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 | Such instruments as the Abney level and aneroid barometer ( Peel , 1949 ; Sparks , 1953 ) can be adapted to the determination of elevations , while the extent of the terraces can be mapped on the 1 : 25 000 or 1 : 10 560 maps by reference to the field boundaries . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | In a large proportion of the cases , when they can be applied at all , both uses — associative and ascriptive — make equally good sense because the facts observed or imagined can be described equally well either way ; the mental , linguistic , difference is there but both mental representations can be mapped onto the same single external situation . |
| 11 | Although many adjectives can , in this phrase or that , be unambiguously assigned to ascriptive use or associative use there is undoubtedly a border zone where adjectives can be interpreted either way ; there will be many phrases for which both interpretations can be mapped onto the same single situation , not just in some particular token occurrences , but in all cases . |
| 12 | How little pacifist or humanitarian feeling was behind such notions is revealed by the concluding remark that ‘ it is only worth while waging war if the enemy can be destroyed with the first blow , which we did not manage . ’ |
| 13 | The Blackshard here can be destroyed in the same way as before ( see New Magic ) , with the same effects . |
| 14 | The year-on-year variation in the number of accidents can be exemplified by the daily variation in accident totals . |
| 15 | 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 ) . |
| 16 | A sound constitution is another requirement , as can be realised from the following passage from Gilchrist Alexander 's The Temple of the Nineties . |
| 17 | The Department attempts to provide a positive and co-operative learning environment in which these aims can be realised by the individual pupil . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | He believed that all living forms can be related into a single developmental sequence . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 ) . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Market surveys which contain respondents ' addresses and postcodes can be related to the appropriate ACORN categories . |
| 28 | These patterns can be related to the same type of factors as described above for the urban-rural shift . |
| 29 | 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 ) . |
| 30 | The virial coefficient can be related to the Flory dilute solution parameters by where is a molar mass dependent function of the excluded volume . |