Example sentences of "this [noun sg] can [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As an organizational model , this finding can be summarized in these terms : the efficient linking of the stages in product development depends both on timing and how information is transferred . |
| 2 | This finding can be interpreted as an antibody-triggered induction or stabilization of IL-6DBP/NF-IL6 binding to the IL-6RE . |
| 3 | The positive analysis of vertical restraints within this framework can be taken a little further , with implications for normative issues . |
| 4 | This support can be turned into power by an astute patron . |
| 5 | This support can be frightening . |
| 6 | This is not all ; for if any unwanted change in the output occurs and this change can be fed back to modify the duty cycle ratio in the proper sense , the output can be stabilized at some desired value , any deviation from that value being automatically corrected . |
| 7 | The practical working out of this change can be seen in the syncretism of what Gilroy terms ‘ black expressive cultures ’ in contemporary Britain ( Gilroy , 1987 , ch. 5 ) . |
| 8 | This change can be seen in several ways . |
| 9 | This parameter can be changed at any time , with the process stopped . |
| 10 | This paradigm can be used to study child-child communication , but it can also be used in a more controlled fashion , in which the experimenter takes the role of one participant in order to control more precisely one side of the communication process . |
| 11 | But even this admiration can be a form of ageism if , by singling out the truly remarkable , we minimise the more mundane but no less significant achievements of so many very old people . |
| 12 | Sometimes this link can be explored by careful questioning to convert routines back into verbally expressed desires . |
| 13 | This link can be more precisely stated . |
| 14 | While projects of this kind can be very impressive they can not hope to generate an increase in output from the mass of small scale farmers , as their requirement for scarce , high level management is too great . |
| 15 | Patients of this kind can be a considerable burden on staff . |
| 16 | Doubts of this kind can be expressed in many ways , but they are usually notable for one important feature — their lack of urgency . |
| 17 | Confusions of this kind can be avoided by keeping the camera anywhere within a 180-degree arc of the original position , hence the name ‘ 180 degree rule ’ . |
| 18 | Other examples of this kind can be found in books by Michael Benton and Geoff Fox ( see select bibliography ) . |
| 19 | A superb outing of this kind can be had on the long Nantlle ridge — comprising six miles and six mountains of excellent high-level walking . |
| 20 | Deprived of attention , the dog should then quieten down quite quickly , and ultimately behaviour of this kind can be overcome if you then return home without allowing the dog out of the vehicle on this occasion . |
| 21 | Organisational rules of this kind can be very helpful in steering between the excessive information flow , e.g. memoranda copied to many people , and excessive unilateralism , e.g. refusing further discussion after the issue of formal documents . |
| 22 | An extended discussion of this kind can be found in The Sceptical Feminist by Janet Radcliffe Richards ( 1980 ) . |
| 23 | There was perhaps compensation in the possibility of supplementing income by gathering firewood , poaching , or growing produce , although the real possibilities of this kind can be exaggerated . |
| 24 | It is , of course , better for both concerned if engagements of this kind can be avoided altogether . |
| 25 | Power of this kind can be defined as ‘ the scope of significant choice open to [ an actor ] … his power over others is the scope of his choices which affect them significantly ’ . |
| 26 | Insights into variation arising from methodological changes of this kind can be quite different from ( but not necessarily contradictory to ) those yielded by the standard method ( see 6.5.3 ) . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Even in Spain , none of whose rulers had any pretension to military ability , royal interest of this kind can be seen in the frequency with which military uniforms were remodelled under Charles III and Charles IV . |
| 29 | But surely something of this kind can be worked out . |
| 30 | I can not conceive how a breach of this kind can be remedied . |