Example sentences of "[noun sg] can be [vb pp] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But thought itself can be creative and this creative thinking can be put to good use in all areas of life — from running a business to preparing for Christmas . |
| 2 | Most goldfish keepers would agree that most , if not all of their problems of fish losses and loss of condition can be attributed to poor water quality . |
| 3 | It is an excellent example of the way in which thorough research methodology can be applied to complex human experience and provide useful and thought-provoking results . |
| 4 | Albumin secretion can be restored to dedifferentiated flattened cells grown on type I collagen by the addition of dilute soluble EHS or laminin . |
| 5 | As long as this is respected , the rigidity can be used to good purpose . |
| 6 | This can sometimes be done very successfully by helping her to channel her energy and abilities into some local club or voluntary service organisation where her talent for management can be put to good use , as well as meeting her own need to be a little bit of a ‘ bossy-boots ’ . |
| 7 | The old money-lender with her ‘ Jewish ’ interest rates is to be murdered because her life is worthless and her hoarded wealth can be put to good use ; when the unimportant deed is done the doer will launch himself into something that really matters , a large-scale philanthropic exercise . |
| 8 | I would like to know if the machine can be converted to full time four wheel drive , There are no real advantages to permanent four wheel drive but , if you wish to , use the transfer box from a 1948–50 Series One . |
| 9 | Terrain can be used to great effect by the course designer . |
| 10 | A piano can be used to good effect with the organ , provided its pitch is compatible . |
| 11 | But when several such businesses are aggregated at a dockside location the economy of scale offered by the worldwide container business can be put to good advantage both in cost and speed by even the smallest manufacturing unit . |
| 12 | Potassium-argon dating can be applied to volcanic rocks such as lavas and tuffs and although difficult to measure the decay , it attains its maximum usefulness in the Middle and Early Pleistocene and can be used for a range greater than 20,000 years . |
| 13 | Thus the cleaning can be tailored to different surfaces . |
| 14 | Tivoli 's boss , ex-IBMer Frank Moss , believes that in many organisations up to 40% of the cost of owning Unix kit can be attributed to managing systems that are distributed across networks . |
| 15 | Tivoli 's boss , ex-IBMer Frank Moss , believes that in many organisations up to 40% of the cost of owning Unix kit can be attributed to managing systems that are distributed across networks . |
| 16 | What Gandhi may be suggesting by the statement that the road one takes is unimportant provided the goal is achieved is that too much importance can be attached to particular religions , especially when it might result in exclusivist claims being made on behalf of those religions . |
| 17 | The need to feel wanted by or necessary to others is in all of us but this need can be magnified to immense proportions in those who suffer from the family disease . |
| 18 | It remains to be seen whether this process can be extended to other domains . |
| 19 | How much of this former water erosion can be attributed to pluvial phases in the Pleistocene is very doubtful . |
| 20 | The cohesion-tension theory explains how water can be lifted to great heights in a tree . |
| 21 | Much the same comment can be applied to comic crime . |
| 22 | Only one in 12 instances of poor quality can be ascribed to insufficient effort by the practitioner . |
| 23 | Pattern can be used to delicate effect in a bedroom . |
| 24 | The text flow can be interrupted at any time by clicking the mouse or the flow method can be altered to semi-automatic or back to manual by clicking in conjunction with the Command or Shift keys . |
| 25 | If they are properly consulted , resourced and involved in the process of change , those skills and that commitment can be harnessed to great effect in serving the interests of those children and services on whom their professional careers are focused . |
| 26 | A coloured variation can be made to simple cable panels . |
| 27 | The Japanese launch was a success , although it is open to question how much of the success can be attributed to innovative marketing and how much to the technical qualities of the product . |
| 28 | The possibility of errors can never be totally eliminated from any copying process , although their probability can be reduced to low levels . |
| 29 | Poulson , the well-known Tory who demonstrated what sort of corruption can be applied to private enterprise competitive local authority services ? |
| 30 | In each case the context-dependency can be traced to specific deictic expressions or indexicals . |