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

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1 Tachycardia recognition seldom proves difficult , pulse generators have a projected life of 5 years , and tachycardia therapies can be tailored to the individual needs of the patient .
2 The knowledge model , if it can be mapped to the physical world , must itself comprise discrete quantities , varying in a quantised ( step-wise ) manner .
3 The requirement for mesenchymal support can be mapped to the initial stages of intrathymic development because the later stages of maturation , from double-positive CD4 + CD8 + thymocytes into single-positive CD4 + or CD8 + cells , can be supported by epithelial cells alone .
4 That 's proved to be quite difficult because the firm as a whole is trying it out but it for example with M C S it can be related to a particular task , to a particular erm assignment , so it 's assignment related .
5 Using a knowledge of facies distribution , it is possible to predict where these potential reservoirs might occur and as facies distribution can be related to the overall thickness of each carbonate unit , it is also possible to make tentative predictions of porosity distribution from isopach maps .
6 With regard to the prediction of porosity in the Z2 Carbonate , several studies have now demonstrated that the distribution of facies can be related to the overall thickness of the formation ( Sannemann et al. 1978 ; Peryt et al. 1978 ; Clark 1980b ) .
7 The approximations and can be made when damping is low , and the absolute value for the modulus |G| or |E| can be related to the complex components by .
8 Market surveys which contain respondents ' addresses and postcodes can be related to the appropriate ACORN categories .
9 A further link can be forged to the discussion of inequality measurement above via the Atkinson ( 1970 ) inequality index ( AI ) , which can be related to the isoelastic function discussed in chapter 1 ( see also Stratmann 1990 ) .
10 The virial coefficient can be related to the Flory dilute solution parameters by where is a molar mass dependent function of the excluded volume .
11 They demonstrated that the crust of the Earth can be divided into seven large plates , and many smaller ones , and that all major crustal processes can be related to the relative movements between these plates .
12 The particular forms adopted by Greenfield , Hildyard and Olson can be related to the social formations and institutions that generated them , in this case specific academic institutions , just as in oral societies statements about truth are expressed and validated in terms of such complex forms and institutions as witchcraft , religion , cosmology and ritual .
13 It also has to have some mechanism by which the latent TL signal is zeroed that can be related to an archaeological or geological event of interest .
14 If the approach to be found here can be tied to a previous tradition , it will be to the modern speculative grammar of which Jespersen and Sapir were eminent exponents earlier in the century ; this tradition has become unfashionable in the past two or three decades , though distinguished work in this mode has still been produced by various scholars , for instance P. H. Matthews in England and Dwight Bolinger in America ; in particular , if there are any worthwhile results in the present text , they owe much to Bolinger 's example of investigation through careful scrutiny of what really happens grammatically when a given expression is used .
15 In view of this , Hauser and Ernst ( 1989 a , b , 1990 ) have developed an alternative method which can be generalized to the non-colinear situation .
16 These exercises can be done to a strong rhythm , so choose a record that you will enjoy working out to .
17 Also , can you give me any information on what , if anything , can be done to the standard gearbox other than fitting overdrive to improve its performance .
18 In this way the product can be customised to an individual child or groups age — or it can be used as a vocabulary primer for French , German , Spanish , Italian , English or even ‘ American English ’ .
19 The overall aim is to establish a practical knowledge of management methods for use with young children who present behaviour or management problems , and to provide training in how these methods can be transmitted to the primary managers — parents .
20 Finally , the four bent metal legs are predrilled so the device can be screwed to a heavy board .
21 Professor Mathias has stressed that rising output and improving productivity will lower the average costs of a commodity " only if the goods can be cleared to a widening market …
22 This collection of concordances now forms a subset of the corpus and can be treated to a separate frequency analysis , to discover the collocates of the original node ( in this case the word ’ money ’ ) .
23 One significant difference is when an ‘ illness ’ has a starting date , or when the decline in energy or function can be pinpointed to a particular time .
24 It was , however , retained by Benedictine writers , and local historians will do well to note this , for some confusion can be caused to the unwary or uninformed researcher .
25 The result of all this can be likened to a vast ocean , teeming with fish of which only one in a million is edible , and just as this would present a monstrous task to fishermen entrusted with the responsibility of feeding a hungry populace , so does the almost unbelievable quantity of religious teaching and literature by its very size and complexity make it impossible for it ever to serve a serious purpose in satisfying the undoubted universal desire for a respected and well-beloved religion .
26 The entrepreneurial characteristics of agency workers , and the regional/occupational labour market conditions which encourage agency working as an institution , can be likened to the entrepreneurial characteristics of self-employed , or labour only , subcontracting , building workers , and the regional/occupational labour market conditions which encouraged the growth of labour only subcontracting in the building industry in the late 1950s and early 1960s ( see Phelps Brown , 1968 ) .
27 It can be likened to the vital currents that link our physical vehicle to our energy body .
28 If the two approaches are combined and intact embryos are stained with a reagent conjugated to one fluorochrome [ e.g. fluorescein isothiocyanate ( FITC ) ] , followed by disaggregation and staining with a second reagent conjugated to a different fluorochrome [ e.g. rhodamine ( TMRTC ) ] , the polar population ( prospective TE ) can be assigned to the external position , and the non-polar population ( prospective ICM ) can be assigned to the internal position ( 2,25 ) .
29 The command of these units can be assigned to the Supreme High Command of the Soviet Armed Forces , with representation of the Supreme High Commands of the allied countries .
30 If the two approaches are combined and intact embryos are stained with a reagent conjugated to one fluorochrome [ e.g. fluorescein isothiocyanate ( FITC ) ] , followed by disaggregation and staining with a second reagent conjugated to a different fluorochrome [ e.g. rhodamine ( TMRTC ) ] , the polar population ( prospective TE ) can be assigned to the external position , and the non-polar population ( prospective ICM ) can be assigned to the internal position ( 2,25 ) .
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