Example sentences of "[adj] can be [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 31 | This can be hung on a classroom wall and it can double as a speaker for audio machines . |
| 32 | The result of all this can be likened to a vast ocean , teeming with fish of which only one in a million is edible , and just as this would present a monstrous task to fishermen entrusted with the responsibility of feeding a hungry populace , so does the almost unbelievable quantity of religious teaching and literature by its very size and complexity make it impossible for it ever to serve a serious purpose in satisfying the undoubted universal desire for a respected and well-beloved religion . |
| 33 | This can be likened to Jung 's ‘ collective unconscious ’ . |
| 34 | Lastly , the hearth has to be tended , constantly supplied with fuel , and this can be likened to the need for the home to be paid ongoing care and attention , the absence of which will be felt as a cold and empty atmosphere . |
| 35 | This can be developed by regarding organisms as chemodynamical machines , by identifying three classes of bioenergetic processes namely fermentation , photosynthesis , and respiration , and by utilizing an approach to classification based upon microphysiology and biochemistry as well as upon macrostructure of organisms and upon macrophysiological processes . |
| 36 | This can be developed thus ( in pairs ) : 1 . |
| 37 | This can be related to the concern in Derrida 's work with the politics of feminism and other positions which contest institutional and political appropriation and exclusion . |
| 38 | This can be related to the polymer molecular weight M 2 through so that and finally |
| 39 | This can be reached only by an impartial examination of each piece of evidence as it is uncovered . |
| 40 | This can be reached by a well maintained serpentine path down the steep slope . |
| 41 | This can be expressed in Hume 's terms of the tendency of the mind to pass from one to the other , but one must be careful how one interprets such a tendency . |
| 42 | This can be expressed by people saying that they feel they want a child for their fulfilment as human beings . |
| 43 | This can be expressed very physically in the way breasts are now regarded as being for feeding babies rather than for making love , and most couples experience tensions over their sexual relationship in the early months and even years of parenthood . |
| 44 | The authority of government therefore is limited ; and this can be expressed by saying that certain rights of the individual and of the private association are safeguarded . |
| 45 | This can be expressed as a contrast between the ‘ merely utilitarian ’ and the ‘ artistic ’ , or , on the other hand , between the ‘ useful ’ and the ‘ merely cultural ’ . |
| 46 | This can be expressed through disputes between high-bourgeois individuals , themselves acceptable to the legal system as with the Guildford Four , who , partly as a result of international pressure , had highly placed clerics and members of the judiciary supporting their release . |
| 47 | Diagrammatically , this can be expressed as in Figure 30.3 . |
| 48 | In shorthand this can be expressed as . |
| 49 | This can be expressed compactly as where the Kronecker delta is defined to be unity if α is equal to β but zero otherwise . |
| 50 | This can be expressed as the frictional coefficient for the chain , again within the tube confines . |
| 51 | This can be expressed mathematically as where T absolute temperature . |
| 52 | This can be expressed mathematically as where r is the rate of diffusion and d the gas density . |
| 53 | For the sake of completeness , if a relative refuses further treatment on behalf of a patient , this can be ignored , for the reasons advanced above . |
| 54 | He replied on August 15 , suggesting that the SMG 's Balwinder Gill telephone the community liaison officer , adding ‘ should you wish to meet with me in the meantime , again this can be arranged . ’ |
| 55 | Hang-gliding : This can be arranged for the intrepid , and is definitely worth it though we ca n't cover this with our standard insurance . |
| 56 | This can be arranged easily by standing order , automatic transfer or by telephone . |
| 57 | It is usually better to cause an hour-glass or wasp-waisted specimen to be made as this can be arranged to break in the middle where it is thinnest . |
| 58 | If your company wishes its name to appear on the cards , this can be arranged . |
| 59 | Please ask him if this can be arranged and she will arrive with her grandmother at the Albert Hall . |
| 60 | They may therefore benefit from a period in a convalescent home if this can be arranged . |