Example sentences of "that [pron] can be [verb] to " in BNC.

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1 President , Congress , Conference I know we will all welcome all the pressure that we can be brought to this government and its pursuit of policies if that 's the right world , policies that do n't have a direction would just have them from one crisis to another .
2 But the images of beauty may be lost and forgotten and a mnemonic is needed so that they can be recalled to the mind easily .
3 The principles on which these three kinds of bodies are built are so fundamentally different that it is difficult to believe that they can be related to one another except right at the very roots of the evolutionary tree .
4 The same effect can be achieved with a small pair of school compasses ( which have the advantage that they can be adjusted to exactly the right size ) , but these are more difficult to use to get an exact line .
5 In addition the laser methods are so powerful that they can be applied to excited nuclear states .
6 If you are conscientious at organising your notes and materials so that they can be referred to easily , then you will quickly be able to build up a personal library and reference system .
7 Arguably , the major advantage of procedures and functions is that they can be referred to by name .
8 For they are presented as holding between structures , or between a structure and the class struggle , and it is so far only an article of faith to suppose that they can be refined to a point where one can identify a specific connection such as that between an aspect of the peasant class and a particular form of capitalist state .
9 The objective is to transform instincts and desires in such a way that they can be fitted to the overall goals of a person 's deliberative life .
10 Would you please let me have the photos we supplied for your exhibition , so that they can be added to our stock and used by other people .
11 If you want a printed sleeve for your record , you need them before the discs are being made so that they can be delivered to the pressing plant and bagged up .
12 I do n't think that they can be taken to be in any particular order .
13 Having tried out these various methods you might consider them too time-consuming to use for large areas but they are so attractive that they can be put to good use as trimmings .
14 Some spotlights have a magnetic backplate so that they can be attached to any surface and pointed in any direction or can be set to swivel around inside a container .
15 If you find your new sum insured is not adequate , please let us know so that it can be increased to a more appropriate amount .
16 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 .
17 It analyses and reports on the information recorded , so that it can be transferred to a firm 's billing system .
18 If on the other hand you have access to a colour television set at the place where you are staying , you may be able to use this instead , provided that it can be tuned to your camcorder 's signal output and assuming that it is designed for use on the same television standard as the camcorder , eg UK PAL for machines sold in Great Britain ( see page 153 ) .
19 If the information has been divulged to sufficient people so that it can be said to be no longer confidential , an injunction will not be of any help ; it would be like locking the stable door after the horse has bolted .
20 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 .
21 He wrote to James Conant , President of Harvard , before they both attended the meeting : ‘ I am not sure the miserable thing will work nor that it can be gotten to the target except by ox-cart .
22 Here we shall briefly remind the reader of the theory of one dimension , outline that for three dimensions ( noting in passing that it can be reduced to the product of one-dimensional walks ) and then give the Markoff chain theory , which is often not included in elementary tests .
23 The difficulty with this philosophy , however , is that it can be taken to the extreme , as can be seen in some Local Education Authorities ( LEAs ) which have an all-out integration policy .
24 This report MUST show the branch claim number so that it can be linked to the correct file .
25 In most mainframe mapping packages it is possible to produce the map in what is called device-independent form , so that it can be output to any suitable peripheral such as a plotter , a graphics display terminal or a film writer .
26 If nothing is agreed about notice , the common law implies a term into the contract that it can be brought to an end if ‘ reasonable notice ’ is given .
27 I have suggested that it can be shown to be fair or just to do so ; but this may not make it right if some other principle of greater weight is involved .
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