Example sentences of "they can be identified " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only in cases where these additional agencies are unimportant , or where they can be identified with some degree of certainty , will the breakage data be useful in analysing fossil bone assemblages . |
| 2 | They can be identified and described by the S & T Dept at Butterley from unique identifying marks . |
| 3 | These newly discovered pieces of evidence are only fragments of scales , but they can be identified because they match those from complete skeletons that have been found in later rocks . |
| 4 | To turn now to independent nomic conditionals , they can be identified initially , as they have been , as typified by " if " statements we accept in connection with our beliefs as to causal circumstances and effects . |
| 5 | In particular , males and females can usually be distinguished , and many emit such powerful sexual scents that they can be identified from kilometres away . |
| 6 | But , as we saw , this will not work ; for if we are to be able to make significant identifying references to qualities , we need a distinction between qualities and their existentially unique instances , and this raises the problem of determining the precise ontological status of such instances : i.e. what such instances are , and how they can be identified and distinguished from each other . |