Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] can be [vb pp] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most important , the formal statistical reasoning that can be applied to a-priori hypotheses is strictly invalid for exploratory analysis . |
| 2 | Defence Review in 1974/5 , civilian manpower has gone on falling thanks to efforts of successive Permanent Under-Secretaries to reduce overheads and to increase the percentage of the Defence vote that can be devoted to weapon procurement . |
| 3 | There is no simple pattern or model of social change that can be applied to all villages , and there is no single continuum on which all rural communities can be placed ( see chapter 1 above ) . |
| 4 | The next part aims to place this within an organised framework that can be delivered to families . |
| 5 | And it is one executive decision that can be turned to your advantage . |
| 6 | Most specialist bookshop fitters have flexible units in their range that can be adapted to calendars for the seasonal periods . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | In their absence , attention has been directed towards establishing changes in the distribution of income and wealth that can be attributed to government policy . |
| 9 | The function is size dependent and can be related to the polymer coil size by where , for monodisperse randomly coiling polymers . |
| 10 | To report from the front , there is now a gadget that can be fitted to your refrigerator that makes a noise like a pig every time the door is opened . |
| 11 | It seems to inhibit the attention that can be paid to the needs and natures of different young people living in different communities . |
| 12 | Unfortunately the degrees of confidence that can be applied to such scientific dates are inadequate for a period which can be viewed in terms of generations ( Campbell , Baxter and Alcock 1979 ) . |
| 13 | I do not understand any accurate meaning that can be ascribed to such an expression as " quasi-arbitrator " . |
| 14 | Not only do notes provide a record that can be referred to , but they also act as a check on how well you are listening . |
| 15 | However , the issues are of central importance and can be simplified to some extent . |
| 16 | There is no guarantee whatever that all formal equivalences can be given meaning , and there is no guarantee that such meaning as can be given to them will seem interesting or important from a poetic point of view . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Both find that life , and of course the activity of philosophy , is untenable without some standards of absolute truth , the canon of ‘ reason ’ , which can generate knowledge that can be held to be true regardless of perspective or context . |
| 19 | It is the name that can be given to a historical construct . |
| 20 | It 's robustly built and offers a full A4-sized drawing area that can be connected to most of the common home computers . |
| 21 | But perhaps the most interesting extension that can be made to a Murten visit is to make the very short journey of only 8km ( 5 miles ) either by road No 1 , or by rail on the same line as from Kerzers to Murten The destination is the small town of Avenches , which stands on a hill just north of the bypassing main road No1 which runs across the Mittelland plateau from Bern to Lausanne . |
| 22 | The closest comparison that can be made to tonight 's match is the final game played by Scotland when winning their European Championship qualifying group . |
| 23 | If there is no blanket strategy that can be applied to all , then more and better individualised pain care is needed . |
| 24 | Every site is different and the possibilities offered will vary , but problem solving offers teachers a transferable method that can be adapted to most sites . |
| 25 | For those examples that have been described so far , the best advice that can be given to individuals is to help them to strengthen their time-cues and to take more notice of them . |
| 26 | At New Winchelsea many of the thirty-nine squares or chequers into which the town-site had been divided in the 1280s were never built upon , but remained under grass and can be seen to this day . |
| 27 | This collection of concordances now forms a subset of the corpus and can be treated to a separate frequency analysis , to discover the collocates of the original node ( in this case the word ’ money ’ ) . |
| 28 | I shall argue that he overstates the significance that can be attributed to literacy in itself : that he lends authority to a language for describing literacy practices that often contradicts even his own stated disclaimers of the ‘ strong ’ case ; that he understates the qualities of oral communication ; that he sets up unhelpful and often untestable polarities between , for instance , the ‘ potentialities ’ of literacy and ‘ restricted literacy ’ ; and that he polarises the differences between oral and literate modes of communication in a way that gives insufficient credit to the reality of ‘ mixed ’ and interacting modes . |
| 29 | Firstly , we will introduce an alternative model of decision making — incrementalism — and secondly , we will consider whether it is an approach that can be commended to policy makers . |
| 30 | Another way in which the cat 's sound system appears much more complex than that of other species is in the degree of variation that can be applied to a single type of call . |