Example sentences of "can be [verb] [adj] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bent DNA can be detected due to anomalous migration in polyacrylamide gels since bent DNA fragments migrate more slowly than linear fragments of the same size . |
| 2 | Fred Sedgwick shows how poetry can be made accessible to diverse groups of children of primary school age . |
| 3 | Alternatively the National and Regional Coaching Centres have supplies which can be made available to local or district associations of governing bodies . |
| 4 | The timing of dissolution , alteration and replacement can be established relative to other diagenetic events . |
| 5 | Now , locations can be specified relative to other objects or fixed reference points , as in : ( 66 ) The station is two hundred yards from the cathedral ( 67 ) Kabul lies at latitude 34 degrees , longitude 7° degrees Alternatively , they can be deictically specified relative to the location of participants at the time of speaking ( CT ) , as in ( 68 ) It 's two hundred yards away ( 69 ) Kabul is four hundred miles West of here In either case it is likely that units of measurement , or descriptions of direction and location , will have to be used , and in that case place deixis comes to interact in complex ways with the non-deictic organization of space ( see Leech , 1969 ; Fillmore , 1975 : 16-28 ; Lyons , 1977a : 69Off ; and references therein ) . |