Example sentences of "[n mass] can [adv] be [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Much of the labour which used to be involved in manipulating and presenting data can now be delegated to specialised computer software but the basic issues of coding and structuring data still depend on the skills of the analyst . |
| 2 | The cannon can then be glued to the front of the model . |
| 3 | The arrangement fee of £150 can normally be added to the loan . |
| 4 | Conventional economic approaches to consumption tend towards a macro-scale of analysis whose assumptions about the nature of society , demand , and the actual relationship between goods and people can generally be reduced to certain highly simplistic and dubious notions , with the social demand for goods being replaced by the quite insufficient symbolic equation with price . |
| 5 | While the decision can not be impugned on the facts , it undoubtedly confirms the difficulties which inventor employees face where the employer 's sales can only be traced to a single main purchaser of the patented product . |
| 6 | ‘ Everyone agreed this was a rather daft time to conduct the inspection , when staff can not be expected to be enthusiastic . |
| 7 | ‘ Everyone agreed this was a rather daft time to conduct the inspection , when staff can not be expected to be enthusiastic . |
| 8 | And the human species can not be considered to be eternal either , as we know it did not always exist in its present form , nor can we expect it to have an infinite existence . |
| 9 | The sample size for the little owl is small and the variable results for this species can probably be attributed to this . |
| 10 | Published materials for ELT normally reflect trends in language teaching and the current language-focussed series can generally be linked to the syllabus through the language functions or structures they present . |