Example sentences of "[conj] can [adv] be [vb pp] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | If one manages to find the simplest method at the first attempt that can mostly be attributed to good luck . |
| 2 | Another example that can loosely be referred to as scavenging is bone collecting by harvester ants ( Shipman & Walker , 1980 ) . |
| 3 | For Ullman is concerned with types of perceptual process that can plausibly be attributed to many animal species . |
| 4 | This explains why women place a high priority on the right words , soft music , anything that can generally be attributed to romance . |
| 5 | 2.7 The difficulty is compounded by the fact that the idea of association can correspond to a wide range of referential or " factual " relationships ( just as can the ascriptive use of an adjective or the qualifying use of a subordinate noun ) ; and , importantly , this is true not only of those relations that can ultimately be reduced to arrangements of objects in the physical world , but also of those that depend on human judgements and evaluations , e.g. relations of loving or resemblance ; all these we shall consider as factual relations by contrast with syntactic relations . |
| 6 | The costing of functions is done by estimating the proportion of the part cost that can notionally be attributed to each function to which it contributes . |
| 7 | The costing of functions is done by estimating the proportion of the part cost that can notionally be attributed to each function to which it contributes . |
| 8 | It is felt that this approach provides a general procedure having wide applications , instead of producing a very specific " tailor made " system that can only be applied to one company . |
| 9 | This makes it possible for anybody to create a professionally polished performance that can then be shown to an audience using either the Mac itself , 35 mm slides or overhead projector foils , backed up with printed handouts and speaker notes . |
| 10 | By far the best service that can now be done to these pubs , both for ourselves and future generations , is to leave well alone . |
| 11 | You see , on programmes like Crime Watch U K , where erm they 've got these Aladdin 's caves on all these stolen items that can never be returned to their owners , it 's very , very difficult to sort of mark silverware and things like that without devaluing it ? |
| 12 | The story is an intricate one , as Herbert Schneidau acknowledges ; and Pound 's holding out against Ford for the Dantesque principle of a ‘ curial ’ diction ( see his introduction to the poems of Lionel Johnson ) represents to my mind an objection that can still be raised to Ford 's principles of diction , salutary as Ford 's polemics undoubtedly were for Pound at this time . |
| 13 | The prevailing notion among them is one of a versatile , professional competence , constantly kept in trim by a cappella performance , that can readily be turned to music more ambitious and enjoyable when liturgical duties are over . |
| 14 | Thus , given the way the word " I " is used , there is no startlingly new information to be derived from a person 's statement " I actually exist " If " Socrates is eating an apple " is true , then clearly there is nothing that can usefully be added to this statement by saying that the apple Socrates is eating is not fictional . |
| 15 | ‘ ( 1 ) Solicitors shall ensure that every office where they or their firms practise is and can reasonably be seen to be properly supervised in accordance with the following minimum standards : |
| 16 | It will continue to grow on the patriot 's lapel and can even be transferred to a pot , ‘ providing very good value for money ’ , the promoters boast . |
| 17 | The ten most frequently occurring ( from a corpus frequency count ) are ordered and can either be presented to the user , or passed on to further stages of analysis , depending upon the implementation . |
| 18 | It can be said that works of this kind — and there are many other possible examples begin more evidently from the actual art and culture in question , and can thus be assigned to history or criticism . |
| 19 | They 'll give lots of pleasure indoors for a week or two , and can then be left to their own devices outdoors for the rest of the year ; getting dried out in summer is a positive help . |
| 20 | Bruges goes to bed early and can hardly be said to be throbbing with night-life . |
| 21 | In other cases , we have regulations that are ostensibly to do with health or technical standards and can therefore be applied to goods coming from the rest of the EEC as well . |
| 22 | Moreover , the system of land tenure , wherein the land belongs to the indigenous Fijians and can only be leased to Indo-Fijians ( the descendants of indentured cane workers who were drafted in from India in the early colonial period ) militates against conservation measures because it ensures the political dominance of the former ; and the encouragement of production ensures that such land is seen to be in use , an artefact to maintain internal stability . |
| 23 | As Robert Dingwall ( 1989 ) has argued , the definition of the problem has undergone considerable ‘ diagnostic inflation ’ and the growth of research' reflects the transformation of the original concerns to embrace virtually any problem which may have an adverse impact on a child and can possibly be attributed to some act of commission or omission by an adult' . |
| 24 | In many ways , their crazy actions are analogous to the hysteria of young girl pop fans , who on first sight seem to be totally out of control , but can clearly be shown to be engaging in an intentional , conscious and structured activity . |
| 25 | The reference to the Irish not only brings to mind Swegen Forkbeard 's putative activities in the Irish Sea and Adam of Bremen 's story of his stay with a rex Scothorum ( ? king of the Irish ) , but can also be linked to the possibility that the Iehmarc who submitted in 1031 was Echmarcach Ragnallson , who replaced Sihtric Silkbeard as king of Dublin in 1036 . |
| 26 | Threads can run on uni-processor systems as well as multi-processors , but can obviously be employed to greater advantage on the latter . |
| 27 | In a similar way , the argument goes , God reveals Himself in particular events ( that may themselves be the actions of His agents , like Jesus of Nazareth or Mohammed ) but can never be reduced to them . |
| 28 | It has less memory than the MP version , but can still be upgraded to MP capability . |
| 29 | A medical textbook has a different emphasis and purpose but can usefully be referred to when more detailed information about a specific condition is desired . |