Example sentences of "[conj] can be [verb] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Faxes can be saved in order to be printed later or can be sent to other system subscribers — again using the keypad on a touch tone phone . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | If there are several competing paths , only those paths that can be matched to long words are continued , and a short word will only be retrieved from the buffer if none of the possible paths can be matched to a long word . |
| 4 | Most important , the formal statistical reasoning that can be applied to a-priori hypotheses is strictly invalid for exploratory analysis . |
| 5 | ‘ This resulted in an extension of the available technology that can be applied to nuclear plant for process , safety and safeguarding purposes . |
| 6 | In the pre-Hellenistic sections of the Bible there is no notion that can be ascribed to Greek influence : indeed there is no certain Greek word . |
| 7 | This awareness has driven us to evolve new systems that can be tailored to local needs and which reflect current advances in auditing techniques . ’ |
| 8 | While I will argue that structuralism offers a way of understanding knowledge as language that can be related to other social practices without reduction to an individual knowing subject , it is to the Marxist theory of ideology that I will turn to help describe the nature of the relationship . |
| 9 | As well as the more common paper and vinyl wallcoverings , there is a range of more unusual materials that can be used to great decorative effect on walls . |
| 10 | Additional information that can be used to narrow down the range of possible solutions in a normal co-ordinate analysis can be obtained using isotopically substituted samples . |
| 11 | In addition , you must be able to choose small flowers and small parts of flowers that can be used to good effect . |
| 12 | All this may sound obvious and low key : something that can be left to local people and needs no special emphasis in the introduction of major change . |
| 13 | This process is called inovulation , and can be likened to artificial insemination , in that the egg cell is deliberately removed from the woman 's body , and reinserted after fertilization . |
| 14 | There are a number of documentation aids to help the analysis , design and implementation processes , particularly in helping to ensure that the work is thorough and can be communicated to interested parties . |
| 15 | This race is distinctly darker than our British bird and can be seen to good advantage on Sea-lion Island , the most southerly inhabited island in the Falklands . |
| 16 | Although perhaps the paradigm for the village school was some idyllic haven seen on a summer 's day , the report is still a good review of the position and can be related to other parts of Western Europe . |
| 17 | It is considered , therefore , that the excess of isolated incisors is real and can be attributed to preferential destruction of upper and lower jaws . |
| 18 | In cases of bullying ( which is widespread , though often ignored by teachers , and can be linked to racial or sexual harassment ) , theft or vandalism , pupils may be guilty of criminal conduct where social services or police intervention is warranted . |
| 19 | Cabled rib is very attractive and can be used to good effect on an otherwise plain sweater . |
| 20 | The calves grow quickly and can be taken to substantial weights without becoming too fat , providing prime beef . |
| 21 | These equations are strictly applicable only to dilute solutions of non-draining monodisperse coils , but can be extended to undiluted polymers above their glass temperature if suitably modified . |