Example sentences of "can be [vb pp] to [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Using this method the idling current can be limited to very low values whilst maintaining the large voltage and current swings required to drive a loudspeaker . |
| 2 | True ‘ living fossils ’ are really rather rare , and the term can be applied to both simple and highly complex organisms that have outlived the time when the earth was populated with many more of their kind . |
| 3 | Everyone in MAS should be familiar with the chapters applicable to all MAS engagements , the remaining chapters can be referred to as necessary when working on the appropriate type of engagement . |
| 4 | Lesser and more particular disturbances can be ascribed to more immediate punishment for specific sins . |
| 5 | Workers who can be exposed to excessively cold weather conditions have not only to know about survival measures during over-exposure , but be able and willing to carry them out . |
| 6 | The progression and results of this study ( which took a number of years and involved the House of Lords Record Office , the British Library , the Public Record Office and the College of Arms , as well as the Bridport manuscript books and medieval wills and testaments ) have been presented not only to show that reference books can be wrong , but that the wealth of material available to the local historian can be utilized to very positive effect over an extremely narrow range as over a wide one . |
| 7 | LIFESPAN can be set to automatically offline modules which have not been accessed for a configurable latency period . |
| 8 | These can be put to very good use in aid of the British Heart Foundation . |
| 9 | Under Czechoslovakia 's vast privatisation programme , state firms such as the breweries can be sold to either domestic or foreign investors . |
| 10 | Precise classification of control type itself then also becomes less important , and attention can be shifted to more fruitful enquiries about the source , scope , and intensity of the factors that constrain management power . |
| 11 | This can be distorted to comparatively low levels in countries with non-inhabitable areas , such as high mountain ranges , large deserts or extensive lakes . |
| 12 | Fortunately , the vast majority of local history projects undertaken by the amateur , part-time researcher can be brought to totally satisfactory conclusion without the need to study ancient documents at first hand , for it must be said that , quite apart from the difficulties inherent in the Anglo-Saxon , Norman French , and Latin languages , the task of reading early styles of handwriting can be formidable . |