Example sentences of "this can be [verb] to be " in BNC.

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1 This can be understood to be a truce .
2 ( 10.45 ) By a comparison with ( 10.37 ) and ( 10.19 ) , this can be seen to be a generalization both of the above Ferrari Ibañez solution and also of the Szekeres class of solutions described in Chapter 9 .
3 ( vi ) The solution of Tsoubelis and Wang ( 1989 ) given by ( 10.44 ) has ( 11.33 ) This can be seen to be a generalization of ( 11.29 ) and ( 11.32 ) , and its properties can immediately be deduced .
4 This can be seen to be in accordance with the Yerkes-Dodson law if it is assumed that more difficult tasks are those which require greater attentional capacity ( c.f. Kahneman , 1973 ) .
5 Finally , we know that ( A believes that ) B has been to A's present location before because of the word again : this can be claimed to be a pragmatic rather than a semantic implication just because , unlike semantic implications , those associated with again are not normally negated by the negation of the main verb .
6 Algebraically , this can be shown to be equivalent to , If the energy required to propagate the crack by producing the two new fracture surfaces were really confined to C , the free surface energy ( which is seldom much above I J/m 2 ) , then simple arithmetic will show that , at any realistic stress level , the critical crack length would be very short indeed , perhaps around a micron .
7 All molecular vibrations therefore have some zero-point energy , and this can be shown to be equal to one half of a quantum , so that the total vibrational energy of a molecule with only one normal vibration is where ν is the vibrational quantum number , a positive integer or zero .
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