Example sentences of "can be [vb pp] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | All other decisions can be delegated by the full governing body to a sub-committee , an individual governor , or to the headteacher . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The knowledge model , if it can be mapped to the physical world , must itself comprise discrete quantities , varying in a quantised ( step-wise ) manner . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . ’ |
| 11 | The Blackshard here can be destroyed in the same way as before ( see New Magic ) , with the same effects . |
| 12 | The year-on-year variation in the number of accidents can be exemplified by the daily variation in accident totals . |
| 13 | A sound constitution is another requirement , as can be realised from the following passage from Gilchrist Alexander 's The Temple of the Nineties . |
| 14 | The Department attempts to provide a positive and co-operative learning environment in which these aims can be realised by the individual pupil . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 ) . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Market surveys which contain respondents ' addresses and postcodes can be related to the appropriate ACORN categories . |
| 20 | These patterns can be related to the same type of factors as described above for the urban-rural shift . |
| 21 | 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 ) . |
| 22 | The virial coefficient can be related to the Flory dilute solution parameters by where is a molar mass dependent function of the excluded volume . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Similarly , the expressions for V in the two regions can be related by the same replacement . |
| 26 | Finally , look for the chapel of Sant Caterina that can be reached from the left transept . |
| 27 | Many techniques for stress reduction can be appropriated by the same injunctions to succeed that got you stressed in the first place , and should be discontinued if you spot that they have been subverted in this way ( unless your goal has also changed along the way from stress reduction to record-breaking ) . |
| 28 | Hence word shape information need not be stored in the inverted look-up structure , it can be generated from the matched words at run-time and compared with the shape of the unknown word being searched for . |
| 29 | The second is the spoken-word production system : even if a word is correctly identified by the visual word-recognition system , it can not be read aloud lexically unless its pronunciation can be generated from the spoken-word production system . |
| 30 | The first problem could be dealt with by the development of a context-free covering grammar — a set of all of the surface trees that can be generated by the transformational grammar for all of the words in the input sentence . |