Example sentences of "can [adv] be compared " in BNC.
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| 1 | Conduire ( literally , ‘ to guide along a path ’ : to give direction ) can presumably be compared to dirigieren ; but I doubt that battre la mesure can be likened to tactieren . |
| 2 | I commend this statement to you , those of you who are responsible for the accounts of your organisations , I hope you will also seek to comply with the , the standard , so that the charities of all organisations , the accounts of all charities can be seen clearly , so that er , you can understand the activities of your organisations from the accounts , and so that one charity can better be compared with another charity . |
| 3 | Life itself added the boldest brush strokes and when , finally , he , Jack Nicholson in person , confronts the world , there is the most awesome feeling of encountering a man of unquestionable charm , intelligence and friendship , yet who possesses an indefinable menace that can only be compared with some of the roles he has acted . |
| 4 | In scale ( if not in the overall quality of the collection ) , it can only be compared with John Pope-Hennessy 's great Catalogue of Italian Sculpture in the Victoria and Albert Museum of 1964 . |
| 5 | If this causes difficulties for some , Foucault 's scepticism with regard to the tendency to inflate the effect of individual agency can only be compared to the position of many Marxisms in which resistance and revolution are hardly the privilege of the individual as such , but rather of collective class action . |
| 6 | As this inflow increases — a population movement which can only be compared to the millennial westward movement of peoples to Europe which ended with the defeat of the Mongols — a final answer will be given to our absorbing little debate about European identity . |
| 7 | Clearly , spreads can only be compared in one currency sector . |
| 8 | Nevertheless all the voyages are established on the basis of common assumptions and can easily be compared . |
| 9 | A phenomenon resulting only partly from use of the above technique is that figures can best be compared when arranged in columns since the eye can then relatively easily ignore unvarying digits and the brain can perform subtractions or divisions more readily . |
| 10 | Metrolink 's two-car ‘ supertrams ’ , costing £1 million apiece , can hardly be compared with their noisy , hard-riding predecessors which departed Manchester 's streets in 1949 . |
| 11 | Even the figure of the men actually under arms — which Polybius gives as two hundred and ten thousand for 225 B.C. — can hardly be compared with Hannibal 's army unless it is properly analysed . |
| 12 | Mrs Grandison followed her apprehensively into one of those ubiquitous tea-shops which cater for the multitudes of office workers and others who want a cheap meal at any time of the day , and which , excellent though they are , can hardly be compared with the restaurants Mrs Grandison had been hoping to lunch in . |
| 13 | 2.32 This decision can profitably be compared with that of Peter Pain J in Bailey v Barking and Havering Area Health Authority [ 1979 ] Law Society Gazette , 2 August , p793 . |
| 14 | The yield on pure discount securities such as TBs can also be compared with that on coupon paying bonds . |
| 15 | Some features of another mosaic , again from Cirencester , can also be compared with those of the pavement from the Avenue . |
| 16 | As a chamber music group the saxophone quartet of soprano , alto , tenor , and baritone has much to enjoy , and with sensitive artists at work can almost be compared with the string quartet in terms of balance , tonal variety , and expression . |
| 17 | The chronological introduction of different alloys can then be compared between different cultures and geographical areas . |
| 18 | This can then be compared to the isotopic composition of the material in nature , thus helping to determine the origin of the object . |
| 19 | The scores obtained by a group of children for the odd items can then be compared with the scores obtained by the same children for the even-numbered items . |
| 20 | This produces a statistical , or ‘ quantified ’ , account of what is going on , which can then be compared with other lessons and other teachers ( see also Content Analysis on p. 112 ) . |
| 21 | This z-score can then be compared to the value of z required for 95% and 99% significance level ( obtained from statistical tables ) : ( z [ df 90 ] = 1.99 , p < 0.05 ) , ( z [ df 90 ] = 2.63 , p < 0.01 ) . |
| 22 | This z-score can then be compared to the value of z required for 95% and 99% significance level ( obtained from statistical tables ) : ( z [ df 133 ] = 1.98 , p < 0.05 ) , ( z [ df 133 ] = 2.61 , p < 0.01 ) . |
| 23 | This z-score can then be compared to the value of z required for 90% , 95% and 99% significance level ( obtained from statistical tables ) : ( z [ df 87 ] = 1.66 , p < 0.1 ) , ( z [ df 87 ] = 1.99 , p < 0.05 ) , ( z [ df 87 ] = 2.63 , p < 0.01 ) . |
| 24 | The definitions and expansions of various words can then be compared with this list to check for membership . |
| 25 | A similar procedure may be applied to the expansion of each of the definition words , to determine the coverage of the 2nd level expansion , and the relative contributions of the two levels can then be compared . |
| 26 | One person 's score can then be compared with those of the other individuals ( the norm-group ) . |
| 27 | These results can then be compared directly with any other proposed mechanism layouts . |
| 28 | Slop , arising from the assembly of components in their minimum metal condition or due to an estimated wear pattern , can be included to produce positional uncertainty in the mechanism , which can then be compared to the positional requirements necessary for correct operation . |
| 29 | This indication can then be compared with a national base of 100 to indicate whether a particular area is better or worse than average for finding buyers or owners of any product which is already specifically measured in existing national market research surveys . |
| 30 | One of the products of this type of theory is a prediction of the reflectance under given conditions , and this can then be compared with the results of experiments . |