Example sentences of "that can [adv] be [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | If one manages to find the simplest method at the first attempt that can mostly be attributed to good luck . |
| 2 | Another example that can loosely be referred to as scavenging is bone collecting by harvester ants ( Shipman & Walker , 1980 ) . |
| 3 | For Ullman is concerned with types of perceptual process that can plausibly be attributed to many animal species . |
| 4 | This explains why women place a high priority on the right words , soft music , anything that can generally be attributed to romance . |
| 5 | This is something that can not be left to the dub because we will see the wind from the propellers buffeting the actors . |
| 6 | Mythical beings are reputed in most cases to be responsible for the art that can not be attributed to their own people . |
| 7 | 2.7 The difficulty is compounded by the fact that the idea of association can correspond to a wide range of referential or " factual " relationships ( just as can the ascriptive use of an adjective or the qualifying use of a subordinate noun ) ; and , importantly , this is true not only of those relations that can ultimately be reduced to arrangements of objects in the physical world , but also of those that depend on human judgements and evaluations , e.g. relations of loving or resemblance ; all these we shall consider as factual relations by contrast with syntactic relations . |
| 8 | The costing of functions is done by estimating the proportion of the part cost that can notionally be attributed to each function to which it contributes . |
| 9 | The costing of functions is done by estimating the proportion of the part cost that can notionally be attributed to each function to which it contributes . |
| 10 | It is felt that this approach provides a general procedure having wide applications , instead of producing a very specific " tailor made " system that can only be applied to one company . |
| 11 | This makes it possible for anybody to create a professionally polished performance that can then be shown to an audience using either the Mac itself , 35 mm slides or overhead projector foils , backed up with printed handouts and speaker notes . |
| 12 | By far the best service that can now be done to these pubs , both for ourselves and future generations , is to leave well alone . |
| 13 | You see , on programmes like Crime Watch U K , where erm they 've got these Aladdin 's caves on all these stolen items that can never be returned to their owners , it 's very , very difficult to sort of mark silverware and things like that without devaluing it ? |
| 14 | The story is an intricate one , as Herbert Schneidau acknowledges ; and Pound 's holding out against Ford for the Dantesque principle of a ‘ curial ’ diction ( see his introduction to the poems of Lionel Johnson ) represents to my mind an objection that can still be raised to Ford 's principles of diction , salutary as Ford 's polemics undoubtedly were for Pound at this time . |
| 15 | The prevailing notion among them is one of a versatile , professional competence , constantly kept in trim by a cappella performance , that can readily be turned to music more ambitious and enjoyable when liturgical duties are over . |
| 16 | Thus , given the way the word " I " is used , there is no startlingly new information to be derived from a person 's statement " I actually exist " If " Socrates is eating an apple " is true , then clearly there is nothing that can usefully be added to this statement by saying that the apple Socrates is eating is not fictional . |