Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] can be [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | When , for example , God is thought of as like light , the metaphor is meant to bring into play all kinds of overtones and ideas which can help the user to a greater understanding of the word God : light shares some characteristics which can be applied to God — but ones which can not be neatly packaged up in literal words . |
| 2 | Under the Convention , a requested State is to apply the same measures of compulsion as would be available in purely domestic cases ; this is reflected in the provision in section 2(3) of the Act that an order under that section may not require any particular steps to be taken unless they are steps which can be required to be taken by way of obtaining evidence for the purposes of civil proceedings in the court making the order , i.e. , the High Court . |
| 3 | Typically , online systems consist of a central computer housing large , predominantly textual databases which can be delivered to information users at remote terminals . |
| 4 | The Publishing Qualifications Board is offering National Vocational Qualifications assessment centres the opportunity to purchase ‘ banks ’ of NVQ units which can be distributed to employees as appropriate . |
| 5 | Two approaches can be adopted to minimize the response time : a simple approach is to devise portable GIS which can be taken to the hazard ; a more complex solution is to couple the GIS to real-time monitoring systems . |
| 6 | Planted into well-scrubbed clay pots topped with gravel , miniature spring bulbs make unusual Christmas presents which can be transferred to the recipient 's garden after reflowering |
| 7 | SPELLCHECK has a dictionary of over 6000 words which can be related to text on file . |
| 8 | Nonetheless , care should be taken here to distinguish between words which can be considered to be merely useful information , from words which go to the identity of the goods sold . |
| 9 | Furthermore , commodity production is being increasingly subdivided into fragments which can be assigned to whichever part of the world can provide the most profitable combination of capital and labour . |
| 10 | Once installed with the correct settings you can be talking to other computers within minutes . |
| 11 | Working within an embassy office or the regional office of a multilateral bank it is not difficult for donors ' staff to come up with a list of potential projects which can be presented to a recipient country 's ministry of finance for discussion . |
| 12 | Each node consists of a state of the original task 's search , and a list of operators which can be applied to this state . |
| 13 | You should research them as you write up your notes and prepare precise definitions which can be referred to later . |
| 14 | The craft 's endurance will be 2.2 hours which can be increased to 5.25 hours by decreasing the number of passengers by 10 ( these figures assume that each passenger carries 90 kg of baggage ) . |
| 15 | The fact that certain strategies which can be shown to be useful in translation have not been made use of so far suggests that translators are simply not aware of them , rather than that they are familiar with them but consciously or subconsciously choose not to use them . |
| 16 | As a temporary measure ( especially useful with burst lead pipe ) , there are resin filler products which can be applied to the pipe to stem the flow of water , some of which will withstand mains pressure almost immediately . |
| 17 | PRUDENTIAL has launched a new range of flexible pensions products which can be converted to a free-standing additional voluntary contribution and vice versa , and allow contribution levels to be reduced or even suspended altogether for up to five years . |
| 18 | The boolean functions which can be applied to a single bit position can then be extended to what are called logical operations on the whole word . |
| 19 | Of all the functions which can be attributed to ancient urban settlements , the most universal was an economic one . |
| 20 | There are many other attachments which can be added to the KH864 . |
| 21 | Clearly , vertical arrangements are not matters which can be left to chance in all circumstances . |
| 22 | As long as you have solicitors who can be admitted to the Personal Injury Panel or who can apply to take a Legal Aid Board franchise , there is no reason why they should not have experienced legal executives working under their control . |
| 23 | Left : Scenes shot on telephoto appear to have compressed perspectives which can be used to good effect . |
| 24 | Our Balinese house has no doors , walls or windows and is protected from the occasional horizontal rain by dense surrounding vegetation , and by reed blinds which can be lowered to the floors . |
| 25 | This is a collection of holiday ideas which can be added to any Amsterdam Holiday to introduce you to the real Amsterdam . |
| 26 | Workers who can be exposed to excessively cold weather conditions have not only to know about survival measures during over-exposure , but be able and willing to carry them out . |
| 27 | Now because I 'll leave that for a moment right , so one way we may test the structural change , right , is to construct what 's called a dummy variable and a dummy variables in a wide variety of applications they can be used to er get rid of er outlying observations , very very high or very very low observations . |
| 28 | This , as we have seen , explains the impossibility of the infinitive in * To snow would be pleasant as against its possible use in I want it to snow : if the generalized person of the infinitive of weather verbs is not specified as referring to the only support with which the notion denoted by these verbs is conceivable , namely it , then one feels a possible reference to any of the ordinal persons which can be referred to by the infinitive 's generalized person ( " you " , " me " , etc. ) , and so the sentence does not make sense . |
| 29 | In sections 4.2–4.7 certain elementary relations between sets are used as a model to generate ( i ) a basic set of paradigmatic lexical relations and ( ii ) a set of concepts which can be applied to other relations , yielding clearly defined and systematic variants . |
| 30 | The following are examples of changes which can be made to it . |