Example sentences of "[pron] [pron] can be [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having suggested that the 1960s were characterised by a series of discrete panics around moral issues , there is neither an account — other than an essentially economistic one — of the aetiology of such panics , nor an explanation of the way(s) in which they can be considered to be discrete . |
| 2 | Thus the sense of ‘ good ’ which is fundamental for ethics is that in which it can be expanded to ‘ good in itself ’ . |
| 3 | The grammar of English is carried over into the signing and presumably evaluation of the adequacy of BSL is based on the ease with which it can be fitted to this English format . |
| 4 | This is the recognition of faith , and there is no way in which it can be demonstrated to be valid by appeal to merely historical argument about Jesus . |
| 5 | Among its chief attributes are its pleasingly creamy colour , its smoothness and coolness to the touch , its fine grain and the comparative ease with which it can be wrought to a variety of precise shapes using such elementary techniques as sawing , rubbing , polishing and perforating . |
| 6 | Anyone who has witnessed my hon. Friend and his especially outstanding and noticeable ties will see that Redditch has many lively things on which it can be commended to the nation . |
| 7 | It clearly needs to be a part of the school 's work on developing its curriculum to consider the place of project work within this curriculum , and to plan ways in which it can be utilised to maximum advantage , especially as a vehicle for the teaching of information skills . |
| 8 | This is not something which can be left to governments or industry ; each one of us must be aware of our own actions — what products we use , how we treat the earth and so on . |
| 9 | Up to 30 farms are being sought initially before scientists choose one which can be subjected to a systematic research programme in which partridges will be fitted with electronic tracking devices . |
| 10 | HOG will define an object 's attributes — what parameters can be set and what information can be retrieved ; the ‘ methods ’ associated with that object — what can be done to it and what it can do ; and its notification — what the object emits ( such as warning to tell the system that a file is nearly full , for example ) and what it can be read to . |