Example sentences of "[noun] can be [verb] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | But when several such businesses are aggregated at a dockside location the economy of scale offered by the worldwide container business can be put to good advantage both in cost and speed by even the smallest manufacturing unit . |
| 32 | Potassium-argon dating can be applied to volcanic rocks such as lavas and tuffs and although difficult to measure the decay , it attains its maximum usefulness in the Middle and Early Pleistocene and can be used for a range greater than 20,000 years . |
| 33 | Over half the issues of British public libraries can be ascribed to recreational reading , although — as will be seen — public libraries are rarely arranged to suit the recreational approach . |
| 34 | Thus the cleaning can be tailored to different surfaces . |
| 35 | Tivoli 's boss , ex-IBMer Frank Moss , believes that in many organisations up to 40% of the cost of owning Unix kit can be attributed to managing systems that are distributed across networks . |
| 36 | Tivoli 's boss , ex-IBMer Frank Moss , believes that in many organisations up to 40% of the cost of owning Unix kit can be attributed to managing systems that are distributed across networks . |
| 37 | What Gandhi may be suggesting by the statement that the road one takes is unimportant provided the goal is achieved is that too much importance can be attached to particular religions , especially when it might result in exclusivist claims being made on behalf of those religions . |
| 38 | The need to feel wanted by or necessary to others is in all of us but this need can be magnified to immense proportions in those who suffer from the family disease . |
| 39 | It remains to be seen whether this process can be extended to other domains . |
| 40 | At whatever level Procedure Audit is applied , it is a worthy addition to the toolboxes of all analysts or managers who are concerned at any time with making improvements of a procedural nature , and provides a further example of how soft systems ideas can be used to good effect for everyday analysis work . |
| 41 | How much of this former water erosion can be attributed to pluvial phases in the Pleistocene is very doubtful . |
| 42 | Mill finish is standard and polyester coated colours can be supplied to special order . |
| 43 | Many differences of language between this and the other passages can be attributed to different subject matter : James is concerned with a world of human values and relationships , and the external universe of nature has no part to play in it . |
| 44 | What additional resources can be provided to local police forces in order to make the schemes even more efficient than they are ? |
| 45 | Variations in the experience of kin support The issue here is whether variations in people 's experience of support within families can be attributed to personal and idiosyncratic factors , or whether those variations are related systematically to the position of the parties in economic and social structures . |
| 46 | The cohesion-tension theory explains how water can be lifted to great heights in a tree . |
| 47 | He estimates that no more than 10 Per cent of the variance between the local election results in Birmingham and the national averages can be attributed to local factors ( Newton 1976a : 14 — 15 ) . |
| 48 | The recommendations outlined below are applicable to temperate areas of the northern hemisphere , but the principles can be adapted to local conditions elsewhere . |
| 49 | Much the same comment can be applied to comic crime . |
| 50 | Only one in 12 instances of poor quality can be ascribed to insufficient effort by the practitioner . |
| 51 | Sociolinguists working in the variationist paradigm have concentrated on studying phonological variation , and it is doubtful whether variationist techniques can be applied to grammatical variation at all . |
| 52 | The democratic elitist machine model takes Weber 's proposition that state bureaucracies can be subordinated to governing elites as an accurate description of existing liberal democracies ( page , 1985 ) . |
| 53 | Similar kinds of arguments can be applied to different parts of these extraordinary fossils . |
| 54 | Pattern can be used to delicate effect in a bedroom . |
| 55 | Printers can be moved to convenient locations and connected directly on the network/ |
| 56 | The text flow can be interrupted at any time by clicking the mouse or the flow method can be altered to semi-automatic or back to manual by clicking in conjunction with the Command or Shift keys . |
| 57 | As basal gastrin levels can be returned to normal with eradication of H pylori , the data indicate that the increase in gastrin is induced by the infection . |
| 58 | If they are properly consulted , resourced and involved in the process of change , those skills and that commitment can be harnessed to great effect in serving the interests of those children and services on whom their professional careers are focused . |
| 59 | But the absence , say , of sterile dressing packs can be turned to good use . |
| 60 | Remember that a gene is just a length of coded symbols , like a file on a computer disc ; and genes can be copied to different parts of the chromosomes , just as files can be copied to different parts of the disc . |