Example sentences of "[noun] can be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this respect the relationship between society and religion can be compared to that between families and the homes they live in . |
| 2 | Zarathustra 's monotheistic religion can be regarded as a response to the social conditions of his time , an age of transition when a settled agricultural and pastoral community was being threatened by predatory tribes who still followed the nomadic way of life . |
| 3 | RIGHT Religion can be regarded as a primitive attempt to explain scientifically all the phenomena around us . |
| 4 | Of course religion can be challenged , but there are plenty of sound reasons for religion . |
| 5 | The task is to define the ‘ god ’ and lay down the precepts whereby the corresponding religion can be disciplined and protected from the kind of exploitation for political or financial advantage which in the past has corrupted or destroyed so many of the world 's religious activities . |
| 6 | The uses to which religion can be put are not always beneficial — indeed can be very damaging indeed . |
| 7 | ( The meaning of symbol in religion can be undermined not just by literalism , but by evacuating the content of the symbol , making it " just symbolism " . ) |
| 8 | Now we have to be careful with the word ‘ redemptive ’ because in a final way only Christ 's sufferings can be deemed truly redemptive ; but I feel that we can make guarded use of the term . |
| 9 | Chapter 5 considers other aspects of the store ; protection of store areas from being inadvertently overwritten , the use of particular store locations for special purposes , means by which the store 's apparent capacity and speed can be increased , and the use of associative and cyclic stores . |
| 10 | The variation of pull.out torque with speed can be approximated by the straight lines shown dotted in Fig. 6.8 , i.e. TV ) is approximated by the functions : The step length is 15 degrees = 0.262 radians = 2n/np . |
| 11 | A speed can be locked in by selecting a dial letter and pressing the Power-on button . |
| 12 | This is an outline of the way speed can be achieved during normal updating . |
| 13 | Direct drive stepping motors eliminate backlash and speed can be varied from 50-5000 microns per second with a focus resolution of 0.5 microns for precise control . |
| 14 | These observations of distance and speed can be coupled with general knowledge of the way a small probe behaves in the gravitational fields of bodies in the Solar System to determine the spacecraft 's position with astonishing accuracy , typically to a few hundred metres at a range of hundreds of millions of kilometres . |
| 15 | Michael Kelly , the director whose company is responsible for Celtic 's public relations , yesterday confirmed that the manager has been asked to report back to the board with his observations on how the club 's performances can be improved . |
| 16 | He is convinced everybody needs a clear yardstick against which performances can be judged . |
| 17 | Most written languages have an alphabet , and in English everyone is familiar with the 26 letters from which many thousands of words can be constructed , each having a dictionary definition to help the process of communicating . |
| 18 | The crucial middle ground — the exploration of how words can be manipulated on paper and the effects such manipulation can achieve — may be seriously neglected . |
| 19 | Words which are orthographically regular have at least three routes : the GPC route which uses orthographic components to derive their phonological correlates the lexical route which uses the visual representation of the word to access meaning before generating the pronunciation ; and Glushko 's ( 1979 ) " analogy " route whereby words can be pronounced in the same way as their orthographic associates . |
| 20 | Badly formed characters and even illegible words can be understood in context because human readers use their knowledge of language and the world to guide their processing . |
| 21 | This computer programme comes with FINDPHONE and can be applied to the same data to select different types of data for different grammatical purposes , e.g. all words can be extracted and put in a separate file to add to your lexicon . |
| 22 | For example , as in HWIM , both phonological variations within words and across words can be represented . |
| 23 | Target words can be matched exactly as spelt or phonetically . |
| 24 | ‘ Foreign ’ words can be heard but meaning can not be attached to them ; they can not be interpreted . |
| 25 | Before words can be exchanged , however , they sup up and slip off to some other pub . |
| 26 | Texts are varied systematically and types of finger movement and speeds on target words can be compared for the different demands made on the reader . |
| 27 | If we want to paint a big choral canvas , words can be repeated without any fear of being repetitious , or we can use whole sentences or sections several times over . |
| 28 | These words can be re-grouped according to the syntactic categories of noun , verb , adjective and adverb . |
| 29 | Each group has a word such as ‘ measurements ’ or ‘ recommendations ’ , and the object is to see how many other words can be made out of this . |
| 30 | These cause trouble because often the speller does not recognise that words can be made up of different bits brought together . |