Example sentences of "can be [verb] to other [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 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 .
3 We do not know whether most of what we have observed in this field can be generalized to other fields or , indeed , to less intensively studied parts of the same field .
4 Very often assessment of a child 's language is required in order that it can be presented to other professionals who are seeking to help that child .
5 No history of the ‘ peculiarities of the English ’ can be generalised to other bourgeoisies elsewhere , but a detailed account of this class will show the kind of analysis which could be applied to others .
6 We need now to assess the validity of this approach , to see whether it can be extended to other kinds of discourse , and to examine alternative approaches too .
7 It remains to be seen whether this process can be extended to other domains .
8 Our other theme , the more general study of homoclinic orbits and bifurcations , is perhaps of even greater importance because it can be applied to other systems of equations as well { 2,9 , 10,20 } .
9 This same observation can be applied to other ways in which we are describing ourselves .
10 In sections 4.2–4.7 certain elementary relations between sets are used as a model to generate ( i ) a basic set of paradigmatic lexical relations and ( ii ) a set of concepts which can be applied to other relations , yielding clearly defined and systematic variants .
11 They can be moved to other projects in these intervals , improving departmental productivity .
12 While both these objections have truth to them , it is also clear that a range of critical writings which share more preoccupations than differences has emerged and that it can be contrasted to other forms of writing about texts and history .
13 Calls can be diverted to other extensions if the office is very busy or unstaffed .
14 Cole and Scribner point out that the specific skill developed for this purpose can be transferred to other tasks : they tested literates and illiterates in the Vai script for their ability to distinguish and reproduce units of meaning when heard as a continuous flow , and discovered that the literates were better at this task ( 1981 ) .
15 Since word order is not now needed for signalling an increased specificity of conceptual meaning it can be put to other purposes , as we shall see presently .
16 They can be allocated to other projects in the inactive periods provided that this is done in a proper manner .
17 Information , needless to say , can be passed to other programs in the series for further operations such as automatic mailing .
18 Once installed with the correct settings you can be talking to other computers within minutes .
19 Various effects can be attributed to other instances of recurrent imagery besides that of merely providing a satisfactory feeling of unity in the narrative performance .
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