Example sentences of "[noun sg] can be identify " in BNC.

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1 One way in which the source of methane can be identified is to identify trace components of the gas that 'fingerprint' its source .
2 They differ from the pronoun he whose referent can be identified without consideration of the linguistic utterance .
3 At the same time the detailed shape of the boundary is changing ; each bulge and indentation can be identified over only a limited time .
4 The following further difficulties associated with incorporation can be identified .
5 In the United Kingdom , however , only 10% of tumours are early gastric cancers , so potential exists for changing the natural history of the disease if populations suitable for screening can be identified .
6 The operational objectives of each agency have to be properly understood by the professional parties involved so that areas of conflict and compromise in practice can be identified and service provision improved .
7 A third complex can be identified on the aerial photographs in the south-east quarter , served by a lane from the north-south cross-street .
8 Thus a ‘ school ’ can be literally that , in its modern sense : an institution in which there are a master and pupils , whose characteristic work can be identified .
9 It comes as no surprise , for example , to discover that the argument about poststructuralism neglecting history was initiated by those whose own intellectual formation can be identified with the existential Marxist humanism of the New Left of the 1950s and early 1960s .
10 A particular voltage can be identified at which a transition from the behaviour of ( a ) to that of ( b ) occurs .
11 This is partly to ensure that any increase in profitability can be identified as the result of improved efficiency rather than a change in the method of compiling the accounts .
12 The fungus can be identified by its fine dark brown or black strands and its green and leathery fruiting body .
13 We do not think that any particular content in philosophy can be identified as female .
14 When integrated work is being developed , through team teaching or departmental cooperation , a great many areas of cross-fertilization can be identified and prepared for , and their relevance not only to the student 's mastery of concepts but also to the more narrowly specific requirements of examining boards brought out .
15 Two broad areas of intense experimental investigation can be identified : at one extreme , the exploration of the validity of various theories of individual decision-making under exogenous and endogenous risk ( games against nature and strategic games ) ; at the other extreme , the investigation of various market structures and their convergence properties .
16 By endoscopy the nature of the bleeding site can be identified and the operation planned accordingly .
17 Although change in conventional wisdom has been gradual , evolutionary rather than revolu-tionary , three general periods and approaches to marketing can be identified .
18 In extreme cases , no such band can be identified , and purity must be determined by other methods .
19 For everyone there is a problem in understanding the nature of the crime when no motive can be identified .
20 It is also hoped that other urgent areas of need can be identified and people can be put in touch with appropriate resources or agencies to address these .
21 A high risk group can be identified on electrophysiological and haemodynamic grounds , and on the basis of a high risk family history .
22 This project examines some of the circumstances in which young children are prepared to abandon the implicit working assumption that the speaker 's intended meaning can be identified on the basis of the verbal message given .
23 If any single factor can be identified as crucial in the destruction of a ‘ regional integration ’ in the economy , it might well be this delocalizing of finance capital .
24 Two classes of explanation for social behaviour can be identified .
25 The point of rotations and the spherical contact surface can be identified .
26 The head can be identified as that of Hercules from the club around his neck , but it is a very unusual representation of Hercules : the absence of a beard , the diadem , the upturned eye and the hairstyle are all derived from that of the great conqueror Alexander the Great ( compare fig. 14 ) .
27 The observer must ensure that the six named in the sample can be identified .
28 Two major quantitative measures of achievement can be identified .
29 This rule only applies where the specific listed items have some common feature so that a genus can be identified , and it may not apply where the general word precedes the list .
30 The curvature tensor can be identified by using an approach that was introduced in Chapter 3 .
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