Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] can be [verb] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 A similar process of levelling can be seen on the Continent .
2 However the process of dying can be marred by guilt and rejection .
3 All gasoline-powered cars harm the environment , but the polluting effects of driving can be minimized by using the car carefully .
4 It may be that these ways of speaking can be explicated at bottom only by way or the idea of necessitation .
5 The quality of prescribing can be improved by the activities of family health services authority professional advisers .
6 The process of disordering can be characterized by a relaxation time , but may not be easily measured .
7 Put simply , if it becomes the custom or the practice of a group of workers to do a job in a certain way and management makes no objection , then that method of working can be cited as a precedent in disputes .
8 It is advisable , however , not to alter the tuning of any one drum by more than a tone ( since small alterations of tuning can be effected by ‘ feel ’ to a great extent ) , and a dozen or more bars of moderate time ought to be allowed for accurate adjustment of the tuning-screws .
9 In part , this tendency towards cohabiting can be explained by the fact that the known users were randomly sampled , whereas the hidden sector was sampled through nomination and interviewees ' partners formed a prominent part of the sampling frame .
10 However , since only the continued path from naming can be matched to a long word , the path from name is discontinued ( without storing the short word he on the word graph ) .
11 As Michael Goldman ( 1975 ) suggests , fashions in acting can be seen in terms of the varying degrees to which it is thought proper to expose the private feeling of the actor .
12 The statistical error on N is , so that the achievable precision in measuring can be estimated by replacing dN by in this equation and rewriting it as an expression for : .
13 The last row before transferring can be knitted in either direction .
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