Example sentences of "can be [vb pp] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | REACTIVE chlorine compounds are known to cause ozone depletion in the Antarctic stratosphere , but they can be bound into an inactive form through reactions with nitrogen dioxide . |
2 | The rate at which people can be absorbed into the public social service sector , or are willing and able to enter it , does not depend on the social planners alone , and there is much scope for improvement in our whole approach to manpower and womanpower problems . |
3 | The test will check that front seats are secure and that the back rests of all seats can be secured in an upright position . |
4 | All other decisions can be delegated by the full governing body to a sub-committee , an individual governor , or to the headteacher . |
5 | Tachycardia recognition seldom proves difficult , pulse generators have a projected life of 5 years , and tachycardia therapies can be tailored to the individual needs of the patient . |
6 | The knowledge model , if it can be mapped to the physical world , must itself comprise discrete quantities , varying in a quantised ( step-wise ) manner . |
7 | The requirement for mesenchymal support can be mapped to the initial stages of intrathymic development because the later stages of maturation , from double-positive CD4 + CD8 + thymocytes into single-positive CD4 + or CD8 + cells , can be supported by epithelial cells alone . |
8 | The development of an approach stating that the functionality of an item can be mapped on the geometric domain , leads naturally to the inverse argument that the domains themselves can be seen as logical spaces . |
9 | The year-on-year variation in the number of accidents can be exemplified by the daily variation in accident totals . |
10 | As far as hardware is concerned , this is obviously the most complex of the Systems described , but the circuits can be realised with a small number of standard integrated circuit packages and purpose.built stepping motor control packages are now widely available ( Sigma instruments , 1980 ; Klingman , 1980 ) . |
11 | A sound constitution is another requirement , as can be realised from the following passage from Gilchrist Alexander 's The Temple of the Nineties . |
12 | The Department attempts to provide a positive and co-operative learning environment in which these aims can be realised by the individual pupil . |
13 | The first of these , the preparation of lessons in sequence will obviously deal with the formulation of learning objectives which can be realised in a particular unit of work . |
14 | The latter phenomena have been extensively analysed in the limit B 0 , in which the Ikeda mapping becomes one-dimensional and can be realised in a so-called hybrid system in which the feedback is electronic rather than optical . |
15 | The advantage of the former is that standardized information can be gathered from a large population , although there is always the problem of those who do not respond and how far the characteristics and opinions of such people match the general population . |
16 | As far as can be gathered from the limited archaeological research so far done , there was a move from the older timber cottages to new stone-walled housing . |
17 | He believed that all living forms can be related into a single developmental sequence . |
18 | That 's proved to be quite difficult because the firm as a whole is trying it out but it for example with M C S it can be related to a particular task , to a particular erm assignment , so it 's assignment related . |
19 | Using a knowledge of facies distribution , it is possible to predict where these potential reservoirs might occur and as facies distribution can be related to the overall thickness of each carbonate unit , it is also possible to make tentative predictions of porosity distribution from isopach maps . |
20 | With regard to the prediction of porosity in the Z2 Carbonate , several studies have now demonstrated that the distribution of facies can be related to the overall thickness of the formation ( Sannemann et al. 1978 ; Peryt et al. 1978 ; Clark 1980b ) . |
21 | The approximations and can be made when damping is low , and the absolute value for the modulus |G| or |E| can be related to the complex components by . |
22 | Market surveys which contain respondents ' addresses and postcodes can be related to the appropriate ACORN categories . |
23 | A further link can be forged to the discussion of inequality measurement above via the Atkinson ( 1970 ) inequality index ( AI ) , which can be related to the isoelastic function discussed in chapter 1 ( see also Stratmann 1990 ) . |
24 | The virial coefficient can be related to the Flory dilute solution parameters by where is a molar mass dependent function of the excluded volume . |
25 | They demonstrated that the crust of the Earth can be divided into seven large plates , and many smaller ones , and that all major crustal processes can be related to the relative movements between these plates . |
26 | The particular forms adopted by Greenfield , Hildyard and Olson can be related to the social formations and institutions that generated them , in this case specific academic institutions , just as in oral societies statements about truth are expressed and validated in terms of such complex forms and institutions as witchcraft , religion , cosmology and ritual . |
27 | It also has to have some mechanism by which the latent TL signal is zeroed that can be related to an archaeological or geological event of interest . |
28 | The fallopian tubes can be reached through a small cut in the skin of the abdominal wall , either directly ( this is called laparotomy ) or via a delicate telescope ( this is called laparoscopy ) . |
29 | Six EC countries have threatened to refuse to ratify the UNCED Convention on Climate Change [ see ED 59/60 ] unless agreement can be reached on an EC-wide energy tax . |
30 | Finally , look for the chapel of Sant Caterina that can be reached from the left transept . |