Theta has been identified , attention can be turned to one of the most intriguing objects in the sky — the strange , erratic variable Eta Carinæ , with its associated nebulosity . |
| 6 | Children may discover that the covering of sand in the tray can be pushed to one side into a mound , yet will still push back to cover the tray . |
| 7 | The advantage is that the cover can be pushed to one side with a net handle or broomstick , then slid back again , while the pondkeeper remains dry and in full possession of his sanity . |
| 8 | The decision making process can be likened to one of those great lumbering steam locomotives seen in Western films . |
| 9 | If a date can be assigned to one or more points of this relative sequence , it is normally possible to make reasonably accurate inferences about the dates of the intermediary points . |
| 10 | In this region the integration of the drainage pattern is so good that practically every point in the area can be assigned to one or another of the former drainage basins . |
| 11 | Elements of each drawing can be assigned to one of 256 available levels , each of which can be displayed separately if required . |
| 12 | It reiterates an orthodoxy whose source can be traced to one specific article ( Lemann , 1986 ) . |
| 13 | If policy can be set to one side then it is set to one side and I think it enhances the reputation of of the system . |
| 14 | The ideas that are antagonistic to the global capitalist project can be reduced to one central counter-hegemonic idea , the rejection of the culture-ideology of consumerism itself . |
| 15 | The school 's values can be reduced to one rule , says the head ; do to others as you would have them do to you . |
| 16 | Secondly , the three constants of 0.240 x 2.576 x 0.000252 can be reduced to one , to wit 0.0001557 , saving a bit on the mathematics when it comes to selecting your seaside donkey and assuming that the EC has n't banned them yet . |
| 17 | Other theorists ( e.g. Mackintosh and Reese 1979 ) ( see also Wagner 1981 ) attribute the effect to competition between stimuli at a perceptual level , suggesting that because of some limited capacity mechanism , attention can be paid to one component only at the expense of that paid to the other . |
| 18 | Under this approach , all acute patients can be allocated to one of 475 Diagnosis Related Groups ( DRGS ) . |
| 19 | The variety at first seems bewildering , but leaving aside primitive creatures like jellyfish and corals which we have already discussed , and the much more advanced backboned fish , nearly all can be allocated to one of three main types : shelled animals , like clams , cowries and sea snails ; radially symmetrical creatures like starfish and sea urchins ; and elongated animals with segmented bodies varying from wriggling bristle worms to shrimps and lobsters . |
| 20 | In a first set of experiments we used polyclonal antibodies raised against rat IL-6DBP or C/EBPδ to identify if the IL-6 induced DNA-protein complex can be attributed to one of these two proteins . |
| 21 | Many thousands of cards can be attached to one wheel , which makes it a suitable and speedy system for a large volume of records ( Fig. 6.8 ) . |