Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] can be [vb pp] to " in BNC.

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1 Most important , the formal statistical reasoning that can be applied to a-priori hypotheses is strictly invalid for exploratory analysis .
2 Fortunately there are a number of useful guidelines that can be applied to both the systems on offer and the facilities you need .
3 Defence Review in 1974/5 , civilian manpower has gone on falling thanks to efforts of successive Permanent Under-Secretaries to reduce overheads and to increase the percentage of the Defence vote that can be devoted to weapon procurement .
4 There is no simple pattern or model of social change that can be applied to all villages , and there is no single continuum on which all rural communities can be placed ( see chapter 1 above ) .
5 The user also needs to know the operations that can be applied to the relations so as to carry out the desired retrievals .
6 And we are encouraging managers to be sympathetic to the sudden disruption of working hours that can be caused to a parent of either sex responsible for children .
7 The next part aims to place this within an organised framework that can be delivered to families .
8 There is an overload of sounds , of images , of words to the point at which a number of these cultural goods can not be found meanings that can be attached to them ( Ratcliff 1985 ) .
9 And it is one executive decision that can be turned to your advantage .
10 There are numerous improvements that can be made to the system .
11 Indeed , they are able to predict the zero-density frequency to a precision of 4 x 10 -14 ; from the present data , and they outline several improvements that can be made to the present apparatus , which already has a stability better than many primary caesium standards .
12 Features include four hundred icon designs and fifty animated icons that can be added to DOS and Windows applications .
13 Features include four hundred icon designs and fifty animated icons that can be added to DOS and Windows applications .
14 Most specialist bookshop fitters have flexible units in their range that can be adapted to calendars for the seasonal periods .
15 Education has learned to grab with ease but not to reach out and yet there is a good deal of help that can be given to small businesses and voluntary organisations once the idea of level three partnership has been grasped .
16 ‘ This is difficult to prove , and most archaeologists appear to be totally blind to the advantages that can be accorded to them through the effective and proper use of the metal detector ’ .
17 Detail any limitations that can be identified to the planning and control process through this comparison .
18 In their absence , attention has been directed towards establishing changes in the distribution of income and wealth that can be attributed to government policy .
19 This is arguably the earliest military effigy in England and can be dated to around 1200 by the helmet which has eye slits but no breathing holes .
20 The function is size dependent and can be related to the polymer coil size by where , for monodisperse randomly coiling polymers .
21 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 .
22 The situation changes when dealing with a liquid as remains unaffected by the addition of molecules and can be expected to be zero .
23 More than 20 developers from Sun 's technical staff are teaming with Oracle developers to enhance and localise the Oracle Applications products , as well as associated technologies to improve the efficiency of Sun 's worldwide manufacturing operations , implement the integration of Sun 's Open Look graphical user interface with all components of Oracle 's product suite , and optimise Oracle7 for Sun 's new multiprocessor servers and produce applications that can be sold to Sun 's customers as well .
24 It is true , certainly , that feeling good for no particular reason , and the sensation of warmth , do not involve objects or contents that can be said to be determinate in a certain sense .
25 To report from the front , there is now a gadget that can be fitted to your refrigerator that makes a noise like a pig every time the door is opened .
26 It seems to inhibit the attention that can be paid to the needs and natures of different young people living in different communities .
27 Unfortunately the degrees of confidence that can be applied to such scientific dates are inadequate for a period which can be viewed in terms of generations ( Campbell , Baxter and Alcock 1979 ) .
28 I do not understand any accurate meaning that can be ascribed to such an expression as " quasi-arbitrator " .
29 We know , for instance , that the bulk of the bronze currency in circulation in the northern provinces of the Roman empire in the middle of the third century AD consisted of worn second-century sestertii only from the hoards that can be dated to those years .
30 Not only do notes provide a record that can be referred to , but they also act as a check on how well you are listening .
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