Example sentences of "can be [verb] to be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Calculations for the break-even point of the system will also have to be deferred until the new system can be seen to be at least as productive as the old . |
| 2 | The New Forms of production ( NFP ) can be seen to be of increasing power in certain circumstances . |
| 3 | 5.4.7 Both schools illustrate the fact that developments in Stage 3 of the project can be seen to be of potentially greater significance than the immediate effects of securing and expending a Major grant . |
| 4 | In this manner the alleged dispensation of justice can be seen to be in direct conflict with the best interests of air safety . |
| 5 | This can be seen to be in accordance with the Yerkes-Dodson law if it is assumed that more difficult tasks are those which require greater attentional capacity ( c.f. Kahneman , 1973 ) . |
| 6 | The fact that some sufferers die of their addictive disease regardless of their awareness of the Anonymous Fellowships is not an argument in favour of the use of other methods of treatment which were manifestly of no help to those who did recover and which can be observed to be of no help to those who still suffer . |
| 7 | But uneven development can be argued to be about more than patterns . |
| 8 | There can be said to be at least three groups of predator assemblage distinguishable by this form of analysis . |
| 9 | There can be said to be at least three main schools of management theory addressing the people problem : the classical school embodying the work of F. W. Taylor and Henri Fayol , the behaviourist school founded by Elton Mayo and the quantitative school which appears to have had its origins in the operations research techniques developed during World War Il . |
| 10 | This causes no problem , as the defendant can be said to be at fault whenever he commits a tort . |
| 11 | An important part of the discussion deals with the difficulty of deciding whether variation can be said to be between semantically equivalent forms which carry social meaning , or to encode an aspectual distinction ; this latter issue is treated in the context of a ( non-quantitative ) analysis of the semantic distinctions underlying tense and aspect marking ( see further 7.6 and 7.7 ) . |
| 12 | For instance , the following two occurrences of man can be said to be in syntactically different environments : |
| 13 | Someone in possession with the consent of them both can be said to be in possession ‘ with consent of the owner . ’ |
| 14 | To some extent , an important factor is the computer program itself , whether it is a commonplace program , carrying out mundane operations , or whether it is designed to do something novel , whether the purpose of the program can be said to be in the nature of a trade secret . |
| 15 | It should be noted moreover that such a Christology is not predicated upon saying that the difference between the sexes is of minimal importance , or simply to be compared with differences of race , with the implication that women can be said to be like Christ and so for example be ordained . |
| 16 | Even if an NHS trust can be demonstrated to be in the interests of patients to reduce waiting lists and provide a better quality of service , they would reject it because they put politics before patients . |
| 17 | I do n't think that they can be taken to be in any particular order . |
| 18 | If nothing else , such a pattern shows that the territory of a particular settlement was farmed to the limits when the boundary was defined , and again , if that boundary can be shown to be of a particular date , then something of early land use can be stated . |
| 19 | Thus even in the type of rational expectations model used by Barro to show that stabilization policy was ineffective , such policy can be shown to be at least potentially effective . |
| 20 | Yet they can be shown to be in some sense the implicit guardians of morality . |
| 21 | But in either case , unlike the Hegelian essential section , where each event can be shown to be in an essential articulation with the whole in a continuous and homogeneous spatio-temporality , a cross-section at any particular moment will show a heterogeneous array of presences and absences . |
| 22 | ( e ) Conflicts of interest Where firms involved in an amalgamation have previously acted for clients who have been involved in litigation against each other , the amalgamated firm must not accept instructions to act for any of those clients unless they are able to erect and maintain effective " Chinese Walls " and : ( 1 ) none of the solicitors involved are professionally embarrassed by continuing to act ; ( 2 ) all the clients have given their consent ; ( 3 ) those clients have received full and frank independent advice before giving their consent ; and ( 4 ) such continuing to act can be shown to be in the best interests of the clients . |
| 23 | This is a remarkable development and leads to a sharp distinction according to whether the alleged improper trading practice can be shown to be within the purview of the Treaty as affecting ‘ trade between member states . ’ |
| 24 | Money made from theft is not taxable , an Ontario court has decided , unless the thief steals on a regular basis and therefore can be considered to be in ‘ business ’ . |
| 25 | The circumstances and experiences of life create ever more diversity and certainly by the time old age is reached , differences can be expected to be at their most extreme . |
| 26 | Notes : All members of this group can be expected to be aged 60 or more and approximately 66 per cent female . |
| 27 | Notes : Participants can be expected to be in age range 25–55 , and approximately 75 per cent male . |
| 28 | By the end of autumn , then , most of the NO y can be expected to be in the form of nitric acid . |