Example sentences of "can [adv] be identified " in BNC.
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| 1 | Three motives can perhaps be identified for the creation of special agencies in Britain , although there are of course dangers in taking ostensible motives as real ones , to create an effective separate and accountable ‘ management system ’ to reduce political ‘ interference ’ and to provide for the direct representation of special interests . |
| 2 | Hexamita can only be identified when moving , otherwise they can not be distinguished from the background debris . |
| 3 | First of all , contradictions can only be identified in the context of the whole , because it is only within it that states of affairs become incompatible with one another . |
| 4 | These can only be identified with certainty by " replaying " the search with the same programs and files . |
| 5 | Documents can only be identified as relevant by scanning the rather larger numbers of documents listed under the broader heading . |
| 6 | Likewise in ( 84 ) one can not hear a tune " come " from somewhere ( cf. the strangeness of * I heard the tune come from the top of the hill ) : its source of emission can only be identified by a process of deduction which interprets what is directly observed in order to arrive at the conclusion that the sound is coming from such-and-such a point . |
| 7 | The man , who lives in Darlington and who can only be identified as David , had grown up believing he is a female in a male body . |
| 8 | However , when we look at continuous speech in English utterances we find that these tones can only be identified on a small number of particularly prominent syllables . |
| 9 | The function of the assembly can thus be identified at two distinct levels : its internal ( or elemental ) functions and its external ( or global ) functions . |
| 10 | The organized youth movement can easily be identified as emerging from out of the economic and social crises commonly associated with the late Victorian period . |
| 11 | Killer whales are up to ten metres in length and can easily be identified by their black — and white colour and the high dorsal fin of the males . |
| 12 | There are two reasons for this : ( i ) the analyses for the technical feasibility of graduated test levels in Chapter 6 ( pp. 153–87 ) are based on these success rates ; ( ii ) for economy of presentation as difficulty factors can easily be identified using these figures . |
| 13 | On the other hand , noticeable deviation from typical target-language patterns of chunking information and signalling relations is likely to result in the sort of text that can easily be identified as a translation because it sounds ‘ foreign ’ . |
| 14 | The examples of external critique I gave earlier show how this works in practice , but other more pointed examples can easily be identified . |
| 15 | Category symbols can generally be identified with classes rather than with functions . |
| 16 | Strict censorship , and a security service which keeps a register of all privately owned typewriters in the country , means that the source of locally produced printed material can quickly be identified and there is precious little chance of such material being widely circulated . |
| 17 | Traces of water courses can still be identified around the site . |
| 18 | It is to be hoped that recent changes within the SDA ( notably its drift towards self-help , business-orientated projects ) will not allow it to lose sight of wider goals in Scotland , where extensive areas of economic decline and outright poverty can still be identified . |
| 19 | Middlesbrough steel , for instance , can still be identified in the railway stations of India and Argentina : on the eve of the First World War , those countries alone bought more British iron and steel exports than the whole of Europe . |
| 20 | Errors in the current script recognition system must be studied in detail in order to establish whether they can always be identified . |
| 21 | When a volcano erupts actually beneath the sea , a series of stages in the activity can usually be identified . |
| 22 | It has already been noted that obstructive attitudes can prevent progress in therapy , and that such attitudes can usually be identified by carefully analysing the patient 's attempts to achieve goals and the reason for failure . |
| 23 | Secondaries can usually be identified because they cluster around the larger primary , often forming chains and other small groups , and because the impacts producing them are at low angles and low speeds and so the craters are usually elongated . |
| 24 | The disposition of cathedrals from the earliest times onwards is well known , and early or important monastic sites can usually be identified , supported by estates in the ways already discussed . |
| 25 | The latter can usually be identified by the target to the court by reason of circulars and other communications being returned undelivered and dividend warrants remaining uncashed . |
| 26 | The east-west road has only been examined once since the 1920s , during excavations on the west gate , where it evidently comprised three separate surfaces ; the latest ( road III ) can probably be identified with Jack and Hayter 's later roadway ; the middle one ( II ) was contemporary with the mid fourth-century gate and may be a localized resurfacing ; while the lowest ( I ) must represent the east-west route in the preceding centuries . |
| 27 | An element of public accountability can also be identified in the recurrent attentions of elected Members of Parliament . |
| 28 | They often find their origin in the movement of groups that are attached pendant to the main chain , but relaxation of limited sections of the main chain can also be identified . |
| 29 | As vowel realizations vary along relatively easily specifiable continuous dimensions such as height or backness , and more than two variants can often be identified , vowel variable scores are often ( but not always — see 6.3.2 ) calculated in a rather different way , using a vowel index score . |
| 30 | This can now be identified as the first signs of the creation of a source of ‘ goodness ’ additional to that due to the ruthless forces of the struggle for survival . |