Example sentences of "can [adv] be [vb pp] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is wide agreement that the recent forest damage can predominantly be ascribed to atmospheric pollution even if there remains uncertainty concerning which pollutants are to blame at which locations and what the response mechanisms are for triggering damage , as well as over how the contributing natural stress factors should be weighted ( Hinrichsen , 1986 ) . |
| 2 | It now remains to ask what to many is the most difficult question , whether , given that the services are available , albeit on a limited basis , they can properly be denied to certain patients.3 This raises not only the issue of fairness or justice , but also that of selective treatment and respect for life . |
| 3 | If one manages to find the simplest method at the first attempt that can mostly be attributed to good luck . |
| 4 | This would be true for at least two of the examples of ( 18 ) , to which we may add at random : ( 32 ) some delegates who were German frowned the starling which is inquisitive is female It is emphatically not the answer to say , " those which can not become postnominal attributives turn into prenominals instead " , for two reasons : first , as we have already seen , there is a major difference of function between prenominal position and predicative position as occupied by the adjective in the sort of relative clause proposed ; and , second , this still leaves us facing the question of why some relative clauses can apparently be reduced to postnominal adjectives and others can not ( indeed this question , previously passed by , has been in serious need of an answer from those who want to relate prenominal adjectives — or simply attributives in general — to predicative position ) . |
| 5 | The logic of exploiting the perception gap between the real cost of benefits and their perceived value to the employee can obviously be applied to other benefits . |
| 6 | Styles can only be applied to whole paragraphs , and the formatting details are stored in the markers which occur at the end of each paragraph . |
| 7 | As styles can only be applied to whole paragraphs , you do n't have to be too careful about selecting text ; just pop the cursor anywhere in the block and the formatting will be applied to the whole paragraph . |
| 8 | These notions of the automatisation of processes which no longer require close monitoring are described in more detail in Underwood ( 1982 ) , but for the present purposes it is sufficient to note that attention can only be devoted to higher-level activities , such as comprehension , when lower-level activities have become skilled through practice . |
| 9 | As the key range , nine digits , is potentially 10 000 times the address range , 100 000 , even division can only be expected to equal or very marginally improve on perfect randomization . |
| 10 | What we have said about modulations in major keys can easily be applied to minor keys , with a little common sense . |
| 11 | Conventional economic approaches to consumption tend towards a macro-scale of analysis whose assumptions about the nature of society , demand , and the actual relationship between goods and people can generally be reduced to certain highly simplistic and dubious notions , with the social demand for goods being replaced by the quite insufficient symbolic equation with price . |
| 12 | Household waste can still be exported to neighbouring countries such as the Netherlands and Belgium under existing contracts . |
| 13 | A similar test can hardly be applied to legal advice . |
| 14 | This type of survey was first developed seriously in the United States , and its importance can similarly be traced to economic and social factors peculiar to that country at a particular stage in its history . |
| 15 | It can also be connected to standard VHS video recorders and used with both colour and monochrome monitors . |
| 16 | The principle can also be applied to dielectric data which can be shifted either along the temperature or the frequency axis . |
| 17 | We have also found that the method described for bovine tissue can also be applied to human gall bladder epithelial cells and we are currently in the process of culturing and characterising these cells . |
| 18 | The same test and standards of antimicrobial efficacy can also be applied to cosmetic products . |
| 19 | It can also be fitted to existing machines . |
| 20 | Patches can also be moved to different locations . |
| 21 | These photographs which are in DIB ( Device Independent Bitmap ) format can also be exported to other Windows applications , such as CorelDraw and Aldus PageMaker . |
| 22 | Images can also be exported to popular wordprocessing and desktop publishing applications like Ventura Publisher or WordPerfect 5.0 . |
| 23 | Images can also be exported to popular wordprocessing and desktop publishing applications like Ventura Publisher or WordPerfect 5.0 . |
| 24 | Residencies and placements can take several forms : in schools , hospitals and factories and other institutions the artist might divide time between personal work and teaching , demonstrating or consultation ; the concept of transplanting the studio can also be adapted to other venues , for example an arts centre or library ; working on a public commission or community project the artist would aim to involve others in the planning and execution of the idea . |
| 25 | This approach can also be used to good effect with other well constructed languages : this is illustrated in { laws } , where a simple sequential language ( Dijkstra 's language of guarded commands unc is considered . |
| 26 | Much of the labour which used to be involved in manipulating and presenting data can now be delegated to specialised computer software but the basic issues of coding and structuring data still depend on the skills of the analyst . |
| 27 | Nevertheless , the universal aspirations of such a social psychology 's theory will permit the formulation of ‘ pure ’ , or universal , theoretical propositions , which can then be applied to historical manifestations of the topic in question . |
| 28 | Movement within and between these context spaces can then be linked to specific turn-taking devices . |
| 29 | Revenue can then be switched to other items , such as military hardware , or so-called prestige projects . |
| 30 | One part of this myopia can doubtless be attributed to simple electoral panic . |