Example sentences of "can be [verb] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If anything can be concluded from this book , it is that I was born , ’ writes Sisson after touching on that event , which occurred 75 years ago in a building since occupied by the Bristol Rovers Supporters Club . |
| 2 | What then can be concluded from this debate ? |
| 3 | It can be concluded from these data that a ZNF11 gene duplication event occurred relatively recently in the evolution of the human lineage . |
| 4 | However , detailed observations of a variety of teachers using the same material ( see , for example , reference 2 ) immediately reveals the wide range of teaching styles that are used and the apparent ease with which almost any material can be absorbed into any style . |
| 5 | Prosecutions by local authorities under the Act of 1950 have little deterrent effect , because the increased sales are such that fines at the level presently authorised under the statute can be absorbed by large retailers as a relatively small increase in their costs , though the same is not true of small shops with their much lower sales . |
| 6 | Gay women can be absorbed in any aspect of the women 's movement , ’ she says . |
| 7 | From nine months to four years a child can use a seat in the back that faces forwards and which can be secured by rear seat belts or their anchorage points . |
| 8 | Despite hopes that some tasks inappropriate to junior doctors can be delegated to other groups of staff the new deal on juniors ' hours risks worsening the situation by increasing the intensity of work still further , notwithstanding the shorter working week . |
| 9 | Written in C and C++ , the software comes with what the firm calls a universal dictionary — a set of object mechanisms which can be tailored to individual requirements — and an inference engine , which generates the SQL statements . |
| 10 | Written in C and C++ , the software comes with what the firm calls a universal dictionary — a set of object mechanisms which can be tailored to individual requirements — and an inference engine which generates the SQL statements . |
| 11 | This awareness has driven us to evolve new systems that can be tailored to local needs and which reflect current advances in auditing techniques . ’ |
| 12 | Thus the cleaning can be tailored to different surfaces . |
| 13 | The division between health and social needs can be narrowed by joint training . |
| 14 | What phenomena can be mapped from such imagery ? |
| 15 | But we will suppose that our researcher is cautious in making claims , and so might wish to extend the enquiry and see whether the same results can be replicated with different subjects doing different tasks . |
| 16 | They form spontaneously in the waters of our planet without the elaborate ‘ machinery ’ that DNA needs ; and they develop flaws spontaneously , some of which can be replicated in subsequent layers of crystal . |
| 17 | A general concept can be exemplified by any number of particular instances which need not stand in any causal relation with each other . |
| 18 | What can be gathered from such figures as are available , are trends in disease prevalence and changes in the geographical patterns of infection . |
| 19 | It is good advice for there is no substitute for the sort of general information that can be gathered in this way . |
| 20 | Massey agrees that the fate of entities which are part of large spatially diverse enterprises can be related to explicit planning decisions , but considers that it is dangerous to somehow regard such actions as ‘ worse ’ than the consequences of the anonymous system forces of capitalism as manifested through market relations . |
| 21 | The supposedly most securely dated vessels are those which can be related to Continental chronologies ; vessels which occur on the Continent but not in England date to before the migration , those on both sides of the North Sea to the migration period itself , and those which are only found in England must have developed after the migration period . |
| 22 | Not only is the method not scientific but , to the extent that Marx did make certain historical prophecies which can be related to empirical evidence over long periods of time , these can be examined and by and large they have not proved to be valid . |
| 23 | Although perhaps the paradigm for the village school was some idyllic haven seen on a summer 's day , the report is still a good review of the position and can be related to other parts of Western Europe . |
| 24 | All of the forms within one database can be related to each other . |
| 25 | The underlying concept is that pairs of sentences that have constituents in common can be related to each other by a linguistic transformation . |
| 26 | The various moduli can be related to each other in a simple manner , because an isotropic body is considered to possess only two independent elastic constants and so |
| 27 | Library education will be more effective if the student understands what he is doing and why he is doing it — that is , if new facts can be related to existing knowledge . |
| 28 | Unfortunately , despite the widespread excavations at Alcester , little has been found which can be related to religious practices . |
| 29 | Locke 's distinction can be related to earlier ones too . |
| 30 | The activities of delinquent fans might be more intelligible if they can be related to particular roles and positions with respect to other fans . |