Example sentences of "can be [vb pp] [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 | " With regard to the Native custom affecting cases of this kind , there is possibly no definite rule that can be made applicable to all cases and to all districts , but this rule appears to be applicable everywhere , that when a woman of one tribe or hapu marries into another tribe or hapu , her rights become extinguished , unless some act of ownership is exercised either by herself or her immediate descendants . |
| 5 | Again , there are cues both internal to the maze and on the walls surrounding it , and the maze can be rotated relative to these external cues . |
| 6 | It 's helpful in the context of the dollar preference shares we want to issue because one of the factors of this very small , and as you say cheap er , historic issue of preference shares is that , er no preference shares other than those can be repaid prior to that and the dollar shares we wish to issue which are permanent shares , can be er , can be erm repaid at our option and we do want to keep that flexibility in the context of either if interest rates get very high or if the tax treaty between the U S and the U K changes to make them more onerous on the company and in those circumstances we would be inhibited by the existence of this small historic issue of preference shares and therefore it is on balance , although you 're quite right there , a cheap er , source of capital in themselves it is helpful to the company in the wider sense I believe if they are repaid . |
| 7 | The timing of dissolution , alteration and replacement can be established relative to other diagenetic events . |
| 8 | 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 ) . |